Water, Water Every Hare
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| Directed by | Charles M. Jones |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer |
| Starring | Mel Blanc John T. Smith |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Ben Washam Ken Harris Phil Monroe Lloyd Vaughan Richard Thompson[1] Harry Love |
| Layouts by | Robert Gribbroek |
| Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
| Color process | Technicolor |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 7:28 |
| Language | English |
Water, Water Every Hare is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.[2] The cartoon was released on April 19, 1952 and stars Bugs Bunny.[3] The short is a return to the themes of the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare and brings the monster Gossamer (referred to as "Rudolph") back to the screen.
The title is a pun on the line "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The cartoon is available on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.
Plot
[edit]After being displaced by a storm, Bugs Bunny finds himself in the castle of a mad scientist (a caricature of Boris Karloff). The mad scientist, needing a brain for his robot, orders his orange, hairy monster, Rudolph, to capture Bugs. Bugs awakens under a mummy, panics, and flees. The frustrated mad scientist sends Rudolph to retrieve him, promising a reward. Bugs evades capture by impersonating a hairdresser and uses dynamite as curlers, leaving Rudolph bald.
Enraged, Rudolph chases Bugs to a chemical storage room. Bugs uses vanishing fluid to turn invisible and torments Rudolph, eventually shrinking him with reducing oil. The tiny Rudolph leaves through a mouse hole, throws out the mouse, and closes the door that has the message "I quit". The mouse quotes "I quit too".
Invisible Bugs celebrates, but the mad scientist makes him visible again with "Hare Restorer". While noting that he shouldn't have sent a monster to do a man's job, the mad scientist demands Bugs' brain. Bugs refuses and the scientist accidentally releases ether fumes, incapacitating them both. In a slow-motion chase, Bugs trips the scientist, who falls asleep.
Bugs, still in slow motion, prances away but trips and falls asleep in a stream that returns him to his flooded hole. Waking up underwater, he thinks it was a nightmare until the miniature Rudolph rows by quoting "Oh yeah, we'll that's what you think", leaving Bugs bewildered.
Cast
[edit]- Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Gossamer ("Rudolph") and Mouse
- John T. Smith as Mad Scientist (uncredited)
See also
[edit]- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
- Hair-Raising Hare
- List of Bugs Bunny cartoons
References
[edit]- ^ "Animation Breakdowns #35". Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 234. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
External links
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- 1952 films
- 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films
- Looney Tunes shorts
- Short films directed by Chuck Jones
- American mad scientist films
- 1950s monster movies
- Films scored by Carl Stalling
- American monster movies
- Bugs Bunny films
- Films about invisibility
- Films with screenplays by Michael Maltese
- Animated films set in castles
- 1950s English-language films
- Boris Karloff
- English-language science fiction horror films
- English-language short films
- 1952 animated short films