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Merrie Melodies - Bugs Bunny - Fresh Hare (1942)
Complete, with uncensored ending.
Fresh Hare is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, written by Michael Maltese, and produced by Leon Schlesinger. It was released to theatres on August 22, 1942.
Caricatures:
Adolf Hitler - doodled on Bugs' wanted poster
Veronica Lake - silhouette
Notes:
A scene of "Fresh Hare" can be seen in the title sequence gag of the Futurama episode "I Second That Emotion".
This short fell into the public domain in 1970 when United Artists, the copyright owner to the Associated Artists Productions package at the time, failed to renew the copyright in time.
This cartoon marks the fifth and final appearance of the fat Elmer Fudd which previously appeared in "Wabbit Twouble" (1941), "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper" (1942), "The Wacky Wabbit" (1942) and the propaganda film "Any Bonds Today" (1942), as beginning with "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (1942), the original "slim Elmer" design first seen in "Good Night Elmer" (1940) had returned permanently, presumably due to theater audiences at the time disliking the "fat Elmer" design.
Bugs is wanted for a series of crimes he had committed in this cartoon (as corrected here for Elmer's rounded-l-and-r speech):
Resisting an officer
Assault and battery
Trespassing
Disturbing the peace
Miscellaneous misdemeanors
Public nuisance
Traffic violations
Going through a boulevard stop
Jaywalking
Triple parking
Conduct unbecoming to a rabbit
Violating traffic regulations (repeat mention of crime #7)
Censorship:
The end of this cartoon, where Bugs proclaims his last wish in a chorus of "I Wish I Were in Dixie", which segues into Bugs, Elmer Fudd and the Mounties all in blackface singing "Camptown Races" has been edited on nearly every recent American airing, including versions shown on the Ted Turner-owned networks (Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TBS, and TNT).
The 1995 Turner "dubbed version" that has aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang (American feed) censors the scene using a fake fade-out to black to the altered circa 1937-1938 "That's all, Folks!" ending card. This same edit also occurs on the Latin American Turner networks too.
The old a.a.p. prints that used to air on TNT censored this scene with a fake iris-out. This same edited version was also used on Cartoon Network's American channel prior to the debut of its 1995 Turner "dubbed version" print on television in the late-1990s.
TBS replaced the actual scene of Bugs, Elmer, and the Mounties in blackface with looped footage of Bugs dancing to "I Wish I Were in Dixie" while the audio played as normal.
Some gray-market public domain home media releases, such as the one from the "Cartoon Explosion" video series, also cut this ending by dissolving to the original "That's All, Folks" ending card after Bugs starts singing "I Wish I Was in Dixie".
Some edited versions of "Fresh Hare" even go as far as to delete the entire final scene and have the cartoon end with Bugs surrendering to Elmer to keep him from crying and saying, "Okay, Doc. Let's go" after Elmer lets Bugs handcuff him.
Category | Anime & Animation |
Sensitivity | Normal - Content that is suitable for ages 16 and over |
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