Hare Do

Hare Do
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	January 15, 1949
Starring	Mel Blanc Arthur Q. Bryan
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Ken Champin Virgil Ross Gerry Chinquy Manuel Perez
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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Hare Do is the two-hundred and ninety-eighth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 15, 1949. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Friz Freleng.

While hunting for "wabbits", Elmer chases Bugs to a movie theater and ensues in him outwit Elmer in every turn.

Memorable quotes

Elmer: Gee, I wonder if he made it.
Bugs: Yep, he made it.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Elmer Fudd	Arthur Q. Bryan
Movie theater usher	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United Stares
    • Forest
    • Movie theater

Objects

• Pie
• Unicycle

Music

The music was composed by Carl Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: January 15, 1949 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on "hair do".
• This cartoon has a similar plot to that of the 1946 short, Stage Door Cartoon, but with different elements.
• The final scene of this cartoon reuses the ending of the 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon, A Day at the Zoo, which featured an early counterpart of Elmer Fudd, Egghead, being swallowed up by a lion after teasing it.

Everlasting influence

• A clip from this cartoon would be used in This Is A Life?.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 25, 2005: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 on DVD.
  • August 12, 2014: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 on Blu-ray.