{"id":42569,"date":"2024-02-08T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42569"},"modified":"2024-02-08T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T21:30:05","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-a-feather-in-his-hare-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/08\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-a-feather-in-his-hare-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: A Feather in His Hare (1948)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A Feather in His Hare (1948)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Chuck Jones
\nWritten by Michael Maltese
\nMusic by Carl W. Stalling
\nAnimation by Ken Harris<\/p>\n

We\u2019re so late in the game and we\u2019re still doling out these hideous racial stereotypes for these Looney Tunes shorts. \u201cA Feather in his Hare\u201d reminded me a lot of \u201cAll This and Rabbit Stew\u201d except this short elicits a ton of hideous Native American stereotypes without ever actually building an interesting villain. By now we\u2019ve had Elmer, Yosemite Sam, and many more foils, and we\u2019re still being fed this kind of muck. And it\u2019s not just that \u201cA Feather in His Hare\u201d is awfully racist, but it\u2019s awfully unfunny as well. It\u2019s just a lot of exploring how many Native American stereotypes can be squeezed in to eight minutes, and none of it ever amounts to even a mild chuckle.<\/p>\n

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The set up involves the Native American villain going on a hunt for a bunny when he comes across Bugs. Bugs comes out of his hole to give the hunter a hard time and the two play a battle of wits. Every joke here is so obvious that it\u2019s tough to even try to enjoy. Our Native American villain has a tattoo on his stomach that looks like a bullseye, he uses the \u201c-um\u201d suffix after every other word in his sentences, and he\u2019s not even really given much of a name. I want to say it\u2019s \u201cMo-hican,\u201d but I\u2019m not too certain. He\u2019s identified by Bugs by a lot of other Native American nicknames and that\u2019s about it. From there it\u2019s a parade of racist gags that I just couldn\u2019t really click in to.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s even kind of an ugly scene where the Native American villain tries to lure Bugs in to a barber shop trap, which is really just an excuse for him to scalp Bugs Bunny. Bugs tricks him into getting in to the chair and uses his hatchet to whack him over the head. He then takes the unconscious Native American villain and places him outside the teepee like a Cigar Store Indian statue. Yikes. Frankly I\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t grab on to the other stereotypes like alcoholism. For Chuck Jones this is stale, and monotonous and one of the more infamous Bugs Bunny shorts that I was never aware ever existed.<\/p>\n

I knew Bugs had a few shorts where he dealt with Native American villains, but I was never aware of \u201cA Feather in His Hare.\u201d This short was mostly kept off of television for a long time (known as the \u201cTwelve Missing Hares\u201d), even being excluded from the \u201cJune Bugs\u201d 24 hour marathon for the Cartoon Network, back in the heyday. \u201cA Feather In His Hare\u201d even closes on a weak sight gag involving a weird placement of storks and babies when Mo-hican declares himself \u201clast of mo-hi-cans!\u201d After passing out from the sight Bugs also sees his own babies being carried by storks and passes out. It\u2019s an awkward and abrupt finisher to a short that\u2019s operating on fumes from the opening title card.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d place \u201cA Feather in His Hare\u201d alongside \u201cAll This and Rabbit Stew\u201d and \u201cNips the Nips\u201d in sheer awfulness in its unabashed racism, sure, but mainly for being so lazy and unfunny.<\/p>\n

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A Feather in His Hare (1948) Directed by Chuck Jones Written by Michael Maltese Music by Carl W. Stalling Animation by Ken Harris We\u2019re so late in the game and we\u2019re still doling out these hideous racial stereotypes for these Looney Tunes shorts. \u201cA Feather in his Hare\u201d reminded me a lot of \u201cAll This […]<\/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-42569","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\/42569","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=42569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42572,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42569\/revisions\/42572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}