A Feather in His Hare

A Feather in His Hare is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Charles M. Jones.
== Title ==
The title is yet another pun on "hair", playing on the Native American warrior custom of earning feathers to wear in their hair for courageous acts.
== Plot ==
A dopey Native American is hunting for a rabbit. Before continuing his pursuit, he faces the audience and communicates via sign language stating, "Sh-- You be-um Quiet. Me hunt-um Rabbit!" When he comes across a rabbit hole, he reaches in with his arm only to have a mousetrap clasped to his fingers causing him pain. Then Bugs lays another mousetrap for Mo-Hican to step on, making him jump up and down in agony with Bugs mimicking him. Then Bugs removes the mousetraps off of Mo-Hican. Bugs tells Mo-hican how to catch a rabbit. Mo-Hican rushes back to his wigwam to pick up his bow and quiver of arrows, and runs back into the forest. While continuing his hunt, Bugs is sitting inside the quiver behind Mo-Hican and tricks him several times to where to shoot his arrows. After he accidentally mistook Bugs to be one of his arrows and shot him with a bow, Bugs thought he had outsmarted Mo-Hican at first until he crashed into a tree.
While tied up and Mo-Hican preparing to make rabbit stew, Bugs manages to pull himself off the ground and moves to a different spot. This leads Mo-Hican to pick up the cooking pot and lay it down next to Bugs, but Mo-Hican ends up being led astray away from Bugs. Then Bugs seeks vengeance by "thinking up some more deviltry for that Apache."
Mo-Hican continues picking up and laying down the cooking pot until he gets hit in the face with a snowball. Curious about how Bugs can make snowballs during the summer, the rabbit responds that snowballs are too cold to be made during the winter. Then Mo-Hican becomes wise, jumps into the rabbit hole, and then Bugs pops out wearing Mo-Hican's outfit, including his glasses. Mo-Hican pops out with a red bow with white polka dots tied to the top of his hair, and begins thinking about how to catch Bugs.
Bugs is skipping along while singing to the tune of "Here We Go Around the Mulberry Bush" with lyrics, "This is the Way We Go to School". Then he happens upon a wigwam with signs stating "Scalp Treatment" and "Hare Cut". Bugs decides to go along with the gag and enters the wigwam. He uses Reverse Psychology to trick Mo-Hican into getting a "hair cut". Bugs pulls out what appears to be a pocket knife with a stone hammer and smacks Mo-Hican on the head with it. Bugs brings the unconscious Mo-Hican outside of the wigwman, placed cigars in his hands, and resumes skipping along.
Mo-Hican resumes chasing after Bugs as the rabbit turns his cottontail into a propeller and fly forward. Bugs comes across a water pitcher pump, soaks the ground, picks up some mud to use a clay, molds it into a vase, puts it in the kiln, paints the cured vase, and then throws it up into air. As Mo-Hican reaches towards Bugs, the vase falls on top of his head knocking him down to the ground. At the climactic moment, Bugs asks, "Just who does he think he is to be chasing me?" Mo-Hican answers, "Me? Me last Mohican!" "The last of the Mohicans, eh?" Bugs says, "Well, look, Geronimo, cast your eyes skyward." Looking up, Mo-Hican sees several storks carrying infant versions of himself and passes out. Bugs laughs himself silly. However, his laughter is cut short when he casts his own eyes skyward and sees hundreds of storks carrying infant bunnies resembling Bugs himself, who shout in unison, "Eh, what's up, Pop?" Bugs passes out, falling on top of the unconscious Mo-Hican.
== Caricatures ==
* Ed Wynn
== Availability ==
Lt vo uk hrh.jpg|(1986) VHS Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hair Raising Hare"
Cartoon Moviestars 13.jpg|(1988) VHS Cartoon Moviestars: Starring Bugs Bunny!
LT Laserdisc 3.jpg|(1988) LaserDisc Cartoon Moviestars: Bugs Bunny Classics: Special Collector's Edition
Bugs Bunny Collection VHS 7.jpg|(1990) VHS Bugs Bunny Collection: Here Comes Bugs (listed but not included in first release due to a mastering error, fixed in later shipments)
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-3-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol.3, Side 10, Politically Incorrect
==Censorship==
This cartoon was part of the "Twelve Missing Hares" that were barred from airing on Cartoon Network's June 2001 Bugs marathon due to ethnic Indian stereotyping that would be offensive to modern audiences.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHNTv3oQoE8 As with the other members of the "Twelve Missing Hares" as described in the unreleased ToonHeads episode, it was originally intended to air in the marathon, but was pulled due to executive backlash from AOL Time Warner. It used to be regularly shown on Cartoon Network's Looney Tunes compilation shows, specifically Bugs and Daffy and The Acme Hour, but was pulled from circulation shortly before the marathon and has since seldom aired on American television.
==Notes==
* This was Chuck Jones' first Bugs Bunny cartoon to feature the modern design of Bugs instead of the one he used from "Hold the Lion, Please" to "Hair-Raising Hare", which also includes his brief cameo as a costume in 1945's "Odor-able Kitty".
* Mo-Hican's body shape, along with the glasses he wears, suggest that he is meant to be a parody of Ed Wynn, although the voice does not match.
* This cartoon was shown in theatres with My Girl Tisa during its original release.
* The film was copyrighted on 17 November 1946, two years before its actual release.Catalog of Copyright Entries
==Gallery==
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Dafsghngcvxnbv.jpg|Lobby card
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513-PC2.png|Production cel with a production background from "Slick Hare"
513-AD1.png|Animation drawing by Ben Washam
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== References ==
Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Shorts
Category:1948
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Gribbroek
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Peter Alvarado
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package