History WesternAnimation / DevilMayHare

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Notice how Taz is actually speaking coherent sentences here, fen with a few cases of broken English? Yeah, he won't be doing that much after this short.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Notice how Taz is actually speaking coherent sentences here? Yeah, he won't be doing that much after this short.

* ItsPersonal: Taz’s delivery of the line “But YOU’RE not [made of straw]” makes it clear at that point, Taz’s desire to kill and eat Bugs was not just for hunger.

* SpeedySnail: Of the animals running away from the Tasmanian Devil, the fastest one is a turtle.

'''Devil May Hare''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and the Tazmanian Devil, with the latter in his debut role.

One day, while doing spring cleaning, Bugs sees a stampede of animals racing past his burrow. After learning from a terrified turtle that the Tazmanian Devil is on a rampage, Bugs looks it up in the dictionary to learn that it is a strong, murderous beast with powerful jaws and a ravenous appetite for anything...and while he was reading, it has snuck up behind him! The fast talking rabbit manages to convince the brute that he's too skinny for a meal and offers to help set him up with a menagerie...with every one of Bugs supposed menu items resulting in Taz suffering humiliating and painful moments. When the devil sees through Bugs' tricks and pursues the rabbit, Bugs is required to use a surprising ace up his sleeve in order to make everyone happy.

* EverybodyWins: The cartoon gets a SurprisinglyHappyEnding for everyone when Bugs gets Taz off his back by getting him married to a lonely lady Tasmanian She-Devil.

* EverybodyWins: The cartoon gets a SurprisinglyHappyEnding for everyone when Bugs gets Taz off his back by getting him married to a lonely lady Tasmanian Devil.

-->'''Bugs:''' [Reading article] "A strong, murderous beast, jaws as powerful as a steel trap. Eats tigers, lions, elephants, buffaloes, donkeys, giraffes, octopuses, rhinoceroses, mooses, ducks..."\\

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Notice how Taz is actually speaking coherent sentences here? Yeah, he won't be doing that after this short.

'''Tasmanian Devil:''' Rabbits.\\

* TreeBuchet: To catch a deer (actually a dummy built by Bugs), Bugs has Taz hit it with a boulder using a tree as a giant slingshot. But as Taz pulls back on the rubber band, Bugs saws off the tree, causing it to fly into Taz.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Versions of this short shown on CBS's "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" cut out the scene of Bugs using a slingshot to pop the bubble that Taz blew. The edited version plays out as if the bubble broke on its own (which is possible, but it's still obvious something is cut).
* BubblegumPopping: Bugs feeds the Tasmanian Devil a chicken made from gum and baking soda. The baking soda gives Taz [[HiccupHijinks hiccups]], and every time he hiccups the bubble gets bigger until Bugs blows it away, dragging Taz away with it. It floats until Bugs hits it with a slingshot (or, if you've seen the edited version that aired on CBS in the 1970s and 1980s, then it broke without provocation), leaving Taz hanging from the trees.

* BubblegumPopping: Bugs feeds the Tasmanian Devil a chicken made from gum and baking soda. The baking soda gives Taz [[HiccupHijinks hiccups]], and every time he hiccups the bubble gets bigger until Bugs blows it away, dragging Taz away with it. It floats until Bugs hits it with a slingshot, leaving Taz hanging from the trees.

* NothingButSkinAndBones: Bugs initially convinces Tax not to eat him by saying all he'd have is 'one skinny rabbit'.

-->'''Bugs:''' ''([[FurIsClothing Rolling up his fur to show his puny bare leg]]) Look! No meat!

* BuriedAlive: Bugs' first trick is to have Taz dig for groundhogs, while he fills in the hole Taz done like a grave. Unfortunately, it didn't work, leading to Taz's most notable quote:

-->'''Taz:''' [[InsultBackfire Flattery'll get ya nowhere]].

* RightBehindMe: When a little fawn shows up, Bugs tries to get it to run before Taz gets it, calling him "a mean, vicious, nasty, no-good, baggy-eyed, marble-headed ignoramorous". Before Bugs could go on though, [[OhCrap he realizes that Taz is behind him and trails off]].
-->'''Taz:''' [[InsultBackfire Flattery'll get you nowhere]].

* RightBehindMe: When a little fawn shows up, Bugs tries to get it to run before Taz gets it, calling him "a mean, vicious, nasty, no-good, baggy-eyed, marble-headed ignoramorous", unaware that Taz was standing behind him [[OhCrap until he starting saying he was a stupid...something]].

* BriefAccentImitation: While preparing "Wild Turkey Surprise", Bugs affects an Italian accent.
* BubblegumPopping: Bugs feeds the Tasmanian Devil a chicken made from gum and baking soda. The baking soda gives Taz hiccups, and every time he hiccups the bubble gets bigger until Bugs blows it away, dragging Taz away with it. It floats until Bugs hits it with a slingshot, leaving Taz hanging from the trees.

* DinnerDeformation: Bugs feeds the Tasmanian Devil an inflatable raft disguised as a pig and inflates it inside him, causing him to take the shape of the raft.
* EatTheBomb: The Tasmanian Devil gobbles down an assemblage of dynamite Bugs passes off as Wild Turkey Surprise. Result - a second of distension, mild indigestion, and a polite "pardon".

* EverybodyWins: The cartoon gets a SurprisinglyHappyEnding for everyone when Bugs gets Taz off his back by getting him married to a lonely lady Tazmanian Devil.

'''Devil May Hare''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobMcKimson and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and the Tazmanian Devil, with the latter in his debut role.

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