The Grey Hounded Hare

The Grey Hounded Hare
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Airdate:	6 August 1949 Blue Ribbon reissue: 28 October 1961
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	12373
Production Number:	1083
Starring:	Bugs Bunny
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc
Director:	Robert McKimson
Written By:	Warren Foster
Producer:	Eddie Selzer
Animated By:	John Carey Charles McKimson Phil DeLara Manny Gould
Layout Artist:	Cornett Wood
Background Artist:	Richard H. Thomas
Film Editor:	Treg Brown
Musician:	Carl Stalling

The Grey Hounded Hare is a 1949 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot

Bugs visits a dog racetrack. While the dogs are eating, he checks some of them out. When he looks dog #7 ("Gnawbone") in the mouth, the dog gets angry and lunges at Bugs. Mistaking a mechanical rabbit for a real female rabbit, Bugs falls in love with it and and attempts to save "her" from the pursuing dogs. Chaos ensues! Eventually, after Bugs Bunny stops the dogs, he tries to kiss the Mechanical female rabbit but gets electrocuted until the female rabbit goes back in the box. Then, Bugs goes for another kiss but gets electrocuted again.

Availability

(1984) VHS
The Looney Tunes Video Show - Volume 9

(1985) VHS
Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures

(1985) Beta
Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures

(1990) VHS
Bugs Bunny (1990)

(1994) VHS
Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 1)

(1996) VHS
Bugs Bunny

(1996) VHS
Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 4)

(1997) VHS
Classic Bumper Collection

(1997) VHS
Looney Tunes Classic Collection (Marks and Spencer UK VHS)

(2006) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Disc One

(2006) DVD
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4 Disc 1

(2007) DVD
Looney Tunes Collection Best of Bugs Bunny Volume 4

(2014) DVD
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 4-5 Repack

(2020) DVD
Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection Disc 4

Streaming

Boomerang App (2017 - )

HBO Max (2020 - )

Notes

• This cartoon was featured in Bugs Bunny's Valentine.
• When aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, this plays in PAL audio.
• The working title was "Bugs Bunny Dograce".

Censorship

On ABC, the scene after Gnawbone falls from the sky after chasing a rabbit balloon, where Gnawbone grabs Bugs' throat and prepares to punch him, but gets distracted by the mechanical rabbit, prompting Bugs to light a stick of dynamite and make Gnawbone fetch it, causing it to explode was edited to make it look like Gnawbone exploded when he hit the ground from falling.

Gallery

Title card (low quality)

Title card (HD quality)

Part of the Animator Draft along with two other drafts for "The Windblown Hare" and "A-Lad-In His Lamp"

External Links

• The Grey Hounded Hare Animation Breakdown on Patreon
• "Watch The Grey Hounded Hare" on SuperCartoons.net
• "The Grey Hounded Hare" at B98.TV