False Hare

False Hare
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	July 18, 1964
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie
Music composed by	Bill Lava
Story by	John Dunn
Animation	Warren Batchelder George Grandpré Ted Bonnicksen
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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False Hare is the three hundred and ninety-second Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 18, 1964. It was written by John Dunn, produced by David H. DePatie, and directed by Robert McKimson.

In the final Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Golden Age of Animation, B.B. Wolf and Lil' Bad Wolf decide to lure Bugs over with a fake rabbit club, so the rabbit decides to play along to foil B.B. Wolf's attempts to do him him.

Memorable quotes

Bugs: I wondah which one of dem will chicken out foist?

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
B.B. Wolf	Mel Blanc
Lil' Bad Wolf	Mel Blanc
Foghorn Leghorn	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • America
  • The Woods
  • B.B. Wolf's House (Disguised as Club Del Conejo - Rabbit Club)

Objects

• Club Del Conejo notice sign
• Safe
• Spiked casket
• Board with Hole
• Cannon
• Dynamite and Gunpowder Canister
• Chicken Hat

Music

The music was composed by Bill Lava.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: May 31, 1958 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on two things: One of them is another hare/hair pun being 'false hair', like a wig.
• Also the club name, Del Conejo, is the Spanish word for 'rabbit'.
• This cartoon is known for the following marks:
  • This is the last golden age cartoon to feature B.B. Wolf, Lil' Wolf, Bugs Bunny, and although having made a small cameo appearance, Foghorn Leghorn.
  • It was the last Looney Tunes-series cartoon to use both the colored bullseye rings since the 1935 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Flowers for Madame. And also the last cartoon use the traditional "That's all Folks!" sendoff sequence since the DePatie/Freleng cartoons do not use this sendoff sequence in later cartoons, starting with Señorella and the Glass Huarache.
  • This is the last time that Milt Franklyn's renditions of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down are used in this cartoon. As starting with the next cartoon, Bill Lava's clunky version of the Looney Tunes theme would be used.
  • And most of all, this marks the last cartoon completed before the original Warner Bros. Animation studio's shutdown in 1963 (although it was the second-to-last short released as Señorella and the Glass Huarache would be the last released, although that cartoon was completed in 1961, over a year before this one was in 1963), as well as the last cartoon to feature any recurring Looney Tunes characters in production order by the original Warner Bros. studio before it closed down in 1963.

Errors

• When this cartoon was first released on the Bugs Bunny edition of the Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD Series, it had been cropped down to widescreen. However, it had been restored to full screen in the Blu-Ray standalone set, Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection.

Home availability

• United States
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars: Bugs Bunny - Hare Extraordinaire (cropped to widescreen)
  • Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection (Full Screen)