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'' cartoon short directed by

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. The short was released on March 11, 1950, and stars

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. Some television broadcasts omit the shot of Bugs dropping a brick on Hercules' head. The Blue Ribbon release also removed the shorts original ''Bugs Bunny in'' card, joining only ''

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'', '' Knights Must Fall'' & ''

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'' in this distinction.

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Bugs wakes up after a long night to find that a burly

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has just shoveled up his rabbit hole near a highrise

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being built. Bugs kindly asks Hercules to put his hole back, and Hercules pretends to comply, before he dumps Bugs and the dirt into the

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. Bugs angrily shouts "Hey, you big

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! Didn't you ever hear of the sanctity of the American home?" before another mound of earth falls on him and the truck hauls him away. When Hercules exits the crane, Bugs calls him from the building under construction dropping a

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on him (with a telegram saying "Okay Hercules, you asked for it!"), then a

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, and then plays with the elevator controls while Hercules is inside the

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. He accidentally breaks the controls, causing the elevator to fly off, and Hercules to fall into a pile of wet concrete. Bugs then impersonates the

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and orders Hercules to make a high brick wall, followed by several attachments. Once done, Hercules is trapped at dizzying heights on a

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. As Bugs removes the bricks from one end, Hercules on the other end strips off his clothes to save weight. This only works temporarily; by the time Bugs removes the last brick, Hercules is down to nothing but his underwear. Hercules takes the fall, but suddenly manages to knock Bugs out temporarily with a steel girder, causing Bugs to dumbly " sleepwalk" through a harrowing series of moving

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s and other objects. He finally regains his senses when he falls into a

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full of

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, then witnesses his nemesis bullying a shy employee, swiping his lunch and ordering him back to work. Infuriated, Bugs decides to put the goon out of commission once and for all. Appropriating a red-hot

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with pliers, Bugs takes a look at the posted

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s for the building and finds his mark. He releases the rivet down a hole; it bounces around through an elaborate

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of objects and finally lands and burns through a

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holding up a giant steel casing which falls on top of Hercules. Bugs' ultimatum: "Do I get my home back or do I have to get tough?" prompts Hercules to finally wave the

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in defeat. The next shot is of the finished

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, with a slight indentation in the middle. At the bottom, Bugs sits in his hole - the building has been built around it - and declares: "After all, a man's home ''is'' his

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