His Hare Raising Tale
| His Hare Raising Tale | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | August 11, 1951 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composition | Carl Stalling |
| Story | Warren Foster |
| Animation | Virgil Ross Manuel Perez Ken Champin Arthur Davis |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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His Hair Raising Tale is the two hundred and ninetieth short of the Looney Tunes theatrical series. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on August 11, 1951. It is a clip show cartoon that uses clips from various Bugs Bunny shorts, while the main cartoon itself was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Friz Freleng.
Bugs shares classic memories of his adventures with his nephew Clyde.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bugs: What's the matter, don'tcha believe me? Why, if everything I've told you isn't true, I uh... I hope I'm run over by a streetcar!
(a streetcar bursts through the wall and runs over Bugs)
Bugs: I suppose ya don't believe I was run over by a streetcar?
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Bugs' photo album
Vehicles
- Streetcar
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The score was composed by Carl W. Stalling. The main title and closing themes are a rendition of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," which was arranged by Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: August 11, 1951 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- Part of the title, "hare raising" is another hair/hare pun. It is the second title to use it since Hair-Raising Hare.
- Although animators Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, and Ken Champin are given screen credit, it was Virgil Ross who animated the bridging material himself.
- This short and Ballot Box Bunny were the only two cartoons with orange color ring titles that did not have a fade in before Bugs Bunny's headshot on the opening titles.
Connections
- The short uses clips from Baseball Bugs, Stage Door Cartoon, Rabbit Punch, Falling Hare, and Haredevil Hare (in chronological order), though some events were changed for the sake of its main plot.
- The punchline gag of Bugs being run over by a streetcar was reused from The Trial of Mr. Wolf.
- The short was used in the direct-to-video special Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- December 1, 2020: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection on Blu-ray.
