- Award Snub: The short was nominated for the Academy Award, but it and the debut Tom and Jerry short "Puss Gets the Boot" lost out to a Harman and Ising MGM short "The Milky Way". Decades later, "Wild Hare" was snubbed again when it failed to get onto The 50 Greatest Cartoons list, instead winding up on the runner-up list.
- Once Original, Now Common: When Bugs Bunny first said, "What's up, Doc?" here, it was a shock in ways modern audiences simply can't imagine or appreciate. In 1940, audiences saw the hunter (Elmer Fudd, of course), heard the hunter say he was hunting wabbits (er, rabbits), and then they saw the rabbit. 1940 audiences were expecting that rabbit to scream, run, pick a fight, play dead, anything except strike up a casual conversation with the guy trying to kill him. So, when Bugs did that, he brought the house down - a response that led to it becoming his Catchphrase. Now, not only does barely anyone find, "What's up, Doc?" funny, most people don't even realize it was ever supposed to be funny in the first place. It's just that thing Bugs always says in nearly every cartoon he's in.
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