Hare Splitter

The title is a play on "hair splitter", one who focuses on fine details, and on how Bugs, a hare, tries to "split up" Casbah and Daisy so that he can date her himself.

Plot[]

Bugs and Casbah are getting dressed up to go visit Daisy.

The fighting for Daisy begins as soon as they exit their rabbit holes. Bugs and Casbah both leave their holes with flowers for Daisy. Seeing each other's gifts, they try to outdo each other with bigger and better gifts. Bugs finally throws a weight on Casbah's head to dispose of him.

When Bugs arrives at Daisy's home, he finds a note on her door saying she will be back shortly. Bugs sees Casbah coming and dresses up as Daisy. He lures Casbah over to the porch swing and starts flirting with him. When Casbah isn't looking, Bugs hits him over the head, puts a mouse trap down, and gives him an explosive carrot.

In addition to tricking Casbah on the swing, Bugs pretends to kiss Casbah by using a plunger and hitting him on the head. He continues tricking Casbah by painting a bomb to look like Daisy. Casbah is so excited by explosion of the bomb, he runs into the house.

Once again, Bugs tries to trick Casbah by pretending to be Mr. Daniel Cupid and shooting him with an arrow. Casbah figures out it's Bugs. "You're that screwy rabbit!" he shouts, clearly not realizing this description applies just as well to himself and begins chasing him. Casbah chased Bugs into the house and Bugs slammed the front door on him.

Suddenly, Bugs sees Daisy and runs around the side of the house in horror. Casbah sees Daisy coming up the porch and thinks it is again Bugs dressed up as her. When Daisy enters the house, Casbah hits her upside the head with a vase. Daisy proceeds to beat up Casbah and kick him out of her home.

The cartoon ends with Bugs showering Daisy with compliments and kissing Daisy after she has eaten an explosive carrot. Both Bugs and Daisy think the explosive effect the carrot lends to the kiss is due to the other's romantic capabilities ("What a man!"/"What a woman"), and they enthusiastically kiss each other again.

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When this short aired on ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, the part where Casbah (the big brown rabbit) punches Bugs in the face after Bugs asks him, "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would ya'?" (even though the punch was off-screen) was cut (along with Bugs' line, "Ya' know? I believe he would!").^[3]
When Cartoon Network aired this cartoon as part of the infamous 2001 June Bugs special that banned 12 cartoons for having racial and ethnic stereotypes in them, a rather innocuous part (possibly for time reasons) where, after the novelty-carrot-induced explosive kiss between Bugs and Daisy Lou, Daisy Lou responds with "What a man!" while Bugs responds with "What a woman!" was edited out and immediately went to the scene of them happily jumping around the room before the iris-out.^[4]^[5] On Cartoon Network's other installment shows (such as The Looney Tunes Show and Bugs and Daffy) and current airings on Boomerang, the "What a man!"/"What a woman!" scene was left intact.^[3]^[6]

Notes[]

The cartoon was the first to be reissued in the 1957–58 season, evident from the "WARNER BROS. PICTURES INC". both with dots and blue Color Rings red background. The 1958–59 season was the same rings but no dot after BROS and INC so it would be "WARNER BROS PICTURES INC", without the dot.
This cartoon was featured in the beginning of Bugs Bunny's Valentine.
The fact that Daisy lives in a house instead of a rabbit hole like Bugs or Casbah is an oddity that goes unmentioned.
The question of whether or not any of the girls in the audience have to put up with what was going on in a scene was previously used in "The Big Snooze".
Theatrically released in the New York City with Rope.
The short has been remastered by Warner Archive and is available on HBO Max. This new copy restores the original opening titles.
This is the first cartoon directed by Friz Freleng to be in the post-1948 Warner Bros. package.

Goofs[]

When Bugs first dresses like Daisy, he wore just a green dress. Later Bugs has shoes and pantyhose on him, but they disappear in the next scene.
In the close-up shot of Daisy's photo on Bugs' dresser, her eyes are open, she is facing left and wearing a sweater and it reads "Love, Daisy." In the wide shot, her eyes are closed, she is facing the camera directly, it reads "with love, Daisy" and she appears to be wearing nothing at all like Bugs and Casbah. The close-up and wide shots of the photo on Casbah's dresser also do not match.
Between the time that Bugs slams the door on Casbah and Daisy walks into the house, the direction the door opens changes a couple of times.
When Bugs' stocking fall down, they are attached by one garter each. But when he reaches down the top of the front of his dress he grabs 5 or 6 garters to pull up his stockings.
When the cartoon opens, and the scene zooms in to Bugs' hole, there is only one rabbit hole, with an angled fence behind and to the right. When Bugs and Casbah exit their respective holes, their holes are suddenly merged, and a straight fence is behind and to the left.
When Casbah rings the doorbell, he is carrying a carrot in a clear box, with a crossed ribbon and bow.. After Bugs (in Daisy's clothes) calls to him, the box and carrot disappear. When Casbah lands on the sofa, he has the boxed carrot again, but the ribbon with a bow only runs lengthwise on the box.
When Bugs asks Casbah, "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would ya'?", his mouth moves to the words "would ya'" twice, even though he could only be heard saying that line only once.

Gallery[]

References[]

External links[]

Hare Splitter on the SFX Wiki

Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938	Porky's Hare Hunt
1939	Prest-O Change-O • Hare-um Scare-um
1940	Elmer's Candid Camera • A Wild Hare
1941	Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Tortoise Beats Hare • Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt • The Heckling Hare • All This and Rabbit Stew • Wabbit Twouble
1942	The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • Any Bonds Today? • The Wacky Wabbit • Hold the Lion, Please • Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist • Case of the Missing Hare
1943	Tortoise Wins by a Hare • Super-Rabbit • Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk • Wackiki Wabbit • Falling Hare
1944	Little Red Riding Rabbit • What's Cookin' Doc? • Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears • Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips • Hare Ribbin' • Hare Force • Buckaroo Bugs • The Old Grey Hare • Stage Door Cartoon
1945	Herr Meets Hare • The Unruly Hare • Hare Trigger • Hare Conditioned • Hare Tonic
1946	Baseball Bugs • Hare Remover • Hair-Raising Hare • Acrobatty Bunny • Racketeer Rabbit • The Big Snooze • Rhapsody Rabbit
1947	Rabbit Transit • A Hare Grows in Manhattan • Easter Yeggs • Slick Hare
1948	Gorilla My Dreams • A Feather in His Hare • Rabbit Punch • Buccaneer Bunny • Bugs Bunny Rides Again • Haredevil Hare • Hot Cross Bunny • Hare Splitter • A-Lad-In His Lamp • My Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949	Hare Do • Mississippi Hare • Rebel Rabbit • High Diving Hare • Bowery Bugs • Long-Haired Hare • Knights Must Fall • The Grey Hounded Hare • The Windblown Hare • Frigid Hare • Which Is Witch • Rabbit Hood
1950	Hurdy-Gurdy Hare • Mutiny on the Bunny • Homeless Hare • Big House Bunny • What's Up Doc? • 8 Ball Bunny • Hillbilly Hare • Bunker Hill Bunny • Bushy Hare • Rabbit of Seville
1951	Hare We Go • Rabbit Every Monday • Bunny Hugged • The Fair Haired Hare • Rabbit Fire • French Rarebit • His Hare Raising Tale • Ballot Box Bunny • Big Top Bunny
1952	Operation: Rabbit • Foxy by Proxy • 14 Carrot Rabbit • Water, Water Every Hare • The Hasty Hare • Oily Hare • Rabbit Seasoning • Rabbit's Kin • Hare Lift
1953	Forward March Hare • Upswept Hare • Southern Fried Rabbit • Hare Trimmed • Bully for Bugs • Lumber Jack-Rabbit • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954	Captain Hareblower • Bugs and Thugs • No Parking Hare • Devil May Hare • Bewitched Bunny • Yankee Doodle Bugs • Baby Buggy Bunny
1955	Beanstalk Bunny • Sahara Hare • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is a Life? • Hyde and Hare • Knight-Mare Hare • Roman Legion-Hare
1956	Bugs' Bonnets • Broom-Stick Bunny • Rabbitson Crusoe • Napoleon Bunny-Part • Barbary-Coast Bunny • Half-Fare Hare • A Star Is Bored • Wideo Wabbit • To Hare Is Human
1957	Ali Baba Bunny • Bedevilled Rabbit • Piker's Peak • What's Opera, Doc? • Bugsy and Mugsy • Show Biz Bugs • Rabbit Romeo
1958	Hare-Less Wolf • Hare-Way to the Stars • Now, Hare This • Knighty Knight Bugs • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959	Baton Bunny • Hare-abian Nights • Apes of Wrath • Backwoods Bunny • Wild and Woolly Hare • Bonanza Bunny • A Witch's Tangled Hare • People Are Bunny
1960	Horse Hare • Person to Bunny • Rabbit's Feat • From Hare to Heir • Lighter Than Hare
1961	The Abominable Snow Rabbit • Compressed Hare • Prince Violent
1962	Wet Hare • Bill of Hare • Shishkabugs
1963	Devil's Feud Cake • The Million Hare • Hare-Breadth Hurry • The Unmentionables • Mad as a Mars Hare • Transylvania 6-5000
1964	Dumb Patrol • Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare • The Iceman Ducketh • False Hare
1979	Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol • Fright Before Christmas
1980	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny • Spaced Out Bunny
1990	Box Office Bunny
1991	(Blooper) Bunny
1992	Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	From Hare to Eternity
2004	Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas • Daffy Duck for President

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[4] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwCBqnZiPFw

[5] ttps://archive.org/details/junebugspart2/June+Bugs+Part+1.mp4

[6] ttps://www.dailymotion.com/video/x569xnj

[7] ttp://www.intanibase.com/forum/Posts/m30159-New-Warners-Restorations#post30159

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