Wet Hare
| Wet Hare | |
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| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series | |
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| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
| Story by | David Detiege |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by | Keith Darling Ted Bonnicksen Warren Batchelder George Grandpre' |
| Layouts by | Robert Gribbroek |
| Backgrounds by | Robert Gribbroek |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 20, 1962 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6:29 |
| Language | English |
Wet Hare is a 1962 animated short film in the Looney Tunes series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. In this cartoon, Bugs Bunny finds himself at odds with Blacque Jacque Shellacque, a ruthless lumberjack with a French Canadian accent who wants to control the water supply by building a series of dams. The title is yet another pun on "hair/hare".
Bugs Bunny is taking his morning shower under a waterfall, singing "April Showers" (à lá Al Jolson) when the water stops flowing. After a brief delirium that the supply has permanently dried up, he decides that beavers are responsible, and climbs up the waterfall to the source of the problem. The source of the problem turns out to be the villainous Blacque Jacque Shellacque, who has built an illegal rock dam in an effort to control the water supply and sell it at inflated prices. Bugs demands Jacque explain what gives him the right to build the dam, and Jacque responds "Dees give me ze right!" as he sticks a revolver into Bugs' neck (this exchange is cut out of most commercial showings). Bugs next asks Jacque what would happen if certain rocks become loose, to which Jacque simply states he would replace them. Bugs then tricks Jacque into removing a tiny rock, at the dam's base, which then dislodges the dam.
Later, Bugs resumes showering, but Jacque has built a replacement dam ("Won't that guy ever learn?" "This time I build him stronger!"). Jacque expects another sabotage attempt from Bugs, and thinks he's still one step ahead of the rabbit when he spots what he believes to be a phony shark fin in the impounded water. The shark is real, however, and threatens Jacques until Bugs "saves" him by crashing a log through the dam. ("This is being saved?")
Still later, Bugs has resumed showering again, but Jacque has built an even bigger replacement dam, and gloats at Bugs from above. Unintimidated, Bugs turns to the audience and quotes Red Skelton's "mean widdle kid": "He don't know me vewy well, do he?" (just like in Hare Trigger). Bugs then sends a single lighted stick of dynamite on a miniature raft towards the new Shellacque-built dam, but as Jacque tends to it (or vice versa, as the dynamite blows up in Jacque's face off-screen), he also immediately notices a huge raft full of lighted dynamite subsequently headed toward the dam and they explode and demolish it.
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