Water, Water Every Hare

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Water, Water Every Hare Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series
The title card of Water, Water Every Hare.
Directed by	Chuck Jones
Produced by	Eddie Selzer
Story by	Michael Maltese
Voices by	Mel Blanc John T. Smith (uncredited)
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Ben Washam Ken Harris Phil Monroe Lloyd Vaughan Harry Love (effects animation)
Layouts by	Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds by	Philip DeGuard
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	April 19, 1952 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes 26 seconds
Language	English

Water, Water Every Hare is a 1950-produced Looney Tunes cartoon released in 1952 featuring Bugs Bunny and Gossamer. The title is a pun on the line "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

[edit] Plot

Much like in Hair-Raising Hare, Bugs (after being flooded out of his rabbit hole while sleeping during a heavy rain) finds himself trapped in the castle of an "evil scientist" (the neon sign outside his castle says so, punctuated with a second flashing line, "BOO"), who this time is a caricature of Vincent Price and needs the rabbit's brain to complete an experiment. When Bugs makes a run for it (after encountering the scientist, "Eh, eh, eh, w-w-what's up, doc?", a sarcophagus, "What's going on around here?" and the robot experiment, "Where am I anyway?"), a big orange monster wearing a pair of sneakers (Gossamer, here called "Rudolph") is sent out to retrieve him.

Bugs keeps running while he is frightened until (in a scene very similar to one in Hair-Raising Hare) a door on the floor opens and a rock falls down there and there are crocodiles swimming around. While he is walking backwards and praying to jump over the crocodiles, he bumps into Rudolph. Bugs comes up with an idea ("Uh oh. Think fast, rabbit!") and makes as a gabby hairdresser, giving the hairy monster a new hairdo. He gets some dynamite sticks and places them in the monsters hair, which give the appearance of curlers. He lights them and runs off just before the explosion.

Rudolph gets furious and goes after Bugs. In the chemical room, Bugs sees vanishing fluid and he pours it all over himself. Bugs gets a trash can and dumps it on Rudolph. Then he gets a mallet and hits the trash can causing it to shake, and pulls out the rug Rudolph is standing on from underneath his feet, causing him to fall on his bottom. For the coup de gras, Bugs takes a bottle of reducing oil and pours the entire contents over Rudolph, who lets out a roar and shrinks. Putting on his suit coat and hat and grabbing two suitcases, he enters a mouse hole, kicks its resident out and slams the door which bears a sign saying "I QUIT!" The mouse says "I quit too!", holding up a bottle of whiskey ("xxx"), then dashing away.

Bugs eats a carrot in satisfaction of getting rid of the monster. Suddenly, the mad scientist restores him with "hare restorer", insisting the rabbit hand over his brain, throwing an axe straight towards Bugs (who doesn't want the scientist to have his brain, stating "Uh, sorry doc, but I need what little I've got"), who ducks. The axe breaks open a large bottle of ether which drugs Bugs and the scientist. The groggy scientist {"Come...back...here...you...rab-.....bit"} chases after an equally groggy Bugs in slow motion (Carl Stalling cleverly punctuates the chase by playing a "drowsy" version of the William Tell Overture). Bugs trips the scientist, who falls asleep.

Bugs runs slowly out of the castle and over the horizon, tripping over a rock and falling asleep, landing in a stream which leads Bugs straight back into his flooded hole. He suddenly wakes up and declares that it must have been a nightmare. The miniature Rudolph passes by on a rowboat and tells him in a high-pitched voice, "Oh yeah? That's what you think!", leaving Bugs with a confused look on his face.

[edit] Reuse

• The sequence where Bugs impersonates a flamboyant hairdresser was re-used in Hare-Abian Nights in 1959.

[edit] Trivia

• In a later cartoon (specifically, a webtoon on LooneyTunes.com), the scientist is named Dr. Moron. However, in an appearance on the Duck Dodgers, he was addressed as Dr. Woe. Though often mistaken for Vincent Price, IMdB reports that he is actually voiced by John T. Smith, a voice actor with uncanny vocal similarities to Price.
• Gossamer is called Rudolph in this cartoon.
• The Evil Scientist's castle are the first and last locations in the game Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal, of which the Scientist also appears as the antagonist. This time, he is called Dr. Frankenbean.
• Samples from this episode are used in Skinny Puppy's song Deep Down Trauma Hounds (Remix) released on 12" Anthology.

Preceded by Foxy by Proxy

Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1952

Succeeded by The Hasty Hare