A Wild Hare: Difference between revisions

The short was nominated for the 1940 [[Academy Award]], but lost out to an [[MGM]] [[Harman and Ising]] short, "The Milky Way". This short also made it as a runner-up on [[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]] list. It also made it onto ''[[The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes]]'' list.

 

 

* [[Aside Glance]]

* [[Bowdlerization]]: In the original version, during Bugs' game of "Guess Who?" with Elmer, Elmer's second guess was "Carole Lombard." Carole Lombard was a blond, comic actress of the 1930s and 1940s (a bit like [[Saturday Night Live|Amy Poehler]] in appearance and [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snarkery]]) who died in a plane crash in 1942. In the re-release of this short, "Carole Lombard" was replaced with "Barbara Stanwyck."

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Elmer

* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]

* [[Cradling Your Kill]]

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Bugs' design looks a bit odd if you're used to his finalized design from the Fifties. But alternatively, one could look at the 'Happy Hare' shorts that preceded this as [[Early Installment Weirdness]] which was finally lifted in this short.

* [[Please Wake Up]]: Elmer reacts this way when he thinks Bugs is dead, before crying.

* [[Pun-Based Title]]: Complete with the opening using the song "I'm just wild about Harry", obviously keeping in sync with the "hare" theme naming.

* [[Smelly Skunk]]: When Elmer catches a skunk in his rabbit trap instead of Bugs, he walks right up to Bugs and proudly brags about it, before slowly realizing that he's holding a skunk.

* [["Take That!" Kiss]]

 

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[[Category:Animated Films]]

[[Category:Films of the 1940s]]

[[Category:The Forties]]

[[Category:Looney Tunes in the Forties]]