Flipping the Pig

The original version of Bugs Bunny drinks a bottle of “hare remover” which removes him from the scene of Porky’s Hare Hunt (he fades away).



To make the action quicker, the animators uses speed lines, both black and white. Porky looks around for the rabbit, gets conked on the head with the hare remover bottle and flips over.



Mel Blanc claimed in his autobiography he re-named the rabbit “Bugs Bunny” after “reading the script.” Uh, Mel, don’t you mean “storyboard”? A name isn’t mentioned in the cartoon at all, only on a famous model sheet.

The guy with the writing credit on this short was Howard Baldwin, with Bugs Hardaway solo directing.