{"id":44149,"date":"2024-06-11T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44149"},"modified":"2024-06-11T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:55:40","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-frigid-hare-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/11\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-frigid-hare-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Frigid Hare (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Frigid Hare (1949)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Chuck Jones
\nWritten by Michael Maltese
\nAnimation by Phil Monroe
\nMusic by Carl Stalling<\/p>\n

I think \u201cFrigid Hare\u201d is the point in Bugs Bunny\u2019s career when he stopped being a mere foil or protagonist and started being something of a hero. When he finally steps up to defend a small penguin named “Playboy,” who–a very small cute penguin… from the wrath of an inuit. That\u2019s the exact time Bugs started becoming something of a hero for the little guy. All of the other scenarios of Bugs giving in to his baser urges to be egomaniacal, or just plain antagonistic are a bar he\u2019s just toppled. With \u201cFrigid Hare\u201d the animators and writers set a high bar with a short where we\u2019d see him defending and fighting for other smaller animals in the near future.<\/p>\n

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Bugs is still very funny, but he\u2019s a lot more consistent from this point on. Even Bugs with his occasional \u201cI look out for me and only me\u201d attitude, he comes across a helpless baby penguin that desperately needs his help. And he simply can not say no. This is the first appearance of \u201cPlayboy Penguin\u201d a character very similar to Chilly Willy, a silent often unassuming penguin who always seems to need Bugs Bunny\u2019s help. I\u2019m surprised that not much was made of this character as he was considerably charming and cute, but always relied on someone to really carry him through his own shorts.<\/p>\n

For this one Bugs arrives at what he thinks are the sandy shores of Coney Island but realizes too late that he\u2019s actually in the below zero temperatures of North Pole. Just his luck he runs across Playboy who is fleeing an inuit hunter and turns to Bugs for help in fighting him off. Despite Bugs\u2019 empathy for his situation he shoos him away, but lo and behold his conscience takes hold of him and he decides to help out the small creature. \u201cFrigid Hare\u201d is hilarious but it\u2019s also adorable in how Bugs warms up to Playboy so quickly. \u201cPlayboy Penguin\u201d doesn\u2019t have a ton of comedic value to him, but he is charming, and likable at the very least.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not too often that Bugs Bunny shorts gets sentimental, even if Merrie Melodies made a craft out of it for decades. \u201cFrigid Hare\u201d isn\u2019t a top ten charter for Bugs Bunny, especially as the Inuit isn\u2019t particularly a funny or interesting character. He probably only really gets one good gaff and that\u2019s thanks to Bugs\u2019 signature cross dressing act used as a trap and lure for the dastardly predator. That thankfully doesn\u2019t hinder the short as the attraction seems to be \u201cPlayboy Penguin.\u201d Its mileage varies but he does appear one more time with Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrigid Hare\u201d is nevertheless a funny little adventure with Bugs who does more than just try to survive this time.<\/p>\n

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