Water, Water Every Hare

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Water, Water Every Hare
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Directed by Charles M. Jones
Story by Michael Maltese
Produced by Edward Selzer
Starring Mel Blanc
John T. Smith
Music by Carl Stalling
Animation by Ben Washam
Ken Harris
Phil Monroe
Lloyd Vaughan
Richard Thompson [1]
Harry Love
Layouts by Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byPhilip DeGuard
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • April 19, 1952 (1952-04-19)(U.S.)
Running time
7:28
LanguageEnglish

Water, Water Every Hare is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. [2] The cartoon was released on April 19, 1952 and stars Bugs Bunny. [3] The short is a return to the themes of the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare and brings the monster Gossamer (referred to as "Rudolph") back to the screen.

Contents

The title is a pun on the line "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The cartoon is available on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 .

Plot

After being displaced by a storm, Bugs Bunny finds himself in the castle of a mad scientist (a caricature of Boris Karloff). The mad scientist, needing a brain for his robot, orders his orange, hairy monster, Rudolph, to capture Bugs. Bugs awakens under a mummy, panics, and flees. The frustrated mad scientist sends Rudolph to retrieve him, promising a reward. Bugs evades capture by impersonating a hairdresser and uses dynamite as curlers, leaving Rudolph bald.

Enraged, Rudolph chases Bugs to a chemical storage room. Bugs uses vanishing fluid to turn invisible and torments Rudolph, eventually shrinking him with reducing oil. The tiny Rudolph leaves through a mouse hole, throws out the mouse, and closes the door that has the message "I quit". The mouse quotes "I quit too".

Invisible Bugs celebrates, but the mad scientist makes him visible again with "Hare Restorer". While noting that he shouldn't have sent a monster to do a man's job, the mad scientist demands Bugs' brain. Bugs refuses and the scientist accidentally releases ether fumes, incapacitating them both. In a slow-motion chase, Bugs trips the scientist, who falls asleep.

Bugs, still in slow motion, prances away but trips and falls asleep in a stream that returns him to his flooded hole. Waking up underwater, he thinks it was a nightmare until the miniature Rudolph rows by quoting "Oh yeah, we'll that's what you think", leaving Bugs bewildered.

Cast

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References

  1. ↑ "Animation Breakdowns #35" . Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 234. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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