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Fresh HareFresh Hare is a Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Isadore "Friz" Freleng and produced by Leon Schlesinger. It was released to theatres on August 22, 1942 by The Vitaphone Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures. In this short, the rotund early-1940s version of Elmer Fudd is portrayed as a Mountie, in persuit of Bugs, who is wanted for being a "screwy wabbit", across the snow-packed tundra (presumably in Canada). The short is one of many that has been subjected to censorship, because of its closing gag. After capturing the rabbit and sentencing him to execution, Elmer asks Bugs if he has one final request or wish. Bugs responds by breaking out into song: "I wish I was in Dixie; hurray, hurray..." A crossfade finds Bugs, Elmer, and the other mounties in blackface performing a minstrel show routine of "Camptown Races". The Turner Entertainment television print of this short excises the minstrel show scene (and instead ends during Bugs' "I wish I was in Dixie" routine), but the complete version is often available for sale, as the short is one of a handful of Bugs Bunny films now in the public domain. Cast External links
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