Water, Water Every Hare

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 back to the screen.

Water, Water Every Hare
Directed byCharles M. Jones
Story byMichael Maltese
Produced byEdward Selzer
StarringMel Blanc
John T. Smith
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byBen Washam
Ken Harris
Phil Monroe
Lloyd Vaughan
Richard Thompson[1]
Harry Love
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byPhilip DeGuard
Color processTechnicolor
Production
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Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • April 19, 1952 (1952-04-19) (U.S.)
Running time
7:28
LanguageEnglish

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

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After being displaced by a storm, Bugs Bunny finds himself in the castle of a mad scientist. The 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 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 resigns and leaves through a mouse hole. Invisible Bugs celebrates, but the scientist makes him visible again, demanding his 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, he thinks it was a nightmare until the miniature monster rows by, leaving Bugs bewildered.

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Animation Breakdowns #35". Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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Preceded by Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1952
Succeeded by