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Bill of Hare

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Bill of Hare
Directed byRobert McKimson
Story byJohn Dunn
Produced byDavid H. DePatie
(uncredited)
StarringMel Blanc
Music byMilt Franklyn
Animation byTed Bonnicksen
Warren Batchelder
George Grandpré
Keith Darling
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byRobert Gribbroek
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • June 9, 1962 (1962-06-09)
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Running time
6:25[1]
LanguageEnglish

Bill of Hare is a 1962 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.[2] The short was released on June 9, 1962, and stars Bugs Bunny and the Tasmanian Devil.[3]

Plot

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The cartoon opens in a seaside town where a crate is being unloaded from a cargo ship, belonging to the Snodgrass Scientific Expedition. The net holding the crate breaks, releasing the Tasmanian Devil. Taz comes on shore and smells food being cooked. He sees Bugs Bunny under the pier trying to cook a meal in a kettle. Taz throws Bugs into the pot, but Bugs tricks him into switching places. Bugs puts the pot inside a cannon and fires it like a cannonball into the ocean.

Bugs is next seen using a rotisserie to roast carrots over an open fire. Taz ties Bugs to the rotisserie until it is revealed that he is really turning a crank of a truck engine. Taz is run over by the truck and Bugs escapes once again.

Bugs convinces Taz that his only food source is a moose. They go to a train tunnel, which Bugs is passing off as a moose cave. In trying to catch a moose, Taz gets run over twice by trains and once by Bugs, riding a moose.

Taz corners Bugs again but Bugs tricks Taz by assuming a disguise as a waiter in a restaurant and feeding him a skewer with three lit dynamite sticks. The dynamite blows up in Taz's stomach, and Taz chases Bugs, ending with Taz trapped in a cage at the city zoo.

Crew

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Bill of Hare (1962): Main". The Big Cartoon DataBase. 5 September 2021.[dead link]
  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. 337. 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.
  4. ^ "Bill of Hare (1962): Cast". IMDb. 5 September 2021.
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Preceded by Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1962
Succeeded by