{"id":48431,"date":"2025-07-02T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=48431"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:13:33","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-hyde-and-hare-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/02\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-hyde-and-hare-1955\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Hyde and Hare (1955)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hyde and Hare <\/strong>(1955)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by Warren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by Gerry Chiniquy, Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross, Ted Bonnicksen<br \/>\nMusic by Carl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>Bugs Bunny talks his way into being adopted by a kindly elderly man who feeds him carrots daily in a park. The man is Dr. Jekyll, who has created a potion that turns him into a hulking, green-skinned, red-eyed brute \u2013 the alter ego is never called Mr. Hyde in the film, but we all know who it is supposed to be. Bugs is pursued by this violent monster, who keeps turning back into Dr. Jekyll every few seconds before becoming Hyde again. Of course, Bugs never figures out the two very different figures are the same person.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHyde and Hare\u201d works best when Bugs lobbies Dr. Jekyll into taking him \u2013 even jumping into his arms and cooing \u201cCarry me!\u201d \u2013 and later when Bugs storms out of the doctor\u2019s home after denying that he drank the Hyde potion, only to turn into a rabbit version of Hyde back in the park. There are also two brief but funny references to then-popular television shows with Bugs doing a Liberace imitation at a piano and later using Jackie Gleason\u2019s catchphrase \u201cYou are a mental case\u201d when first meeting Hyde.<\/p>\n<p>But otherwise, \u201cHyde and Hare\u201d is mostly a very mild cartoon with the usual shtick of Bugs running scared from a monster \u2013 although this time, he never outwits the creature chasing him. The Jekyll-Hyde plot worked better in the 1960 \u201cHyde and Go Tweet,\u201d with Tweety turning tables on Sylvester by drinking the Hyde formula and transforming into a comically hideous giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyde and Hare (1955) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Gerry Chiniquy, Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross, Ted Bonnicksen Music by Carl Stalling Bugs Bunny talks his way into being adopted by a kindly elderly man who feeds him carrots daily in a park. The man is Dr. Jekyll, who has created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":48432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3761],"class_list":["post-48431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-dr-jekyll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431","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=48431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48438,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions\/48438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}