High Diving Hare

High Diving Hare
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	April 30, 1949
Run time	7:30
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Gerry Chinquy Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross Pete Burness
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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High Diving Hare is the two hundred and fifty-third Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on April 30, 1949. It was written by Tedd Pierce and directed by Friz Freleng.

Yosemite Sam, after discovering that one of the vaudeville acts got delayed, forcefully attempts to push Bugs into doing a high-diving act.

Memorable quotes

Sam: Great horny toads! What are ya doin' down there upside-downy?

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Fearless Freep
Yosemite Sam	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Western town
      • Vaudeville show building

Objects

• Revolver pistols
• Anvil

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Hawley Pratt
• Backgrounds: Paul Julian

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: April 30, 1949 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The MPAA certificate number is 12542.
• It is the last Warner Bros. Cartoons short to have Bugs sit on the WB shield logo in the opening titles. Shorts following this have his appear like in the openings used during 1944-45, even though the Blue Ribbon reissue removes it.
• The short's premise is an an expansion of a gag used in Stage Door Cartoon, also directed by Freleng.
• One of the posters used for the vaudeville show contains the name "Frizby the Magician," which is a reference to Freleng's nickname.
• Bugs claims to have acrophobia, the fear of heights.
• Sam's line, "You notice I didn't say Richard?", is a reference to the 1947 song "Open the Door, Richard!" by Jack McVea.

Errors

• The remaster used in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 DVD set has a noticeably low audio pitch, due to it using a 1998 dubbed print of this short. The same issue also occurs in the version used in Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 Blu-ray and DVD sets.

Legacy

• The short was used as part of the third act of The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
• It was also used as as segment in the special Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 28, 2003: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 on DVD.
  • August 12, 2014: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 on Blu-ray.
  • April 14, 2020: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection on DVD