Line #35 WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Leopold! Leopold!]]
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4	''Long-Haired Hare'' is a 1949 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and directed by Creator/ChuckJones.
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6	Bugs is hanging out one day playing the banjo and singing "A Rainy Night in Rio," when his singing bothers Giovanni Jones, a pompous opera singer who is rehearsing his part in ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville''. When he finds himself absentmindedly singing along to whatever Bugs is playing, Jones storms outside to put an end to the disturbance by trashing the rabbit's instruments and then tying him painfully to a tree branch by his ears. Naturally, Bugs reacts to this by declaring [[ThisMeansWar it's on]].
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8	That night, at Jones' performance at the Hollywood Bowl, Bugs doles out some characteristically hilarious abuse before unleashing his finale: he enters the orchestra pit disguised as famed conductor Leopold Stokowski, takes over the orchestra and forces Jones to hold [[IncrediblyLongNote an ungodly long G]] that literally brings the house down.
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10	!!"Long-Haired Hare" provides examples of:
11	* {{Bowdlerise}}:
12	** CBS ''did not'' like this cartoon because of its increasing violence in the beginning. The three times Giovanni Jones beats up Bugs (who keeps disrupting his opera practice by playing his own instruments) were cut when aired on CBS in the 1970s and 1980s. As a result, they portrayed Bugs ruining Giovanni's opera for no good reason, making him look like a {{Jerkass}}.
13	** ABC was a bit more lenient with this cartoon. While it did cut out the part where Bugs dresses as a teenybopper looking for Giovanni's autograph and uses a dynamite pen to blow him up, the beginning was actually left intact.
14	** The song Bugs sings while playing the harp is "My Gal Is A High-Born Lady", a song with lyrics that were [[http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4114 rather racist]] even by the standards of the 1940s. Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese wrote tamer lyrics for Bugs to sing.
15	* BookEnds: The cartoon begins and ends with Bugs playing the banjo.
16	* BullyingADragon: Giovanni Jones had no clue that when Bugs declares war on those who wrong him, ''[[LetsGetDangerous he means it.]]''
17	* CartoonConductor: As "Leopold!" (Stokowski), Bugs has amazing control over the orchestra and Jones -- and even the audience!
18	* ClothingDamage: Giovanni's opera tuxedo increasingly falls apart when Leopold Bugs makes him hold a high note for a long time, symbolizing the strain it's putting on him. The collapse of the Hollywood Bowl rips it completely to shreds.
19	* DeathGlare: Jones three times in the beginning as he is enraged by Bugs' tunes. Later as part of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Leopold Bugs glares daggers through Jones before his performance, making it clear it won't be pretty.
20	* DisguisedInDrag: Bugs as a teenybopper asking for an autograph. Of course, the pen is really a stick of dynamite.
21	* DisproportionateRetribution: While Jones's frustration at Bugs for disturbing his rehearsal is reasonable, [[HairTriggerTemper Jones responds with increasing violence every time Bugs obliviously interrupts his rehearsal]]. After these get particularly vindictive, Bugs himself takes very elaborate measures to ruin Jones's performance.
22	* ExplosiveStupidity: Jones experiences this when he tries to sign an autograph, unaware that he was using a stick of dynamite.
23	* {{Fangirl}}: Bugs disguises himself as a teenybopper asking Jones for an autograph. Giovanni gladly starts to sign the autograph book, unaware that he's signing with a stick of dynamite.
24	* TheFlappingDickey: The ClothingDamage Giovanni Jones suffers during his IncrediblyLongNote includes the classic gag of his shirt front popping up to signify his punctured pomp.
25	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: As Giovanni Jones's clothing [[ClothingDamage falls apart]] during his IncrediblyLongNote, his pants fall down to reveal his blue underwear adorned with red flowers.
26	* GotMeDoingIt: While trying to rehearse, Jones found himself singing along with whatever Bugs was playing, much to his ire.
27	* HairTriggerTemper: Giovanni Jones displays severe anger management issues, since he immediately resorted to violence each time Bugs interrupted him.
28	* HavingAGayOldTime: "Long hairs" used to mean a term for conductors, due to the tendency for them to grow their hair longer than average, hence the cartoon's title despite Bugs not having long hair (save his Leopold wig).
29	* HelpImStuck: At one point during Jones' concert, Bugs' antics result in the singer losing his footing on the stage and falling into the bell of a tuba, where he gets stuck and calls for help. Bugs runs up to assist.
30	-->'''Bugs:''' Ladies and gentlemen, there will be an unavoidable interruption in the program.
31	* IncessantMusicMadness: Bugs drives Jones nuts.
32	* IncrediblyLongNote: The climax comes when Leopold Bugs forces Jones to hold an absurdly long note, even while Jones thrashes around on the stage with his face changing colors, until the Hollywood Bowl collapses on top of him.
33	* InstantHomeDelivery: In the middle of the high note, Bugs steps out and orders some earmuffs by mail. Seconds after Bugs puts the form in the mail, the earmuffs arrive, without the postman even picking up the letter first.
34	* {{Jerkass}}: Instead of asking Bugs not to interrupt his rehearsals (or better yet, just shutting his sliding glass door, which is visibly open), Jones breaks his instruments and beats him up. At first, Bugs is even uncharacteristically patient with him, and puts up with it ''three times'' before finally having enough of Giovanni's abuse.
35	* KnuckleCracking: Bugs cracks his knuckles before having Jones hold a long note during the concert's finale.
36	* LovedByAll: Leopold Stokowski is this for the entire band performing at the concert.
37	* MonumentalDamage: At the end of the short, the Hollywood Bowl collapses onto Giovanni.
38	* MythologyGag: Bugs-as-Leopold nonchalantly snaps the baton in half because Leopold Stokowski never conducted with one.
39	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bugs's ridiculous composer disguise is a parody of RealLife composer Leopold Stokowski, who was also the orchestra conductor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' and who conducted several concerts at the Hollywood Bowl.
40	* OffscreenCrash: The cartoon ends with a boulder falling on Giovanni, off screen.
41	* OneBookAuthor: Giovanni's singing is performed by Nikolai Shutorov, a baritone who had sung in Hollywood choruses but never received screen credit. This was his only solo work. He died before the cartoon's release.
42	* OneShotCharacter: Giovanni, technically, as this is his only appearance in a Golden Age (1930-1969) Looney Tunes short. However, he does make sporadic cameos in later Warner Bros media, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Carrotblanca}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', and ''Film/SpaceJam''.
43	* OverlyLongGag: Giovanni's G note is so long to the point where Bugs leaves the podium (with his glove still holding the note) to go get earmuffs...by mail.
44	* PaperThinDisguise:
45	** When Bugs disguises as a teenybopper, Jones doesn't see anything off, even as Bugs asks for an autograph.
46	** Everyone thinks Bugs is Leopold Stokowski even though he's only wearing a tuxedo jacket and a wig.
47	* RecitationHandclasp: Jones assumes this posture.
48	* ResizedVocals: This happens to Giovanni Jones after Bugs gives him alum to get the HeliumSpeech effect (it's in the "Figaro" rendition) while also causing [[ShrunkenHead his head to shrink]].
49	* RuleOfThree:
50	** Guess how many times Jones attacks Bugs before [[ThisMeansWar the counterattack begins]].
51	** Bugs himself invokes this with his retaliations.
52	* SesquipedalianSmith: "Giovanni Jones"
53	* ShoutOut:
54	** The opening "Rainy Night in Rio" number is a reference to the long-forgotten film ''The Time, The Place And The Girl'', which was where the song originated.
55	** In the scene where Bugs disguises himself as an autograph-seeking teenybopper (an obvious disguise, of course), he says "Frankie and Perry just aren't it," referring to Music/FrankSinatra and Music/PerryComo, two of pop music's biggest stars of the late 1940s.
56	* StandardSnippet: Besides all the songs Bugs plays and sings ("Rainy Night in Rio", "My Gal is a High-Born Lady", and "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba"), he ends the cartoon by picking the standard vaudevillian tag "Good eve-ning, friiiieeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnds..." on the banjo.
57	* ThisMeansWar: Not only does Bugs utter this phrase word-for-word, but it's also clearly indicated by his DeathGlare.
58	* {{Vaudeville}}: Bugs ends the cartoon by playing the four-note Vaudeville tag "Good Evening, Friends" on his banjo.
59	* VocalRangeExceeded: Leopold Bugs makes Jones sing a note far below his range.
60	* TheVoiceless: Jones only speaks a couple of times in the short, but both times his voice is obscured, first when he's stuck inside the tuba and later when he whispers "Leopold!" to himself with the rest of the orchestra.
61	* WagTheDirector: A minor InUniverse example. When Jones first steps out onto the stage and assumes the RecitationHandclasp, he lifts one finger to the conductor to indicate his readiness.

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