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Tortoise Wins by a Hare is a Bob Clampett cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle.
Bob Clampett took Avery's scenario and altered it for his film Tortoise Wins by a Hare released on February 20, 1943. The title is an appropriate pun on "hair".
Storyline
Bugs again challenges Cecil to a race after viewing footage from their previous encounter two years earlier (which seems to depict Cecil as having won fairly instead of by cheating Bugs with his cousins). Bugs then goes to Cecil's tree home disguised as an old man (a parody of Bill Thompson's "Old Timer" character from Fibber McGee and Molly) to ask the turtle his secret. Cecil, not in the least bit fooled by the disguise, so tells him he remarks that his streamlined shell lets him win, and produces a set of blueprints for his "air-flow chassis". The turtle ends the conversation with the comment, "Oh, and another thing... Rabbits aren't very bright, either!" just before slamming the door in the enraged bunny's face. Not getting the hint that the turtle's story is a humbug, Bugs builds the device and prepares for the race.
Meanwhile, the bunny mob learns of the upcoming match-up and places all its bets on Bugs. ("In fact, we don't even think that the toitle will finish... Do we, boys?" "Duh, no, Boss, no!") The race begins, and Bugs still outpaces his reptilian rival. However, in his new get-up, the dim-witted gangsters mistake him for the turtle. Cecil reinforces this misconception by dressing in a gray rabbit suit and munching on some delicious carrots. The mobsters thus make the shelled Bugs' run a nightmare, ultimately giving the race to Cecil (in an aside to the audience, as the rabbits cheer him, Cecil remarks, "I told you rabbits aren't very bright!"). When Bugs removes the chassis and sobbingly reveals that he's the rabbit, the rabbit gangsters remark, in mock-Bugsy style, "Ehhh, now he tells us!" and commit suicide by shooting themselves with a single bullet that goes through the sides of all of their apparently soft heads as the cartoon ends.
Censorship
- The ending where the gambling ring shoots themselves after realizing that they've been trying to sabotage Bugs throughout the cartoon has been cut from many TV prints of this cartoon, including versions shown on the Turner channels Cartoon Network[1] (excluding its appearance on "The Bob Clampett Show"), TBS, and TNT. TCM's Cartoon Alley makes a fade-out after the suicide instead of the original "iris-out".
- The TBS version also shortens the part where the rabbits pounce on Bugs before he can reach the finish line.[1]
- On some airings, the "Bugs in drum" closing is used.
Availability
- VHS - Cartoon Moviestars: Bugs!
- Laserdisc - Cartoon Moviestars: Bugs! and Elmer!
- VHS - Bugs Bunny Collection: Bugs Bunny's Zaniest Toons
- Laserdisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 1, Side 10: The Art of Bugs
- VHS - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 10: The Art of Bugs
- VHS - Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition, Vol. 7: Welcome to Wackyland
- DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three
- Blu-Ray, DVD - Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc 2
Gallery
References
External Links
Tortoise Wins by a Hare at SuperCartoons.net
Tortoise Wins by a Hare at B99.TV