"Devil May Hare" is a 1954 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon was released on June 19, 1954. This theatrical cartoon was directed by Robert McKimson and starred Mel Blanc playing the voices of Bugs Bunny, the Tasmanian Devil, and the turtle. This is the first cartoon with Taz and nvolves the  creature from down-under somehow escaping captivity and instilling frantic fear in the animals of a typical American forest, all of whom stampede past Bugs' hole. Bugs stops one of the fleeing critters, a turtle, and asks what the commotion is about, and the turtle replies that, "The Tasmanian Devil is on the loose! Run! Run! ...

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...Run for your lives! Run!" Bugs does not know what a Tasmanian Devil is and must consult an encyclopedia, which tells him that the Tasmanian Devil is 'a strong murderous beast, jaws as powerful as a steel trap - has ravenous appetite - eats tigers, lions, elephants, buffaloes, donkeys, giraffes, octopuses, rhinoceroses, moose, ducks and rabbits'. Taz casts his eager eyes on Bugs, but Bugs deflects Taz's attention by promising to prepare for the Devil a feast with an animal with more meat on its bones. Bugs ...

Devil May Hare (1954)

uses Taz's hungry gullibility to trick him into attempting to dig for ground hogs, to slingshot a wooden deer, and to eat a bubble gum chicken and an inflatable raft adjusted by Bugs to look ridiculously like a pig. At the end taz is married to a she-devil by Bugs Bunny. Bugs says of the smitten Taz, "all the world loves a lover, but in this case we'll make an exception".


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Some soundsfragments from the cartoon, "Devil May Hare"

"Flattery will get ya nowhere"

"What for you burry me in the cold, cold ground?"

  
Title Devil May Hare (1954)
Story Sid Marcus
Animation Herman Cohen, Rod Scribner, Phil de Lara. Charles Mc Kimson
Layouts  Robert Givens
Backgrounds Richard H. Thomas
Voice Characterization Mel Blanc
Musical Direction Milt Franklyn
Directed by  Robert McKimson

This text is an edited version of the original text of Kevin McCorry.