Slick Hare
| Slick Hare | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | November 1, 1947 |
| Run time | 7:43 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Arthur Q. Bryan Dave Barry |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce Michael Maltese |
| Animation | Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy Manuel Perez Ken Champin |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Slick Hare is the two hundred and seventy-eighth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 1, 1947. It was written by Tedd Pierce and Michael Maltese, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
Elmer, who works as both a waiter and a chef of a Los Angeles nightclub, is given an order of fried rabbit for Humphrey Bogart. But his search for a rabbit leads to an absurd chain of events set up by Bugs Bunny.
Detailed Summary
Memorable Quotes
Humphrey: Why did you hit me in the face with a coconut custard pie with whipped cream?
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Fried rabbit (mentioned)
- Lemon meringue pie
- Banana cream pie
- Coconut custard cream pie with whipped cream
Vehicles
- Nothing of importance
Production
Development
The short was presented as a storyboard in a "jam session", a story conference for the creative staff at Warner Bros. Cartoons, in approximately February 1946.[1]
In developing the short, the Mocrumbo nightclub was modeled after the real life Mocambo that existed in West Hollywood at Sunset Boulevard. Background artist Paul Julian visited the Moccambo for research, but found the kitchen highly unsanitary from what he observed. Julian later explained his experience in an interview with Milton Gray:
“... I went and looked at the back kitchen at the Mocambo, and I almost got my ass in a sling because in the film I reported what I saw! Fingerprints and disgusting puddles oozing out from under crates of food stacked in the corner... greasy fingerprints, all kinds of... just unbearable! I was so bloody revolted by it that I came back and made a documentary out of it!”
- Paul Julian (from audio commentary in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD)[2]
Music
The score was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Crew credits
- Layouts: Hawley Pratt
- Backgrounds: Paul Julian
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 1, 1947
Behind the scenes
- It was originally shown before the film That Hagen Girl.
- The title is a pun on "slicked hair," and specifically refers to a type of men's hairstyle that was popular from when the short was made.
- The working title was "The Time, The Chase, and the Rabbit", a play on the then-upcoming Warners musical The Time, The Place, and the Girl.[1]
- This is the only Freling-directed short to be released in 1947.
- This is the last cartoon to use the 1946–47 variant color rings at the end.
Errors
Legacy
- Elmer's job as waiter was used as a playable character in the mobile game Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem.
Home availability
- In the United States:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baxter, Devon (March 4, 2024). "From Story to Screen: “Slick Hare” (1947)". Cartoon Research.
- ↑ Barrier, Michael (2004). Slick Hare on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 (DVD commentary).
