. . . says Bugs Bunny, with great disappointment, surveying Post-Tropical Storm Hermine's placid rows of sand dunes stretching along intact for miles beyond him, when the Weather Channel had been promising him all week a repeat of Superstorm Sandy's Epic Display of Beach Erosion. This forecast of America's favorite hare suffering an Enormous Labor Day Let-Down can be seen in its entirety, from crude crayon-drawn concept art to polished animated short, in something called SAHARA HARE STORYBOARD REEL, a "From the Vault" special feature on Disc 4, Volume 4, of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. Though it's hard to summarize the entire Koran in an eight-minute Looney Tune, Warner Bros. is able to accomplish this feat by omitting the controversial parts, the violent bits, those that would be rated NC17, the passages which do not readily translate into English, as well as anything considered to be too parochial or inordinately prosaic. Beyond that, Bugs Bunny is cast as a Navy SEAL-type American hero, while Prophet Yosemite is renamed "Riff Raff Sam" to avoid breaking any taboos. However, four fatwas remain in effect against the SAHARA HARE.
Review of Sahara Hare
