Hare-abian Nights

Hare-abian Nights
Lobby Card
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	February 28, 1959
Run time	6:30
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Ben Washam Ken Harris Arthur Davis (uncredited)
Director(s)	Ken Harris
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Hare-abian Nights is the four hundred and forty-fourth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 28, 1959. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Ken Harris.

Bugs Bunny winds up in an Arabian palace and is forced to the sultan as many stories as he possibly can.

Memorable quotes

Bugs: Ehhh, not a bad act. But, uh... Don't call us, we'll call you.... (to audience) And I can think of a few things I'd like to call 'em.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Sultan Sam	Mel Blanc
Arabian Vizier	Mel Blanc
Arabian Guard	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • Middle East
    • Arabian palace

Production

Second lobby card.

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: February 28, 1959 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on Arabian Nights, an English title given to One Thousand and One Nights.
• This short reuses clips from previous Bugs Bunny cartoons:
  • Bully for Bugs
  • Water, Water, Every Hare
  • Sahara Hare
• This is one of two shorts in the golden age of American animation starring Yosemite Sam not to be directed by Friz Freleng, although sequences from a Freleng cartoon are used in this short; the other is the 1964 Looney Tunes short, Dumb Patrol, which was instead directed by Gerry Chiniquy of the Friz Freleng unit.
• It is the only Yosemite Sam cartoon from the classic era to have no involvement from the Friz Freleng unit, and the only Sam cartoon from that era which the Chuck Jones team worked on. Jones himself never directed any Yosemite Sam cartoons until the Looney Tunes short, From Hare to Eternity (1996), which was the last Warner Bros. cartoon he directed in his lifetime.

Everlasting Influence

• The plot of this short would be reused and expanded for the movie, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection
  • Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection