Hare-Abian Nights
| Hare-Abian Nights | |
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| Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny) series | |
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| Directed by | Ken Harris |
| Produced by | John Burton (uncredited) |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by |
Ken Harris Ben Washam |
| Layouts by | Samuel Armstrong |
| Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | February 28, 1959 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6 minutes 56 seconds |
| Preceded by | Baton Bunny |
| Followed by | Apes of Wrath |
Hare-Abian Nights is a 1959 Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. The cartoon, directed by Ken Harris of Chuck Jones' unit at Warner Bros. Cartoons, was animated by Harris and Ben Washam and recycles footage from Bully for Bugs, Water, Water Every Hare, and Sahara Hare. Hare-Abian Nights is a pun on Arabian Nights.
Hare-Abian Nights is the only short in the Golden Age of American animation starring Yosemite Sam not directed by Friz Freleng or a member of Freleng's unit, although sequences from a Freleng cartoon are used in this short.
The plot of this cartoon would have been inspired for Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.
In a send-up of the "gong show" set in an Arabian palace (similar to the gong show in I Love to Singa), the short opens with a band Timbuk Two Plus 3 playing "Sweet Georgia Brown" trying to entertain the sultan, with the performance ending with the floor being dropped out from under them, sending the band into a crocodile pit below. Next, a musician scared by the fate of Timbuk Two performs "Hound Camel" (a send-up of "Hound Dog") before meeting the same fate as Timbuk Two. Following that, Bugs, intending to travel to Perth Amboy but having missed a left turn at Des Moines, ends up in front of other prospective performers and is ordered to entertain the sultan.
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