Wet Hare

"Wet Hare" is a 1962 animated short film in the "Looney Tunes" series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. In this cartoon, Bugs Bunny finds himself at odds with Blacque Jacque Shellacque, a ruthless lumberjack who wants to control the water supply by building a series of dams. The title is yet another pun on "hair/hare".

Plot

Bugs Bunny is taking his morning shower under a waterfall, singing "April Showers" (à lá Al Jolson) when the water stops flowing. After briefly worrying that the supply has permanently dried up, he decides that beavers were responsible. The "beavers" turn out to be the villainous Blacque Jacque Shellacque, who has built an illegal rock dam in an effort to control the water supply and sell it at inflated prices. Bugs asks Blacque Jacque what would happen if he were to remove certain rocks, to which Jacque simply states he would replace them. Jacque laughs off removing a tiny rock, but it dislodges the dam.

Later, Bugs resumes showering, but Jacque has built a replacement dam ("This time I build him stronger!"). Jacque expects another sabotage attempt from Bugs, and thinks he's still one step ahead of the rabbit when he spots what he believes to be a phony shark fin in the impounded water. The shark is real, however, and Bugs "saves" Jacque by crashing a log through the dam ("That is being saved??").

Still later, Bugs sends a lighted stick of dynamite toward a new Shellacque-built dam, but as Jacque tends to it (or vice-versa, as the dynamite blows up in Jacque's face off-screen), he doesn't immediately notice a huge raft full of lighted dynamite subsequently headed toward the dam.

Jacque is finally fed up with the rabbit and fires his rifle into the waterfall, thinking he's killed off his nemesis once and for all ("So much for crazy seec rabbets! Bah!"). Nearby, Bugs - watering his carrot crop - sees that his record player - or music box - has been destroyed after Jacque shot and then declares war against Jacque.

Later, a triumphant Jacque boasts about his new steel dam, but quickly finds "his" water supply has been cut off. Bugs, it turns out, has turned the tables and built a dam of his own. An angry Jacque retrieves a cannon and blows the dam apart, only to find another rabbit-built dam. Jacque blows that one up as well, only to find more dams. Finally, Jacque is tricked into attempting to blow up Grand Cooler Dam, but the attempt fails and he is arrested by the federal authorities (Bugs: "He isn't foolin' me. He'll be back — in about 20 years! Ha ha!").

ources

* Beck, Jerry and Will Friedwald, "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons," Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1989. (ISBN 0-8050-0894-2).

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056686/ Wet Hare] at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5283-Wet_Hare.html Wet Hare] at the Big Cartoon DataBase