Homeless Hare

Homeless Hare is a 1950 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.
== Plot ==
Bugs wakes after a long night to find that a burly construction worker, whom Bugs derisively calls "Hercules", has just shoveled up his rabbit hole near a highrise building being built. Bugs kindly asks the construction worker to put his hole back, but the worker simply dumps Bugs and the dirt into a dump truck. Bugs angrily shouts "Hey, you big gorilla! Haven't you ever heard of the sanctity of the American home?" before another mound of earth falls on him and the truck hauls him away.
But a when the worker exits the crane, Bugs calls him from the building under construction, "Yoo hoo! Hercules! Here's a message for ya!" He drops a brick on him, along with a telegram labeled "Eastern Onion" reading "Okay Hercules... You asked for it... Bugs Bunny," then a steel girder, and then plays with the elevator controls while the worker is inside the elevator. The worker manages to get the better of Bugs, knocking him out temporarily. Bugs wakes with strange fits and walks oddly through a harrowing series of moving girders and other objects, finally regaining his senses when he falls into a barrel full of water. When Bugs recovers and sees the worker taking the lunch of a timid worker for himself and sending the hapless man back to work, this infuriates Bugs. Bugs takes a look at the floor plans for the building, then drops a single red-hot rivet down a hole, which bounces around through an elaborate maze of objects, until it burns through a rope holding up a giant steel pipe. The pipe then falls on top of the worker, who echoes Candy Candido's radio catchphrase, "I'm feelin' mighty low." Bugs says, "Do I get my home back, or do I have to get tough?" The worker finally waves the white flag in defeat. The next shot is of the finished skyscraper, with a slight indentation in the middle. At the bottom, Bugs sits in his hole, the building has been built around it, and declares, "After all, a man's home is his castle."
== Caricatures ==
* Candy Candido - "I'm feelin' mighty low"
== Availability ==
lt vs10 uk.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show Volume 10
Ydtryukyit87o.jpg|(1990) VHS The Anniversary Cartoon Collection
StarsOfSpaceJam Bugs.jpg|(1996) VHS Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny
Spacebugs.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc Japanese Looney Tunes LaserDiscs Bugs Bunny
Bumper05.jpg|(1997) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 5)
Golden Collection box 3.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3, Disc One
lt wh dvd.jpg|(2005) DVD White Heat
Lt cbobb3.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Bugs Bunny Volume 3
lt wh blu.jpg|(2013) Blu-ray White Heat (same print as Golden Collection: Volume 3)
LooneyTunesSpotlightVol8-210x300.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 8 Disc 1
lt sosj bb dvd.jpg|(2018) DVD Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny
lt sosj cv1.jpg|(2018) DVD Stars of Space Jam Collection Volume 1
lt cv3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Volume 3
lt young blu.jpg|(2020) Blu-ray Young Man with a Horn (in HD)hometheaterforum
Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection.png|(2020) DVD Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection
=== Streaming ===
Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* On ABC, the part where Bugs throws a brick to the construction worker's head with a message attached was edited to remove the brick actually making contact with his head and the shot of the brick on the construction worker's face before he rips the note off and reads it.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-h.aspx
== Notes ==
* The original "Bugs Bunny In" title to the cartoon was replaced when it was reissued in the 1959–64 season. This also happened to "Hot Cross Bunny", "Knights Must Fall", and "Rabbit Hood" when reissued at the same time.
*This cartoon was shown in theatres with Perfect Stranger during its original release.
*This cartoon was later remade as "No Parking Hare". That cartoon would be directed by Robert McKimson, and also star John T. Smith as a construction worker.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1950
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist
Category:Bugs Bunny Chuck Jones
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Gribbroek
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Peter Alvarado
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer