Hare Splitter
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | September 25, 1948 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Sara Berner |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Hare Splitter is the two hundred and ninety-third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 25, 1948. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
It's a love triangle between Bugs and another rabbit named Casbah, when they want to convince Daisy Lou into going on a date. But when Daisy isn't home, Bugs decides to trick Casbah by pretending to be her.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Daisy: WHAT A MAN!
Bugs: WHAT A WOMAN!
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Anvil
- Bomb
- Explosive carrots
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Songs
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: September 25, 1948
Behind the scenes
- It was released alongside the crime thriller Rope, by Alfred Hitchcock.
- The title is another "hare/hair" pun, this time it's a pun of "hair splitter," referring to a person who argues over two different, minute things.
- It could also be a pun of "pair splitter," referring to person who tries to split a couple apart.
- This is the first cartoon directed by Friz Freleng to be in the post-1948 Warner Bros. package.
- The cartoon was the first to be reissued in the 1957–58 season, evident from the "WARNER BROS. PICTURES INC." byline – both with dots – the blue color rings and red background. The 1958–59 season has the same rings, but no dot after "BROS" and "INC" ("WARNER BROS PICTURES INC").
- The fact that Daisy lives in a house, instead of a rabbit hole like Bugs and Casbah's, goes unmentioned.
- The question of whether the girls in the audience have to put up with what was going on in a scene was previously used in The Big Snooze.
Errors
- When Bugs first dresses like Daisy, he wore just a green dress. Later Bugs has shoes and pantyhose on him, but they disappear in the next scene.
- In the close-up shot of Daisy's photo on Bugs' dresser, her eyes are open, she is facing left and wearing a sweater and it reads Love, Daisy. In the wide shot, her eyes are closed, she is facing the camera directly, it reads with love, Daisy and she appears to be wearing nothing at all like Bugs and Casbah. The close-up and wide shots of the photo on Casbah's dresser also do not match.
- Between the time that Bugs slams the door on Casbah and Daisy walks into the house, the direction the door opens changes a couple of times.
- When Bugs' stocking fall down, they are attached by one garter each. But when he reaches down the top of the front of his dress he grabs 5 or 6 garters to pull up his stockings.
- When the cartoon opens, and the scene zooms in to Bugs' hole, there is only one rabbit hole, with an angled fence behind and to the right. When Bugs and Casbah exit their respective holes, their holes are suddenly merged, and a straight fence is behind and to the left.
- When Casbah rings the doorbell, he is carrying a carrot in a clear box, with a crossed ribbon and bow. After Bugs (in Daisy's clothes) calls to him, the box and carrot disappear. And when Casbah lands on the sofa, he has the boxed carrot again, but the ribbon with a bow only runs lengthwise on the box.
- When Bugs asks Casbah, "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would ya?", his mouth moves to the words "would ya" twice, even though he could only be heard saying that line only once.
Legacy
- This short would use the opening scene for the television special Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- December 1, 2020: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection on Blu-ray.
