This time Elmer Fudd goes after Bugs using hypnotism, only the plan backfires.This time Elmer Fudd goes after Bugs using hypnotism, only the plan backfires.This time Elmer Fudd goes after Bugs using hypnotism, only the plan backfires.
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- Writer
- Stars
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Elmer Fudd
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaA WW2 reference is shown at the end of this short, to the B19 bomber. Such patriotic messages were common in wartime, even in cartoons and magazine ads.
- GoofsWhen Elmer is reading the book at the beginning, the strap of his gun switches shoulders between shots.
- Quotes
Bugs Bunny: Eh, what's up, Doc?
Elmer Fudd: At wast! At wast, at wast, at wast! I got him wight where I want him!
[starts to hypnotize Bugs]
Elmer Fudd: Gaze deepwy into my eyes.
Bugs Bunny: Heh, Dracula.
Elmer Fudd: You are getting sweepy, sweepy.
[Bugs goes into his hole, Elmer sticks his head in]
Elmer Fudd: You needn't twy to escape. I have you in my cwutches. So come out of there. Come out.
[Elmer emerges out of the hole, holding a balloon disguised as Bugs; the balloon rises up and takes Elmer with it]
Elmer Fudd: You are Asweep. Asweep and helpwess.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toon in with Me: When Jimmy Met Mabel (2021)
The characteristically-dim Fudd opens the cartoon on his usual hunting trip through the forest, though he's also found it necessary to read a new book at the same time. When he happens upon the secret to hypnotism, Fudd tests the technique on a ferocious bear, which is soon fluttering in the stratosphere with the presupposition of being a canary. Here, he decides, is his real opportunity to bamboozle the "pesky wabbit" once and for all. But, of course, Bugs proves himself to be more troublesome than his opponent had anticipated, and it isn't long before Fudd finds himself at the receiving end of a hypnotist's powerful glare. This is when director Friz Freleng turns the tables: after Fudd is ordered to act like a rabbit, he immediately hijacks Bugs' usual comedic niche, and the hapless rabbit, despite thinking himself the winner in this particular spate, is consistently out-witted by the stealthy wabbit known as Elmer Fudd. The cleverest Merrie Melodies are those that recognise the series' clichés and actively subvert them 'The Hare-Brained Hypnotist' does this very well.
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- Jun 28, 2008
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- Merrie Melodies #3 (1942-1943 Season): The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1