Line #8 WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hair_raising_hare.jpg]]
2
3	"Hair-Raising Hare" is a 1946 ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' animated short directed by Creator/ChuckJones and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
4
5	One night as he's preparing for bed, Bugs has the feeling he's being watched by someone. Sure enough, he's being spied on through a television monitor by a MadScientist, who uses a mechanical female rabbit to lure Bugs to his laboratory. Upon arriving, Bugs learns the scientist intends to feed him to the lab's resident hairy orange monster (later known as Gossamer).
6
7	----
8	!!"Hair-Raising Hare" provides examples of:
9
10	* BeingWatched:
11	** Bugs, by the audience.
12	** Also by the scientist, [[BigBrotherIsWatching with his television set]].
13	** Also used an IndyPloy by Bugs to distract Gossamer in the penultimate moment of the short.
14	* BornInTheTheater: Bugs calls for a doctor, and the silhouette of a doctor rises in the audience. Near the end, Bugs scares the monster away by pointing out that an audience is watching them.
15	* BrickJoke: At the beginning of the episode, Bugs comments that it feels like he's being watched. Towards the end, he mentions this to the monster.
16	* ByNoIMeanYes: As Bugs is packing up to flee the lair: "And don’t think it hasn’t been a little slice of heaven! ''({{Beat}})'' Cause it hasn’t! ''(runs for dear life)''"
17	* CardCarryingVillain: The scientist goes so far as to have a sign on his castle confirming it.
18	* ChattyHairdresser: When cornered by the monster, Bugs notices its dirty fingernails and suddenly becomes a manicurist, talking about how "eeenteresting" monsters are as he does its nails. This then leads to the {{Fingore}} gag below.
19	* CreepyBasement: In a gag repeated from "WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper", Bugs actually goes ''upstairs'' briefly and then quickly runs back down and tells the monster, "Don't go up dere! It's dark!"
20	* FemBot: Two rabbit-shaped "female" robots appear.
21	* {{Fingore}}: While acting like a manicurist doing the monster's nails, Bugs convinces him to dip his hands in a couple bowls of water. This resulted in the monster screaming in pain as a pair of {{Mouse Trap}}s dangled from his fingers.
22	* HairRaisingHare: {{Trope Namer\|s}}... [[{{Irony}} although Bugs isn't particularly frightening this episode]].
23	* HorrifyingTheHorror: PlayedForLaughs. Toward the end of the episode, Bugs [[BreakingTheFourthWall points out the audience]] to the monster, who exclaims, "People!" and runs away, screaming his head off.
24	* ImpactSilhouette:
25	** Bugs taps a hammer on a wall, draws a cross on it and whacks it with a mallet, forming cracks that take the shape of the monster. The broken part of the wall then falls down to leave behind a perfect monster-shaped hole, followed by the monster himself.
26	** At the end of the short, the monster leaves these through several walls when he realizes that there are people watching him.
27	* IsThereADoctorInTheHouse: Bugs, while being chased by the monster, gasps out this phrase. Of course, when a doctor stands up, Bugs asks, "What's up, Doc?"
28	* LampshadeWearing: Bugs puts a lampshade on his head to hide from the monster. The monster even turns on the "lamp", and the lights turn on.
29	* LorreLookalike: The scientist is a caricature of Creator/PeterLorre, based on Creator/TexAvery's caricature of him in "WesternAnimation/HollywoodStepsOut".
30	* MadScientist: He has a sign up on his castle that says "EVIL SCIENTIST".
31	* MadeOfExplodium: The rabbit-bots, apparently. Though not so much "cartoony explosion" explosive, more "fall apart at the seams".
32	* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: When the monster looks in a mirror, his own reflection runs away screaming.
33	* NoNameGiven: The monster is not named in this short. The name Gossamer actually comes from his third appearance, in the 1980 short "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24th-and-a-half Century". (In his ''second'' cartoon, 1952's "WesternAnimation/WaterWaterEveryHare", he gets the name Rudolph.)
34	* PortraitPaintingPeephole:
35	** The monster is watching Bugs Bunny through the eyes of a portrait. Unfortunately for the monster, Bugs penetrates the disguise and [[EyePoke sticks him in the eyes]].
36	** Bugs is watching the monster through the eyes of the same portrait, when the monster figures out their roles are reversed. Unfortunately for the monster, Bugs [[EyePoke pokes their eyes again]] before they could do it to him.
37	* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: "And so, having disposed of the monster, exit our hero through the front door, stage right."
38	* {{Robosexual}}: Bugs goes moony-eyed over two [[FemBot rabbit-shaped "female" robots]].
39	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Upon learning the snarling beast is the "friend" that the MadScientist wants to introduce him to, Bugs shakes his hand and shouts, "Well, goodbye!" He packs some luggage to the sound of an instrumental version of "California, Here I Come" before bolting for the door.
40	-->'''Bugs:''' And don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven-- 'cause it ''hasn't!''
41	* ShoutOut:
42	** Bugs mockingly calls the monster Film/{{Frankenstein\|1931}} and Film/{{Dracula\|1931}}.
43	** The first time he goes "And so, having disposed of the monster..." Bugs does [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]'s hunched-over walk, complete with EyebrowWaggle.
44	* TalkingWithSigns: Seeing Gossamer in full, a panicking Bugs holds up a sign reading "Yipe!" in very tiny print. He looks at Gossamer again and flips the sign to the other side, which reads "YIPE!" in much larger print.
45	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The MadScientist isn't seen again after he lets the monster out of its cell.

Context WesternAnimation / HairRaisingHare