Falling Hare

Title card

Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, and starring Bugs Bunny in the Merrie Melodies series. As with many Bugs Bunny cartoons, the title is a play on words; "falling hair" refers to impending baldness, while in this cartoon’s climax the title turns out to be descriptive of Bugs’s situation (a hare falling / crashing to earth).

Dialogue

Bugs Bunny: [laughs] Hey! Get a load of this, Folks. It says here, "A constant menace to pilots are the Gremlims who wreck planes with dia-bo-lick-al sabo-tay-gee.

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Bugs: Hey! I bet that was a...Say, do you think that...Hey! Could that have been a Gremlin?

Gremlin: It ain't Vendell Villkie!

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[Bugs has just been hit on the head with a wrench]

Bugs Bunny: Which way did he go, George, which way did he go?

The Gremlin: Hmmm... [points in both directions] That way.

Bugs Bunny: Well, gee, thanks a lot George, thanks a lot.

[Bugs upon taking his first step, he immediately falls to the floor. The Gremlin runs over to him and pulls his eyelids open]

The Gremlin: What's the matter, bunny rabbit? Speak to me. Why don't you say something?

Bugs Bunny: I'm only three-and-a-half years old. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b.

The Gremlin: I like him, he's silly!

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[last lines, as the plane hurtles to a certain doom, the plane suddenly sputters and stops a few feet in midair]

The Gremlin: Sorry, folks. We ran out of gas.

Bugs Bunny: Yeah, you know how it is with these "A" cards.

Voice cast

• Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny / The Gremlin.
• Robert Clampett as Various.