{"id":46407,"date":"2025-02-19T07:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46407"},"modified":"2025-02-19T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:25:23","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-upswept-hare-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-upswept-hare-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Upswept Hare (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Upswept Hare <\/strong>(1953)<br \/>\nDirected by\tRobert McKimson<br \/>\nStory by\tTedd Pierce<br \/>\nAnimation by\tCharles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rod Scribner, Phil DeLara<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>Wealthy amateur botanist Elmer Fudd discovers a rare flower during a drive through the desert and decides to add it to his floral collection at his penthouse apartment. Elmer digs around the flower to ensure it remains in its native soil, but he inadvertently digs up Bugs Bunny who is sleeping in his hole just under the flower\u2019s roots and transplants him with the flower in a large planter. Bugs awakens the next morning and is initially baffled at being in a swanky penthouse, but he quickly makes himself at home \u2013 much to Elmer\u2019s consternation. Elmer\u2019s effort to evict his unwanted guest results in him being tricked by Bugs to jump off the penthouse, where he plummets into a sidewalk popcorn vending machine.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The best part of \u201cUpswept Hare\u201d involves a half-asleep Bugs emerging form his now-transplanted hole, oblivious that he in a swanky penthouse. He uses bobby pins to clip down his ears for a quick bath, only to realize in shock that his longtime desert water hole is now an Olympic indoor pool. \u201cOh, I get it \u2013 it\u2019s a mir-a-ge,\u201d he exclaims before bathing himself while singing a variation of \u201cNo Place Like Home\u201d with new lyrics recalling Ancient Rome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpswept Hare\u201d marked the first time since \u201cThe Rabbit of Seville\u201d in 1950 that Elmer was Bugs\u2019 sole predator. By now, Elmer was a much more laidback and somewhat low energy character, and the cartoon\u2019s laughs come mostly from Bugs and the oversized, violence-prone downstairs neighbor whose apartment is repeatedly wrecked by Elmer. In retrospect, it is easy to see why the Warner Bros. team created more cartoons with the aggressive hothead Yosemite Sam during this era rather than relying on an increasingly sedate Elmer to challenge Bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upswept Hare (1953) Directed by Robert McKimson Story by Tedd Pierce Animation by Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rod Scribner, Phil DeLara Music by Carl Stalling Wealthy amateur botanist Elmer Fudd discovers a rare flower during a drive through the desert and decides to add it to his floral collection at his penthouse apartment. Elmer digs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":46408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,2158,1175],"class_list":["post-46407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-elmer-fudd","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46407","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46449,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46407\/revisions\/46449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}