Classic Bugs Bunny short directed by Frank Tashlin. Elmer Fudd is a mad scientist (!) with a very cool-looking laboratory. Elmer's trying to create a Jekyll & Hyde formula but needs a guinea pig to test it out on. Enter unwitting test subject Bugs. What a fun cartoon. Great voice work from Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan. Energetic music from Carl Stalling. The animation is excellent with dynamite action and well-drawn characters and backgrounds. Beautiful Technicolor is always a plus. Lots of funny bits and lines in this one. Bugs and Elmer are in top form. The bear's a hoot, too. The only real flaw is that it ends rather abruptly.
13 Reviews
Better luck next time Doc
Terryfan29 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Elmer Fudd Is trying to make a formula to change a normal character into a devilish fiend only when he captures Bugs Bunny to try the formula it turns into a back and forth match between the two to top the running gags along with each of them believing the other was turned into a bear.
It shows that both characters always try to outdo one another and yes Elmer should never had gone into the science world as he is not cut out to be a scientist.
Bugs got caught into the mix after falling into a trap. It shows curiosity is best to be left alone. Still shows that looney tunes never fell at making memories and cartoons that stood the test of time. The animation is still good the voice acting is top Notch and music helps move the short along
I give Hare Remover an 8 out of 10.
It shows that both characters always try to outdo one another and yes Elmer should never had gone into the science world as he is not cut out to be a scientist.
Bugs got caught into the mix after falling into a trap. It shows curiosity is best to be left alone. Still shows that looney tunes never fell at making memories and cartoons that stood the test of time. The animation is still good the voice acting is top Notch and music helps move the short along
I give Hare Remover an 8 out of 10.
Elmer should stick with his day job
lee_eisenberg1 October 2007
No doubt we're totally used to Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits and ducks, but I never envisioned him as a demented scientist. But that's just what he is in "Hare Remover". I wouldn't quite say that he gets creepy, though you gotta admit that he looks just a little bit scary as a devil. Anyway, he creates a multi-color potion, presumably along the lines of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. When his experiment animals all run away, he finds a rabbit hole and sets a trap...and Bugs Bunny figures that someone went to all the trouble to set it up, so why not get trapped? But what happens after Elmer forces Bugs to drink the potion is one of the craziest instances of mistaken identity that I've ever seen.
OK, so this one wasn't the greatest cartoon that they ever made (to be certain, 1946 also saw the releases of "Hair-Raising Hare" and "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"). I mostly just like the sight of what befalls Elmer whenever he goes after Bugs; and in this case, neither character could have predicted what was going to happen! It's one that you're sure to like. As for the issue of whether or not Spencer Tracy did it better, let's just say that both guys put their own spin on it.
OK, so this one wasn't the greatest cartoon that they ever made (to be certain, 1946 also saw the releases of "Hair-Raising Hare" and "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"). I mostly just like the sight of what befalls Elmer whenever he goes after Bugs; and in this case, neither character could have predicted what was going to happen! It's one that you're sure to like. As for the issue of whether or not Spencer Tracy did it better, let's just say that both guys put their own spin on it.
Delightful Tashlin short with brilliant comic "acting" from Bugs, Elmer and the bear; Carl Stalling's music keeps things bouncing
J. Spurlin11 March 2007
Bugs Bunny obliges Elmer Fudd by stepping into his crude rabbit trap and letting Elmer take him to his laboratory. That was a mistake. Elmer is a mad scientist trying to create a formula that will turn a "normal character into a devilish fiend." He pours a test tube full of liquid down Bugs's throat, but after a tableau of agonized poses, nothing happens. Elmer is disconsolate, so Bugs cheers him up—by having him drink some of the formula himself. Circumstances trick both Elmer and Bugs into thinking the evil mixture has changed the other into a bear. But the bear is a real bear, and the two antagonists barely escape him unharmed.
This delightful cartoon features brilliant comic "acting" from Bugs, Elmer and the bear. Their sense of timing, their gestures and facial expressions are all priceless. Carl Stalling's music score keeps things bouncing happily along, always contributing mightily to the laughs and the excitement. Frank Tashlin directed a winner with this one.
This cartoon is available on the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Three," Disc 1.
This delightful cartoon features brilliant comic "acting" from Bugs, Elmer and the bear. Their sense of timing, their gestures and facial expressions are all priceless. Carl Stalling's music score keeps things bouncing happily along, always contributing mightily to the laughs and the excitement. Frank Tashlin directed a winner with this one.
This cartoon is available on the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Three," Disc 1.
good despite a pretty weak (non) ending
movieman_kev3 November 2005
Elmer Fudd is working on a devious potion to change animals into other more violent animals. When the dog he wanted to experiment on breaks free of his chains, Fudd relies on trapping Bugs Bunny and having him drink the serum. However the formula doesn't have any effects on Bugs, so the bunny gives some to Fudd instead. When a bear enters the picture, they both think the potion worked on the other. This cartoon is a tad short on the tooth plot wise and has one of the weakest non-endings I've seen from a Looney Tune short in quite some time. But all is not lost, as there are quite a few funny bits to be had.This animated short can be found on Disk 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3 set.
My Grade: B-
My Grade: B-
Back in the late 1900s college "activists" . . .
oscaralbert6 July 2016
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. . . were constantly vandalizing, burning, or bombing campus science buildings as a means of letting off steam, killing two birds with one grenade by claiming to be "protesting" animal-based research and experimentation. Thanks to these atrocities, one American young lady dies every 14 minutes nowadays from lip cancer caused by inadequately tested mouth-highlighting products which are no longer vetted on puppies, kittens, and piglets. Most if not all of these Critter Crusaders saw the Warner Bros. animated short HARE REMOVER during their formative years, when Bob Barker was still swallowing goldfish. Therefore, it seems fair to blame the HARE REMOVER cast and crew for the decades of mayhem and heartbreak that followed its release, and which still plague us today. As an evil villain wielding an Acme Junior Chemistry Set, Elmer Fudd is riding a tidal wave of fear and loathing onto unknown shores. It's as if Warner is yelling "Fire!" in one of its own theaters. Legally, this is called "inciting a riot."
Very funny and hugely enjoyable with a lot going for it
TheLittleSongbird8 June 2010
Hare Remover has a lot going for it, I agree the ending is somewhat abrupt, but everything else worked for me. The animation is really good, the characters are drawn very well and the backgrounds and colours are lush. The music by Carl Stalling is rousing and bounces along nicely, and Hare Remover is filled to the brim with razor sharp dialogue and plentiful sight gags such as the mistaken identity gag and any part involving the bear. Bugs is still arrogant and rascally, Elmer is still dim-witted yet lovable and the bear is suitably ferocious. Another strong asset is the brilliant voice acting of Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan. In conclusion, maybe not quite classic status, but very funny and hugely enjoyable. 9/10 Bethany Cox
Back in the days of fun cartoons
moonshiner678 August 2021
Mistaken Identitity Gag Overdone A Bit
ccthemovieman-120 May 2007
Elmer is mixing chemicals in his little junior chemistry set "trying to make a normal character into a devilish fiend." We then see his head change in shape to a devil-like one with pointed ears. (I always suspected Fudd was a sadistic, evil punk!)
The first clever gag involves a test tube with his solution and the wild colors it turns, including plaid and barbershop rings, etc. "Rover," his experimental dog, must drink the stuff. Rover is chained up so bad this would have animal-right activists on his back in no time today. Fudd forces the liquid down the dog's throat. (Man, is this guy plain evil or what?)
When the dog freaks out and smashes through the front window and runs away, Elmer goes looking for another experimental animal. Who-know-who winds up (voluntarily) in his laboratory. And.....you know who turns the tables? Along the way, we get two cases of mistaken identity, and that turns out to be the big joke of the cartoon.
I enjoyed Bugs' line referring to the Spencer Tracy film version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
Overall, this is "fair," clever in the one "identity" gag but annoying at times, too, with Fudd's abrasive and stupid laugh and carrying-on.
The first clever gag involves a test tube with his solution and the wild colors it turns, including plaid and barbershop rings, etc. "Rover," his experimental dog, must drink the stuff. Rover is chained up so bad this would have animal-right activists on his back in no time today. Fudd forces the liquid down the dog's throat. (Man, is this guy plain evil or what?)
When the dog freaks out and smashes through the front window and runs away, Elmer goes looking for another experimental animal. Who-know-who winds up (voluntarily) in his laboratory. And.....you know who turns the tables? Along the way, we get two cases of mistaken identity, and that turns out to be the big joke of the cartoon.
I enjoyed Bugs' line referring to the Spencer Tracy film version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
Overall, this is "fair," clever in the one "identity" gag but annoying at times, too, with Fudd's abrasive and stupid laugh and carrying-on.
Elmer Fudd has a laboratory?
Chip_douglas22 November 2004
If it weren't for the presence of Bugs and Elmer, you might think this one came from the Disney or Hanna/Barbera stable instead of Warners'. This is a subtle, almost believable take on the Jekyll and Hyde story in which only the characters imaginations run wild. There is no Peter Lorre, no scary castle, just Elmer using the Junior size Chemical set at home. He is looking to create "the formula that will take a normal charactew into a devilish being". But come on... it's Elmer! All he manages to brew up is a potion that makes the dinker go to plaid (and that's the most far out thing that happens).
After his dog Rover proves an uncooperative guinea pig, Dr. Fudd takes out an old fashioned wabbit trap and Bugs, always the sentimental type, indulges him. The rest of the film is just a lot of misunderstandings, made worse by the convenient involvement by a bear who uses queue cards. The visual gags are really quite subtle and even Bugs remains good natured throughout, referring to Elmer as 'Doc' much more than usual (and not as a catchphrase either). However For a couple of more inspired takes in true Loony fashion, watch Friz Freling's "Hyde and Hare" (1955) or "Hyde and Go Tweet" (1960) instead.
4 out of 10
After his dog Rover proves an uncooperative guinea pig, Dr. Fudd takes out an old fashioned wabbit trap and Bugs, always the sentimental type, indulges him. The rest of the film is just a lot of misunderstandings, made worse by the convenient involvement by a bear who uses queue cards. The visual gags are really quite subtle and even Bugs remains good natured throughout, referring to Elmer as 'Doc' much more than usual (and not as a catchphrase either). However For a couple of more inspired takes in true Loony fashion, watch Friz Freling's "Hyde and Hare" (1955) or "Hyde and Go Tweet" (1960) instead.
4 out of 10
Cleverly plotted but scuppered by poor timing and a lack of decent gags
phantom_tollbooth3 November 2008
Frank Tashlin's 'Hare Remover' is a cleverly plotted cartoon which is scuppered by many little problems. Chief amongst these problems is the uncharacteristically poor timing. Several promising gags are neutered by awkward character performances and abrupt cuts. The character designs are also a little off. Bugs Bunny looks OK but Elmer Fudd looks sloppily drawn and animated and the one-shot bear character is completely lacking in any kind of charisma or aesthetic appeal. Elmer also seems miscast as a mad scientist when his role could easily have been filled by a new creation. All these elements aside, 'Hare Remover' puts far too much stock in its clever mistaken-identity scenario and forgets to insert any decent jokes. The best sequence, in which Bugs willingly allows himself to be caught in a primitive rabbit trap, occurs early on in the cartoon and it's all downhill from there. Tashlin made many great cartoons in his years at Warner Bros. but he dropped the ball with 'Hare Remover'.
"Have one on the house, wabbit."
slymusic29 May 2009
Warning: Spoilers
"Hare Remover" is just an average Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. Fudd needs a new experimental animal for his science lab. I don't think I have to tell you who he has in mind.
A few moments from this cartoon stand out. Elmer's experimental dog Rover - and later, Elmer himself - dash outside panting and stuffing their mouths with grass. And watch how Bugs and Elmer each individually react to the formulas they drink.
"Hare Remover" is okay, but there are plenty of other Bugs Bunny cartoons that are better than this. Anyway, you can find "Hare Remover" on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3.
A few moments from this cartoon stand out. Elmer's experimental dog Rover - and later, Elmer himself - dash outside panting and stuffing their mouths with grass. And watch how Bugs and Elmer each individually react to the formulas they drink.
"Hare Remover" is okay, but there are plenty of other Bugs Bunny cartoons that are better than this. Anyway, you can find "Hare Remover" on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3.
What's up, Elmer the doc?
Petey-105 October 2011
Elmer Fudd is a mad scientist this time.He wants to use his "Jekyll and Hyde" potion but keeps failing with test animals.This potion would turn its victims into monsters.Elmer goes out to catch Bugs Bunny with his old fashioned rabbit trap.Bugs decides to humor him.Then a bear enters the lab and Elmer thinks the potion has worked and the bear is actually Bugs.Later Bugs mistakes the bear for Elmer.Hare Remover from 1946 is the last cartoon Frank Tashlin directed at Warner Bros.Mel Blanc sounds as good as Bugs Bunny as he always did.Same thing with Arthur Q. Bryan as Elmer Fudd.This Bugs Bunny has its moments, even though they did come up with better.But there are Bugs' famous quips, one being "I think Spencer Tracy did it much better.Don't you, folks?"
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