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Wild and Woolly Hare is a 1959 animated short starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. It features Bugs in a Western setting, again saving a town from Yosemite Sam.

Plot[]

The short opens in the town of Canasta Flats in 1889 and the camera pulls past the Last Chance Saloon and the Next To The Last Chance Saloon and into the Fat Chance Saloon, where the patrons are hanging out. A mustached cowboy tells his friend that he hears Yosemite Sam is in town, to which his friend flees (making up an excuse about leaving a cake in the oven). After Injun Joe hears another cowboy tell his friend about Sam being the "fastest gun west of the Pecos," he states all that is true, because Sam never met him. When the sheriff sees Sam coming into town and a brown mustached customer sees him heading to the Fat Chance Saloon, Injun Joe asks the customer to hold his beer so he can have a showdown against Sam. After Injun Joe is shot, off-camera, the customer happily downs the beer, telling us he always gets it for free. As Sam approaches, everybody flees.

Sam enters the saloon and states who he is, until he gets interrupted by a voice telling him to shut up. When Sam comes up to the pink shirt cowboy who stayed and demands to know who told him to shut up, the cowboy reveals himself to be Bugs Bunny, who admits he said it. When Sam tells Bugs that his backtalk has led him to a duel, Bugs shuns Sam for his bad breath. Sam then warns Bugs he will get shot and that he's a sharp shooter. Bugs, however, informs Sam he's a sharp shooter as well. To prove it, he tells Sam a shot he's good at, and fires a bullet that ricochet's off various objects before parting Sam's head down the middle. After Sam sees the bullet come in, he ducks and tells Bugs he missed, but when Bugs tells him to wait, Sam's hat falls off in half, revealing parted hair.

Unimpressed at this skill of sharp shooting, Sam shows Bugs some real shooting by tossing a can in the air and shooting it full of holes. To top it, Bugs tosses the same can up, but shoots Sam in the face instead. When Sam threatens to blast Bugs for that "accident," Bugs suggests that they settle things "in a gentleman-like manner", to which Sam agrees to, even though its against his principles

They begin the typical ten-pace and fire, only with Bugs going the same way Sam does, when Sam cheats in the count ("1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10!"). Sam turns to fire, but fires directly past Bugs, who then kisses him on the nose. After Bugs does it again, Sam calls off the "Gentlemen's Duel" and forces Bugs to fight "dirty", so they each go to opposite ends of a bar shooting at each other. As Sam goes to one end, Bugs blasts him in the face, and when Sam tries to return, Bugs outruns and blasts him again. Unfortunately, their fight is interrupted when Sam hears a train whistle. Seeing that it's 5:15, Sam tells Bugs that he's cutting the gunfight short so that he can catch and rob the train.

Just as Sam hops aboard his horse and rides off after the train, Bugs follows on another horse. Sam orders Bugs at gunpoint to go back so he can rob the train, but Bugs vows that he's going to save the train. Right after Bugs hops aboard the engine's cab of the train and switches his cowboy hat with a train engineer's cap, Sam orders Bugs back at the count of five. Just as Sam reaches four, his horse makes him hit a telegraph pole. When Sam catches up again and tries counting to three, but when he gets to two, he runs into the wall of a tunnel. He catches up again and tries just counting to two, but when he says two, he and his horse fall off a trestle bridge and into a river below.

Sam, however, rides on ahead of Bugs and boards another locomotive waiting on a siding. Thinking this will make Bugs stop, Sam calls out to Bugs to stop his train because he's got one of his own. Bugs, instead, calls out to Sam to stop his train. Both openly state that neither will stop their train unless the other stops his first. Thinking Bugs wants to play dirty, Sam tells Bugs they'll see who stops their train first when they crash and advances the regulator in his locomotive. Bugs accepts this duel and advances the regulator of the engine in his train. As both engines rush toward each other head on, Sam keeps a stern face and Bugs remains calm. Almost to collision, Sam considers blowing his locomotive's whistle, but instead ducks down to wait for the crash. Bugs, however, extends the "legs" on the engine of his train so that Sam's locomtoive passes harmlessly underneath. Just as Sam gets up and wonders why there was no crash, he spots a sign reading "End of Line" and his locomotive falls off an unfinished trestle bridge and into a lake below.

Bugs then calls out a goodbye to Sam and drives off to St. Louis. The final shot shows Sam's locomotive, up to its smokestack in the lake. Sam pokes out of the smokestack and openly admits that he hates Bugs to the audience.

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Censorship[]

  • For strange unexplained reasons, on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, WB!, and ABC, the part where a man named Injun Joe goes out to face Yosemite Sam and ends up getting shot offscreen (with the cowboy who was sitting next to Injun Joe taking his beer and commenting that he gets free beer this way) was cut. [5]
  • On the syndicated Merrie Melodies Show, the part where Bugs shows off his shooting prowess by tossing a can in the air, only to completely miss it and shoot Sam in the face was replaced with footage from the 1960s TV special "How Bugs Bunny Won the West," where, instead of Bugs angering Sam by shooting him in the face, Bugs angers Sam after he shoots corks in the can's bullet holes. This alternate scene was also used in the compilation film, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie. [1][2]
  • On Nickelodeon and the WB, in addition to the Cartoon Network and Merrie Melodies edits, the scenes where Sam is shot several times by Bugs was cut.

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Trivia[]

  • This cartoon was used in The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
  • While Jeff Foxworthy gets credits for the origin of the meme phrase "Hold my beer!", this is actually the very first recorded example (1959) of said phrase being used, specifically by the indian cowboy character Injun Joe in the opening, and even here the phrase has the same meaning and similar context as today's meme.[5]

References[]

External link[]

Wild and Woolly Hare at SuperCartoons.net


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