![]() ![]() Bogart returns, and sticks his hand in his jacket menacingly. Bogart then warns Elmer that he has just five minutes to prepare his fried rabbit.Įlmer searches frantically, but cannot find a rabbit in time. Bogart walks into the kitchen, grabs Elmer by his shirt, and asks him why he hit him in the face with a pie. After producing the pie, Elmer throws it at Bugs, but Bugs ducks and the pie sails out into the dining room, hitting Bogart in the face. The third time (a comic triple), when Bugs orders a coconut custard pie with whipped cream, Elmer finally realizes that the waiter just might be Bugs. Elmer, holding a meat cleaver, rushes towards Bugs, and Bugs immediately dresses as a mustachioed waiter, orders pies and twice splatters Elmer in the face. Elmer is seen next to the band sharpening his meat cleaver to the rhythm during the performance.īugs then makes his way back to the kitchen, where he revels in the audience's appreciation of his performance by saying "Ah, my public! How they love me! A-huh-huh!" (the little laugh being a Jack Benny shtick). Elmer, seeing the audience, quickly runs offstage, leaving Bugs to dance to the orchestra's samba rhythms. As she exits, Elmer chases Bugs back onto the stage. Carmen walks to the stage and performs Sambaiana. He runs into Carmen Miranda's dressing room and hides in her tutti-frutti hat. Bugs tries to run away, but he bounces off the large stomach of Sydney Greenstreet. Elmer then appears next to Bugs, dressed as Harpo Marx. Elmer quickly puts a hand mirror into a pot and Bugs, seeing his reflection, realizing that he himself is to be the main course, nervously bids Elmer farewell before beating a hasty retreat.īugs escapes the kitchen into the dining room, where he is seated at a table dressed like Groucho Marx in an attempt to fool Elmer. Bugs mistakes the concept for an invitation and immediately appears in a fancy dress and a top hat and asks to see what is cooking. Elmer informs Bugs that Bogart wants to "have" him for dinner. During Elmer's frantic search for a rabbit, he hears the sound of somebody munching on carrots in a corner of the kitchen and discovers Bugs Bunny in a crate of carrots. ![]() Elmer explains that the restaurant has run out of rabbits, but Bogart brandishes a tommy gun and warns Elmer he wants fried rabbit "within 20 minutes – or else!". Elmer Fudd is a waiter at the Mocrumbo and comes out to find that his next customer is Humphrey Bogart.īogart tells Elmer that he wants fried rabbit. The cartoon opens with various shots of 1940s celebrities dining and drinking at the Mocrumbo club-including such personalities as Gregory Peck using a straight razor to cut his steak (in reference to his character in Hitchcock's Spellbound), Ray Milland (in a spoof of The Lost Weekend) pays for his drink with a typewriter and receives miniature typewriters as change and Frank Sinatra, depicted exaggeratedly thin, so much so that he slips into his straw when trying to take a sip from his drink. ![]() The title is a pun on "hair", from an era when hair slicked down by oil was a popular fashion style for men. Bryan voices Elmer Fudd and impressionist Dave Barry portrays Humphrey Bogart. It parodies the Mocambo nightclub in Los Angeles-in the cartoon referred to as "The Mocrumbo". The film was released on November 1, 1947, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Slick Hare is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng. ![]()
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