Water, Water Every Hare (1952)

This is one of those cartoons that had an edge to it, even as a child I knew there was something different about it (the same feeling I had about The Beatles' song "I Am The Walrus.") As a child I remember being fascinated by the 3D realism of the robot,the sarcophagus, and the bottle, in contrast to the equally beautiful2D image of the green Evil Scientist, which is a caricature of Vincent Price, and the fire engine red Gossamer, here named "Rudolph." I also thought it was somewhat disturbing with the it-was-a-dream!/"That's-what-YOU-think!" ending, especially after watching Bugs and the scientist drift around on ether to a less famous, slow section of the "William Tell Overture." Trippy. "Come... back... here... you... rab... bit. "

Six years after Hair-Raising Hare, Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese revisit the Bugs-encounters-an-evil scientist(with neon letters saying "EVIL SCIENTIST" on his castle)-and his pet monster premise with Water, Water Every Hare. In this one, instead of Peter Lorre, the scientist looks like Boris Karloff with green skin in an inside joke to his Frankinstein's Monster role. And the fully red-haired giant monster is named Rudolph here instead of Gossamer. This time, Karloff wants a brain for his giant robot so Bugs conveniently becomes the target. Of course, Bugs escapes both the scientist and Go...I mean, Rudolph and when ether makes everything go slow, Bugs escapes and then sleeps as the water that flooded his hole-in-the-ground takes him back there and as he wakes back up, he says, "Must have been a nightmare." What happens after that brought big laughs from me! This short was just as funny, maybe even more so, as HRH and, once again, I loved when Bugs turned into a gossip-chattering nail filer shooting the breeze with the fully red-haired monster who doesn't realize how crafty the rabbit really is. Most definitely recommended.

Bugs Bunny is whisked away via his bed to a mad scientist's castle when his rabbit hole is flooded in the great Chuck Jones directed and Michael Maltese penned Looney Tunes short. As a kid, i loved watching 'that VERY hairy monster' and still get a kick out of him as an adult. This is one of my favorites.On a side note: I'm writing these reviews as I rewatch each tune as they're ordered on the 'Golden Collection' set. So after "What's up Doc?" and "Rabbit's Kin" I was VERY glad that I didn't have to sit through another Robert McKimson directed short. Don't get me wrong I'll ALWAYS be grateful that he created Taz and Foghorn, I just dont care for alot of his Bugs cartoons.This cartoon is the eighth Looney Tune short on Disk 1 of the 'Loony Tunes Golden Collection' My Grade: A+

Bugs sleeps through a flood and is washed out of his Rabbit hole, down the river and floats by a spooky old castle. Unfortunately for him, said castle is the, not so subtle, residence of a mad scientist who needs a brain to put in his new robot. He chooses Bugs as that brain, but Bugs is having none of it.His escape is made difficult by the unleashing of that big, orange furball thing. How cute is it really? Bugs pretends to be a camp hairdresser and fancy up Things hair. But uses sticks of TNT instead of curlers. Mere seconds later Thing has quit after Bugs shrinks him down to the size of a mouse using a magic potion.After breaking a ether potion both Bugs and the Mad Scientist go on a trippy chase that results in Bugs falling asleep and being washed away in the river again. He wakes up in his hole believing it all to be a dream.But the little Thing sez otherwise.An above average Bugs cartoon with the always lovable Thing.