A Wild Hare

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Hand-Drawn Animation Adventure Animation Comedy Family Short

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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7.7/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total

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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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Featured review

8/10

"Scandalous" is the only word available . . .

. . . to describe The Academy's wrong-headed illogical contrarian decision to overlook A WILD HARE when it came time to recognize the best cartoon of 1940. Anyone can see at a glance that Bugs Bunny is hopping convoluted circles here around the thin plots favored by the wildly overrated Oswald. When it comes to bunniers, Bugs obvioiusly represents the Cat's Meow. Furthermore, we're not talking Jerry here. Though the latter gave rise to the phrase "jerry-rigged" for describing a supposedly honest ballot for which all concerned are well aware that "the fix is in," A WILD HARE stands so far above any of the crude animations of the Twenties and Thirties that it should have won any awards up for grabs totally uncontested, by unaminous consent..

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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
After Bugs ties up Elmer's shotgun and Elmer throws it away he then starts digging. Bugs comes up from his other hole, saying his first time ever "Eh Whats up Doc?" then Elmer says "I am looking for a Wabbit". Bugs starts describing a rabbit and during a close up When Elmer realized Bugs is a rabbit he us holding the shotgun again, next panel it's gone again.

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.