Mississippi Hare
1949 film by Chuck Jones
Mississippi Hare is a 1949 Looney Tunes cartoon short in which cotton pickers mistake Bugs Bunny's tail for a ball of cotton and toss him into a cargo truck with the rest of the haul, bound for a riverboat on the Mississippi River. On the riverboat Bugs takes on the gambler Colonel Shuffle.
- Directed by Chuck Jones. Written by Michael Maltese.
Bugs Bunny
edit- [last lines] Oh well. We almost had a romantic ending!
Colonel Shuffle
edit- Why did you dunk my poor old hide in Old Man River, when I bought a loge seat?
Dialogue
edit- Colonel Shuffle: I'm Colonel Shuffle, the rip-roarin'est, gold-diggin'est, sharp-shootin'est, poker-playin'est riverboat gambler on the Mississippi! Yahoo! Be there anyone man enough to sit in a poker game with Colonel Shuffle? Well, be there?
- Bugs Bunny: There be.
External links
edit- Mississippi Hare quotes at the Internet Movie Database