# Hare Tonic

Hare Tonic is a 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce. It stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. In the short, Bugs Bunny tricks Elmer Fudd into believing his house has been quarantined for something called "rabbititus."

## Bugs Bunny

* [last lines] Oh. Margaret! What a dope! That was just a gag, of course! You Folks haven't got rabbititus! Why, if you had rabbit it us, you would see red and yellow spots before your eyes! [red and yellow spots appear] Yeah! That's right! And then, they start swirling and swirling around and then, suddenly, everything had go black! [the scene fades to black, then he snickers as the cartoon ends and scene shifts to a Looney Tunes Drum] And that's the end!

## Dialogue

    [First lines]
    Elmer Fudd: [singing] Mama's wittwe baby woves wabbit, wabbit, Mama's wittwe baby woves wabbit stew!
    Bugs Bunny: [inside Elmer's basket] Eh, what's up, Doc? What's in the basket?
    Elmer Fudd: A wabbit. I'm gonna make a wabbit stew.
    Bugs Bunny: Rabbit? Mmm, mmm! Love it, love it! [He jumps out of basket and jumps excitedly in front of Elmer] Hey, Lemme see the rabbit, mister! Can I see the rabbit, Huh? Please let me see the rabbit!
    Elmer Fudd: Awwight.
    Bugs Bunny: [He goes inside basket. He comes out other side] No rabbit in there, Doc! You've been robbed!
    Elmer Fudd: No wabbit? Weww, I... [He crawls into basket. Bugs carries basket]
    Bugs Bunny: [singing] Mama's little baby loves rabbit, rabbit, mama's little baby loves rabbit stew!
    Elmer Fudd: Ooh, you twickstew! You'we the wabbit! [Elmer puts Bugs back in the basket. He carries basket] I'm gonna take this wabbit home and fwiccassee him!
    Bugs Bunny: [chuckling, to the audience, from inside the basket, as Red Skelton's Junior, The Mean Widdle Kid from The Raleigh Cigarette Program] He don't know me vewy well, do he?
    Elmer Fudd: Oh, Mw. Wabbit. Mw. Wabbit. You awe fwee to scampew away. Faw, faw away.
    Bugs Bunny: Oh, no, Doc. Wouldn't think of it. [approaching Elmer, with the pot on his rear end] We're gonna brew a stew, remember?
    Elmer Fudd: [backing away, very, very nervously] Oh, no! Pwease, Mw. Wabbit! Go away! Don't come any cwosew! [sitting on top of his door] D-Don't come neaw me! Nooooooooo!
    Bugs Bunny: [sniffing his glove, to the audience] Oh, goodness! Don't tell me I offend.
    Elmer Fudd: [hiding behind his door] Oh, pwease, Mw. Wabbit. Make twacks. Scuwwy away. SCWAM!
    Bugs Bunny: [angrily] Okay! I can take a hint! [leaving, with the pot still on his rear end]I know when I'm not wanted! Goodbye! [He angrily shuts the door. Suddenly, he knocks on the door. He opens the door, returning]
    Elmer Fudd: Oh, you wabbit! I towd you to scwam! [Bugs points to a new sign on the front door] "'Quawantined fow Wabbititus. No one may weave pwemises. [Bugs Bunny shrugs his shoulders] Oh, this is tewwibwe. Twapped with a cwazy, contaminated wabbit.
    Bugs Bunny: Oh, now, doc. Don't get yourself in a dither. How do you know I'm contaminated? I haven't got no symptoms. You don't see no spots before my eyes, do you? [Spots appear before his eyes]
    Elmer Fudd: Oh, gwacious!
    Bugs Bunny: My tongue ain't coated. See? [He sticks out his tongue. It has a small overcoat on]
    Elmer Fudd: Oh, my gwacious!
    Bugs Bunny: I don't throw fits. [He starts throwing fits]
    Elmer Fudd: Oh, gwacious! Oh, my!
    Bugs Bunny: [He advances towards Elmer like the Frankenstein monster. Elmer backs against a wall] No, see. Never felt better in my life. I'm full of pep. [grabs Elmer's hand and starts dancing with him] Well yes, yes. Well all feet. C'mon, Jackson. Cut yourself a slice of rug.
    Elmer Fudd: Oh, wet go of my hand, you cwazy wabbit! Oh, now you've done it! You've contaminated me! Oh, ho-ho-ho-ho!

## Voice cast

* Mel Blace - Bugs Bunny
* Arthur Q. Bryan - Elmer Fuddle

## External links

* Hare Tonic quotes at the Internet Movie Database