Oily Hare

1952 film by Robert McKimson

Oily Hare

Directed by| Robert McKimson
Story by| Tedd Pierce
Produced by| Edward Selzer
Starring| Mel Blanc
Bea Benaderet
Animation by| Charles McKimson
Phil De Lara
Rod Scribner
Herman Cohen
Keith Darling
Layouts by| Peter Alvarado
Backgrounds by| Richard H. Thomas
Color process| Technicolor

Production
company

Warner Bros. Cartoons

Distributed by| Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation

Release date

* July 26, 1952 (1952-07-26)

Running time

| 7:10
Language| English

Oily Hare is a 1952 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Robert McKimson and written by Tedd Pierce.[1] The short was released on July 26, 1952, and stars Bugs Bunny.[2]

The plot has similarities to the plot of the short The Fair-Haired Hare, which was released one year earlier and features Devil Rich Texan as Bugs' antagonist. Oily Hare recycles the same ending where Bugs' home is filled with explosives and blown up.

## Plot[edit]

Bugs Bunny gets caught up in a Texas oil-rich environment with a Yosemite Sam-like oil mogul. Bugs' rabbit hole, inconveniently situated in an oil field, becomes the focal point of a clash as the tycoon, Devil Rich Texan, tries to tap into the land's oil resources. Despite Bugs' protests that the hole is his home, Devil Rich Texan and his trusty assistant, Maverick, attempt to forcibly remove him. Their comedic efforts include failed dynamite explosions and a botched shooting attempt, all while Bugs outsmarts them at every turn.

In a final twist, Bugs' ingenious solution results in a surprising outcome: instead of oil, a geyser of carrots erupts from the hole, leaving Devil Rich Texan and Maverick bewildered and Bugs triumphant. With a nod to the absurdity of the situation, Bugs acknowledges the incredulity of the audience, reminding them that in "Tex-ay-us," anything can happen.

## Home media[edit]

DVD: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5

## References[edit]

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. 238\. 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.

## External links[edit]

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Preceded by

The Hasty Hare

|  Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1952  | Succeeded by

Rabbit Seasoning

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Bugs Bunny in animation

* List of Bugs Bunny cartoons

Looney Tunes
short films|

| 1930s|

* Porky's Hare Hunt (1938)

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1940s|

* Patient Porky (1940; cameo)
* Porky Pig's Feat (1943; cameo)
* Buckaroo Bugs (1944)
* Hare Conditioned (1945)
* Hare Tonic (1945)
* Baseball Bugs (1946)
* Acrobatty Bunny (1946)
* Racketeer Rabbit (1946)
* The Big Snooze (1946)
* Rabbit Transit (1947)
* Easter Yeggs (1947)
* Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
* A Feather in His Hare (1948)
* Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
* Haredevil Hare (1948)
* A-Lad-In His Lamp (1948)
* Mississippi Hare (1949)
* High Diving Hare (1949)
* Long-Haired Hare (1949)
* The Grey Hounded Hare (1949)
* The Windblown Hare (1949)
* Rabbit Hood (1949)

1950s|

* Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)
* Big House Bunny (1950)
* What's Up, Doc? (1950)
* 8 Ball Bunny (1950)
* Bushy Hare (1950)
* Rabbit of Seville (1950)
* Rabbit Every Monday (1951)
* The Fair-Haired Hare (1951)
* Rabbit Fire (1951)
* His Hare-Raising Tale (1951)
* Operation: Rabbit (1952)
* 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952)
* Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
* The Hasty Hare (1952)
* Hare Lift (1952)
* Forward March Hare (1953)
* Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)
* Bully for Bugs (1953)
* Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953)
* Robot Rabbit (1953)
* Bugs and Thugs (1954)
* No Parking Hare (1954)
* Devil May Hare (1954)
* Bewitched Bunny (1954)
* Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954)
* Sahara Hare (1955)
* Rabbit Rampage (1955)
* Hyde and Hare (1955)
* Roman Legion-Hare (1955)
* Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
* Rabbitson Crusoe (1956)
* Barbary Coast Bunny (1956)
* A Star Is Bored (1956)
* Piker's Peak (1957)
* Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
* Show Biz Bugs (1957)
* Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)
* Now Hare This (1958)
* Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
* Pre-Hysterical Hare (1958)
* Baton Bunny (1959)
* Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)
* A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959)

1960s|

* Horse Hare (1960)
* Rabbit's Feat (1960)
* The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961)
* Prince Violent (1961)
* Wet Hare (1962)
* Shishkabugs (1962)
* The Million Hare (1963)
* Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)
* Dumb Patrol (1964)
* The Iceman Ducketh (1964)
* False Hare (1964)

1990s|

* Box-Office Bunny (1991)
* Carrotblanca (1995)
* From Hare to Eternity (1997)

Merrie Melodies
short films|

| 1930s|

* Prest-O Change-O (1939)
* Hare-um Scare-um (1939)

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1940s|

* Elmer's Candid Camera (1940)
* A Wild Hare (1940)
* Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941)
* Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)
* Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)
* The Heckling Hare (1941)
* All This and Rabbit Stew (1941)
* Wabbit Twouble (1941)
* The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942)
* The Wacky Wabbit (1942)
* Hold the Lion, Please (1942)
* Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)
* Fresh Hare (1942)
* The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)
* Case of the Missing Hare (1942)
* Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943)
* Super-Rabbit (1943)
* Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)
* Wackiki Wabbit (1943)
* A Corny Concerto (1943)
* Falling Hare (1943)
* Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
* What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
* Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944)
* Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)
* Hare Ribbin' (1944)
* Hare Force (1944)
* The Old Grey Hare (1944)
* Stage Door Cartoon (1944)
* Herr Meets Hare (1945)
* The Unruly Hare (1945)
* Hare Trigger (1945)
* Hare Remover (1946)
* Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
* Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
* A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)
* Slick Hare (1947)
* Rabbit Punch (1948)
* Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
* Hot Cross Bunny (1948)
* Hare Splitter (1948)
* My Bunny Lies over the Sea (1948)
* Hare Do (1949)
* Rebel Rabbit (1949)
* Bowery Bugs (1949)
* Knights Must Fall (1949)
* Frigid Hare (1949)
* Rabbit Hood (1949)

1950s|

* Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (1950)
* Homeless Hare (1950)
* Hillbilly Hare (1950)
* Bunker Hill Bunny (1950)
* Hare We Go (1951)
* Bunny Hugged (1951)
* French Rarebit (1951)
* Ballot Box Bunny (1951)
* Big Top Bunny (1951)
* Foxy by Proxy (1952)
* Oily Hare (1952)
* Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
* Rabbit's Kin (1952)
* Duck Amuck (1953; cameo)
* Upswept Hare (1953)
* Hare Trimmed (1953)
* Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)
* Captain Hareblower (1954)
* Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)
* Beanstalk Bunny (1955)
* Hare Brush (1955)
* This Is a Life? (1955)
* Knight-mare Hare (1955)
* Bugs' Bonnets (1956)
* Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956)
* Half-Fare Hare (1956)
* Wideo Wabbit (1956)
* To Hare Is Human (1956)
* Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
* Bedevilled Rabbit (1957)
* What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
* Rabbit Romeo (1957)
* Hare-Less Wolf (1958)
* Hare-Abian Nights (1959)
* Apes of Wrath (1959)
* Backwoods Bunny (1959)
* Bonanza Bunny (1959)
* People Are Bunny (1959)

1960s|

* Person to Bunny (1960)
* From Hare to Heir (1960)
* Lighter Than Hare (1960)
* Compressed Hare (1961)
* Bill of Hare (1962)
* Devil's Feud Cake (1963)
* The Unmentionables (1963)
* Mad as a Mars Hare (1963)
* Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
* Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (1964)

1990s|

* (Blooper) Bunny (1997)

Other short films|

* Any Bonds Today? (1942)
* Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)
* The Fright Before Christmas (1979)
* Spaced Out Bunny (1980)
* Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1991)
* Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas (2004)

Feature films|

| Theatrical|

* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
* The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
* Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
* Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988; cameo)
* Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
* Space Jam (1996)
* Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
* Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

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Direct-to-video|

* Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992; cameo)
* Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000; cameo)
* Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure (2003)
* Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
* Justice League: The New Frontier (2008; cameo)
* Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015)

TV series|

* Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1995)
* Baby Looney Tunes (2002–2005)
* The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2013)
* New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)
* Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020–2023)
* Bugs Bunny Builders (2022–present)
* Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023–present)

TV specials|

* Carnival of the Animals (1976)
* Easter Special (1977)
* Bugs Bunny in Space (1977)
* Howl-oween Special (1977)
* Thanksgiving Diet (1979)
* Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
* Bustin' Out All Over (1980)
* The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980)
* Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988)
* Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990)
* The Earth Day Special (1990; cameo)
* Overtures to Disaster (1991)

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