{"id":38411,"date":"2023-01-17T00:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38411"},"modified":"2023-01-04T03:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T08:55:49","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-hare-um-scare-um-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/17\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-hare-um-scare-um-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Hare-um Scare-um (1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 85th<\/sup> Anniversary of Bug Bunny\u2019s first animated appearance in 1938’s \u201cPorky\u2019s Hare Hunt.\u201d Debuting originally as Happy Rabbit, Bugs eventually became one of the most iconic animated characters of all time. In honor of the landmark anniversary, we\u2019re discussing every animated appearance by Bugs Bunny. We\u2019re big fans of Bugsy and we hope that you are, too. <\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Follow us on this massive journey where we discover and re-discover Every Bugs Bunny Ever.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hare-um Scare-um (1939)
\nDirected by:<\/strong> Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton
\nProduced by:<\/strong> Leon Schlesinger
\nMusic by:<\/strong> Carl W. Stalling
\nAnimation by:<\/strong> Gil Turner<\/p>\n

We\u2019re back once again with Happy Rabbit making his evolution in to Bugs Bunny, We\u2019re reaching the point where he\u2019s officially Bugs in \u201cHare-Um Scare-Um\u201d as he\u2019s in Technicolor once again, and yet again the hero of the piece fighting against a wicked hunter and his loyal dog. What\u2019s interesting about \u201cHare-um Scare-um\u201d is that the hunter also seems to be a proto-Elmer Fudd (apparently named John Sourpuss) who spends his time doing battle with Happy Rabbit.<\/p>\n

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The set up for this short revolves around the announcement of rising meat prices in the local newspaper. Our villain is angered about having to pay such ridiculous prices, so he decides to go out and hunt for their meat. Of course Happy Rabbit is waiting for them, stamping fake paw prints along the ground leading them to nowhere. Sourpuss has about as much dimension as the other Bugs Bunny villains, spending his time on a small motivation that keeps Happy Rabbit fighting for his survival. Of course he uses his wits to get ahead and takes time out to humiliate his nemeses while dashing for his life.<\/p>\n

Happy Rabbit still maintains his Woody Woodpecker cackle, even twiddling his toes before running as Daffy often did in his early animated shorts. The animation by Gil Turner looks a lot like Chuck Jones in his prime, with some keen comic timing, along with the same soft character models that Merrie Melodies so signature. The Happy Rabbit shorts are also still mildly adventurous, slowly phasing out the cutesiness that the Merrie Melodies celebrated. Happy Rabbit is much more resembling Bugs Bunny (thanks to a redesign by animator Charlie Thorson), going from a white rabbit with a black nose, now to a gray rabbit with white ears, a more pronounced black nose, pink cheeks and his soon-to-be signature buck teeth.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also now wearing yellow gloves for hands throughout the picture. John Sourpuss looks a tad like Happy Rabbit in his early incarnation, even with the pin shaped head. \u201cHare-Um Scare-Um\u201d also features the debut of Bugs Bunny\u2019s penchant for cross dressing and costumes, as he evades the hunting dog by donning the outfit of a female dog and distracts him by wooing him. Like typical Looney Tunes, the short ends on an ironic note as John Sourpuss challenges Happy and his whole family, causing dozens of them to dash out from the forest with their dukes up.<\/p>\n

\u201cHare-Um Scare-Um\u201d is so much more in line with what we\u2019d see in future Bugs Bunny cartoons, as he\u2019s being molded in to a genuinely likable character that doesn\u2019t feel like a direct copy of early Daffy Duck. You can apparently find this with two versions, one of which features a longer resolution with Happy\u2019s family beating up Sourpuss, Happy handing Sourpuss his gun and bouncing off cackling with Sourpuss following after. It\u2019s a better, funnier closer than the sudden dissolve on the rabbits.<\/p>\n

Find out what we think are the BEST<\/a> and WORST<\/a> Bugs Bunny shorts of all time!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 85th Anniversary of Bug Bunny\u2019s first animated appearance in 1938’s \u201cPorky\u2019s Hare Hunt.\u201d Debuting originally as Happy Rabbit, Bugs eventually became one of the most iconic animated characters of all time. In honor of the landmark anniversary, we\u2019re discussing every animated appearance by Bugs Bunny. We\u2019re big fans of Bugsy and we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[71,99,167,219,610,3069,1175],"class_list":["post-38411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-comedy","tag-looney-tunes","tag-merrie-melodies","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38413,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411\/revisions\/38413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}