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It is very hard to review "A Wild Hare" on its own solo merit after the sixty-plus years that followed and thus turned its central character into the biggest cartoon character ever. In comparison to the subsequent films that appeared until 1964, this very first official entry is tame but still a wonderful model for those that followed.

Let's say this was 1940 and If I saw this cartoon for the first time ever with absolutely no knowledge of Bugs Bunny, I would say that "A Wild Hare" alone is a fine cartoon, in which the hunter becomes the heckled. The prey is a slick "wabbit" character that starts in on him at the very beginning, knocking on the wisping hunter's bald head to get his attention.

It is no wonder that this cartoon is directed by Fred Avery, who only three years ago directed a similar cartoon called "Porky's Duck Hunt," in which Porky's prey evolved into the current Looney Tunes star Daffy Duck. Should we be keeping our eyes on this "wabbit?"

. . . to describe The Academy's wrong-headed illogical contrarian decision to overlook A WILD HARE when it came time to recognize the best cartoon of 1940. Anyone can see at a glance that Bugs Bunny is hopping convoluted circles here around the thin plots favored by the wildly overrated Oswald. When it comes to bunniers, Bugs obvioiusly represents the Cat's Meow. Furthermore, we're not talking Jerry here. Though the latter gave rise to the phrase "jerry-rigged" for describing a supposedly honest ballot for which all concerned are well aware that "the fix is in," A WILD HARE stands so far above any of the crude animations of the Twenties and Thirties that it should have won any awards up for grabs totally uncontested, by unaminous consent..

Elmer and Bugs finally collide for real this time for the first time ever, in an excellent short by the late, great Tex Avery that hints of things to come. Elmer of course is hunting rabbits, Bugs(unnamed when this came out, although we all know it's him now) is of course defending himself, foiling Elmer's plans and driving him crazy. This is one of the two's best(why wasn't this on the Looney Tunes DVD? Oh well, guess I can wait for a Silver collection). I recommend seeing it to any fan of the "wabbit," or the hunter. After seeing how little has actually changed between the two, it's easy to realize that some things really do never change.

BOTTOM LINE: The first, and one of the best, Bugs vs. Elmer shorts.

While Tex didn't do the first Bugs cartoon, he did the first one with many of the characteristics of Bugs that make him Bugs, including the catch-phrase, "What's up, Doc". So it's fitting and proper that, while Chuck Jones did more with the wabbit, Tex Avery did the first Bugs to get a date at the Academy Awards, losing to the wrong feline cartoon. *sigh* Bugs wouldn't win an Oscar for another 18 years, but that's for another comment at another time. Highly recommended.

It's a classic set-up. A round-headed, bulbous-nosed hunter creeps through the woods brandishing his gun, briefly turning to the audience to inform them "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits". Coming across a rabbit hole, the hunter begins to dig while from an adjacent hole a grey bunny emerges, casually moseys up to the hunter and, with a breathtaking confidence that suggests he sees the hunter as no threat whatsoever, asks "What's up, Doc?" And cinema history is changed forever.

Tex Avery's 'A Wild Hare' not only created a universal superstar in Bugs Bunny but also remains the quintessential Bugs cartoon to this day. Mention the name Bugs Bunny to anyone and 90% of them will immediately picture a rabbit hole in a forest and Elmer Fudd stalking towards it. Not only does 'A Wild Hare' open exactly this way, the first line is Elmer's most famous catchphrase. When Bugs puts in an appearance, his opening line is perhaps the most famous catchphrase of all time. So the scene is set, the template established for a rivalry that will continue for decades. There's enough history in the opening couple of minutes of 'A Wild Hare' to make any serious cartoon fan's heart swell with joy but there's plenty more to recommend it. While it may seem like a comparatively no-frills cartoon for those who grew up watching the many, many variations on this set-up that followed, keep in mind that this was Bugs's debut and these now familiar routines are being tried out for the first time. Bugs has rarely been cooler or looked more handsome than he does in 'A Wild Hare', his nonchalance really striking a chord with audiences and ensuring his place in cartoon history.

While there were a handful of cartoons that predate 'A Wild Hare' starring prototype Bugs Bunnys, Avery's cartoon is undoubtedly the first time he was the character we all know and love and, therefore, clearly his official debut. Avery's expert timing, Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan's instant chemistry as Bugs and Elmer and a solid script by Rich Hogan all contribute to creating an Academy Award nominated classic and the smell of history that now lingers around 'A Wild Hare' makes it positively electric. 'A Wild Hare' is an experience to treasure which, for me, will never lose its heart-stopping air of excitement.

And what a hoot of a cartoon A Wild Hare is. The animation has been better, but it is still very nice and colourful. The music is as pretty much always a delight with the opening theme bringing back so many memories. Bugs is still endearing, and Elmer is still the dim-witted and naive hunter we know and love today, and Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan's voices are note perfect. Even better though is the dialogue, I can't count the amount of times I laughed at a piece of dialogue alone in this cartoon...

"Shhh be vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits", "oh boy wabbit twacks", "confidentially... I AM A WABBIT!" and "Hedy Wamarr.(Nope) Barbwa Stanwyk(Nope). Rosemawy Wayne(Nope guess again). Owivia DeHaviwand(Nope but you're getting warmer). Say, you wouldn't be that screwy wabbit, would you?(Ehhh...could be)" are just a few of the best bits of dialogue in the cartoon. In fact the cartoon is full of great dialogue.

The sight gags are very good too the best being Bugs's fake death scene, but I think this was a case of the dialogue stealing the show. Overall, this is a truly terrific Bugs Bunny cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

This is a great cartoon, but "Porky's Hare Hunt" (1938) is the first BB cartoon...followed by "Hare-um Scare-um" (1939), "Elmer's Candid Camera" (1940) and then "A Wild Hare (1940)."

This cartoon IS, indeed, the first time he was called "Bugs Bunny." It was also the first time he was less of a "hippity-hoppity" rabbit than he was in his 3 earlier movies and closer to the rabbit he is today which, of course, can only be credited to....Tex Avery.

This is Tex Avery's debut as Bugs' director, which literally catapulted this rabbit into his immense stardom! Yes, you can thank Tex Avery for making him the lovable icon/legend he is today!

I own this on silent reel-to-reel (with subtitles!). (8mm pre-recorded film in the 1960s was often silent! We've come a long way!)

Compared to the first (two) appearances of the developing Bugs, this is very funny, has characters with incredibly developed plots and indeed is better quality. I find because the humour of "Porky's Hare Hunt" and "Prest-O Change-O" are very old-fashioned and not very understandable for today's humour (although I still found "Porky's Hare Hunt" quite funny). This episode feels much more like it was made recently, even though it was made only two or three years after the developing Bug's first appearances. In this, apart from his deeper voice, he feels much more like the Bugs Bunny we know today.

I also like this episode for the very sweet first Elmer featured, Bugs Bunny is very entertaining and there is nice animation included. I have to say in this, Bugs Bunny reminded me a lot of Br'er Rabbit, which was comforting (HE didn't make his first appearance for nearly ten years after!!).

The plot is very much like the average episode with Elmer and Bugs. Elmer is hunting for "wabbits" and he finds Bugs. Many of the gags have been repeated many times in more recent episodes, but are still funny none the less. There are some other gags added which are funny.

I recommend this episode to enthusiasts of early Looney Tunes (but still like gags which are repeated in modern Looney Tunes episodes) and who like Bugs Bunny. Enjoy "A Wild Hare"!

Here is Tex Avery's magnificent film in which we are first introduced to a brownish-gray colored hare named Bugs, although we really don't hear his name spoken in this film. Yet that immortal phrase, "What's Up Doc???" is here, and Bugs is a sly, bold, incredibly smart woodland creature outfoxing that "wovable" hunter, Elmer Fudd. No more wacky prototypes. Bugs is at last fleshed out the way he should be. I appreciate his "Dad" and "Grandpa" very much. Someone's dream wouldn't have come true without them and our star might never have been born without them. Nevertheless, the star is Bugs Bunny!!! And after this film, he was well on his way to becoming what he is today.

Thank you Tex Avery!!!

On one level, "A Wild Hare" is a historical reference as it was the first teaming of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. But even ignoring that, it's still a hoot, with that "wascawy wabbit" making mincemeat of Elmer.

There's just one thing that raises my eyebrows nowadays. Elmer asks about Hedy Lamarr, Barbara Stanwyck and Olivia de Havilland. Did six-year-old children in 1940 know who those women were, cuz I sure didn't recognize those names when I was six.

Oh well, it's still a great cartoon. Always a classic. And it sure wasn't the wast time that that wascawy wabbit twicked Elmer Fudd.

Olivia de Havilland. Just yesterday, I saw "The Adventures of Robin Hood", and let me tell you: she looked hot in those dresses!

As I said, Bugs Bunny is one of my favorite Looney Tunes characters. But I do sometimes wonder: What was his very first cartoon ever made? I discovered that it is a 1940 cartoon by Tex Avery, who was known for his animated cartoons at MGM. I saw it on YouTube and Cartoon Alley on TCM.

I love the part when Bugs whispers and then shouts in Elmer's ear. I also enjoy the scene where Bugs pretends to die and then kicks Elmer in the butt, causing him to jump up like a strength tester. Then Bugs hands him a cigar, which was the prize at the time. Overall, I thought it was a wonderful "first appearance" short.

A Wild Hare (1940)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

This is where it all started as the dimwitted Elmer Fudd travels to the woods hunting rabbit and comes across Bugs Bunny who is just too smart. A WILD HARE was actually the third film that Bugs appeared in but this here is the official first as the rabbit we all love. It's funny watching this first short because what's here is what we'd see for the next several decades as Bugs was just so appealing and he was often put up against rather dumb characters. There are several very funny moments here but the highlight has to be poor Elmer not realizing that while his digging for the rabbit that he's actually sitting there talking to him. Another highlight is the scene where Bugs pretends to die just so he can pull one more prank.

Technically speaking, Bugs Bunny appeared in three other films before this one. However, the look and especially the sound of the Bunny were quite different. However, here he looks close to the classic rabbit and sounds just like him--but more importantly he acts like him, as he outsmarts Elmer Fudd again and again in this film.

As would be the case in many subsequent films, Elmer is out rabbit hunting and unfortunately his prey is a lot smarter than he is. Time and time again, he is defeated by the fast-thinking Bugs.

What makes this film outstanding is its historical importance as well as the beauty of the cartoon. The animation and especially the backgrounds are stunning--and much nicer than in later Bugs cartoons. Clever and worth seeing for any fan of animation.

I have always considered Tex Avery a genius, both his works at MGM and at Warner Brothers were great, the most outstanding here were some with Porky Pig and others with primary versions of currently popular characters, after a couple of years Bugs passed from from an annoying Prototype named "Happy Rabbit" to the Charismatic Mocking Rabbit we all know and love in this Oscar-nominated grand opening!.

The short shows us for the first time the Burlesque Personality of Bugs without reaching the Petty while he plays a Dirty Pass to Elmer in a Remote Forest.

Virgil Ross was a good animator and that is reflected in the animation of the short, that beautiful forest where the cartoon is based is great, the early design is Bugs and Elmer looks very good to be the first plus they have fluid movements like It is not to be expected, Ross even in an independent way was an Excellent Animator!, and of course... Let's not forget Avery!.

Carl Stalling, as expected, also Offers good Music, Not as Energetic as in other cartoons but Exceptional! I liked how synchronized the Music is with the Animation, of course, the humor will not work without the Music!.

Both Blanc and Elmer's Actor give good performances, Blanc finally stars as Bugs properly as well as giving us several memorable scenes with their dialogue.

I loved the Short, that Brilliance in Animation and in Music is rarely seen today, it was a good way to present the official Bugs Bunny and stop being The Annoying Happy Rabbit, Elmer also strengthens and shows us his most well-known Side, I always liked Avery's wacky humor which is what stands out the most, even at MGM Avery kept that humor, and boy was that good.

In itself, "A Wild Hare" It was a worthy contender for the 1941 Oscar which sadly lost out to an MGM Cartoon, but overall, it's a Good Cartoon, it's Really Enjoyable and it has gags and Animation that will make you laugh, or at least keep you entertained.

For everything I said, this great Oscar Nominee gets a 10.

Of the many Bugs Bunny cartoons I have watched, from infancy onwards over sixty+ years, and with all the great artwork in the Bugs ouvre, A Wild Hare is my favorite for artwork. It is so complete, so beautifully rendered, so brilliantly drawn and colored, this is the only cartoon I've ever seen where I would like a framed animation cell. I stand in awe of the old cartoons and their stunning images. A Wild Hare, for me, stands alone. They even made sure you knew it was fall hunting season. Can you name a modern series of cartoons drawn with such attention and skill? I'd be delighted to find anything being down now that can even approach it, let alone rival it.

Rabbits were common in early animation such as in Walt Disney's 'Oswald the Rabbit.' But the king of all cartoon rabbits is Bugs Bunny. His first official appearance was in July 1940 "A Wild Hare,' co-starring Elmer Fudd as the hunter entrapped by Bugs Bunny's clever antics.

The Merrie Melody cartoon, drawn by the wizard artists at Leon Schlesinger Productions, was part of Warner Brothers distribution arm. The studio had introduced an earlier incarnation of Bugs in 1938's "Porky's Hare Hunt' featuring a frustrated Porky the Pig trying to shoot a clever and elusive rabbit. Four cartoons later of the pesky rabbit Bugs appeared in "A Wild Hare," directed by Tex Avery. Voice actor Mel Blanc employed his Bronx/Brooklyn accent to mimic the rabbit modern viewers are familiar. This is the first cartoon Bugs uses his catchphrase, "What's up, Doc?" Director Tex Avery claims he's the one who came up with the phrase from his days living in Texas where it was a commonly said. Mel Blanc, however, said he first ad-libbed the saying spontaneously in the narration booth, and everyone loved it.

Animator Bob Givens was assigned to redesign the previous rabbits into the basic look we see today as Bugs Bunny. Givens lengthened the rabbit's body, and has him standing straight up. There were a couple of attributes as to the origins on Bugs' habit chomping on carrots. One is the famous scene in 1934's Academy Award Best Picture winner "It Happened One Night" where Clark Gable munches on a carrot while Claudette Colbert exhibits her method of hitchhiking. Another is wise-cracking actor Roscoe Karns' character Oscar Shapely in the same movie, who was a big carrot fan.

Bugs Bunny appeared in over 160 cartoons between 1940 and 1964, and has been in more films than any other animated character. Bugs has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and is Warner Brothers' official mascot.

A Wild Hare is a true masterpiece at Leon Schlesinger Productions. Bugs Bunny makes his on screen debut as a street smart Brooklyn/Bronx talking rabbit in this outstanding Tex Avery picture. It opens up with Elmer Fudd saying "Shh, Be vewy vewy quit I'n hunting wabbits" and his usual lines. then he gives Bugs a carrot. Bugs later sticks his hand out to catch the carrot then Elmer tires multiple ways to get that wascally wabbit out. Bugs finally pops out saying What's Up Doc. then the chase continues with fake death gags and everything Bugs is outstanding even a guess who game with celebrities from back then. and even a skunk who repeats a line from a earlier part of the episode. bugs at the end of picture chews a carrot saying "can you imagine anybody acting like that you know I think the poor guy's screwy. so I think this a great cartoon to watch . Available at Dailymotion.com