Hare Brush

Hare Brush
Lobby card.
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	May 7, 1955
Run time	7:25
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Arthur Davis
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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Hare Brush is a three hundred and ninety-first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on May 7, 1955. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Bugs visits the Fruit Cake Sanitarium and gets mistaken for Elmer, who thinks like a rabbit. He ends up acting like Elmer after taking a hypnotic capsule pill.

Memorable quotes

Elmer: I may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Elmer Fudd	Arthur Q. Bryan
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Dr. Oro Myicin	Mel Blanc

Organizations

• Elmer J. Fudd Mining
• Almagamated Oil Company
• E.J. Fudd Enterprises
• E.J. Fudd Investment

Locations

• Earth
  • • United States
      • E.J. Fudd Building
      • Fruit Cake Sanitarium
      • Forest
      • California (indirectly mentioned)
        • San Francisco (indirectly mentioned)
          • Alcatraz Island (mentioned)

Objects

• Hypnotic capsule pill

Production

Second lobby card.

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Starting with this cartoon, Milt Franklyn composes a new version of the "Merrily We Roll Along" theme tune for the series. While the next two Merrie Melodies shorts, Past Perfumance and Tweety's Circus, uses the older 1945-55 intro and outro themes, Jumpin' Jupiter would start using the newer versions of these. This is because their production codes are before Hare Brush.

Additionally, Milt would make another rendition of the Merrie Melodies intro theme for This Is a Life?, although he did use the outro theme used for this cartoon for that particular cartoon.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: May 7, 1955 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is another hair/hare pun. This time, the pun is based on "hairbrush."
• This is one of three cartoons that ends with Elmer defeating Bugs, the other two being Rabbit Rampage and What's Opera, Doc?

Legacy

• Elmer's case of "rabbitschenia" is used for the persona of Elmer Bugs in Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem.

Home availability

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