Water, Water Every Hare

Water, Water Every Hare
Water, Water Every Hare
Directed by	Charles M. Jones
Story by	Michael Maltese
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc; John T. Smith
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Ben Washam; Ken Harris; Phil Monroe; Lloyd Vaughan; Richard Thompson; Harry Love
Layouts by	Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds by	Philip DeGuard
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	April 19, 1952 (U.S.);
Running time	7:28
Language	English

Water, Water Every Hare is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.^[2] The cartoon was released on April 19, 1952 and stars Bugs Bunny.^[3] The short is a return to the themes of the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare and brings the monster Gossamer back to the screen.

The title is a pun on the line "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The cartoon is available on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.

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After being displaced by a storm, Bugs Bunny finds himself in the castle of a mad scientist. The scientist, needing a brain for his robot, orders his orange, hairy monster, Rudolph, to capture Bugs. Bugs awakens under a mummy, panics, and flees. The frustrated scientist sends Rudolph to retrieve him, promising a reward. Bugs evades capture by impersonating a hairdresser and uses dynamite as curlers, leaving Rudolph bald.

Enraged, Rudolph chases Bugs to a chemical storage room. Bugs uses vanishing fluid to turn invisible and torments Rudolph, eventually shrinking him with reducing oil. The tiny Rudolph resigns and leaves through a mouse hole. Invisible Bugs celebrates, but the scientist makes him visible again, demanding his brain. Bugs refuses, and the scientist accidentally releases ether fumes, incapacitating them both. In a slow-motion chase, Bugs trips the scientist, who falls asleep.

Bugs, still in slow motion, prances away but trips and falls asleep in a stream that returns him to his flooded hole. Waking up, he thinks it was a nightmare until the miniature monster rows by, leaving Bugs bewildered.

Cast[edit]

Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Gossamer ("Rudolph") and Mouse
John T. Smith as Scientist (uncredited)

References[edit]

^ "Animation Breakdowns #35". Retrieved 6 January 2021.
^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 234. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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Preceded by 14 Carrot Rabbit	Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1952	Succeeded by The Hasty Hare

[1] "Animation Breakdowns #35". Retrieved 6 January 2021.

[Beck-2] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 234. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[3] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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v t e Gossamer in animation
Short films	Hair-Raising Hare (1946) Water, Water Every Hare (1952) Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980) Carrotblanca (1995; cameo)
Feature films	Space Jam (1996; cameo) Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006) Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
TV series	The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2013) Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020–2023) Bugs Bunny Builders (2022–present) Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023-present)

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