"Compressed Hare" is a Bugs Bunny cartoon. It stars Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny (in their third pairing), and was released on July 29, 1961.

As in his first two encounters with Bugs - Operation: Rabbit (1952) and To Hare is Human (1956) - Wile E. has a voice.

Plot

Wile E. Coyote leaves a telephone at the hole of his neighbor, Bugs Bunny. He calls, asking to borrow a cup of diced carrots. Bugs sarcastically looks at Wile E's mailbox ("Wile E. Coyote - Genius"), and realizes what he's up against. He then mocks him: "Are you in, genius? Are you in, capable? Are you in, describable?" Wile E. grabs Bugs and ties him to a stake as he prepares to cook Bugs, but Bugs gets the upper hand by hopping on the floorboards, setting off a wine cork that, after it ricochets around the room, triggers Wile E's wall bed that crushes the Coyote. Bugs makes his getaway and hops back to his hole.

Wile E. then tries a vacuum cleaner to suck up the rabbit, getting a dynamite decoy instead; a cannon shot, which Bugs re-directs at the Coyote, and "Quick-Drying Cement" (Bugs causes the Coyote to fall inside the pan).

The final attempt is a 10 billion-volt electric magnet, which Wile E. Coyote turns on after leaving a metal carrot in Bugs' hole (hoping the bunny can eat the carrot and then be pulled by the magnet to his waiting predator). Bugs tricks him and sends the carrot right back at Wile E. However, the Coyote doesn't expect the magnet to attract everything else with metal properties — Bugs' mailbox, barbed wire, knives, street lamps, buses, ocean liners, the Eiffel Tower, satellites and finally, a Mercury rocket trying to blast off into space — his way. The rocket explodes, blowing Wile E's cave into oblivion. ("One thing is for sure," Bugs notes, "we're the foist country to put a coyote into orbit.")

Full crew

Co-Director: Maurice Noble
Story: Dave Detiege
Animation: Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Bob Bransford, Tom Ray
Layouts: Corny Cole
Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard, William Butler
Effects Animation: Harry Love
Film Editor: Treg Brown
Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc
Music: Milt Franklyn


Directed by: Chuck Jones

Succession

References

• Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. ISBN 0-8108-1396-3.

External link

• Compressed Hare at the Internet Movie Database