Fresh Hare

Fresh Hare is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.
==Summary==
Mountie Elmer is on the trail of Bugs who's wanted dead or alive, "preferably dead". Elmer gets handcuffed to a bomb. Bugs looks through all Elmer's keys but can't seem to find the right one... Bugs foils Elmer with tricks like the Elmer-shaped snowman. Finally Bugs lets himself be arrested. Elmer takes Bugs back to the log stockade and puts Bugs up before a Mountie firing squad. But Bugs starts singing "Dixie". The stockade becomes a field of cotton, and all the Mounties, including Elmer, turn into singing Negro minstrels!
==Plot==
Elmer is a Mountie in the North Woods, out to arrest Bugs for being a "scwewy wabbit." Things go badly for Elmer from the start as Bugs, who is "Wanted, Dead or Alive," handcuffs him to a bomb. Bugs then takes advantage of Elmer's superhuman gullibility by swiping his hat and pretending to be his commanding officer- Bugs "drums Elmer out of the regiment" and tears off his uniform (including his boxers). Elmer cries, "I am a diswace to the wegiment!" After a long chase through caves and snowbanks, Bugs finally takes pity on Elmer and gives himself up. Bugs is brought before a firing squad, but when asked for his last wish, he wishes he was in Dixie, hooray, hooray. This causes the firing squad, Elmer and Bugs to immediately transform themselves into a minstrel show.
==Trivia==
A scene in which Bugs, Elmer and the firing squad all sing "Camptown Ladies" in blackface has been deleted from the end of the short in recent prints.
Category:Cartoons
Category:Merrie Melodies Cartoons
Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Elmer Fudd Cartoons
Category:1942 cartoons
Category:Leon Schlesinger Productions Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng