While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.
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- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total
Mel Blanc
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Arthur Q. Bryan
- Elmer Fudd
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe producers' reaction to the gag of Bugs responding to a hunter pointing a gun at him with a confident casual remark, "What's up, Doc?" was so favorable that they decided to make that a standard element of future films featuring the character.
- GoofsWhen Elmer pulls a carrot out of his pocket, it has a single stem with no leafy material. He then lays it down by Bug's hole and creeps away to hide behind a tree. But when Bugs sticks his hand out to get the carrot, it has several stems and a lot of leafy material.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Elmer Fudd: [first occurence of this line] Be vewy, vewy qwiet. I'm hunting wabbits.
- Crazy creditsIn the 1944 Blue Ribbon reissue of this cartoon, when the WB shield zooms in the copyright notice briefly says MCMXLIV(1944) for a fraction of a second before changing to MCMXL(1940)!
- Alternate versionsWhen the cartoon was re-released as a Blue Ribbon re-issue, it was inadvertently retitled "The Wild Hare." Also, one of the names Elmer Fudd guesses was changed from Carole Lombard, who had recently died in a plane crash, to Barbara Stanwyck.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)
- SoundtracksYankee Doodle
(ca. 1755) (uncredited)
Traditional music of English origin
Featured review
Compared to the first (two) appearances of the developing Bugs, this is very funny, has characters with incredibly developed plots and indeed is better quality. I find because the humour of "Porky's Hare Hunt" and "Prest-O Change-O" are very old-fashioned and not very understandable for today's humour (although I still found "Porky's Hare Hunt" quite funny). This episode feels much more like it was made recently, even though it was made only two or three years after the developing Bug's first appearances. In this, apart from his deeper voice, he feels much more like the Bugs Bunny we know today.
I also like this episode for the very sweet first Elmer featured, Bugs Bunny is very entertaining and there is nice animation included. I have to say in this, Bugs Bunny reminded me a lot of Br'er Rabbit, which was comforting (HE didn't make his first appearance for nearly ten years after!!).
The plot is very much like the average episode with Elmer and Bugs. Elmer is hunting for "wabbits" and he finds Bugs. Many of the gags have been repeated many times in more recent episodes, but are still funny none the less. There are some other gags added which are funny.
I recommend this episode to enthusiasts of early Looney Tunes (but still like gags which are repeated in modern Looney Tunes episodes) and who like Bugs Bunny. Enjoy "A Wild Hare"!
I also like this episode for the very sweet first Elmer featured, Bugs Bunny is very entertaining and there is nice animation included. I have to say in this, Bugs Bunny reminded me a lot of Br'er Rabbit, which was comforting (HE didn't make his first appearance for nearly ten years after!!).
The plot is very much like the average episode with Elmer and Bugs. Elmer is hunting for "wabbits" and he finds Bugs. Many of the gags have been repeated many times in more recent episodes, but are still funny none the less. There are some other gags added which are funny.
I recommend this episode to enthusiasts of early Looney Tunes (but still like gags which are repeated in modern Looney Tunes episodes) and who like Bugs Bunny. Enjoy "A Wild Hare"!
- Mightyzebra
- Apr 14, 2008
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- The Wild Hare
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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