Bugs Bunny The Gambling Bug

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The Gambling Bug is a small character who infects others with the desire to gamble. His first and only cartoon appearance is in Early to Bet (1951). He wears a green bow tie, a red jacket, a brown hat, and a white tuxedo. Directed by Robert McKimson. With Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg. The Gambling Bug's bites cause gambling fever. He bites a cat, who heavily falls victim to an insatiable need for gambling.

Falling Hare
Directed by	Bob Clampett
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Story by	Warren Foster
Starring	Mel Blanc (uncredited)
Music by	Musical direction: Carl W. Stalling Orchestra: Milt Franklyn (uncredited)
Animation by	Rod Scribner Virgil Ross (uncredited) Thomas and Robert McKimson (both uncredited) Phil Monroe (uncredited) Bill Melendez (uncredited) Manny Gould (uncredited)
Layouts by	Thomas McKimson (uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Michael Sasanoff (uncredited)
Color process	Technicolor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
October 30, 1943 (U.S.)
8 minutes (one reel)
Language	English

Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, and starring Bugs Bunny in the Merrie Melodies series. As with many Bugs Bunny cartoons, the title is a play on words; 'falling hair' refers to impending baldness, while in this cartoon's climax the title turns out to be descriptive of Bugs's situation (a hare falling / crashing to earth). This cartoon is notable for being one of few that has Bugs Bunny serve as the 'butt' of much of the humor.

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Plot[edit]

This cartoon opens with the title credits over the strains of “Down by the Riverside”, then into an extended series of establishing shots of an Army Air Force base, to the brassy strains of “We’re in to Win” (a World War II song also sung by Daffy Duck in Scrap Happy Daffy two months before). The sign at the base reads 'U.S. Army Air Field', and below that is shown the location, the number of planes and number of men, all marked 'Censored' as a reference to military secrecy. Beneath those categories, the sign reads 'What men think of top sergeant', which is shown with a large white-on-black 'CENSORED!!', as the language implied would not pass scrutiny by the Hays Office.

Bugs is found reclining on a piece of ordnance next to a bomber plane, idly reading Victory Thru Hare Power (a spoof of the 1942 book).^[1]Bugs Bunny, leaning on a blockbuster bomb, is seen laughing uproariously; he turns to the audience and shares what he is reading: an accusation that gremlins wreck American planes through 'di-a-bo-lick-al saa-boh-tay-jee,' a notion that Bugs finds ludicrous. A little yellow humanoid with airplane wings on a large blue helmet scuttles by and begins striking the bomb with a mallet, whistling 'I've Been Working on the Railroad.' Noticing the creature's lack of success, Bugs offers to take a shot at the bomb and takes a long hard swing, stopping immediately before making contact in sudden realization that he had nearly been hoodwinked. He then ponders if the creature in question were a gremlin, and the gremlin affirms with a shout: 'It ain't Vendell Villkie!'

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The gremlin knocks Bugs out with a monkey wrench, and when the gremlin revives him, Bugs speaks nonsensically as Lennie Small, then Baby Snooks. Quickly regaining consciousness, a now infuriated Bugs gives chase, repeatedly getting slighted by the amused gremlin, which includes repeated strikes with a monkey wrench and laughing to the tune of 'Yankee Doodle.' Upon chasing the gremlin inside a bomber, Bugs finds himself locked from the outside, and then the gremlin takes the plane to the air, unbeknownst to Bugs. Bugs manages to burst out of the exit door and narrowly escapes plunging to his death when he realizes the plane is airborne (realizing he has made himself a jackass as the Private Snafu theme plays). He manages to get back in, in the process showing a heretofore-unseen ability to fly like a bird, only to slide right out the other door due to strategically placed banana skins; when the gremlin opens the door again, he finds a terrified Bugs clinging to it with his heart pounding '4F' (Army code for drastically limiting medical condition, hospitalization required, and/or ineligible to be inducted via the draft).^[2]

By this point, the gremlin is flying the plane through a city with two large skyscrapers. Bugs rushes into the cockpit, takes control of the airplane, rolls it vertically, and flies through an extremely narrow slot between the towers to avoid what seemed to be an inevitable impact.

The plane goes into a steep nosedive, its wings ripping off during its descent, with only the fuselage remaining, making Bugs both airsick and terrified. The gremlin nonchalantly awaits the plane's crash while playing with a yo-yo. The plane then unexpectedly sputters to a halt, half a short distance above the ground and hanging in mid-air, defying gravity. Both Bugs and the Gremlin then casually address the audience: the gremlin apologizes for the plane's fuel depletion, while Bugs points to a wartime gas rationing sticker on the plane's windshield and remarks: 'Yeah. You know how it is with these A cards!'^[1]^[3]

Availability[edit]

Falling Hare is available on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, remastered and restored.

Cast[edit]

Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny and The Gremlin

Production[edit]

Falling Hare went into production under the title Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin. Walt Disney was developing a feature based on Roald Dahl’s novel The Gremlins, and asked other animation studios not to produce any films involving gremlins. However, Warner Bros. was too far into production on this cartoon and Russian Rhapsody to remove the references to gremlins, so Leon Schlesinger merely re-titled the cartoons as a compromise.^[1]

Release and reception[edit]

Because of the cartoon’s public domain status, it can be found on budget compilations in lower quality prints, while Warner Home Video issued a restored print on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, with optional audio commentary by John Kricfalusi and Bill Melendez (Melendez was one of the animators on the cartoon). In 1989, it was included in the MGM/UA Home Video release Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons.

When the Southern Television broadcast interruption occurred in the United Kingdom, the interruption ended shortly before the start of this cartoon.^{[citation needed]}

Elements from the short have been used in other Warner Bros works.

Footage of this cartoon's climax was incorporated as a flashback into a later Bugs Bunny cartoon, His Hare-Raising Tale (1951). Bugs, narrating to his nephew Clyde, describes himself as a World War II test pilot who narrowly escaped death in a near-crash (fortunately, as in Falling Hare, he ran out of gas). There is no mention of the Gremlin character, and one of Bugs' screams ('Yow-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!!') from earlier in the cartoon is inserted into the soundtrack. The scene fades out as it zooms in on the stalled aircraft suspended inches above the ground.
Black-and-white footage from the cartoon was featured in the second trailer for Gremlins 2: The New Batch (directed by Joe Dante). Though no footage was used in the theatrical cut of the film, a clip from the cartoon appeared in the VHS version.^[4]
The Gremlin nemesis makes two reappearances in the “Tiny Toon Adventures”. In 'Journey to the Center of Acme Acres', the Gremlin appears (with several look-alikes) as the cause of earthquakes in Acme Acres after their gold is stolen by Montana Max. Clampett is given an acknowledgement in the credits for their design. In the special “Night Ghoulery”, a singular Gremlin antagonizes Plucky Duck in the segment titled 'Gremlin on a Wing' (a spoof of the Twilight Zone episode 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet').
It also made a brief cameo in 'Plane Pals' (episode from Animaniacs) as a passenger.
The scene in which a flattened Bugs mutters 'I’m only 3½ years old' and rolls on the floor flat as a pancake is used in 'Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?' (episode from “Tiny Toon Adventures”).

This cartoon had a scene where a 2-engine USAAF bomber was flown directly at a skyscraper in what looked to be a certain impact. Two years after its release, a USAAF B-25 Mitchell bomber was inadvertently flown into the Empire State Building on a foggy day, and fifty-six years after that, the September 11 attacks occurred on a sunny day.

In popular culture[edit]

The climactic scene in Falling Hare is described in detail in the novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

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References[edit]

Inline citations[edit]

^ ^a^b^cShull, Wilt (2004), p. 61
^'Army Regulation 40-501: Standards of Medical Fitness (pp75,84)'(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
^(An 'A card' was the lowest priority, entitling 3–4 gallons of gasoline per week)
^'Gremlins 2: The New Batch'. Movie-Censorship.com. 2010-05-11. Retrieved 2015-08-08.

General references[edit]

Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E. (2004). 'Seeing Red, White 'n' Blue:1943'. Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945. McFarland & Company. ISBN978-0786481699.
Van Ripper, A. Bowdoin (2002). 'Acceleration'. Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN978-0313318221.

External links[edit]

Falling Hare on IMDb
Falling Hare at the Big Cartoon DataBase

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Preceded by
A Corny Concerto (not explicitly billed a Bugs Bunny cartoon)

Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1943

Succeeded by
Little Red Riding Rabbit

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Early To Bet
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Warren Foster
Starring	Mel Blanc Stan Freberg(uncredited)
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Phil DeLara Emery Hawkins Charles McKimson Rod Scribner John Carey (uncredited)
Color process	Technicolor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
May 12, 1951
Running time	7 min
Language	English

Early to Bet is a Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released on May 12, 1951 starring The Gambling Bug. The Gambling Bug is a small character who infects others with the desire to gamble. He wears a green tie, a red jacket, a brown hat and a white tuxedo. Early to Bet is the only appearance of this character.

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The cartoon is a sequel to the 1950 short It's Hummer Time, which featured the same bulldog giving the same cat elaborate punishments (in that case it was retribution for the cat, while pursuing a hummingbird, disturbing the dog).

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Plot synopsis[edit]

The narrator introduces the Gambling Bug, demanding he stand up so everyone can get a look at him. Three examples are then offered, showing what happens should this Gambling Bug 'bite' someone, giving them 'gambling fever'. First, a restaurant customer is seen coaxing a frustrated waiter to allow another in what has clearly been a series of coin flips to determine payment for a meal. Next, two men at a bar bet five dollars ('five bucks') that a buzzing fly will land on one or another glass of beer first. Then, a man puts a coin in a casino slot machine and watches the wheels spin around until three oranges appear. He jumps for joy until he sees the payout is three actual oranges instead of a money jackpot. Enraged, he begins punching the slot machine.

After that introductory segment closes with a somber warning for 'folks' to watch out for the Gambling Bug, the bug chooses to leave his victims alone for a day, and takes a vacation. Out walking, the bug is surprised by a dog who strides by and pulls a black and white cat from beneath a farm building. The dog, apparently a card sharp, suggests the cat might like to play cards for penalties. The cat adamantly refuses, says he is through playing cards with the dog and, somewhat irritated, goes to sit on a nearby log. The Gambling Bug immediately sees this as an irresistible opportunity and bites the cat's ear.

Now the cat, wound-up and anxious to bet, dashes back to the dog repeating, 'Gimme the cards, deal 'em out, let's go, come on!' They play gin rummy for penalties and the cat promptly loses. After he briefly transforms into a 'sucker' (a lollipop), he dejectedly heads over to and spins the Penalty Wheel. He lands on Number 14: 'The Gesundheit'. He is forced to blow bubble gum as the dog shakes sneeze powder on his nose; the resulting huge sneeze causes the bubble gum to completely cover the cat

The cat refuses to play cards any longer and sits back down on the log. The Gambling Bug speaks into his ear, 'We gotta play percentage. We'll try again,' and bites the cat. Excitedly looking to get even he sits down with the dog once more and, in spite of trying to play smart, instantly loses. This time the Penalty Wheel lands on Number 75: 'The William Tell'. This entails the dog using a bow to fire, arrow-like, a toilet plunger at an apple on the cat's head. The cat ensures the biggest apple possible is poised so the dog will not miss, but the plunger is aimed, successfully, into the cat's face.

Before biting the ear a third time, the Gambling Bug suggests the cat is due for a winning streak. But, as the bug is saying to himself, 'He can't lose all the time,' we hear the dog announce, 'Gin again.' The Penalty Wheel stops at Number 36: 'Roll Out the Barrel'. The dog fires a starter pistol and the cat rolls a barrel, trailing gunpowder, along a hilly road into the distance. The dog puts a match to the powder, which burns exceptionally quickly and blows the cat back to where he started.