Falling Hare

Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, and starring Bugs Bunny in the Merrie Melodies cartoon series. As with many Bugs Bunny cartoons, the title is a play on words; "falling hair" refers to impending baldness, while in this cartoon’s climax the title turns out to be descriptive of Bugs’s situation (a hare falling / crashing to earth).

Title card

Bugs Bunny

[laughs] Hey! Get a load of this, Folks. It says here, "A constant menace to pilots are the Gremlims who wreck planes with dia-bo-lick-al sabo-tay-gee.

Dialogue

Bugs Bunny: WHAT AM I DOING?!?

Bugs Bunny: [had just been hit in the head with a wrench] Which way did he go, George, which way did he go?

The Gremlin: Hmmm... [points in both directions] That way.

Bugs Bunny: Well, gee, thanks a lot George, thanks a lot. [taking his first step, he immediately falls to the floor]

The Gremlin: [runs over to Bugs and pulls his eyelids open] What's the matter, bunny rabbit? Speak to me. Why don't you say something?

Bugs Bunny: I'm only three-and-a-half years old. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b.

The Gremlin: I like him, he's silly!

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[Last lines, as the plane hurtles to a certain doom, the plane suddenly sputters and stops a few feet in midair]

The Gremlin: Sorry, folks! We ran out of gas.

Bugs Bunny: Yeah, you know how it is with these "A" cards.

Cast

• Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny / The Gremlin.
• Robert Clampett as Various.