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A Wild Hare

  • 1940
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A Wild Hare (1940)
Hand-Drawn AnimationAdventureAnimationComedyFamilyShort

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.

  • Director
    • Tex Avery
  • Writer
    • Rich Hogan
  • Stars
    • Mel Blanc
    • Arthur Q. Bryan
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    7.7/10
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    • Director
      • Tex Avery
    • Writer
      • Rich Hogan
    • Stars
      • Mel Blanc
      • Arthur Q. Bryan
    • 29User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 nominations total

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    Mel Blanc
    Mel Blanc
    • Bugs Bunny
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
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    Arthur Q. Bryan
    • Elmer Fudd
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Tex Avery
    • Writer
      • Rich Hogan
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    • Trivia
      The 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.
    • Goofs
      When 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 credits
      In 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 versions
      When 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.
    • Connections
      Edited into Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)
    • Soundtracks
      Yankee Doodle
      (ca. 1755) (uncredited)
      Traditional music of English origin

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    The first OFFICIAL BB cartoon!!!

    Here is Tex Avery's magnificent film in which we are first introduced to a brownish-gray colored hare named Bugs, although we really don't hear his name spoken in this film. Yet that immortal phrase, "What's Up Doc???" is here, and Bugs is a sly, bold, incredibly smart woodland creature outfoxing that "wovable" hunter, Elmer Fudd. No more wacky prototypes. Bugs is at last fleshed out the way he should be. I appreciate his "Dad" and "Grandpa" very much. Someone's dream wouldn't have come true without them and our star might never have been born without them. Nevertheless, the star is Bugs Bunny!!! And after this film, he was well on his way to becoming what he is today.

    Thank you Tex Avery!!!
    • PeachHamBeach
    • Sep 7, 2003
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 27, 1940 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Wild Hare
    • Production company
      • Leon Schlesinger Studios
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    • Runtime
      8 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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