Haredevil Hare

Haredevil Hare
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 24, 1948
Run time	7:03
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Mike Maltese
Animation	Ben Washam; Lloyd Vaughan; Ken Harris; Phil Monroe
Director(s)	Chuck Jones
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Haredevil Hare is the two hundredth and fortieth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on June 24, 1948. It was written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones.

Bugs is tricked into being the first rabbit on the moon, where he encounters a Martian and his dog, who plan on blowing up the earth.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Bugs: Eh... Pardon me for botherin' ya, Marconi, but uh... did say you was blowin' up the earth?
Marvin: Oh, yes I did.
Bugs: That's what you thought ya said. Well, adios! One man's meat is another man's poison, I always say. After all, it's his business if he wants to blow up the earth.
(Bugs stammers upon realizing Marvin's intentions)
Bugs: WOAH! You can't do that! All the people I know are on the earth! Hmph, the nerve of this character.
Marvin: Oh dear, this is most inconvenient! Now I have to call out the reserves.

Control center technician: Have you prepared a statement for the press?
Bugs: Well, yes, I have prepared a statement. GET ME OUTTA HERE!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Marvin the Martian	Mel Blanc
Guglielmo Marconi
K-9	Mel Blanc

Locations

Objects

Vehicles

Rocket
Marvin's rocket

Production

Development

Filming

Music

The music was composed by Carl Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

United States: July 24, 1948 in theatres

Behind the scenes

Marvin, in his first onscreen appearance, has a vastly different voice than the one he later uses, with it being more nasally that usual.
It is the only cartoon in which K-9 speaks. He would later become a silent character following this short.

Errors

Legacy

Marvin and K-9 return in The Hasty Hare, with the former's voice becoming its more familiar characterization.
Marvin himself would eventually become a popular character due to a sci-fi boom in the 1970s, following the release of the 1977 film Star Wars. Although previously referred to as the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 in The Hasty Hare, Marvin would later be given his proper name in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie in 1979, as "Marvin Martian."
In 2017, this short would be redubbed with "Gen-Z Slang" as part of the Journeys x Looney Tunes campaign.

Critical reception

In other languages

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