Half-Fare Hare is a 1956 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.[1] The short was released on August 18, 1956, and stars Bugs Bunny.[2]
Half-Fare Hare | |
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Directed by | Robert McKimson |
Story by | Tedd Pierce |
Produced by | Edward Selzer |
Starring | Mel Blanc Daws Butler (uncredited) |
Music by | Carl Stalling |
Animation by | George Grandpre Russ Dyson Keith Darling Ted Bonnicksen |
Layouts by | Robert Gribbroek |
Backgrounds by | Richard H. Thomas |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | August 18, 1956 |
Running time | 6:37 |
Language | English |
Bugs Bunny boards the Chattanooga Choo Choo and finds two hoboes who look and act like Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, from The Honeymooners TV show, who want to eat Bugs after being hungry for days.
It was a snowy winter day, and a newspaper landed near a train station and at the same time, Bugs Bunny arrives and looks at the newspaper, saying that a local carrot crop freeze. And despite, that he doesn't have a drove, Bugs decided to hop on a train to Chattanooga and shouts, "C'mon, Chattanooga Choo-Choo!"
In a choo-choo train, two men named Ralph and Ed are in one of the cars.
The cartoon features the song Carolina in the Morning, rather than the more obvious choice Chattanooga Choo Choo; Carolina in the Morning's faster melodic rhythm and emphatic downbeats complement the timing of the action in the cartoon.[3]
ABC censored the part where Norton offers to attend to Bugs' scarf and he hangs Bugs on a coat hanger with the scarf hanger and another scene where Norton is cooking Ralph in a pot, presumably because of the violent nature.[4]
Preceded by | Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1956 |
Succeeded by A Star is Bored |
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