A Witch's Tangled Hare

A Witch's Tangled Hare is a 1959 Looney Tunes short directed by Abe Levitow. 
== Plot ==
A poet, who looks similar to William Shakespeare, is trying to write, and comes across a castle with a mailbox with "Macbeth" written on it. At this he begins to write a story based on this title. He hears the loud screeching laugh of Witch Hazel and watches her stir her cauldron. The witch has Bugs Bunny trapped, sleeping on a platter and wakes him. He believes the cauldron to be a bath and readily climbs in, only realizing his mistake after reading her open recipe book. He quickly jumps out of the boiling cauldron and he asks why she wants to cook him, she grabs an ax and tries to chop him, but Bugs exiles from Witch Hazel, towards the castle, when she tries to attack him with a meat cleaver. Witch Hazel pursues Bugs Bunny on her flying broomstick. The poet continues trying to write after Bugs and the witch have departed.
At the castle, the chase continues and as Bugs Bunny acts as Romeo to try and trick Witch Hazel, who starts to quote Juliet's lines from the play but soon the two improvise. Witch Hazel jumps out of castle window as Bugs pretends that he will catch her and rapidly runs off.
As Bugs runs out from the castle he runs into the poet who is crying because he will never be a writer. Bugs finds out that he is not William Shakespeare, but is actually called Sam Crubish. The witch hears this and it appears that the two know each other but haven't seen each other in a while because Crubish had the wrong apartment number (2B). The poet and Witch Hazel leave talking about who made the mistake of saying "2B" and Bugs quotes the famous line from Hamlet - "To be, or not to be."
== Availability ==
CARTOON CAVALCADE BUGS BUNNY.jpg|(1988) VHS Bugs Bunny's Hare-Raising Tales
CARTOON CAVALCADE BUGS BUNNY 2.jpg|(1997) VHS Bugs Bunny's Hare-Raising Tales Time-Life edition
LTCE VOL 15 A BATTLE OF WITS.jpg|(1999) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 15: A Battle of Wits
Lt sbc9a.jpg|(2001) VHS Looney Tunes Special Bumper Collection Volume 9
51LA0AzTVqL. SL500 AA300 .jpg|(2011) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Two (restored)
LTPC VOL 1 DVD.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Two (restored)
=== Streaming ===
Lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang (2017 - ) (restored)
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* This cartoon was reused in Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special, but with new animation showing Bugs running for his life after leaping out of the pot.
* The cartoon makes many references to various plays by William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and As You Like It.
* This is the last time Bugs Bunny was paired with Witch Hazel, but Witch Hazel would make one more appearance in the 1966 short "A-Haunting We Will Go".
* Bugs foregoes his usual greeting "Eh, what’s up, Doc?" by asking Witch Hazel "Eh, what’s up, Zsa Zsa?", a reference to Hollywood celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor. Hazel is flattered by the sarcasm, being physically opposite in appearance to Miss Gabor, a glamorous actress and former contestant in the Miss Hungary beauty pageant.
== Gallery ==
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Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1959
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Abe Levitow
Category:Witch Hazel Cartoons
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons animated by Richard Thompson
Category:Cartoons animated by Keith Darling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Owen Fitzgerald
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Bob Singer
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
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 with characters voiced by June Foray
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by John W. Burton