From Hare to Eternity

From Hare to Eternity
Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam) series
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Directed by Chuck Jones
Produced by Chuck Jones
Linda Jones Clough
Story by Stephen Fossati
Voices by Frank Gorshin
Greg Burson
Music by Cameron Patrick
George Daugherty
Animation by Tom Decker
Claude Raynes
Patrick Gleeson
Backgrounds by Jill Petrilak
Studio Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Warner Bros. Animation
Chuck Jones Film Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) November 4, 1997
Color process Technicolor
Running time 7 minutes
Language English

From Hare to Eternity is a 1997 Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by Chuck Jones. The voice of Bugs is performed by Greg Burson and the voice of Yosemite Sam is performed by Frank Gorshin.

The cartoon is mainly a parody of H.M.S. Pinafore with Sam and Bugs performing many of the songs. It was issued as a tribute to Sam's creator, Friz Freleng, who had died two years previously. It is both the final Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and the final Chuck Jones-directed Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short, ending a career that began in 1938 with The Night Watchman and four years before his death in 2002. It is included as a special feature on the DVD for The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie as well as the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray box-set on the third disc. The character Michigan J. Frog also has a brief cameo in the cartoon. Because Yosemite Sam was created by Freleng, this is the only Chuck Jones cartoon to feature Yosemite Sam.

Plot

Sam is the captain and only occupant of a sailing ship, H.M.S. Friz Freleng with home port in Kansas City (an on-screen reference to the late animator and his hometown), and he's heading on a voyage for buried treasure with the means to get it for himself. He reaches the island, immediately finding the dig site and uncovers both a treasure chest and Bugs Bunny on it. Before Sam can deal with Bugs, the rabbit shoves the chest and Sam onto the ship and sets the ship in motion. Bugs avoids walking the plank and tricks Sam into thinking he's a charming mermaid, which gets him into a swimming chase with a shark. In the end Bugs Bunny opens his treasure chest, which is revealed to be full of carrots.

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