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Water, Water Every Hare is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Charles M. Jones.

Title[]

The title of the short is based on the line from Samuel Colridge Taylor's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink."

Plot[]

Bugs is flooded out of his rabbit hole while sleeping during a heavy rain. He floats into the castle of an "evil scientist"; the neon sign outside his castle says so, punctuated with a second flashing line, "BOO". He needs the rabbit's brain to complete an experiment. When Bugs awakens, he is terrified when he sees the scientist, "Eh, eh, eh, w-w-what's up, doc?", a sarcophagus, "What's going on around here?", and the robot experiment, "Where am I anyway?", eventually running away upon seeing all three. The scientist sends out a big orange monster wearing a pair of sneakers to retrieve him, with the promise of being rewarded with a spider goulash.

Bugs keeps running until a door on the floor opens and a rock falls into a water pit where there are crocodiles swimming around snapping their jaws. While he is walking backwards and praying to jump over the crocodiles, he bumps into Rudolf. Bugs comes up with an idea ("Uh oh. Think fast, rabbit!") and makes as a gabby hairdresser, giving the hairy monster a new hairdo ("My stars! Where did you ever get that awful hairdo? It doesn't become you at all. Here, for goodness' sake, let me fix it up. Look how stringy and messy it is. What a shame! Such an interesting monster, too. My stars, if an interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo, then I don't know what things are coming to. In my business, you meet so many interesting people. Bobby pins, please. But the most interesting ones are the monsters. Oh, dear, that'll never stay. We'll just have to have a permanent.") He gets some dynamite sticks and places them in the monster's hair, which give the appearance of curlers. He lights them and runs off just before the explosion ("Now, I've got to give an interesting old lady a manicure; but I'll be back before you're done."), which leaves Rudolf with a bald head.

Rudolf realizes he was tricked and goes after Bugs. In the chemical room, Bugs sees vanishing fluid and he pours it all over himself ("Mmm, not bad!"). Bugs gets a trash can and dumps it on Rudolf. Angered, he gets a mallet and hits the trash can causing it to shake, and pulls out the rug Rudolf is standing on from underneath his feet, causing him to fall on his bottom. For the coup de grâce, Bugs takes a bottle of reducing oil and pours the entire contents over Rudolf, who lets out a roar and shrinks. Putting on a suit, coat and hat and grabbing two suitcases, Rudolf enters a mouse hole, kicks its resident out and slams the door which bears a sign saying "I QUIT!" Then, the mouse says "I quit too," holding up a bottle of whiskey, then dashing away.

Bugs eats a carrot in victory after disposing the monster, "Well, that's that." Suddenly, the mad scientist restores him with "hare restorer," "Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist", insisting the rabbit hand over his brain,"Now be a cooperative little bunny, and let me have your brain," throwing an axe straight towards Bugs, who ducks. The axe breaks open a large bottle of ether which drugs Bugs and the scientist. The groggy scientist says, "Come... back... here... you... rab-... bit," and chases after an equally-groggy Bugs in slow motion. Bugs trips the scientist, who falls asleep.

Bugs runs slowly out of the castle and over the horizon, tripping over a rock and falling asleep, landing in a stream which leads Bugs straight back into his flooded hole. He suddenly wakes up and declares that it must have been a nightmare. The miniature Rudolf suddenly passes by on a rowboat and tells him in a high-pitched voice, "Oh yeah? That's what you think!", leaving Bugs with a confused look on his face.

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Notes[]

  • This short is a semi-remake of the 1946 short "Hair-Raising Hare".
  • Carl Stalling punctuates the chase by playing a slow but "drowsy" version of the "William Tell Overture".
  • This short was featured in the 1988 movie Daffy Duck's Quackbusters. It includes new animation of Bugs Bunny getting chased by Gossamer during the Paranormalists at Large commercials.

Goofs[]

  • The axe disappears once it shatters the bottle of ether.
  • As Bugs says "Nighty-night" before falling asleep as he lands in a stream, part of his right foot briefly disappears. Furthermore, his tail switches colors for a split second as he starts to move down the stream.

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1943 Tortoise Wins by a HareSuper-RabbitJack-Wabbit and the BeanstalkWackiki WabbitFalling Hare
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1947 Rabbit TransitA Hare Grows in ManhattanEaster YeggsSlick Hare
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1950 Hurdy-Gurdy HareMutiny on the BunnyHomeless HareBig House BunnyWhat's Up Doc?8 Ball BunnyHillbilly HareBunker Hill BunnyBushy HareRabbit of Seville
1951 Hare We GoRabbit Every MondayBunny HuggedThe Fair Haired HareRabbit FireFrench RarebitHis Hare Raising TaleBallot Box BunnyBig Top Bunny
1952 Operation: RabbitFoxy by Proxy14 Carrot RabbitWater, Water Every HareThe Hasty HareOily HareRabbit SeasoningRabbit's KinHare Lift
1953 Forward March HareUpswept HareSouthern Fried RabbitHare TrimmedBully for BugsLumber Jack-RabbitDuck! Rabbit, Duck!Robot Rabbit
1954 Captain HareblowerBugs and ThugsNo Parking HareDevil May HareBewitched BunnyYankee Doodle BugsBaby Buggy Bunny
1955 Beanstalk BunnySahara HareHare BrushRabbit RampageThis Is a Life?Hyde and HareKnight-Mare HareRoman Legion-Hare
1956 Bugs' BonnetsBroom-Stick BunnyRabbitson CrusoeNapoleon Bunny-PartBarbary-Coast BunnyHalf-Fare HareA Star Is BoredWideo WabbitTo Hare Is Human
1957 Ali Baba BunnyBedevilled RabbitPiker's PeakWhat's Opera, Doc?Bugsy and MugsyShow Biz BugsRabbit Romeo
1958 Hare-Less WolfHare-Way to the StarsNow, Hare ThisKnighty Knight BugsPre-Hysterical Hare
1959 Baton BunnyHare-abian NightsApes of WrathBackwoods BunnyWild and Woolly HareBonanza BunnyA Witch's Tangled HarePeople Are Bunny
1960 Horse HarePerson to BunnyRabbit's FeatFrom Hare to HeirLighter Than Hare
1961 The Abominable Snow RabbitCompressed HarePrince Violent
1962 Wet HareBill of HareShishkabugs
1963 Devil's Feud CakeThe Million HareHare-Breadth HurryThe UnmentionablesMad as a Mars HareTransylvania 6-5000
1964 Dumb PatrolDr. Devil and Mr. HareThe Iceman DuckethFalse Hare
1979 Bugs Bunny's Christmas CarolFright Before Christmas
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young BunnySpaced Out Bunny
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995 Carrotblanca
1997 From Hare to Eternity
2004 Hare and Loathing in Las VegasDaffy Duck for President
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