Hole

Hole is a series of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Looney Tunes Cartoons gag interstitials. About thirty seconds long, each plays between other shorts in the Max packages. All of them start off with Bugs Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest and him escaping by diving into the titular hole. All of them also keep the pair mute for the entire segment.
==Plot==
===Gag #1 (Mini Elmer)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow, but Elmer follows after, becoming victim to cartoon foreshortening when he emerges from a second hole, after which Bugs immediately squishes him like an insect before grimacing at his splodgy remains.
===Gag #2 (Plunger)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer follows after, but fails to catch him, so he uses a plunger to suck him out, unintentionally sucking the burrow into obscurity, after which he attempts to get it out. However, Bugs, who has emerged from a second hole, uses a cannon to blow Elmer to smithereens through the plunger.
===Gag #3 (Fishing Pole)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer follows after, but fails to catch him, so he decides to use a fishing rod baited with a carrot to lure the rabbit out. However, the burrow proceeds to zoom around violently with Elmer in tow, against his favor and he eventually hits a tree and falls in, after which Bugs, who has escaped from his own burrow, reels him out of the pond with another rod with a larger hook.
===Gag #4 (Bees)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer follows after, but fails to catch him, so he uses his bare hands to grab Bugs, but fails repeatedly as it ports to a nearby tree, in which he hops into. However, Bugs, who is revealed to be a trained beekeeper, has been hiding in the tree and commands an entire swarm of bees to sting Elmer and send him off running.
===Gag #5 (Moving Hole)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer follows after, but fails to catch him, so he grimaces in anger before Bugs suddenly arrives out of nowhere and pushes him into the burrow, with Elmer discovering that it's actually a portable hole. After two more repeats however, Bugs moves the hole with his foot, causing Elmer to have a painful forced landing.
===Gag #6 (Hammer the Rabbit Hole)===
Bugs Bunny was being chased by Elmer Fudd through the forest. The former escapes by diving into his burrow, the latter tries to follow, but misses. So, he used a mallet to bonk the rabbit in the head. But, each time, he tried, Bugs pops out of a different rabbit hole, similar to a mole whacking game, and then, stick of TNT appears and Elmer hits it and gets blown up.
===Gag #7 (Underwear)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer follows after, but fails to catch him, so he grabs Elmer's pants from hole second. He got his pants back.
===Gag #8 (Frisbee)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow, but Elmer follows after, Bugs pops out and pulls the hole out and tossed it like a frisbee. While it's twisting, Elmer pops out and then the hole stops. Then, Elmer falls down a cliff and lands near Bugs. When Elmer tries to go after Bugs, he placed another hole underneath causing Elmer to fall down a cliff again.
===Gag #9 (Mini Bugs)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer tries to jump in after him, but the hole splashes into tiny holes. Tiny Bugs Bunnies pop out of the hole, tie Elmer down, and play on him.
===Gag #10 (Bees Nest)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer lands on the hole, now stuck to his torso. Bugs would bring out a beehive to the hole. Elmer struggles to pull the beehive out of the hole, only to get stung by a swarm of bees. This allows Bugs to throw a bomb into a hole. He quickly left before it explodes. Elmer collapsed as Bugs dives into the hole, now has a new home on a lying Elmer.
===Gag #11 (Rattlesnakes)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer follows after, but fails to catch him, Elmer noticed three holes spinning and mixing up randomly. Bugs points out which hole Elmer chose. And then, Elmer reached in to grab Bugs, he pulls out five rattlesnakes instead which bites him so much, he turns an ugly shade of green. Luckily, Bugs has got anti venom that gets rid of the bites, but he dropped it in one of the three holes. The holes spun and mixed up randomly again. Elmer looked reached in one of the holes for the anti-venom but pulls out the same rattlesnakes which proceed to bite him even more. 
===Gag #12 (Down the Drain)===
Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd through a forest. He manages to escape by diving into his burrow. Elmer follows after, but fails to catch him. He puts his hand inside the hole and grabs what he thinks might be the rabbit. He pulls out a giant drain plug, and everything whirlpools into the hole. The screen becomes blank, and Bugs pops out of the hole unharmed. He paints the background to be a tropical beach, pops out sitting in a folding chair, and gets served carrots.
==Availability==
File:Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection.jpg|(2020) Blu-ray Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection, Disc 3(Mini Elmer, Plunger, Fishing Pole, Bees)
=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
* "Fishing Pole" is mistakenly named "Moving Hole" when packaged in episode 107. 
* The interstitial "Mini Bugs", where Elmer gets tied down, is a reference to Gulliver getting tied down by Lilliputians in Gulliver’s Travels. 
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==References==
Category:2020
Category:2021
Category:Looney Tunes Cartoons
Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Elmer Fudd Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Interstitials
Category:2022
Category:2023