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"Tortoise Beats Hare" is a 1941 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/TexAvery (here credited as his real name, Fred). It's a [[FracturedFairyTale twisted retelling]] of the famous [[Literature/AesopsFables Aesop's]] {{Fable}} "The Tortoise and The Hare."
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"Tortoise Beats Hare" is a 1941 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/TexAvery (here credited as his real name, Fred). It's a [[FracturedFairyTale twisted retelling]] of the famous [[Literature/AesopsFables Aesop's]] {{Fable}} "The Tortoise and The Hare."Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare."
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Neither Bugs nor the audience suspects quiet, timid Cecil of being the ManipulativeBastard he turns out to be.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: BitchInSheepsClothing: Neither Bugs nor the audience suspects quiet, timid Cecil of being the ManipulativeBastard he turns out to be.
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* StandardSnippet: As Bugs is contemplating how Cecil could have beaten him, "The Wheels On The Bus" plays in the background.
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* TitleReadingGag: The cartoon opens on Bugs walking in front of the title card and reading the credits. Then he gets to the title and goes on an angry tirade.
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* TelecomTree: Bugs Bunny has challenged Cecil Turtle to [[Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare a footrace]]. Cecil calls his old buddy Chester and together they set up a RingerPloy over a phone tree.
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* TelecomTree: Bugs Bunny has challenged Cecil Turtle to [[Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare a footrace]]. Cecil calls his old buddy cousin Chester and together they set up a RingerPloy over a phone tree.
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* TelecomTree: Bugs Bunny has challenged Cecil Turtle to [[Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare a footrace]]. Cecil calls his old buddy Chester and together they set up a RingerPloy over a phone tree.
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-->'''Bugs''': Tortoise Beats Hare. (realizes the meaning of the title) Tortoise... tortoise beats hare? ([[SpitTake spits out carrot chunks]]) '''''[[SuddenlyShouting TORTOISE BEATS HARE?!]]'''''
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-->'''Bugs''': Tortoise Beats Hare. (realizes (''realizes the meaning of the title) title'') Tortoise... tortoise beats hare? ([[SpitTake (''[[SpitTake spits out carrot chunks]]) chunks]]'') '''''[[SuddenlyShouting TORTOISE BEATS HARE?!]]'''''
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* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Cecil slips out from his shell when Bugs meets him for the first time, revealing he has white underwear adorned with red spots. The first relative of Cecil Bugs meets during the race is also shown to have white underwear with thin stripes when the latter takes off his shell and flings it away.
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* RemovableShell: Thrice throughout the short.
** Upon meeting Cecil for the first time, Bugs tries to pick him up to confront him angrily, but Cecil slips out and drops down, leaving Bugs ranting at an empty shell until he catches on, puts the shell back on his rival and resumes his tirade.
** During the montage of Cecil phoning his identical relatives, one of them is seen getting out of the shower with a towel wrapped around his lower half, and after receiving Cecil's phone call, he runs over to his bed, which has his shell placed on it, and puts it on before running off.
** When Bugs meets the first of Cecil's identical relatives during his way to the finish line, he removes his shell and tosses it away.
** Upon meeting Cecil for the first time, Bugs tries to pick him up to confront him angrily, but Cecil slips out and drops down, leaving Bugs ranting at an empty shell until he catches on, puts the shell back on his rival and resumes his tirade.
** During the montage of Cecil phoning his identical relatives, one of them is seen getting out of the shower with a towel wrapped around his lower half, and after receiving Cecil's phone call, he runs over to his bed, which has his shell placed on it, and puts it on before running off.
** When Bugs meets the first of Cecil's identical relatives during his way to the finish line, he removes his shell and tosses it away.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: "''Tortoise Beats Hare.'' T-tortoise beats hare??" SpitTake "[[SuddenlyShouting TORTOISE BEATS HARE???]]"
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: "''Tortoise After Bugs is done reading the names of the people who worked on the cartoon in the title card, he finally reads the title, leading up to...
-->'''Bugs''': Tortoise BeatsHare.'' T-tortoise Hare. (realizes the meaning of the title) Tortoise... tortoise beats hare??" SpitTake "[[SuddenlyShouting hare? ([[SpitTake spits out carrot chunks]]) '''''[[SuddenlyShouting TORTOISE BEATS HARE???]]"HARE?!]]'''''
-->'''Bugs''': Tortoise Beats
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* IronicEcho: Cecil says a line Bugs previously used in WesternAnimation/WabbitTwouble against Elmer.
-->'''Cecil:''' We do this kind of stuff to him all through the picture.
-->'''Cecil:''' We do this kind of stuff to him all through the picture.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Neither Bugs nor the audience suspects quiet, timid Cecil of being the MagnificentBastard he turns out to be.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Neither Bugs nor the audience suspects quiet, timid Cecil of being the MagnificentBastard ManipulativeBastard he turns out to be.
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"Tortoise Beats Hare" is a 1941 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/TexAvery (here credited as his real name, Fred). It's a [[FracturedFairyTale twisted retelling]] of "The Tortoise and The Hare."
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"Tortoise Beats Hare" is a 1941 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/TexAvery (here credited as his real name, Fred). It's a [[FracturedFairyTale twisted retelling]] of the famous [[Literature/AesopsFables Aesop's]] {{Fable}} "The Tortoise and The Hare."
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Bugs' voice and personality aren't quite there yet, with the voice being rather sonorant and lacking the nasal pronounciation, while the character... well, look up the original fable and see who loses. Tex Avery doesn't change a '''thing''' about that.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Bugs' voice and personality aren't quite there yet, with the voice being rather sonorant and lacking the nasal pronounciation, pronunciation, while the character... well, look up the original fable and see who loses. Tex Avery doesn't change a '''thing''' about that.
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-->'''Bugs''': Hey, I wonder if I was tricked!\\
(Turns to see a huge group of turtles, all of whom Cecil has paid off with Bugs's money)\\
(Turns to see a huge group of turtles, all of whom Cecil has paid off with Bugs's money)\\
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-->'''Bugs''': Hey, I wonder if I was tricked!\\
(Turnstricked! ''(turns to see a huge group of turtles, all of whom Cecil has paid off with Bugs's money)\\money)''\\
(Turns
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(The turtles all give Bugs a TakeThatKiss, iris out)
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* RageAgainstTheAuthor
--> '''Bugs''' (Aghast): "Tortoise Beats Hare"?! Why these screwy guys don't know what they're talkin' about!! Why, the big bunch'a joiks! And I oughta know: I work for 'em.
--> '''Bugs''' (Aghast): "Tortoise Beats Hare"?! Why these screwy guys don't know what they're talkin' about!! Why, the big bunch'a joiks! And I oughta know: I work for 'em.
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-->'''Bugs''' (Aghast): '''Bugs''': ''(aghast)'' "Tortoise Beats Hare"?! Why Why, these screwy guys don't know what they're talkin' about!! about! Why, the big bunch'a joiks! And joiks![[note]]And I oughta know: I work for 'em.[[/note]]
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* TakeThatKiss: Several of Cecil's cousins plant a kiss on Bugs while he is paralysed with the shock of having seemingly been passed by Cecil ''again''. At the end of the cartoon, all ten turtles give him a great big one.
* {{Troll}}: '''Cecil!!''' Challenges a rabbit to a race that he knows he'll lose, then pays off all of his identical friends to stand all over the running path to screw with Bugs's head and think that he's losing despite never seeing the turtle pass him, all just to bruise his ego.
* {{Troll}}: '''Cecil!!''' Challenges a rabbit to a race that he knows he'll lose, then pays off all of his identical friends to stand all over the running path to screw with Bugs's head and think that he's losing despite never seeing the turtle pass him, all just to bruise his ego.
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* TakeThatKiss: Several of Cecil's cousins plant a kiss on Bugs while he is paralysed paralyzed with the shock of having seemingly been passed by Cecil ''again''. At the end of the cartoon, all ten turtles give him a great big one.
* {{Troll}}:'''Cecil!!''' Challenges a rabbit Cecil challenges Bugs to a race that he knows he'll lose, then pays off all of his identical friends to stand all over the running path to screw with Bugs's head and think that he's losing despite never seeing the turtle pass him, all just to bruise his ego.
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Received two sequels, ''WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare'' and ''Rabbit Transit.''
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Received two sequels, ''WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare'' and ''Rabbit Transit.''WesternAnimation/RabbitTransit.''
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"Tortoise Beats Hare" is a 1941 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/TexAvery (here credited as his real name, Fred) and the first episode of season 1 of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]]. It's a [[FracturedFairyTale twisted retelling]] of "The Tortoise and The Hare."
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"Tortoise Beats Hare" is a 1941 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/TexAvery (here credited as his real name, Fred) and the first episode of season 1 of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]].Fred). It's a [[FracturedFairyTale twisted retelling]] of "The Tortoise and The Hare."
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The short opens with Bugs reading the names on the title card and mispronouncing all of them (save Carl Stalling, whose name is rather hard to mispronounce) - "Charles '''MAH'''Kimson", "Dave Mo'''NAH'''han", "Fred A'''VEH'''ry".
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The short opens with Bugs reading the names on the title card and mispronouncing all of them (save Carl Stalling, whose name is rather hard to mispronounce) mispronounce - Bugs instead calls him "Carl Dubya Stalled") - "Charles '''MAH'''Kimson", "Dave Mo'''NAH'''han", "Fred A'''VEH'''ry".
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Bugs' voice and personality aren't quite there yet, with the voice being rather sonorant and lacking the nasal pronounciation, while the character... well, look up the original fable and see who loses. Tex Avery doesn't change a '''thing''' about that.
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** At one point, Cecil turns to the audience and chuckles "We do stuff like this to [Bugs] all through the picture."
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** At one point, Cecil turns to the audience and chuckles "We do this kinda stuff like this to [Bugs] all through the picture."
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--> '''Bugs''' (Aghast): Why these screwy guys don't know what they're talkin' about!! Why, the big bunch'a joiks! And I oughta know: I work for 'em.
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--> '''Bugs''' (Aghast): "Tortoise Beats Hare"?! Why these screwy guys don't know what they're talkin' about!! Why, the big bunch'a joiks! And I oughta know: I work for 'em.
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''Tortoise Beats Hare'' is a 1941 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merry Melodies]] short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/TexAvery (here credited as his real name, Fred) and the first episode of season 1 of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]]. It's a [[FracturedFairyTale twisted retelling]] of "The Tortoise and The Hare."
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!!Tropes present in this short
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* WrongGenreSavvy: As Bugs pounds on Cecil's door, he bellows "Open up, [[Literature/ThreeLittlePigs or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house i-!]]" before catching himself and sheepishly apologizing.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: As Bugs pounds on Cecil's door, he bellows "Open up, [[Literature/ThreeLittlePigs [[Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house i-!]]" before catching himself and sheepishly apologizing.
