Sahara Hare

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Sahara Hare
series = Looney Tunes
director = Friz Freleng
story_artist = Warren Foster
animator = Gerry Chiniquy
Ted Bonnicksen
Arthur Davis
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
musician = Milt Franklyn
producer = Edward Selzer
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = March 26, 1955
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 mins
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0048576

"Sahara Hare" is a Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on March 26, 1955. It was directed by Friz Freleng. The voices were done by Mel Blanc. The story was written by Warren Foster and the animation was done by Gerry Chiniquy, Ted Bonnicksen, and Arthur Davis. The layouts were designed by Hawley Pratt and the background created by Irv Wynter. The music is under the direction of Milt Franklyn.

Plot Summary

This is another classic battle between Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam (Riff Raff Sam). Bugs pops up out from underground, thinking he has reached Miami Beach, when in reality he is in the Sahara Desert, persumably from not making "the left toin at Albutoike". He comes prepared with a beach chair, sunscreen, sunglasses and even a bucket of carrots...on ice! Bugs thinks he has found a nice park when he stumbles upon a water hole and a palm tree. Meanwhile, Sam, riding on a camel, suddenly comes upon Bugs’ tracks and exclaims, "Great horny toads! A trespasser! Gettin' footy-prints all over my desert!" The battle begins after Bugs asks Sam if he “is with the sideshow around here” and then proceeds to rip a piece of Sam’s turban off to dry himself. (When Bugs says his catch phrase "What's up, doc?", Sam vehemently states "I'm no ‘doc,’ ya flea-bitten varmint! I'm Riff Raff Sam, the riffiest riff that ever riffed the raff!") He chases after Bugs, who goes into a French Foreign Legion post. Sam tries many tricks to get Bugs, including the use of stilts, human sling-shots and even an elephant. After driving Sam to near insanity, Bugs decides to pull one last trick. He builds a series of doors leading into the post but keeps nailing on new doors so Sam opens door after door until he reaches the TNT and gasoline waiting for him at the end. This is the final straw; Sam gives up and Bugs goes back to relax in the Sahara sand. ("I wonder if he's stubborn enough to open ALL those doors", Bugs comments while waiting for Sam to finish. After the immense explosion that causes him to quit chasing Bugs, the rabbit says, "Yep, he's stubborn enough!") At the very end, Daffy Duck makes a cameo appearance as he too thinks he is in Miami Beach.

Quotes

* Bugs Bunny: “Eh, what's up Doc? You with the sideshow around here?”
* Bugs Bunny: “Yoo hoo, Mr. A-rab!”
* Yosemite Sam: “Great horny toads! A trespasser! Gettin' footy-prints all over my desert!”
* Yosemite Sam: “I'm no doc, ya flea-bitten varmint! I'm Riff-Raff Sam; the riffiest riff that ever riffed a raff!”

Availability

"Sahara Hare" can be found on VHS in "Yosemite Sam: The Good, the Bad, and the Ornery", and on DVD in the "".

Trivia

*This short is Freleng's version of Frigid Hare. It even has the same exact opening scene of Bugs throwing his beach stuff out of a hole and then running out of the hole in a bathing suit and shouting, "MIAMI BEACH AT LAST!"
*First Looney Tunes cartoon with a new version of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".

Censorship

*The two times Yosemite Sam hits his camel were cut when this cartoon was shown on ABC.

External links

*imdb title|id=0048576|title=Sahara Hare
* [http://www.kevinmccorrytv.com/1955bugsbunny.html "Deconstructing" Bugs: The Bugs Bunny Cartoons of 1955] - Written by Kevin McCorry