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8/10
"Well, whaddaya know, I got a cabin in the sky!"
utgard147 July 2016
Funny Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short directed by Friz Freleng. This one has Sam building his home right on top of Bugs' rabbit hole. To settle the matter of who has rights to the land, they go to court (in a hilarious bit about the "highest court in the country"), where the judge decides they must share until one of them dies. Well, you can imagine what thought immediately springs to Sam's mind. It's a very entertaining and clever cartoon. The animation is beautiful with rich colors and well-drawn characters and backgrounds. Typically solid voice work from the great Mel Blanc. Lively music from Carl Stalling. Highlights include Bugs and Sam singing, a vicious bear rug, "Shut up shuttin' up," and a game of Russian roulette with poisoned carrot juice. Really fun short with possibly the two greatest cartoon rivals ever. Definitely recommended.
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9/10
One of the better shorts with Bugs and Yosemite Sam
llltdesq14 June 2002
This is a very engaging and humorous short with Bugs engaged in a battle of wits with Yosemite Sam. Sam makes an ideal foe for Bugs, as his temper lends itself to all manner of situations. Elmer makes a good foil, as it makes sense why a hunter would want to shoot a rabbit, but Sam opens up many more possibilities. Interestingly, one of the more effectively utilized characters in the more recent shorts made in the 1990s is Sam. Here the action centers around a property dispute and sight gags and verbal wordplay are both in abundance and a great time is had by all. Good to see it's available. Well worth watching. Most recommended.
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8/10
Warner Bros.' always prophetic Animated Shorts Seers division . . .
oscaralbert21 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
. . . (aka, The Looney Tuners) take dead aim with their clairvoyant sights upon the Putin\Rump\Kushner Petrochemical Crime Cartel with this offering, THE FAIR HAIRED HARE. Yosemite Sam begins another Warner Bros. warning about a Deplorable Putin\Rump\Kushner Depredation with Yosemite Sam (representing this Larcenous Trio) building his cabin directly above Bugs' long-time hole. This signifies the XL Pipeline currently being rammed down the throats of America's Native Population and into their Sacred Ancestral Burial Grounds by Putin\Rump\Kushner (and which just disgorged 220,000 gallons of crude all over the graves of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull). When a crooked judge--clearly representing Putin's recent appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, Gorsuch--orders Bugs to share his ancestral burrow with Swindler Sam, the latter tries to first poison and then dynamite America's favorite hare. This, of course, is Warner's warning about the rapacious Putin\Rump\Kushner Tax Scheme which includes a bogus bribe to Pedophiliac Machine-Gunning Racist Repug (aka, GOOPER) Senator Lisa Murkowski of "$110 Billion" to allow the murder of 24 million Americans with the elimination of Our ObamaCare in exchange for cutting personal checks for EACH of Murkowski's Alaskan Constituents in the thousands of dollars for the soon-to-be-extinct Polar Bear Oil. Problem is, Lisa is terrible at both Math and Current Events: experts estimate that this Sacrosanct Wildlife Refuge only holds 2% of the bogus Putin\Rump\Kushner Fake "Fact" Number, meaning that after drilling "expenses" are deducted from Lisa's $78 MILLION cut, each one of her bamboozled voters will receive a "Grand" check totaling 81 cents during each year of the coming decade. But, of course, the soul-less Repug Enablers are perfectly willing to kill off the last polar bear, disinherit the final Eskimo, and slay 24 million poor and ailing Americans on Medicaid IF they can get a whopping 81 cents out of the whole deal! Thanks, Warner, for your FAIR HAIRED HARE warning shot!
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10/10
"Say your prayers you long eared galoot"
TheLittleSongbird31 August 2012
I have always loved Bugs paired with Yosemite Sam, and The Fair Haired Hare is one of their better shorts. The story is not routine or predictable in any way, and is very energetically paced. The animation is just beautiful, both characters are well drawn, the backgrounds have a great amount of detail and the colours are vibrant. The music score has always been a big part of why Looney Tunes shorts have been so good, and The Fair Haired Hare is no exception with lively orchestration and catchy melody. The writing is fresh and witty, with inspired wordplay, memorable puns and rapid rapport between Bugs and Sam. The gags are clever and very funny, I can't get enough of the gag where Bugs gets stuck in the bear rug. Bugs and Sam are both on top form, just doing what they do best, Bugs' likability and Sam's abrasiveness contrast wonderfully. The voice acting of Mel Blanc is superb. All in all, brilliant and one of the better Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam shorts. 10/10 Bethany Cox
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7/10
elaborated, this could be a '50s, '60s or '70s B-movie
lee_eisenberg17 July 2008
Obviously, "The Fair Haired Hare" is one of the many instances in which Yosemite Sam provokes Bugs Bunny and then Bugs gets revenge (one of the rules about the Bugs Bunny cartoons is that Bugs never provokes the unpleasant situation). But watching the cartoon, I thought that it loosely resembled those B-movies in which animals take revenge on humans. It wouldn't even have to be a case of an atomic test's causing the animal(s) to turn giant, as was the case in "Them!". When you look at how Sam builds his house over Bugs's rabbit hole, it makes sense that Bugs does what he does. Of course, people for centuries have been building their houses on animals' homes; therefore, if all animals could do what Bugs does, then we humans would be in big trouble! Although I have to admit that I would consider it an honor to have Bugs trash my life.

Whatever the case, this is a pretty funny cartoon. Friz Freleng certainly created a formidable opponent for Bugs Bunny in the roughest, toughest, he-man stuffest hombre as ever crossed the Rio Grande (and he ain't no namby-pamby), even if Yosemite Sam was no more competent than Elmer Fudd. Worth seeing.
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