From Hare to Eternity

From Hare to Eternity
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Airdate:	4 November 1997
Series:	Looney Tunes
Starring:	Bugs Bunny Yosemite Sam
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Frank Gorshin Greg Burson
Director:	Chuck Jones
Written By:	Stephen Fossati
Producer:	Chuck Jones Linda Jones Clough Stephen A. Fossati
Animated By:	Thomas E. Decker Greg Whittaker Tom Ray
Assistant Animators:	Herman Sharaf Warren O'Neill Cory Wilson Joe Achorn Edy Benjamin Martin Hopkins John Hinshelwood
Junior Animators:	Greg Duffell Ben Jones
Background Artist:	Jill Petrilak
Film Editor:	Julie Ann Lau Robb Wenner
Musician:	Cameron Patrick George Daugherty

From Hare to Eternity is a 1997 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.

Title

The title is a play on the 1951 novel From Here to Eternity, adapted into a film in 1953.

Plot

Sam is the captain and only occupant of a sailing ship, and he's heading on a voyage for buried treasure with the means to get it for himself. He reaches the island, immediately finding the dig site, and uncovers both a treasure chest and Bugs Bunny on it. Before Sam can deal with Bugs, the rabbit shoves the chest and Sam onto the ship and sets the ship in motion. Bugs avoids walking the plank and tricks Sam into thinking he's a charming mermaid, which gets him into a swimming chase with a shark. Bugs opens his treasure chest, which is literally a chest of eighteen carrots.

Availability

(1997) VHS
From Hare to Eternity

(2000) VHS
Mil-Looney-Um 2000 - Bumper Collection

(2009) DVD
Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, (1998 dubbed version)

(2011) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three, (1998 dubbed version)

(2017) DVD
Looney Tunes Double Feature Stranger Than Fiction Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

(2020) DVD
Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection, (1998 dubbed version)

(2024) Blu-ray
Joe's Apartment (restored)

Streaming

HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)

Max (2024 - ) (restored)

Notes

• Bugs is voiced by Greg Burson, while Yosemite Sam is voiced by Frank Gorshin.
• The cartoon is mainly a parody of H.M.S. Pinafore, with Sam and Bugs performing many of the songs.
• Michigan J. Frog's voice singing "Hello! Ma Baby" is briefly heard when Yosemite Sam digs up for treasure, but is not physically seen, unless one counts the box labelled "M.J. FROG" containing him.
  • Jeff McCarthy provides Michigan's singing voice in this scene, but is uncredited.
• This was issued as a tribute to Sam's creator, Friz Freleng, who had died about two years before the cartoon's release.
• This is the final cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, ending a career that began in 1938.
  • This is also the first and only Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.
• The Chuck Jones website claimed it was released in 1996.
• The blue shark from this cartoon physically resembles Porpoise the shark from the Chuck Jones era of Tom and Jerry about 30 years prior. It also has a rather similar ending to the another Jones-produced Tom and Jerry cartoon "Puss 'n' Boats".

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