{"id":47967,"date":"2025-06-04T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=47967"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:52:40","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-sahara-hare-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-sahara-hare-1955\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Sahara Hare (1955)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sahara Hare<\/strong> (1955)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by Warren Foster<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<br \/>\nAnimation by Gerry Chiniquy, Ted Bonnicksen, Arthur Davis<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSahara Hare\u201d gets off to a great start when Bugs Bunny burrows his way into the middle of the Sahara Desert and mistakenly believes he is in Miami Beach. Bugs happily runs across the desert to take a dip in the Atlantic Ocean, but the endless hot sands confuse and exhaust him. \u201cMan, dig this crazy beach,\u201d he exhales before hitting upon a tiny oasis. Mistaking the oasis pond for the ocean, he dives in headfirst, but winds up with a headful of mud from the pond\u2019s shallow bottom.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, desert chieftain Yosemite Sam comes riding across the sands on his less-than-cooperative camel. Upset the someone is getting \u201cfooty-prints\u201d all over his desert, he encounters Bugs at the oasis \u2013 or to be more precise, Bugs mistakes his flowing robes for a towel dispenser. When Bugs gives his customary \u201cWhat\u2019s up, doc?\u201d greeting, Sam replies, \u201cI&#8217;m no Doc, ya flea-bitten varmint! I&#8217;m Riffraff Sam, the riffiest riff that ever riffed a raft!\u201d Bugs facetiously informs Sam, \u201cYour slip is showing,\u201d causing Sam to pull his robes to ground level in embarrassment, which leads to immediate anger when he realizes that he\u2019s been pranked.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, \u201cSahara Hare\u201d is perfect with original gags wrapped around an inventive premise. Unfortunately, the cartoon veers into a predictable rut where Bugs takes refuge in a desert fort that Sam tries to penetrate with increasingly elaborate schemes, including a giant slingshot and an elephant. Bugs sets a booby-trap with multiple doors that the stubborn Sam opens \u2013 the explosion linked to the last door occurs off-screen, with Bugs safely away from the destruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSahara Hare\u201d wraps up with a surprise appearance by Daffy Duck, who also thinks he is in Miami Beach. It is a cute gag, but it doesn\u2019t compensate for the cartoon\u2019s wrong turn away from its fast and funny opening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahara Hare (1955) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Music by Milt Franklyn Animation by Gerry Chiniquy, Ted Bonnicksen, Arthur Davis \u201cSahara Hare\u201d gets off to a great start when Bugs Bunny burrows his way into the middle of the Sahara Desert and mistakenly believes he is in Miami Beach. Bugs happily runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":47968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2523,3490,2077],"class_list":["post-47967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-daffy-duck","tag-friz-freleng","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47967","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=47967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48914,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47967\/revisions\/48914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}