{"id":51444,"date":"2026-01-28T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=51444"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:45:43","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-a-witchs-tangled-hare-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/28\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-a-witchs-tangled-hare-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: A Witch&#8217;s Tangled Hare (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare<\/strong> (1959)<br \/>\nDirected by Abe Levitow<br \/>\nStory by Michael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by Keith Darling, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Richard Thompson<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare\u201d incorporates bits and pieces of William Shakespeare\u2019s plays \u2013 along with a character who resembles Shakespeare \u2013 into a Bugs Bunny romp that brings back the zany Witch Hazel as the predator. It\u2019s a cute idea for a cartoon, but the execution is off and it quickly becomes a bore.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cartoon opens with the Shakespeare-inspired character arriving at a castle with a mailbox featuring the name \u201cMacbeth.\u201d As this character begins scratching his feathered quill on paper, we see Witch Hazel stirring a cauldron while reciting a few words from the Scottish play\u2019s \u201cBubble, bubble, toil and trouble\u201d chant. The cauldron is meant for Bugs, who is sleeping under a covered platter \u2013 he thinks it is a hot bath and gingerly positions himself into the hot cauldron (repeating the gag from \u201cHiawatha\u2019s Rabbit Hunt\u201d). But when he spies an open cookbook and realizes he is the main course, he angrily confronts Witch Hazel \u2013 and she pulls out a meat cleaver to give chase.<\/p>\n<p>From there, \u201cA Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare\u201d devolves into several lame slapstick gags (including Bugs foisting an anvil on Witch Hazel while she is levitating on her broom) and an unfunny riff on \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d that ends with Juliet\/Witch Hazel jumping from the balcony and Romeo\/Bugs neglecting to catch her. As for the Shakespeare character watching these shenanigans, he turns out to be Sam Crubish \u2013 and, as luck would have it, he dated Witch Hazel years earlier and she wanted him to meet her parents. But there was confusion regarding whether he was to arrive at Apartment 2B, which leads to the most obvious Shakespeare-flavored joke imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare\u201d is the second and final Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Abe Levitow (after \u201cBaton Bunny\u201d) and the last with Witch Hazel as a central character \u2013 she made a very brief non-speaking appearance later on in \u201cTransylvania 6-5000.\u201d An uncredited June Foray voiced Witch Hazel, and her madcap line readings were the saving grace of the cartoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare (1959) Directed by Abe Levitow Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Keith Darling, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Richard Thompson Music by Milt Franklyn \u201cA Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare\u201d incorporates bits and pieces of William Shakespeare\u2019s plays \u2013 along with a character who resembles Shakespeare \u2013 into a Bugs Bunny romp that brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3878,3688],"class_list":["post-51444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-june-foray","tag-witch-hazel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51444","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=51444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51447,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51444\/revisions\/51447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}