{"id":44056,"date":"2024-06-04T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44056"},"modified":"2024-06-04T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:12:10","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-windblown-hare-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/04\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-windblown-hare-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: The Windblown Hare (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I am one that was never much of a fan of cartoons like \u201cRocky and Bullwinkle\u201d or \u201cGeorge of the Jungle.\u201d I always found those series to feel cheap and kind of dull so I was never a fan of their fractured fairy tales. Besides, Warner bros. always set the bar high when it came to taking fairy tales and distorting them for their own twisted purposes. \u201cThe Windblown Hare\u201d is a hilarious take on the Three Pigs and Red Riding Hood, the first confrontation with the three pigs for Bugs and his second confrontation of Red Riding Hood\u2019s universe. While not as funny as \u201cRed Riding Rabbit,\u201d this visitation to the latter\u2019s world is small but hysterical as the writers take this whole dynamic and twist it up for some prime comedic material.<\/p>\n

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This time the three pigs are a trio of obnoxious con men, the big bad wolf is a victim of circumstance, and Bugs is just an innocent bystander. He’s always at his funniest when he\u2019s the innocent bystander who has no choice but to intervene and side with someone that he wouldn\u2019t normally side with. It also helps that Jim Backus is back as the Big Bad Wolf, offering a hilarious supporting performance that punctuates the inherent lunacy of the short and he maintains pace with Mel Blanc without flaw. In the previous \u201cRed Riding Hood\u201d short, the wolf was an evil predator. This time he\u2019s kind of a putz who is mainly attacking the three pigs because it\u2019s his purpose in the book.<\/p>\n

When we meet the wolf he\u2019s following the instructions of the fairy tale, all the while the trio of brothers that have also read the famed fairy tale, have decided to sell their hay and wooden houses and hide out in the brick house. Along comes Bugs who seeks a new house and ends up buying the hay house. Much to his shock the wolf comes along blowing it down, forcing Bugs to buy the wooden house. While the pigs celebrate, Bugs is forced to buy the wooden house and along comes the wolf who blows his house down. Infuriated, Bugs derails the entire direction of the narrative taking on the persona of Red Riding Hood.<\/p>\n

This prompts the wolf to follow suit, leading in to a hilarious series of gags where he reads the entire story in high speed on screen. He then bolts to Red\u2019s house where he spots her grandma (Bea Benaderet returns!) and shoos her out of the house. Despite her protests, he forces her out of the house and takes her place in the bed. \u201cThe Windblown Hare\u201d really feels a lot like two shorts slapped together and it works, because it gives the whole series of shenanigans a real sense of energy to them. The three pigs have a seemingly easy plot to con someone as well as defeat the big bad wolf, but they just end up selling their property to Bugs. Sadly, Bugs is not one who likes to be trifled with and he uses a potential enemy and turns him to an unwitting pawn in his own scheme to get back at the pigs.<\/p>\n

Despite driving the wolf crazy in his charade as being the grandma, Bugs encourages him to try to blow down the brick house, prompting him to blow to smithereens. As a final bit of slick payback, the wolf and the pigs are shocked to see he\u2019d blown down the brick house, but Bugs and his load of TNT aren\u2019t. It\u2019s such a hilarious end to a short where the point of view constantly changes and the comedy is rapid fire from beginning to end. This, oddly enough, wouldn\u2019t be the last we\u2019d see of Bugs and the Big Bad Wolf crossing paths, and the Big Bad Wolf was good enough to warrant a few of his own spin off shorts.<\/p>\n

That said \u201cThe Windblown Hare\u201d is a great second chapter in the Bugs and \u201cRed Riding Hood\u201d universe crossover.<\/p>\n

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The Windblown Hare (1949) Directed by Bob McKimson Written by Warren Foster Animation by John Carey Music by Carl Stalling I am one that was never much of a fan of cartoons like \u201cRocky and Bullwinkle\u201d or \u201cGeorge of the Jungle.\u201d I always found those series to feel cheap and kind of dull so I […]<\/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-44056","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\/44056","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=44056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44058,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44056\/revisions\/44058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}