Frigid Hare

Name: Frigid Hare
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure
Released: 1949-10-07
Duration: 7 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Mel Blanc

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.4K

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Adventure Animation Comedy Family Short

Bugs rescues a penguin from an Inuit hunter at the South Pole and becomes obligated to it beyond his wildest dreams.Bugs rescues a penguin from an Inuit hunter at the South Pole and becomes obligated to it beyond his wildest dreams.Bugs rescues a penguin from an Inuit hunter at the South Pole and becomes obligated to it beyond his wildest dreams.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny
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Director
- Chuck Jones
Writer
- Michael Maltese
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Trivia
This cartoon has been largely barred from TV showings because of complaints about its treatment of Inuit peoples, both in the (perceived) stereotypical way the hunter is drawn and when Bugs insults him by calling him a "big baboon" and an "Eskimo pie-head".

Goofs
As Bugs Bunny runs toward the water, he is wearing an inflatable float devise. But suddenly, as Bugs jumps up and into the water, the float device is gone.

Quotes
Bugs Bunny: Oh, you again! Well, scram! You've already ruined my vacation! Why, I ought to bang you one on your little kisser.
[Penguin starts crying, his tears turn into ice cubes]
Bugs Bunny: Oh, all right, all right! Turn off the ice factory. There, that's better. I'm sorry, but what am I gonna do with only four days vacation left? Huh? Well, now what?
[Penguin whispers into Bugs' ear]
Bugs Bunny: What? You mean the days are six months long up here? Wow! If I stay up here, I won't have to be back to work 'till July, 1953.
[Puts on top hat and tails]
Bugs Bunny: I always wanted a nice, long formal vacation. Let's go, kid.

Alternate versions
Many TV airings of this short mute out Bugs calling the Eskimo hunter "an Eskimo pie-head," since it is considered offensive to the Inuit.

Connections
Edited into Sahara Hare (1955)

Soundtracks
Winter
(uncredited)
Music by Albert Gumble
Played during the opening credits

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Featured review

8/10

Frigid Hare is a cute and amusing Bugs Bunny cartoon

Frigid Hare is another Bugs Bunny cartoon in which he should have taken a "left turn at Albuquerque" and ends up at the South Pole. It's here that he meets a little penguin who he saves from a hunter who wants to capture him. When he tries to get back to Miami Beach, however, the penguin wants to follow him. Bugs pushes him on his way but the little snow-bird ends up in the man's bag. So the rabbit now has to outsmart him...This is both a cute and funny cartoon made by a man who knows how to make that combination work: Chuck Jones. Supposedly, this cartoon was banned recently because of the way the man in this short was drawn and depicted in characterization. While there might some traces of a stereotype here, I don't think any harm was intended. Anyway, I highly recommend Frigid Hare. It's on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1.