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The Old Grey Hare

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The Old Grey Hare	comment	"The Old Grey Hare" is a Bob Clampett Merry Melodies short released in 1944.Elmer Fudd, frustrated with his inability to catch Bugs, sits under a tree and is transported into the far off year 2000 (which was considered futuristic back then, being 56 years in the future). Now an old man armed with a laser gun, he goes after an equally aged Bugs Bunny and upon managing to succeed, Bugs sets up a flashback to when they were young children and how it all began. As Bugs feigns his death and digs his own grave, he manages to trick Elmer inside and bury him alive.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Old Grey Hare / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Elmer is buried alive and given a stick of dynamite, which explodes off-screen.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Old Grey Hare / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: As Bugs buries Elmer with sand he calls him Methuselah.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Old Grey Hare / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad/Missing Mom: We see rabbit holes for both Baby Bugs' father and mother but neither parent appears onscreen.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_292d1ccd	type	Everyone Went to School Together
The Old Grey Hare / int_292d1ccd	comment	Everyone Went to School Together: According to this cartoon, Bugs and Elmer first met as babies.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_2f57a4cb	type	Divine Intervention
The Old Grey Hare / int_2f57a4cb	comment	Divine Intervention: It's implied God himself transported Elmer Fudd to the future, so that Elmer could experience the day when he finally killed Bugs Bunny. Elmer actually manages to shoot his nemesis for once, and it seems as though Bugs Bunny has finally been killed off. Unfortunately for Elmer, that's not exactly what happens...
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The Old Grey Hare / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
The Old Grey Hare / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: There are futuristic buildings in the background as the two chase each other, whereas the actual 2000 architecture didn't look THAT different from 1948.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
The Old Grey Hare / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: "The Old Grey Mare" is a traditional song.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Old Grey Hare / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: At the end of the cartoon, after Elmer is handed a stick of dynamite by Bugs and starts panicking, the cartoon irises out to the usual "That's All, Folks!" card. The stick of dynamite is still heard during this, and then it goes off, killing Elmer offscreen and causing an earthquake in the "That's all, folks!" card.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
The Old Grey Hare / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: After the film irises out when Bugs hands Elmer the stick of dynamite, the ending title card violently shakes when the bomb goes off. Most TV versions replace the shaking card with one that doesn't shake (though the sound is still there). Cartoon Network was one of the channels that aired this cartoon with the non-shaking end card, but The Bob Clampett Show actually aired it the way it was meant to be (and of course, the DVD version on The Looney Tunes Golden Collection has it the way it was originally shown).
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The Old Grey Hare / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Old Grey Hare / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Elmer flashes back to when he and Bugs were babies.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_59196f87	type	Baby Talk
The Old Grey Hare / int_59196f87	comment	Baby Talk: As infants, both Bugs and Elmer talk this way. Bugs' greeting to Elmer is baby gibberish translated via subtitle as "What's up, doc?"
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The Old Grey Hare / int_5a33cf5	type	Future Loser
The Old Grey Hare / int_5a33cf5	comment	Future Loser: Elmer is still the same loser in 2000 as he was in the 1940s.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Old Grey Hare / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Bugs and Elmer are shown in then distant year of 2000, where they are both old.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
The Old Grey Hare / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: We never saw baby or old age versions of Bugs and Elmer before. We also never see Bugs in his natural appearance for the entire short.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
The Old Grey Hare / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: "God" brought Elmer to the future... just to have the same old thing happen.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_7bc8c453	type	Origins Episode
The Old Grey Hare / int_7bc8c453	comment	Origins Episode: Downplayed and implied that Bugs and Elmer have been chasing one another from babyhood on.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_812fc350	type	Turn of the Millennium
The Old Grey Hare / int_812fc350	comment	Another newspaper article (though not mentioned by Elmer) reads "[Dionne] Quintuplets Give Birth to Quintuplets". However, only three of the quintuplets had married and started a family, and although one of these three (CÃ©cile) did indeed give birth to five children, only one child of hers died in infancy, and two of them (Bruno and Bernard) were twins, so these five babies of hers were still not quintuplets. (Marie had two daughters, and Annette had three sons.) By the actual year 2000, only three of these Dionne Quintuplets were still alive (Ã‰milie had died of a seizure at age 20 in 1954, and Marie died at age 35 in 1970), and Yvonne would die a year later at age 67, while Annette and CÃ©cile, both of whom are currently alive, had divorced decades earlier.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Old Grey Hare / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: Elmer's grave reads "Rest in Pieces".
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The Old Grey Hare / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
The Old Grey Hare / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: According to the flashback Elmer was already chasing Bugs when they were babies. Which makes you wonder where their parents were at?
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The Old Grey Hare / int_961518ca	type	Mid-Battle Tea Break
The Old Grey Hare / int_961518ca	comment	Mid-Battle Tea Break: Baby Bugs and Baby Elmer stop in the middle of a chase for nap time.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_a13bda01	type	Crack! "Oh, My Back!"
The Old Grey Hare / int_a13bda01	comment	Crack! "Oh, My Back!": While running away, Old Bugs complains about his lumbago.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
The Old Grey Hare / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: The music heard when Bugs digs his own grave is "TrÃ¤umerei" by Robert Schumann. During the scene, Elmer literally sobs out the melody.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_ab4ba0be	type	Pinball Gag
The Old Grey Hare / int_ab4ba0be	comment	Pinball Gag: When Bugs is hit, score points flash around him, ending with a big "TILT".
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The Old Grey Hare / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
The Old Grey Hare / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: Obviously, the predictions about life in the year 2000 are all Played for Laughs, but they still didn't pan out. The Zeerust buildings in the background artwork don't match 2000 in reality. The episode actually earns a few points for newspapers still existing - subscriptions declined gradually over the next 20 years, but the stories in said newspaper, however... The newspaper implies that Bing Crosby is still alive in the year 2000 (while he died in 1977 in Real Life) and still waiting for his horse to cross the finish line. A newspaper headline reads that "Smellevision replaces Television: Carl Stalling Sez It Will Never Work!". Stalling had passed away in 1972 and television (despite some ups and downs, and in different permutations) is still popular in 2000 and beyond. Various attempts at video scent technology have remained experimental. Another newspaper article (though not mentioned by Elmer) reads "[Dionne] Quintuplets Give Birth to Quintuplets". However, only three of the quintuplets had married and started a family, and although one of these three (CÃ©cile) did indeed give birth to five children, only one child of hers died in infancy, and two of them (Bruno and Bernard) were twins, so these five babies of hers were still not quintuplets. (Marie had two daughters, and Annette had three sons.) By the actual year 2000, only three of these Dionne Quintuplets were still alive (Ã‰milie had died of a seizure at age 20 in 1954, and Marie died at age 35 in 1970), and Yvonne would die a year later at age 67, while Annette and CÃ©cile, both of whom are currently alive, had divorced decades earlier. Unintentionally accurate, though, is that in 2002 the show Baby Looney Tunes would debut, which features a baby version of Bugs and Elmer rather similar to this cartoon.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_c55c31e2	type	Non-Standard Character Design
The Old Grey Hare / int_c55c31e2	comment	Non-Standard Character Design: It bears noting that this is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon where his regular design is never used. Bugs only appears as either a decrepit elder, or as an infant.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Old Grey Hare / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Bugs' final line "Well, now, I wouldn't say that!" is a reference to the popular catchphrase of the character Richard Q. Peavey in The Great Gildersleeve. In the future, Elmer's rifle is replaced by "A Buck Wogers Wightning Quick Wabbit Kiwwer". Old Bugs says to Elmer, "Eh, what's up, pruneface?", most likely referring to the Dick Tracy character.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_c8cdde7c	type	Spin-Off Babies
The Old Grey Hare / int_c8cdde7c	comment	Spinoff Babies: Kind of, Elmer and Bugs are shown as babies in a flashback.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_d932e8a	type	Ridiculously Successful Future Self
The Old Grey Hare / int_d932e8a	comment	Ridiculously Successful Future Self: Even in old age Bugs is still able to fool Elmer like he always did.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_ece35d71	type	Elderly Future Fantasy
The Old Grey Hare / int_ece35d71	comment	Elderly Future Fantasy: Elmer Fudd, frustrated with his inability to catch Bugs Bunny, sits under a tree and is transported into the then-distant year of 2000. Now an old man armed with a laser gun, he goes after an equally-aged Bugs Bunny and upon managing to succeed, Bugs sets up a flashback to when they were young children and how it all began. As Bugs feigns his death and digs his own grave, he manages to trick Elmer inside and bury him alive.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
The Old Grey Hare / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: Elmer and Bugs are shown in what was then half a century later.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
The Old Grey Hare / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: Done to Elmer.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
The Old Grey Hare / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Bugs Bunny as a baby. Elmer as a baby is also as adorable despite not being a fluffy animal.
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The Old Grey Hare / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
The Old Grey Hare / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: When Baby Bugs first appears, he asks Baby Elmer "What's Up, Doc" in baby talk, with Baby Elmer looking down at the subtitles to find out what was being said.
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