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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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- Stars
- 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
And thus begins a rivalry that will last for eons...
Elmer and Bugs finally collide for real this time for the first time ever, in an excellent short by the late, great Tex Avery that hints of things to come. Elmer of course is hunting rabbits, Bugs(unnamed when this came out, although we all know it's him now) is of course defending himself, foiling Elmer's plans and driving him crazy. This is one of the two's best(why wasn't this on the Looney Tunes DVD? Oh well, guess I can wait for a Silver collection). I recommend seeing it to any fan of the "wabbit," or the hunter. After seeing how little has actually changed between the two, it's easy to realize that some things really do never change.
BOTTOM LINE: The first, and one of the best, Bugs vs. Elmer shorts.
BOTTOM LINE: The first, and one of the best, Bugs vs. Elmer shorts.
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- The Wild Hare
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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