Pre-Hysterical Hare
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | November 1, 1958 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Dave Barry |
| Producer(s) | John W. Burton |
| Music composed by | John Seely |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Animation | Ted Bonnicksen Warren Batchelder Tom Ray George Grandpré |
| Director(s) | Robert McKimson |
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Pre-Hysterical Hare is the three hundred and ninety-second Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 1, 1958. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by John W. Burton and directed by Robert McKimson.
While on the run from Elmer Fudd, Bugs stumbles across an old prehistoric time capsule containing a reel of film that depicts what life is like and most important footages of Bugs and Elmer's Cro-Magnon Ancestors.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Fuddstone: Shh... Be vewy, vewy quiet. Me hunt saber-toothed wabbit.
Bugs: That's what I think! Huh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh!
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Prehistoric cavern
- Bugs' residence
- Elmer Fuddstone's residence
- United States
Objects
- Elmer's hunting rifle
- Mammoth tusk-like time capsule
- Giant cork
- Film reel
- Film projector camera
- Hunting spear
- Carrot
- Vine lasso
- Bamboo-like pipe
- Poisonous berry
- Gunpowder vial
- Makeshift rifle
- Pebbles
- Makeshift lighter
Production
Development
Filming
Music
John Seely, who was not much of a music composer, provided stock music for this short.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 1, 1958
Behind the scenes
- Part of the title is a play on the words "prehistoric" and "hysterical".
- Arthur Q. Bryan, who regularly provided the voice of Elmer Fudd, was ill during production of this cartoon. Elmer's voice was instead provided by Dave Barry in the short.
- Elmer was originally meant to be voiced by Daws Butler for the short.
- The sequence of dinosaurs and tigers fighting each other re-uses footage from the Chuck Jones-directed short Caveman Inki.
- The gag of using a pipe and berry was reused from Bushy Hare, another cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.
- This is the first Looney Tunes short in the 1958–1959 season evident from "WARNER BROS. PICTURES INC", without a dot after "BROS" and "INC."
Legacy
- The premise of viewing a prehistoric old film would once again be reused in the 1960 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Wild Wild World.
- This cartoon was used as a world for the video game Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- March 12, 2024: Warner Archive Collection releases Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 on Blu-Ray.
