Bugs Bunny ft. Elmer Fudd - Fresh Hare (1942) Looney Tunes Classic Animated Cartoon

Fresh Hare is a Warner Bros. theatrical Merrie Melodies cartoon. It was directed by Isadore “Friz“ Freleng, written by Michael Maltese, and produced by Leon Schlesinger. It was released to theatres on August 22, 1942, and is a play on the term “fresh air“. In this short, the rotund early-1940s version of Elmer Fudd is portrayed as a Mountie, in pursuit of Bugs Bunny, who is accused of a litany of crimes, as shown to be stated by Elmer Fudd. The crimes, as corrected here for Elmer’s rounded-l-and-r speech, are listed below: “Resisting an officer, assault and battery, trespassing, disturbing the peace, miscellaneous misdemeanors, public nuisance, traffic violations, going through a boulevard stop, jaywalking, triple parking, conduct unbecoming to a rabbit“, and (again) “violating traffic regulations“. As a result of these accusations, Bugs is in big trouble, being chased across the snow-packed tundra of Canada by Elmer; posters throughout the short in