Witch Hazel (Looney Tunes)
Witch Hazel is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons and TV shows. The name is a reference to the plant witch-hazel and folk remedies based on it. Concept and creation. Different characters of the same name appeared in several studios' short films throughout the golden age of American animation: the first was in the Disney cartoon "Trick or Treat" (1952), voiced by June Foray. Inspired by this character, Chuck Jones created his own witch for Warner Bros., reusing the same pun. Jones could do this  because the name was already in use in commercial products; Foray said that the characters were also not expected to have any longevity. In her initial appearance, "Bewitched Bunny" (1954), she is voiced by Bea Benaderet. Starting with "Broom-Stick Bunny" (1956), Foray took over voicing the character. To differentiate the characters, Foray said that she performed the Disney version with a British accent, but the Warner Bros. version was "all American". Despite their common name, Jones' Witch Hazel is a much different witch from her Disney counterpart. The Looney Tunes character is a highly stylized villainess. Her rotund, green -skinned body is wrapped in a plain, blue dress and supported by twig-like legs. She has wild black hair from which hairpins fly and spin in midair whenever she zooms off on her broom or cackles in glee over her next evil scheme and she wears a crumpled black hat. Her nose and chin jut bulbously from her face and her mouth sports a single tooth. She has two pets: tarantula named Paul, and a black cat. She also has two magic brooms: one for sweeping the floor and one for flying. Appearances. Golden age. "Bewitched Bunny" retells the  fairy tale about "Hansel and Gretel". Witch Hazel plays the witch who attempts to cook and eat the children. Bugs Bunny witnesses her coax the children inside and saves the youths from Witch Hazel's clutches because the Masked Avenger is not around. Once the witch realizes that Bugs is a rabbit, she chases him to put him into her witch's brew. Upon putting Bugs into a sleeping spell, he is awoken by a kiss from Prince Charming; Bugs then tells him that he is in the wrong story. Bugs eventually uses Hazel's own magic against her and  transforms her into a sexy female rabbit, to whom he is instantly attracted. He walks away with her while he breaks the fourth wall and comments, "Ah sure, I know. But aren't they all witches inside?" In "Broom-Stick Bunny", Witch Hazel takes great pride in her status as the ugliest witch. While trick-or-treating on Halloween as a witch, Bugs Bunny visits Witch Hazel's house and she mistakes him for an actual witch. So does her magic mirror, which warns, "You're an ugly one, 'tis true; but "that" creep is uglier far than you!" Jealous  that this newcomer is uglier than herself, Hazel attempts to trick the "witch" into drinking a "Pretty Potion" disguised as tea. Bugs removes his mask to drink it and she becomes obsessed with using the rabbit in her witch's brew. Hazel captures him by tricking him with a carrot. Hazel is about to kill Bugs, but becomes distraught when his sad eyes remind her of Paul, her pet tarantula. Bugs calms her down with a beverage which turns out to be the Pretty Potion. Transformed into a beautiful young woman, Hazel asks her magic mirror if she is still  ugly. The genie in her mirror instantly falls in love with her and Hazel flies off into the night on her flying broomstick and the genie chases after her on his magic carpet. Bugs calls Air Raid headquarters to ask them about a "Flying Socceress chased by a Genie with light brown hair." Bugs Bunny was pitted against Witch Hazel for the last time in "A Witch's Tangled Hare" (1959), a parody of "Macbeth". This short was directed by Abe Levitow. Rabbit is once again the missing ingredient to Witch Hazel's brew and Bugs happens to be in  the area. Meanwhile, a William Shakespeare look-alike observes the action in search of inspiration. Bugs finds out that the man is not William Shakespeare, but is actually a man named Sam Crubish. Witch Hazel hears this and it appears that the two know each other but have not 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. Bugs Bunny quotes the famous line from "Hamlet" – "To be, or not to be, that is the question." The Bugs Bunny short "Transylvania 6-5000  (1963) features a brief, silent cameo appearance from Witch Hazel (or a character very similar to her) as Bugs briefly transforms Count Bloodcount, the cartoon's vampire antagonist, into her through the use of a magic spell. Once production shifted to DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, Witch Hazel appeared in the cartoon A-Haunting We Will Go" (1966), which also starred Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. After the golden age. Witch Hazel has appeared in cameos in various Warner Bros. productions, such as the movie "Space Jam" (1996) and its stand-alone sequel "" (2021), the video games "The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle  2" (in which she is the primary antagonist), "" (in which she appears as a boss and also appears on the cover of the game) and "" (2000), one episode each of "Animaniacs" (in a Rita and Runt episode), "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries", "Pinky and the Brain", "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Duck Dodgers" (which references "Broom-Stick Bunny" and where June Foray returns to do her voice). She was also featured as the lead antagonist in DC Comics' three-issue "Bugs Bunny" miniseries from 1990 (though at the ending of the storyline, her appearance there is actually revealed to be a  disguised Wile E. Coyote). She was used as an enemy in Scott Lowenstein's "Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 4" and her silhouette can be seen on the cover of the game. Witch Hazel has a cameo in the video game adaptation of "" as a painting parodying the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum. Witch Hazel was also spotted in a "MetLife" commercial in 2012. Witch Hazel made a cameo in the deleted "Pig Head" scene of the 1988 film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." She is seen flying around on Beelzebub before getting struck by lightning. Witch Hazel also makes a  non-speaking cameo appearance in the film "". Witch Hazel also starred in the "New Looney Tunes" segments "Finders Keepers, Losers Sweepers", "Hiccups and Downs" and "It's Snout or Never". Witch Lezah. The 2011 animated series "The Looney Tunes Show" introduces Witch Hazel renamed to Witch Lezah. Lezah ("Hazel" spelled backwards) is voiced by Roz Ryan, who gives the character a pronounced African American patois. In the series, she is Gossamer's mother. Unlike the other characters and her original character, she is always serious and gives advice that is not nonsensical and is more calm. She has a contradictory  relationship with Daffy; she once threatened him into helping Gossamer make friends. Once Gossamer has friends she asks Daffy to stay away despite all his hard work. She has been a hypnotherapist by trade, as seen in "Point, Laser Point", where she provided Sylvester with services when he was in denial about his relationship with his mother. In "It's a Handbag", she helped Daffy recall who took his handbag. In "Best Friends Redux", Witch Lezah has a time portal in her home, which Daffy uses to jealously ensure that Bugs Bunny and Rodney Rabbit never meet. When nobody knows  Daffy, Witch Lezah, who is unaffected by the time change, sends Daffy back in time to correct it, as it's ultimately because of Rodney that Bugs and Daffy met and became friends. Daffy uses Witch Lezah's time portal again to make sure he and Porky Pig meet.