Hare Tonic
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | November 10, 1945 |
| Run time | 8:18 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Arthur Q. Bryan |
| Producer(s) | Eddie Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Animation | Ken Harris Basil Davidovich Lloyd Vaughan Ben Washam |
| Director(s) | Charles M. Jones |
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Hare Tonic is the two hundred and seventh Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 10, 1945. It was written by Tedd Pierce and directed by Chuck Jones.[1]
When Elmer brings Bugs Bunny for dinner, the rabbit tricks him into thinking that there is a outbreak of a made-up disease.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bugs: No, sirree, never felt better in my life. I'm full of pep! Well, yes, yes! Well, all reet! Come on, Jackson, cut yourself a slice of rug.
Elmer: Wet go of my hand, you cwazy wabbit! Oh, now you've done it! You contaminated me!
(Elmer rushes to the bathtub to clean himself, but sees that Bugs is pretending to be a shower)
Bugs: Gurgle, Gurgle. Why don'tcha pay ya water bill, Doc?
Bugs: Oh, Margaret. What a dope! That was just a gag, of course. You folks haven't got rabbititus. Why, if you had rabbititus, you'd see red and yellow spots before ya eyes. Yeah, dat's right. And then dey'd start swirlin' and swirlin' around. And then suddenly, everything would go black. Hee, hee, hee, hee!
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Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 10, 1945 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- This is the second Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to co-star Bugs and Elmer, after the 1941 short Elmer's Pet Rabbit.
- It is one of the few cartoons where Bugs addresses Elmer by name, albeit in the guise of "Dr. Killpatient", who addresses him as "Mr. Fudd".
- Despite this, most of their cartoons played as if they had never met before.
- At some point of the short, Bugs impersonates Frankenstein's monster while chasing Elmer.
- This is one of two Looney Tunes shorts–the other being Baseball Bugs–to have a variant of the then-usual closing, where instead of Porky Pig coming out of a drum, Bugs does, proclaiming "And that's the end!" while eating a carrot.
