Water, Water Every Hare


Water, Water Every Hare is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The cartoon was released on April 19, 1952 and stars Bugs Bunny. The short is a return to the themes of the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare, and brings the monster Gossamer back to the screen.
The title is a pun on the line "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The cartoon is available on Disc 1 of the . A few scenes were featured in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, With new animation with the Paranormalists at Large Commercials showing Bugs getting chased by Gossamer in the background as Daffy advertises.

Plot

Much like in Hair-Raising Hare, Bugs finds himself trapped in the castle of an "evil scientist", a caricature of Boris Karloff, and needs a living brain to complete an experiment, shown to be a giant robot. When Bugs awakens, he is terrified when he sees the scientist, a sarcophagus and the robot, eventually running away after the terror of seeing all three. The scientist sends out an orange, hairy monster he calls "Rudolph" to retrieve him, with the promise of being rewarded with a spider goulash.
In a scene very similar to the one in Hair-Raising Hare, Bugs keeps running until a trap door on the floor opens and a rock falls into a water pit, where there are crocodiles swimming around and snapping their jaws in the air. While he is walking backwards and praying, thankful he did not fall, he bumps into the monster. Bugs comes up with an idea and makes as a gabby hairdresser, giving the hairy monster a new hairdo He gets some dynamite sticks and places them in the monster's hair, which give the appearance of curlers. He lights them and runs off just before the explosion, which leaves the monster with a bald head.
The monster, after tying his hair back up in a cone, goes after Bugs. In the chemical room, Bugs sees a bottle of "vanishing fluid" and pours it all over himself, becoming invisible. As the monster looks around for Bugs in the chemical room, Bugs gets a trash can and dumps it on the monster. Then he gets a mallet and hits the trash can, causing it to shake, then pulls out the rug the monster is standing on from underneath his feet, causing him to fall on his bottom when he takes the trash can off and looks around. For the coup de grâce, Bugs takes a bottle of "reducing oil" and pours the entire contents over the monster, shrinking him as he gets up, lets out a roar, and shrinks, but blinks, and walks away to get dressed. Putting on a suit, coat and hat and grabbing two suitcases, the monster enters a mouse hole, kicks its resident out, and slams the door, which bears a sign saying "I QUIT!", much to the agreement of the mouse, who, while holding up a bottle of whiskey, says, "I quit too.", then dashes away, and leaves his bottle behind.
Bugs, still invisible, eats a carrot in satisfaction of getting rid of the monster. Suddenly, the mad scientist makes him visible with "hare restorer", insisting the rabbit hand over his brain. When Bugs refuses, the scientist throws an axe straight at him. Bugs ducks and the axe breaks open a large bottle of ether, resulting in the fumes drugging both Bugs and the scientist. In slow motion, the groggy scientist chases after an equally groggy Bugs while issuing demands . Bugs slowly trips the scientist, who falls asleep to say ".
Still slowly, Bugs runs out of the castle and over the horizon, trips over a rock and falls asleep, just to say "", landing in a stream which leads Bugs straight back into his flooded hole. He suddenly wakes up, declaring that it must have been a nightmare. The miniature monster passes by on a rowboat and tells him in a high-pitched voice: "Oh yeah!? That's what you think.", leaving Bugs with a confused look on his face.

Cast

• Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Gossamer and Mouse
• John T. Smith as Scientist