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Compressed Hare
Compressed Hare
	Lobby card
Directed by	Chuck Jones; Maurice Noble
Story by	Dave Detiege
Produced by	David H. DePatie; John W. Burton
Starring	Mel Blanc; (all voices)
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Bob Bransford; Ken Harris; Richard Thompson; Tom Ray; Effects Animation:; Harry Love
Layouts by	Maurice Noble (uncredited); Assistant:; Corny Cole
Backgrounds by	Philip DeGuard; William Butler
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 29, 1961;
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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Compressed Hare is a 1961 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.^[1] The short was released on July 29, 1961, and stars Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote.^[2] This is the final first-run Golden Age short in which Wile E. Coyote speaks, although he speaks again in the Adventures of the Road Runner featurette a year later.

Plot

In the narrative involving Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny, a sequence of comedic encounters unfolds as Coyote endeavors to capture and prepare Bugs Bunny as a meal. The plot initiates with Coyote's subtle ploy, leaving a telephone in Bugs Bunny's hole and soliciting a cup of diced carrots. Bugs, perceptive to Coyote's intentions, engages in a playful exchange before finding himself ensnared by Coyote's attempts to capture him.

Coyote's subsequent endeavors to ensnare Bugs Bunny involve a series of contrived traps, each met with humorous misfortune. From vacuum cleaners mistaken for prey to quick-drying cement mishaps, the comedic tension escalates as Coyote's schemes backfire, culminating in his unwitting entrapment beneath a concrete block. Bugs Bunny, ever resourceful, capitalizes on Coyote's misfortune with witty quips, asserting his prowess as a neighbor.

Additional Crew

Directed by Chuck Jones
Co-Director: Maurice Noble
Film Editor: Treg Brown

References

^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 333. 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.

External links

Compressed Hare at IMDb

Preceded by The Abominable Snow Rabbit	Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1961	Succeeded by Prince Violent

[Beck-1] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 333. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[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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 ==Plot==
+In the narrative involving Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny, a sequence of comedic encounters unfolds as Coyote endeavors to capture and prepare Bugs Bunny as a meal. The plot initiates with Coyote's subtle ploy, leaving a telephone in Bugs Bunny's hole and soliciting a cup of diced carrots. Bugs, perceptive to Coyote's intentions, engages in a playful exchange before finding himself ensnared by Coyote's attempts to capture him.
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-[[Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner|Wile E. Coyote]] leaves a telephone in the hole of his neighbor [[Bugs Bunny]]. He calls from his cave, asking to borrow a cup of diced carrots. Bugs' whiskers twitch as he looks at the Coyote's mailbox and he realizes what he's up against. After Bugs mocks him, Wile E. Coyote grabs Bugs Bunny and ties him to a stake.  He prepares to complete his rabbit stew.  However, Bugs gets the upper hand by hopping on the floorboards and setting off a wine cork.  The cork ricochets around the room, triggers Wile E.'s [[Murphy bed]] to open and drives the Coyote into the floor. Bugs makes his getaway and hops back to his hole.
+Coyote's subsequent endeavors to ensnare Bugs Bunny involve a series of contrived traps, each met with humorous misfortune. From vacuum cleaners mistaken for prey to quick-drying cement mishaps, the comedic tension escalates as Coyote's schemes backfire, culminating in his unwitting entrapment beneath a concrete block. Bugs Bunny, ever resourceful, capitalizes on Coyote's misfortune with witty quips, asserting his prowess as a neighbor.
-Wile E. then tries using a vacuum cleaner to suck up the rabbit, getting a dynamite decoy instead (before the decoy explodes, he says, "Well, well, the boy has talent"), a cannon shot, which Bugs re-directs at the Coyote thanks to some underground pipes (Coyote: "But how? Well, even a genius can have an off-day") and "Quick-Drying Cement".  The cement dries into a cylindrical block.  As Wile E. laughs, saying, "What a wonderful way to ''cement'' a friendship.", he runs right into the block, which tips over on top of him.  Bugs then pops out and says, "Well, now he has ''concrete'' evidence that I'm a good neighbor".
-The final attempt is a 10 billion-volt electric magnet, which Wile E. activates after leaving an iron carrot in Bugs' hole. Bugs tricks him and sends the carrot right back at him. Bugs' mailbox is also pulled towards the magnet, hitting Wile E. in the face. To further batter the Coyote, Bugs throws out an iron, a frying pan, a garbage bin, and a mallet, as well as his bed and kitchen stove, all of which are attracted to the magnet.  However, neither Bugs nor Wile E. expect the magnet to also attract everything else with metal properties (including barbed wire, horse shoes, street lamps, kettles, cars, signs, bulldozers, iron fences, buses, an ocean liner, the [[Eiffel Tower]], satellites, and, finally, a [[Project Mercury|Mercury]] rocket trying to blast off into space). The Mercury rocket lodges itself in Wile E's cave and explodes, along with everything else the magnet attracted, blasting Wile E. Coyote into oblivion and exploding into fireworks the cave as Bugs watches from his hole. Bugs remarks jokingly: "One thing's for sure. We're the first country to get a coyote into orbit."
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