No Parking Hare

No Parking Hare
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Airdate:	1 May 1954
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	16153
Production Number:	1301
Vitaphone Number:	2376
Runtime:	6 minutes, 30 seconds
Copyright Renewed:	23 January 1981
Starring:	Bugs Bunny
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc John T. Smith (uncredited)
Director:	Robert McKimson
Written By:	Sid Marcus
Producer:	Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Animated By:	Rod Scribner Charles McKimson Phil DeLara Herman Cohen
Layout Artist:	Robert Givens
Background Artist:	Richard H. Thomas
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Carl Stalling

No Parking Hare is a 1954 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title

The title of the short is a pun on the common ordinance "no parking here."

Plot

Construction is underway for a new freeway, with the work waking Bugs and covering him with dirt. Bugs confronts a burly construction worker, and when he realizes that a freeway is to go through, he declares that he's not moving. The construction worker tells Bugs that he must move out, and if he can't get Bugs to move, he'll force him out. He tries to pack dynamite around Bugs' hole, but only succeeds in creating a large narrow pillar with Bugs' home still intact, "I hear ya knockin', but ya can't come in!"

The construction worker continues to try to get Bugs out. As he tries to spy on Bugs using a ladder, Bugs cuts the ladder and makes the construction worker fall into a vat of concrete. Next, the worker tries to cut down the hole with a buzzsaw, and Bugs directs it to a high voltage wiring. The construction worker next uses a bomb while riding a helicopter, which bounces off Bugs' bed and back onto the helicopter. When the worker tries to drop a weight on the hole, Bugs disguises himself as a fellow worker and instructs him to move the weight directly above him and then activate the crane. He tries to light a stick of dynamite at the top of the hole, but due to using a pipe stand, Bugs uses a match and blows inside the pipes to prematurely light the fuse for the construction worker, blowing him up.

Finally, the worker tries to pour a large amount of concrete on top of the hole. Bugs repels it using an umbrella, and when it dries, he finds out that Bugs used the concrete to fortify his hole. The freeway is ultimately abruptly diverted around the hole to compromise the now-indestructible rabbit hole. Bugs pops out to declare, "The sanctity of the American home must be preserved!"

Availability

(2020) Blu-ray
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection, Disc 2 (restored and HD)

Streaming

Boomerang App (2018 - 2024)

HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)

Max (2024 - ) (restored)

Censorship

• When this cartoon aired on ABC, the six attempts by the construction worker to get back at Bugs were reduced to three, with the following scenes cut:
  • Bugs reads Edgar Allan Poe, the construction worker tries to saw through Bugs' dwelling and ends up getting zapped with electricity when his circular saw hits a fuse box.
  • Bugs singing "There Ain't No Place Like a Hole in the Ground". The worker is flying over the hole with a helicopter, drops a bomb as Bugs rises from his bed to turn the page of the sheet music, and gets blown up after the bomb bounces back to the helicopter off Bugs' bed.
  • The construction worker builds scaffolding made of pipes, climbs to the top of Bugs' hole with a stick of dynamite, and tries to light it, only to be beaten by Bugs who blows a match that detonates the dynamite stick and sends the scaffolding (and the construction worker) crashing down.
• The CBS airing of this cartoon left the Poe and Hole in the Ground sequences intact, but edited the scaffolding scene to remove the construction worker holding the dynamite, the construction worker trying to light the dynamite, Bugs blowing the match through the pipes to ignite it, and the resulting explosion. The edited version makes it seem that the scaffolding fell because of its slipshod construction.

Notes

• Similar in plot to "Homeless Hare", Bugs finds himself squaring off against a construction worker who wants to build over his hole in the ground. This construction worker is also voiced by John T. Smith.
• This short was used in the special Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes.
• The Bugs Bunny face icon appears slightly late in this short. Consequently, the Looney Tunes logo also appears late, and transitions in faster than the normal short. This is present in both restored and unrestored versions.
  • This cartoon also lacks a "Bugs Bunny In" title card.
• This cartoon was originally slated to be included on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire DVD, but was replaced early in development due to executive backlash from Warner Home Video.

Gallery

Lobby card

TV Title Cards

The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show

External links

• No Parking Hare at the Internet Movie Database