Homeless Hare (1950)

A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.

Director:

Chuck Jones

Writer:

Michael Maltese (story)

Stars:

Mel Blanc, John T. Smith

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Mel Blanc	...	Bugs Bunny (voice)

Storyline

It's morning and Bugs Bunny is awake. It doesn't look like he had enough rest though. He looks around and sees he is high up in the sky. Bugs' hole has become part of an construction site and a bulldozer is ready to move his hole to destruction. Bugs makes an emotional plea to move his home back to it's original place and the construction worker seems touched. But his intentions aren't that well. Bugs Bunny swears revenge.

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Plot Keywords:

construction worker | bulldozer | construction site | surrealism | seesaw | 

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Genres:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 March 1950 (USA)

Also Known As:

Blueprint Bunny

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros

Technical Specs

Runtime:

7 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Included as a bonus feature in Warner Home Video's 2005 DVD release of White Heat.

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Goofs

During the seesaw of bricks gag, Bugs takes off one brick, leaving two remaining, but there is only one brick remaining when Bugs finishes the gag.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Bugs Bunny: Oh, brother, what a night. Me head's still spinning.

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Soundtracks

"Singin' in the Bathtub"
(uncredited)
Music by Michael Cleary

User Reviews

They say "revenge is sweet." Well, in this cartoon, "revenge is funny."

Revenge is the story, here, but one can hardly blame Bugs Bunny for extracting it. You see, Bugs was at home minding his own business when a big construction crane came down and dug out Bugs and his home. They were digging to presumably put up another big high-rise in the middle of the city.

Anyway, Bugs pleads with the crane operator to put he and his home back in the ground. The worker - a real tough-looking and tough-sounding thug - talks sweetly agrees - but then dumps Bugs to the ground and pours a pile of bricks on top of him, laughing sadistically as he does it.

Bugs throws a brick back at him with a telegram attached. The message says, "Okay, Hercules, you asked for it. Signed, Bugs Bunny." (The top of the telegram, by the way, reads "Eastern Onion.")

Bugs then makes life miserable for the construction worker, doing everything imaginable, some of it very funny. The poor man, at one point, is hovering on a teeter-totter 100 floors up, taking his clothes off trying to keep the totter balanced!