Hare Brush
| Hare Brush | |
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| 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.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Elmer: I may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz!
Characters
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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)
- San Francisco (indirectly mentioned)
- United States
Objects
- Hypnotic capsule pill
Production
Development
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?
Errors
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:
