Half-Fare Hare

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
Directed byRobert McKimson
Story byTedd Pierce
Produced byEdward Selzer
StarringMel Blanc
Daws Butler
(uncredited)
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byGeorge Grandpre
Russ Dyson
Keith Darling
Ted Bonnicksen
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byRichard H. Thomas
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
August 18, 1956
Running time
6:37
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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.

Summary

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.

Music

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]

Censorship

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]

References
  1. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 287. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. Goldmark, Daniel; Taylor, Yuval, eds. (2002). The Cartoon Music Book. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781569764121.
  4. The CENSORED Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Guide
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