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Knight-mare Hare
Knight-mare Hare
Directed by	Chuck Jones
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Ken Harris; Ben Washam; Abe Levitow; Richard Thompson
Layouts by	Ernie Nordli
Backgrounds by	Philip De Guard
Color process	Technicolor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures ; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	October 1, 1955;
Running time	7:30
Language	English

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Knight-mare Hare is a 1955 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce.^[1] The short was released on October 1, 1955, and stars Bugs Bunny.^[2]

Plot

Bugs Bunny is reading a book about the Knights of the Round Table when an apple falls and hits him on the head; it transports him back to the time of King Arthur. When he wakes up he encounters a knight named Sir O of Kay, Earl of Watercress, who challenges him to a joust. Bugs trips the knight's horse, sending him flying into a castle tower.

Pursued by a fire-breathing dragon, Bugs defeats the creature with seltzer. Seeking refuge in another castle, Bugs encounters Merlin of Monroe, a supposed sorcerer. Merlin attempts to use "magic powder" to transform Bugs into a pig, but Bugs turns the tables on Merlin by transforming him into a horse. To return to the present, Bugs tosses an apple to hit himself on the head. Successfully returning to his own time, Bugs encounters a farmer with a plowhorse resembling Merlin's transformed state. Dismissing the resemblance, Bugs continues on, only to be surprised when the farmer addresses the horse as "Merlin".

Home media

The cartoon is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 DVD box set.

References

^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 278. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

External links

Knight-mare Hare at IMDb
Knight-mare Hare at the Big Cartoon DataBase

Preceded by Hyde and Hare	Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1955	Succeeded by Roman Legion-Hare

[Beck-1] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 278. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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 | producer = [[Eddie Selzer|Edward Selzer]]
 | distributor = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] <br> [[Vitaphone|The Vitaphone Corporation]]
-| released = October 1, 1955
+| released = {{Film date|1955|10|01}}
 | color_process = [[Technicolor]]
 | runtime = 7:30
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 == Plot ==
+Bugs Bunny is reading a book about the Knights of the Round Table when an apple falls and hits him on the head; it transports him back to the time of King Arthur. When he wakes up he encounters a knight named Sir O of Kay, Earl of Watercress, who challenges him to a joust. Bugs trips the knight's horse, sending him flying into a castle tower.
-Loosely based on [[Mark Twain]]'s 1889 novel ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'', the cartoon begins with Bugs Bunny, who is reading a [[book]] on the [[Knights of the Round Table]] under a hairdryer. While reading, an [[apple]] falls and hits his head and he is somehow transported to the time of [[King Arthur]]. When he wakes up, he finds himself at the pointy end of a [[knight]]'s lance. Bugs asks him: "What's up, [[Duke]]?" and the knight commands Bugs to surrender as a prisoner of his lance. The knight identifies himself as "[[Sir]] [[Okay|O of Kay]], [[Earl]] of [[Watercress]], [[Cirrhosis|Sir Osis of The Liver]], [[Order of the Garter|Knight of the Garter]], and [[Baron]] of [[Worcestershire]]." Ready to take Bugs' challenge to tilt with him for the insult of Bugs' friends, the [[Duke Ellington|Duke of Ellington]], [[Count Basie|Count of Basie]],  [[Earl Hines|Earl of Hines]], [[Cab Calloway|Cab of Calloway]] and [[Louis Armstrong|Satchmo of Armstrong]] who the knight never heard of and called them "upstarts and rogues", the knight offers Bugs a too heavy sword, then begins to charge at him, during several comedic attempts by Bugs to get the sword off the ground. At the last second, Bugs puts his leg out tripping the knight's horse. The horse falls and the knight [[pole vault]]s on his lance over the [[castle]] wall and into a high window of a castle tower, falling loudly to the bottom inside the tower.
+Pursued by a fire-breathing dragon, Bugs defeats the creature with seltzer. Seeking refuge in another castle, Bugs encounters Merlin of Monroe, a supposed sorcerer. Merlin attempts to use "magic powder" to transform Bugs into a pig, but Bugs turns the tables on Merlin by transforming him into a horse. To return to the present, Bugs tosses an apple to hit himself on the head. Successfully returning to his own time, Bugs encounters a farmer with a plowhorse resembling Merlin's transformed state. Dismissing the resemblance, Bugs continues on, only to be surprised when the farmer addresses the horse as "Merlin".
-Bugs is later chased by a fire-breathing [[dinosaur]]-type [[dragon]]. ("My, what big [[horny toad]]s they have here.") He manages to defeat him by spraying seltzer into his mouth. With his fire lost, the powerless dragon whimpers and flees.
-Bugs later goes to another castle, the residence of a warlock (or wizard) named [[Marilyn Monroe|Merlin of Monroe]]. Merlin changes Bugs into a pig with some "magic powder", but as Merlin laughs, Bugs simply unzips the "costume" into his normal self. He later tricks the warlock (or wizard) into becoming a [[horse]]. Merlin tries hard to change himself back to normal by also "unzipping", but only ends up with the same horse appearance, then continues to keep unzipping the same costume no matter how many times he unzips the costume until he fails.  To try to return to the present, Bugs Bunny throws an apple in the air to hit him on the head ("Well, why not? After all, they've laughed at [[Alexander Fleming|the man]] when he discovered [[penicillin]]"); he is successful in this attempt.  Walking down the country road, he approaches a farmer tending to a horse who looks exactly like the one he turned Merlin into.  He walks on by, convincing himself that it is not the same horse, proclaiming "Nah, impossible. Couldn't be him". The farmer then says "Alright, Merlin, giddy up, get along now", to which Bugs does a surprised double-take to the camera, ending the cartoon.
 ==Home media==
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 ==See also==
-* ''[[Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time]]''
+* ''[[Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time]]'', a video game loosely based on the film and other ''Looney Tunes'' shorts
 ==References==
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+*[https://archive.today/20130118042216/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/462-Knight-Mare_Hare.html  ''Knight-mare Hare''] at the [[Big Cartoon DataBase]]
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v t e Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Films	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 silent) A Connecticut Yankee (1931) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) Knight-mare Hare (1955) Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988) A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Musical	A Connecticut Yankee "To Keep My Love Alive" "Thou Swell" "My Heart Stood Still"
Other	"The Once and Future Duck"

v t e Films based on Arthurian legends
Medieval Arthur	The Adventures of Sir Galahad (serial, 1949) Knights of the Round Table (1953) The Black Knight (1954) Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) Siege of the Saxons (1963) Camelot (1967) Excalibur (1981) First Knight (1995) Arthur and Merlin (2015) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Pearl Poet	Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) Sword of the Valiant (1984) The Green Knight (2021)
Roman Arthur	King Arthur (2004) The Last Legion (2007)
Foreign adaptations	Lancelot du Lac Perceval le Gallois Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Films based on Wagner's Parsifal	Parsifal (1904) The Evil Forest (1951) Parsifal (1982)
Films from Twain's Connecticut Yankee	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) A Connecticut Yankee (1931) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988; Soviet Union) A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Based on the Tristan legend	L'Éternel retour (1943) The Woman Next Door (1981) Lovespell (1981) Fire and Sword (1982) In the Shadow of the Raven (1988) Tristan & Isolde (English 2006)
Adaptations of Prince Valiant	Prince Valiant (1954) Prince Valiant (1997)
Parodies and modern adaptations	Knights of the Square Table (1917) King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) Squareheads of the Round Table (1948) Knutzy Knights (1954) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Knightriders (1981) The Fisher King (1991) Seaview Knights (1994) Kids of the Round Table (1995) Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996) The Mighty (1998) Merlin: The Return (2000) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002) Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Animation	Knight-mare Hare (1955) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) The Sword in the Stone (1963) Willy McBean and his Magic Machine (1965) Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988) Merlin and the Dragons (1991) Quest for Camelot (1998) Shrek the Third (2007) Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob (2021)
TV films	Merlin and the Sword (1985) Guinevere (1994) The Four Diamonds (1995) Merlin: The Quest Begins (1998) A Knight in Camelot (1998) The Excalibur Kid (1999) Young Arthur (2002) Avalon High (2010)