Bushy Hare
| Bushy Hare | |
|---|---|
 Bugs Bunny and Nature Boy | |
| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Phil De Lara J.C. Melendez Charles McKimson Rod Scribner John Carey |
| Layouts by | Cornett Wood |
| Backgrounds by | Richard H. Thomas |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:15 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bushy Hare is a 1950 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.[1] The short was released on November 18, 1950, and stars Bugs Bunny.[2]
Bugs winds up in the Australian Outback, where he is switched with a baby kangaroo and has to deal with an aborigine hunter. The title is a play on "bushy hair" along with aborigines stereotypically being from "the bush" country.
The baby kangaroo is played by Hippety Hopper, in a cameo appearance. This is the only cartoon in which Hippety Hopper is not paired with Sylvester the Cat, and the only one in which the character speaks (with one line at the end); like Bugs, Hippety is voiced by Mel Blanc.
Plot[edit]
Bugs pops out in Golden Gate Park and encounters a man, who asks Bugs to hold his balloons while he ties his shoelaces. Bugs complies, but soon finds himself lifted in the air by the balloons and drifting off into the ocean. Eventually he clashes in midair with a stork delivering a kangaroo joey, leading to Bugs getting switched with the joey, brought to Australia, and dropped into a kangaroo's arms. Bugs refuses to be the kangaroo's baby, but feels guilty after the kangaroo starts crying and agrees to be its 'baby'.
After a wild ride inside the kangaroo's pouch, Bugs gets out and is then struck by a boomerang thrown by an aborigine, whom Bugs later calls "Nature Boy". Bugs throws the boomerang away but it hits him again. Nature Boy confronts Bugs, who teases him into a yelling fit. Nature Boy throws his spear at Bugs, who runs and dives into a rabbit hole. Bugs tricks Nature Boy into thinking he's stabbing the rabbit down the hole, then kicks the man down into the hole.
Later Nature Boy spies Bugs walking and attempts to shoot a poisonous fruit at him, but Bugs blows through his bamboo blowgun, causing the man to ingest the fruit instead. Nature Boy then chases Bugs, who gets into the front of a canoe and rows off. He soon realizes Nature Boy is in the back of the same canoe and then they row into a tunnel. A moment later they come out another tunnel in each other's arms. The tunnel has a sign identifying it as a "Tunnel of Love" like from an old amusement park or carnival. Bugs says, "Gosh, Nature, I didn't know you cared." Nature Boy flies into a rage and chases Bugs up a cliff where the two of them fight in the kangaroo's pouch. Finally, Bugs kicks Nature Boy out and the kangaroo kicks him off of the cliff. Then, the joey floats down from the sky into his mother's pouch. The kangaroo gives Bugs a ride back to the US, using an outboard motor to power the kangaroo across the sea.
Reception[edit]
The Film Daily called the short a "wonderful cartoon for all ages" on July 22, 1950. On November 18, 1950 Boxoffice said, "This is a wealth of imagination and is really funny."[3]
Home media[edit]
"Bushy Hare" was released on the single-disc Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire DVD released in August 2010.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 216. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60-61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ Sampson, Henry T. (1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960. Scarecrow Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0810832503.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
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External links[edit]
Quotations from Wikiquote
Data from Wikidata
- Bushy Hare at IMDb
- 1950 films
- English-language films
- 1950 short films
- 1950 comedy films
- 1950 animated films
- 1950s American animated films
- 1950s animated short films
- 1950s English-language films
- 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films
- American films
- American animated short films
- Looney Tunes shorts
- Films featuring Bugs Bunny
- Films about kangaroos and wallabies
- Films about Aboriginal Australians
- Animated films about friendship
- Films set in Australia
- Animated films set in San Francisco
- Films directed by Robert McKimson
- Films scored by Carl Stalling
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
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