{"id":49651,"date":"2025-09-17T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=49651"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:09:50","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-to-hare-is-human-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/17\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-to-hare-is-human-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: To Hare is Human (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To Hare is Human <\/strong>(1956)<br \/>\nDirected by Chuck Jones<br \/>\nStory by Michael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by Abe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, Ben Washam<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>Wile E. Coyote wants Bugs Bunny for breakfast \u2013 not as a guest, but as his meal \u2013 but the self-proclaimed genius quickly discovers capturing his prey is beyond his intellectual capacities. For this pursuit, the coyote installs a supersized Univac computer in his cave and consults the machine for strategies on catching Bugs. The computer offers several ideas, but all these seemingly ingenious efforts wildly backfire on the coyote.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wile E. Coyote first turned up in the Bugs Bunny series with the wonderful 1952 \u201cOperation: Rabbit,\u201d and this character\u2019s self-assured pretension \u2013 complete with a supercilious Mid-Atlantic accent \u2013 was an inspired contrast to the usual dimwitted or hotheaded foes that Bugs would mostly encounter. It was a pleasure to see him back, and the idea of his using the Univac computer to plot assaults on Bugs was a fun idea \u2013 the monstrous machine, with its scores of buttons and switches that result in paper-receipt answers, ultimately proves to be the worst possible ally in this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cTo Hare is Human\u201d doesn\u2019t work because director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese made a bizarre decision to present Bugs as a cutesy character. Throughout the cartoon, Bugs is skipping, dancing, singing silly tunes, and wearing funny costumes. At one point, he is vacuuming his underground home while resembling a cleaning lady with his ears tied over his head like a kerchief and an apron tied around his waist. In this characterization, Bugs comes across as a buffoon \u2013 mercifully, this change to his personality didn\u2019t occur again.<\/p>\n<p>Wile E. Coyote is the sole source of the cartoon\u2019s laughs \u2013 and, thankfully, one can never get bored of the coyote\u2019s inevitable failures as he plunges down cliffs, gets blown up with dynamite, or has boulders dropped on his head. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Hare is Human (1956) Directed by Chuck Jones Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Abe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, Ben Washam Music by Milt Franklyn Wile E. Coyote wants Bugs Bunny for breakfast \u2013 not as a guest, but as his meal \u2013 but the self-proclaimed genius quickly discovers capturing his prey is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":49661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,1317,3831,2106],"class_list":["post-49651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-chuck-jones","tag-michael-maltese","tag-wile-e-coyote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651","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=49651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49655,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651\/revisions\/49655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}