{"id":43962,"date":"2024-05-28T07:53:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43962"},"modified":"2024-05-28T07:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:53:32","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-grey-hounded-hare-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/28\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-grey-hounded-hare-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: The Grey Hounded Hare (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Grey Hounded Hare (1949)
\n<\/sup><\/u><\/strong>Directed by Bob McKimson
\nWritten by Warren Foster
\nAnimation by John Carey
\nMusic by Carl Stalling<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Grey Hounded Hare\u201d is one of those shorts that always played in the very middle of marathons on cable TV and it almost always made great background noise. That\u2019s mainly because \u201cThe Grey Hounded Hare\u201d isn\u2019t really anything to write home about. When it comes to Bugs Bunny he\u2019s done better, and the writers have found better ways to utilize his ongoing feud with dogs. The short by Bob McKimson is pretty much the repetition that these shorts are known for but without not too many laughs. Sure it\u2019s clever and it\u2019s high energy, which is always a plus. But the whole concept just kind of feels stale and forced. That\u2019s punctuated by the fact that the short has no real foil for Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n

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Sure, he does try to outwit and stop a group of unwitting Greyhound Dogs, and does have a stand down with one of the dogs in the end. But when you really take a look back, there\u2019s no one here to fight with Bugs mainly because Bugs is pretty much the villain here. The flipping of the dynamic doesn\u2019t work in the short\u2019s favor, as Bugs just emphasizes the whole idea of being a \u201cdumb animal\u201d by falling in love with an inanimate object in the form of a mechanical rabbit. The set up involves Bugs waking up from his hole next to a racing track where Greyhounds are competing.<\/p>\n

While there he decides to take in the bets and comes across a slew of Greyhounds including number seven, who doesn\u2019t particularly like Bugs. Much to Bugs horror he sees the Greyhounds competing to catch a mechanical brown rabbit sliding along the rails and decides to rescue what he assumes is a girl. From there\u2019s it\u2019s a long habit of doing the same gags over and over. He jumps over the dogs and through the dogs, he bats at them, and even knocks a few out to get to the rabbit. The only one left standing is dog seven who really is no match for Bugs and feels less like a foil and more like an innocent mark. Nonetheless, the two do battle even with Bugs blowing the dog up prompting it retaliation in the form of a Bull.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t a lot of gags of clever puns for this one, as it\u2019s all pretty straight forward with no unique jokes, save for the twist on the dogs\u2019 names. Bugs doesn\u2019t even give his signature \u201cEh–what\u2019s up, Doc?\u201d which is a golden missed opportunity to twist it to \u201cEh–what\u2019s up dog<\/em><\/strong>?\u201d I admit that I found the whole racing announcer spread out on his desk to be a pretty funny running gag. I don\u2019t particularly like the pay off as it felt like the writers didn\u2019t really know how to cap everything off. He spends a lot of time trying to catch the mechanical rabbit and he does, now what? There is the electric shocks that the rabbit gives him every time he kisses it, which he mistakes as chemistry with the rabbit.<\/p>\n

It felt like somewhere in there they could have tossed in one great gag or something. \u00a0I can\u2019t say \u201cGrey Hounded Hare\u201d is one of the best Bugs Bunny shorts ever made, but you could do a lot worse.<\/p>\n

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The Grey Hounded Hare (1949) Directed by Bob McKimson Written by Warren Foster Animation by John Carey Music by Carl Stalling \u201cThe Grey Hounded Hare\u201d is one of those shorts that always played in the very middle of marathons on cable TV and it almost always made great background noise. That\u2019s mainly because \u201cThe Grey […]<\/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-43962","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\/43962","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=43962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43964,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43962\/revisions\/43964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}