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Porky's Hare Hunt is a 1938 Looney Tunes short directed by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway and Cal Dalton.

Plot[]

Several rabbits are eating carrots and ruining crops. A playful, energetic rabbit warns them to evacuate. Soon, Porky and his dog meet him and try to outwit Bugs in the forest. Porky and the rabbit get in a long, long fight, and soon the hare thinks he has won. Porky finds him, however, and he doesn't have any brainstorms to protect him. The rabbit shows Porky a photo of himself and of how many children he has with his wife.

While Porky attempts to shoot down and procure the rabbit, he befalls to an inundation of quick-witted gags as the rabbit asks Porky: "Do you have a hunting license?" As Porky reaches for his pocket to obtain the document within sight of the hyper-hare, he suddenly snatches it out of Porky's grasp, rips it in two and remarks: "Well, you haven't got one now!" and makes a getaway by twisting his ears as though they were a helicopter propeller and flies away. Ultimately, the rabbit wins, with Porky ending up in the hospital from injuries sustained in the ill-fated attempt to catch his game.

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Notes[]

  • This is the first appearance of the character that would later become Bugs Bunny.
    • The rabbit would make his first official starring role two years later in Tex Avery's Oscar-nominated cartoon, "A Wild Hare".
  • The "Do you have a hunting license?" gag was revived (but modified) in the 1953 short "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!" where Bugs Bunny asks Elmer Fudd, "Do you have a fricasseeing rabbit license?", as well as the 1950 short "Boobs in the Woods" when Daffy Duck asks Porky Pig for his various licenses starting with a fishing license and ending with a marriage license (which Porky states that he has never been married).
  • This is the first film in which the rabbit is seen chewing on a carrot.
  • This cartoon also introduces the rabbit repeating a well-known Groucho Marx line for the first time that would become one of Bugs Bunny's catchphrases. The exact wording, in this first appearance, is "'Course you know that this means war!" Bugs' rendering in this cartoon is a direct impression of Groucho, including dropping the trailing "r" of "war".
  • This is the first short to be directed by Ben Hardaway since "Buddy in Africa" in 1935, having taken over Friz Freleng's unit following Freleng's brief departure to MGM that year to direct the short-lived The Captain and the Kids cartoon series. Hardaway would continue directing shorts for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series until 1940 when Freleng returned back to Warner Bros. and reclaimed back his unit after The Captain and the Kids over at MGM was cancelled due to its global failure.
  • The laugh of Universal Studios' mascot, Woody Woodpecker, another Mel Blanc-voiced character created two years after this short, strongly resembles that of Proto-Bugs.
  • This cartoon was produced and copyrighted in 1937 and released in 1938, according to the WB opening title credits.

Music-Cues[3][]

  • A-Hunting We Will Go (traditional)
    • Played during the opening credits
  • Pop Goes the Weasel (traditional)
    • Played during the opening scene
  • Bei mir Bist du Schƶn (by Sholom Secunda)
    • Played during an extended sequence after Porky shoots down the corn field
  • You're a Horse's Ass (traditional)
    • Played after Porky is hit on the head with a bottle
  • Muchacha (by Harry Warren)
    • Played when the rabbit plays matador with the dog
    • Played when the dog runs into the oil drum and then into the log
  • La Cucaracha (traditional)
    • Played after the dog disappears into the red cape
  • Hooray for Hollywood (by Richard A. Whiting)
    • Played when the rabbit laughs at Porky and the dog and then flies into the air
  • What's the Matter with Father (by Egbert Van Alstyne)
    • Played during the shot of the photograph of the rabbit's family
  • Coasting (by Fred Hager and Justin Ring)
    • Played after the rabbit tears up Porky's license and when Porky throws a rock at him
  • Old Pal (by Egbert Van Alstyne and Gus Kahn)
    • Played when the rabbit makes Porky believes he's been shot
  • The Girl I Left Behind Me (traditional)
    • Played when the rabbit walks off playing the flute
  • Yankee Doodle (traditional)
    • Played briefly after the rabbit plays "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
  • Old Pal (by Egbert Van Alstyne and Gus Kahn)
    • Played again when Porky is in the hospital

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Preceded by
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Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1938
Succeeded by
Prest-O Change-O
Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938 Porky's Hare Hunt
1939 Prest-O Change-O ā€¢ Hare-um Scare-um
1940 Elmer's Candid Camera ā€¢ A Wild Hare
1941 Elmer's Pet Rabbit ā€¢ Tortoise Beats Hare ā€¢ Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt ā€¢ The Heckling Hare ā€¢ All This and Rabbit Stew ā€¢ Wabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to Supper ā€¢ Any Bonds Today? ā€¢ The Wacky Wabbit ā€¢ Hold the Lion, Please ā€¢ Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid ā€¢ Fresh Hare ā€¢ The Hare-Brained Hypnotist ā€¢ Case of the Missing Hare
1943 Tortoise Wins by a Hare ā€¢ Super-Rabbit ā€¢ Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk ā€¢ Wackiki Wabbit ā€¢ Falling Hare
1944 Little Red Riding Rabbit ā€¢ What's Cookin' Doc? ā€¢ Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears ā€¢ Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips ā€¢ Hare Ribbin' ā€¢ Hare Force ā€¢ Buckaroo Bugs ā€¢ The Old Grey Hare ā€¢ Stage Door Cartoon
1945 Herr Meets Hare ā€¢ The Unruly Hare ā€¢ Hare Trigger ā€¢ Hare Conditioned ā€¢ Hare Tonic
1946 Baseball Bugs ā€¢ Hare Remover ā€¢ Hair-Raising Hare ā€¢ Acrobatty Bunny ā€¢ Racketeer Rabbit ā€¢ The Big Snooze ā€¢ Rhapsody Rabbit
1947 Rabbit Transit ā€¢ A Hare Grows in Manhattan ā€¢ Easter Yeggs ā€¢ Slick Hare
1948 Gorilla My Dreams ā€¢ A Feather in His Hare ā€¢ Rabbit Punch ā€¢ Buccaneer Bunny ā€¢ Bugs Bunny Rides Again ā€¢ Haredevil Hare ā€¢ Hot Cross Bunny ā€¢ Hare Splitter ā€¢ A-Lad-In His Lamp ā€¢ My Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949 Hare Do ā€¢ Mississippi Hare ā€¢ Rebel Rabbit ā€¢ High Diving Hare ā€¢ Bowery Bugs ā€¢ Long-Haired Hare ā€¢ Knights Must Fall ā€¢ The Grey Hounded Hare ā€¢ The Windblown Hare ā€¢ Frigid Hare ā€¢ Which Is Witch ā€¢ Rabbit Hood
1950 Hurdy-Gurdy Hare ā€¢ Mutiny on the Bunny ā€¢ Homeless Hare ā€¢ Big House Bunny ā€¢ What's Up Doc? ā€¢ 8 Ball Bunny ā€¢ Hillbilly Hare ā€¢ Bunker Hill Bunny ā€¢ Bushy Hare ā€¢ Rabbit of Seville
1951 Hare We Go ā€¢ Rabbit Every Monday ā€¢ Bunny Hugged ā€¢ The Fair Haired Hare ā€¢ Rabbit Fire ā€¢ French Rarebit ā€¢ His Hare Raising Tale ā€¢ Ballot Box Bunny ā€¢ Big Top Bunny
1952 Operation: Rabbit ā€¢ Foxy by Proxy ā€¢ 14 Carrot Rabbit ā€¢ Water, Water Every Hare ā€¢ The Hasty Hare ā€¢ Oily Hare ā€¢ Rabbit Seasoning ā€¢ Rabbit's Kin ā€¢ Hare Lift
1953 Forward March Hare ā€¢ Upswept Hare ā€¢ Southern Fried Rabbit ā€¢ Hare Trimmed ā€¢ Bully for Bugs ā€¢ Lumber Jack-Rabbit ā€¢ Duck! Rabbit, Duck! ā€¢ Robot Rabbit
1954 Captain Hareblower ā€¢ Bugs and Thugs ā€¢ No Parking Hare ā€¢ Devil May Hare ā€¢ Bewitched Bunny ā€¢ Yankee Doodle Bugs ā€¢ Baby Buggy Bunny
1955 Beanstalk Bunny ā€¢ Sahara Hare ā€¢ Hare Brush ā€¢ Rabbit Rampage ā€¢ This Is a Life? ā€¢ Hyde and Hare ā€¢ Knight-Mare Hare ā€¢ Roman Legion-Hare
1956 Bugs' Bonnets ā€¢ Broom-Stick Bunny ā€¢ Rabbitson Crusoe ā€¢ Napoleon Bunny-Part ā€¢ Barbary-Coast Bunny ā€¢ Half-Fare Hare ā€¢ A Star Is Bored ā€¢ Wideo Wabbit ā€¢ To Hare Is Human
1957 Ali Baba Bunny ā€¢ Bedevilled Rabbit ā€¢ Piker's Peak ā€¢ What's Opera, Doc? ā€¢ Bugsy and Mugsy ā€¢ Show Biz Bugs ā€¢ Rabbit Romeo
1958 Hare-Less Wolf ā€¢ Hare-Way to the Stars ā€¢ Now, Hare This ā€¢ Knighty Knight Bugs ā€¢ Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959 Baton Bunny ā€¢ Hare-abian Nights ā€¢ Apes of Wrath ā€¢ Backwoods Bunny ā€¢ Wild and Woolly Hare ā€¢ Bonanza Bunny ā€¢ A Witch's Tangled Hare ā€¢ People Are Bunny
1960 Horse Hare ā€¢ Person to Bunny ā€¢ Rabbit's Feat ā€¢ From Hare to Heir ā€¢ Lighter Than Hare
1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit ā€¢ Compressed Hare ā€¢ Prince Violent
1962 Wet Hare ā€¢ Bill of Hare ā€¢ Shishkabugs
1963 Devil's Feud Cake ā€¢ The Million Hare ā€¢ Hare-Breadth Hurry ā€¢ The Unmentionables ā€¢ Mad as a Mars Hare ā€¢ Transylvania 6-5000
1964 Dumb Patrol ā€¢ Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare ā€¢ The Iceman Ducketh ā€¢ False Hare
1979 Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol ā€¢ Fright Before Christmas
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny ā€¢ 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 ā€¢ Daffy Duck for President
Porky Pig Cartoons
1935 I Haven't Got a Hat ā€¢ Gold Diggers of '49
1936 Plane Dippy ā€¢ Alpine Antics ā€¢ The Phantom Ship ā€¢ Boom Boom ā€¢ The Blow Out ā€¢ Westward Whoa ā€¢ Fish Tales ā€¢ Shanghaied Shipmates ā€¢ Porky's Pet ā€¢ Porky the Rain-Maker ā€¢ Porky's Poultry Plant ā€¢ Porky's Moving Day ā€¢ Milk and Money ā€¢ Little Beau Porky ā€¢ The Village Smithy ā€¢ Porky in the North Woods ā€¢ Boulevardier from the Bronx
1937 Porky the Wrestler ā€¢ Porky's Road Race ā€¢ Picador Porky ā€¢ Porky's Romance ā€¢ Porky's Duck Hunt ā€¢ Porky and Gabby ā€¢ Porky's Building ā€¢ Porky's Super Service ā€¢ Porky's Badtime Story ā€¢ Porky's Railroad ā€¢ Get Rich Quick Porky ā€¢ Porky's Garden ā€¢ Rover's Rival ā€¢ The Case of the Stuttering Pig ā€¢ Porky's Double Trouble ā€¢ Porky's Hero Agency
1938 Porky's Poppa ā€¢ Porky at the Crocadero ā€¢ What Price Porky ā€¢ Porky's Phoney Express ā€¢ Porky's Five & Ten ā€¢ Porky's Hare Hunt ā€¢ Injun Trouble ā€¢ Porky the Fireman ā€¢ Porky's Party ā€¢ Porky's Spring Planting ā€¢ Porky & Daffy ā€¢ Wholly Smoke ā€¢ Porky in Wackyland ā€¢ Porky's Naughty Nephew ā€¢ Porky in Egypt ā€¢ The Daffy Doc ā€¢ Porky the Gob
1939 The Lone Stranger and Porky ā€¢ It's an Ill Wind ā€¢ Porky's Tire Trouble ā€¢ Porky's Movie Mystery ā€¢ Chicken Jitters ā€¢ Porky and Teabiscuit ā€¢ Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. ā€¢ Polar Pals ā€¢ Scalp Trouble ā€¢ Old Glory ā€¢ Porky's Picnic ā€¢ Wise Quacks ā€¢ Porky's Hotel ā€¢ Jeepers Creepers ā€¢ Naughty Neighbors ā€¢ Pied Piper Porky ā€¢ Porky the Giant Killer ā€¢ The Film Fan
1940 Porky's Last Stand ā€¢ Africa Squeaks ā€¢ Ali-Baba Bound ā€¢ Pilgrim Porky ā€¢ Slap Happy Pappy ā€¢ Porky's Poor Fish ā€¢ You Ought to Be in Pictures ā€¢ The Chewin' Bruin ā€¢ Porky's Baseball Broadcast ā€¢ Patient Porky ā€¢ Calling Dr. Porky ā€¢ Prehistoric Porky ā€¢ The Sour Puss ā€¢ Porky's Hired Hand ā€¢ The Timid Toreador
1941 Porky's Snooze Reel ā€¢ Porky's Bear Facts ā€¢ Porky's Preview ā€¢ Porky's Ant ā€¢ A Coy Decoy ā€¢ Porky's Prize Pony ā€¢ Meet John Doughboy ā€¢ We, the Animals - Squeak! ā€¢ The Henpecked Duck ā€¢ Notes to You ā€¢ Robinson Crusoe Jr. ā€¢ Porky's Midnight Matinee ā€¢ Porky's Pooch
1942 Porky's Pastry Pirates ā€¢ Who's Who in the Zoo ā€¢ Porky's Cafe ā€¢ Any Bonds Today? ā€¢ My Favorite Duck
1943 Confusions of a Nutzy Spy ā€¢ Yankee Doodle Daffy ā€¢ Porky Pig's Feat ā€¢ A Corny Concerto
1944 Tom Turk and Daffy ā€¢ Tick Tock Tuckered ā€¢ Swooner Crooner ā€¢ Duck Soup to Nuts ā€¢ Slightly Daffy ā€¢ Brother Brat
1945 Trap Happy Porky ā€¢ Wagon Heels
1946 Baby Bottleneck ā€¢ Daffy Doodles ā€¢ Kitty Kornered ā€¢ The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ā€¢ Mouse Menace
1947 One Meat Brawl ā€¢ Little Orphan Airedale
1948 Daffy Duck Slept Here ā€¢ Nothing but the Tooth ā€¢ The Pest That Came to Dinner ā€¢ Riff Raffy Daffy ā€¢ Scaredy Cat
1949 Awful Orphan ā€¢ Porky Chops ā€¢ Paying the Piper ā€¢ Daffy Duck Hunt ā€¢ Curtain Razor ā€¢ Often an Orphan ā€¢ Dough for the Do-Do ā€¢ Bye, Bye Bluebeard
1950 Boobs in the Woods ā€¢ The Scarlet Pumpernickel ā€¢ An Egg Scramble ā€¢ Golden Yeggs ā€¢ The Ducksters ā€¢ Dog Collared
1951 The Wearing of the Grin ā€¢ Drip-Along Daffy ā€¢ The Prize Pest
1952 Thumb Fun ā€¢ Cracked Quack ā€¢ Fool Coverage
1953 Duck Dodgers in the 24Ā½th Century
1954 Claws for Alarm ā€¢ My Little Duckaroo
1955 Jumpin' Jupiter ā€¢ Dime to Retire
1956 Rocket Squad ā€¢ Deduce, You Say
1957 Boston Quackie
1958 Robin Hood Daffy
1959 China Jones
1961 Daffy's Inn Trouble
1965 Corn on the Cop
1966 Mucho Locos
1980 Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24Ā½th Century
1996 Superior Duck
2004 My Generation G...G... Gap
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