''Water, Water Every Hare'' is a 1952

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directed by

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. The cartoon was released on April 19, 1952 and stars

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. The short is a return to the themes of the 1946 cartoon '' Hair-Raising Hare'' and brings the monster Gossamer (referred to as "Rudolph") back to the screen. The title is a pun on the line "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" from the poem ''

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'', by

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. The cartoon is available on Disc 1 of the '' Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1''.

Plot

After being displaced by a storm, Bugs Bunny finds himself in the castle of a

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(a caricature of

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). The mad scientist, needing a brain for his robot, orders his orange, hairy monster, Rudolph, to capture Bugs. Bugs awakens under a mummy, panics, and flees. The frustrated mad scientist sends Rudolph to retrieve him, promising a reward. Bugs evades capture by impersonating a hairdresser and uses dynamite as curlers, leaving Rudolph bald. Enraged, Rudolph chases Bugs to a chemical storage room. Bugs uses vanishing fluid to turn invisible and torments Rudolph, eventually shrinking him with reducing oil. The tiny Rudolph leaves through a mouse hole, throws out the mouse, and closes the door that has the message "I quit". The mouse quotes "I quit too". Invisible Bugs celebrates, but the mad scientist makes him visible again with "Hare Restorer". While noting that he shouldn't have sent a monster to do a man's job, the mad scientist demands Bugs' brain. Bugs refuses and the scientist accidentally releases

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fumes, incapacitating them both. In a slow-motion chase, Bugs trips the scientist, who falls asleep. Bugs, still in slow motion, prances away but trips and falls asleep in a stream that returns him to his flooded hole. Waking up underwater, he thinks it was a nightmare until the miniature Rudolph rows by quoting "Oh yeah, we'll that's what you think", leaving Bugs bewildered.

Cast

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, Gossamer ("Rudolph") and Mouse * John T. Smith as Mad Scientist (uncredited)

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''Water, Water Every Hare'' on the Internet Archive
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