"Finished! Wile E., you're such a genius!"
"To Hare Is Human" is a 1956 cartoon in the Looney Tunes series directed by Chuck Jones. It stars Bugs Bunny and features Wile E. Coyote, and thus is the second short in the Bugs/Wile E. pentalogy.
The cartoon starts with Wile E. Coyote entering Bugs Bunny's hole via a portable elevator, capturing him in a sack and exiting the hole afterwards. Sure enough, Bugs peeks out of the bag and asks the Coyote what is in it, to which Wile E. then apologizes for his impudence, introduces himself and makes a self-distracting speech so long that Bugs is able to escape from the sack in no time. After getting blown up twice, both from some dynamite in the sack and in the elevator, Wile E. then resorts to his newest scheme, a UNIVAC supercomputer that might help him catch Bugs once and for all. However, it harms him more than it helps him in his attempts.
"To Hare Is Human" provides examples of:
- Ash Face: Wile E. is subjected to this five times.
- At the beginning of the cartoon, Bugs manages to escape from the sack that Wile E. caught him in and places some dynamite in it. He then gives the sack to the Coyote, saying that there is something in it, and sure enough, when Wile E. looks inside, the explosives go off and char his entire face. Bugs then goes back into his burrow through Wile E.'s portable elevator and places two sticks of dynamite in it before Wile E. gets in, resulting in the Coyote's entire body being charred once they go off.
- Wile E. is subjected to this again (twice, no less!) when Bugs' toaster shoots the grenades back up to the surface and detonate on him.Wile E. Coyote: (as he is about to be blown up by the second grenade) Oh no!
- And again when Bugs throws out the trash, including another stick of dynamite snuck in, into a trash can that Wile E. happens to be hiding in.
- Bag of Kidnapping: Wile E. captures Bugs in one off-screen at the start of the cartoon, and as he is walking away, the rabbit punctures two holes in the sack with his carrot and pulls his head through one of them so that he can talk to the Coyote.
- Banana Peel: How Bugs disposes of Wile E. when he tries to break in by cracking the hole's combination lock.
- Billions of Buttons: The UNIVAC has several buttons and switches for different solutions.
- Blatant Burglar: Wile E. puts on a burglar mask and hat when he tries to break into Bugs' hole through burglary methods.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Bugs is not concerned about being captured in a sack by Wile E. in the slightest, and merely asks him about its contents.
- Elevator Gag: Wile E. uses a portable elevator to get into Bugs' hole, and later comes out having easily captured the latter in a sack. When he gets blown up by some dynamite in the same sack, he tries to go after Bugs when the rabbit returns to his hole, but by the time he is in the elevator, it is occupied by two sticks of dynamite that blow him up and destroy the elevator in the process.Wile E. Coyote: Poor chap, he had his chance. Now he must take the consequences.
- Enter Stage Window: Since Bugs' home is underground, Wile E. uses a portable window above the ground to put this trope in action as he resorts to burglary methods.
- Garbage Hideout: For his fourth attempt to dispatch Bugs, Wile E. slips a stick of dynamite in Bugs' vacuum cleaner as the rabbit is doing some house cleaning and takes refuge in a nearby trash can. Unfortunately, Bugs takes out his trash, including the dynamite stick, in the same can, subjecting poor Wile E. to another detonation.
- Homing Boulders: For his final plan to do Bugs in, Wile E. rigs a boulder above a carrot patch that will fall when Bugs picks up the carrot securing the rope in place. However, the trap is delayed when Bugs does pick up said carrot, and when the Coyote lays a finger on the rope, then the boulder falls. A horrified Wile E. retreats into his cave to consult the UNIVAC on what to do about the falling rock. The supercomputer's response? "Go back and take your medicine". So Wile E. goes back outside to be flattened by the boulder.
- In Case of X, Break Glass: Bugs has a convenient box next to his bed that says "In case of coyote, break glass", so when he hears Wile E. cracking the combination lock to his hole, he shatters the glass with a tiny hammer and tosses out a banana peel for the Coyote to slip on as he makes his entrance down the ladder.
- Long Speech Tea Time: As Wile E. makes a lengthy speech that his victim (Bugs) will escape from the sack, the latter is bought enough time to get out of said sack and place some dynamite in it.
- Master Computer: Wile E. puts together a supercomputer called the UNIVAC, which provides him with tons of different solutions to capture Bugs. However, as befits a Wile E. Coyote short, they all go horribly wrong, and at the end, Bugs is revealed to be behind the computer's unreliable advice.
- My Card: Wile E. brings out his card, which happens to be slightly different from the one in Operation: Rabbit, as he introduces himself to Bugs.
- Projectile Toast: In his second attempt to catch Bugs, Wile E. steals two carrots from Bugs' toaster (which, for some reason, is a special one for carrots) and drops two unpinned grenades in their places. Sure enough, as soon as Bugs returns, the toaster propels the grenades back up to the Coyote, leaving him to face the inevitable blasts.Bugs Bunny: One of these days, I'm gonna have to have that spring fixed.
- Pun-Based Title: Of the idiom, "To err is human (to forgive is divine)".
- The Reveal: After Wile E. is crushed by the boulder at the end of the short, Bugs emerges from the UNIVAC, revealing that he is the brain behind it.Bugs Bunny: Of course, the real beauty of this machine is that it has only one moving part.
- Shout-Out: To Have Gun – Will Travel, as Wile E.'s card has "HAVE BRAIN" in the lower left-hand corner and "WILL TRAVEL" in the lower right-hand one.
- Suddenly Speaking: As with the other shorts in the Bugs/Wile E. pentalogy (save for Hare-Breadth Hurry), Wile E. Coyote is given a British-accented voice.
- Trash Landing: Implied as Wile E. is sent through the "Coyote Disposal" chute and off a cliff.
