Compressed Hare
| COMpressed Hare | |
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| Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny/Wile E. Coyote) series | |
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| Directed by |
Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director) |
| Produced by |
David H. DePatie (uncredited) |
| Story by | Dave Detiege |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by |
Ken Harris Richard Thompson Bob Bransford Tom Ray |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | July 29, 1961 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
Compressed Hare is a Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote (in their fourth pairing), released on July 29, 1961. This is the final first-run Golden Age short in which Wile E. Coyote speaks, although he speaks again in the Adventures of the Road Runner featurette from a year later.
Wile E. Coyote leaves a telephone at the hole of his neighbor, Bugs Bunny. He calls, asking to borrow a cup of diced carrots. Bugs' whiskers twitch as he sarcastically looks at Wile's mailbox ("Wile E. Coyote - Genius"), and realizes what he's up against. He then mocks him: "Are you in, genius? Are you in, capable? In, solent? In, describable? In, bearable?..." Wile grabs Bugs and ties him to a stake as he prepares to cook Bugs, but Bugs gets the upper hand by hopping on the floorboards, setting off a wine cork that, after it ricochets around the room, triggers Wile's Murphy bed to open, which crushes the Coyote into the floor with only his head sticking out (All to the tune of Raymond Scott's Powerhouse). Bugs makes his getaway and hops back to his hole.
Wile then tries a vacuum cleaner to suck up the rabbit, getting a dynamite decoy instead, before the decoy explodes, he says "well, the boy has talent"; a cannon shot, which Bugs re-directs at the Coyote thanks to some underground pipes (Coyote: "Well, even a genius can have an off-day"); and "Quick-Drying Cement". The cement dries into a cylindrical block. As Wile E. laughs, saying "What a wonderful way to cement a friendship.", he runs right into the block, which tips over on top of him. Bugs then pops out and says "Well, now he has concrete evidence that I'm a good neighbor".
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