{"id":3752,"date":"2006-04-03T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T00:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/03\/fresh-hare-all-this-and-rabbit-stew\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:36:59","slug":"fresh-hare-all-this-and-rabbit-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/03\/fresh-hare-all-this-and-rabbit-stew\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Hare \/ All This and Rabbit Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6704,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00026WUB4%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B00026WUB4%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;link_code=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%3fASIN=B00026WUB4%26tag=djwudicom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B00026WUB4%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6705,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000424&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000424&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6706,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mulletsgalore.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260309132915\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.mulletsgalore.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:13:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:13:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6707,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B0006B6WWI%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B0006B6WWI%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;link_code=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%3fASIN=B0006B6WWI%26tag=djwudicom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B0006B6WWI%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6708,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2Fcustomer-reviews%2FB0006B6WWI%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_dp_pt%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26n%3D130%26s%3Ddvd&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?link_code=ur2&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6709,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/looney.goldenagecartoons.com\\\/ltcuts\\\/ltcuts11.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some days, it&#8217;s really surprising what you can get for a dollar. Prairie&#8217;s long been a dollar store shopper, as it&#8217;s a convenient and cheap way to pick up little bits and pieces for around the home. Last Christmas as part of my stack of presents, she picked up a good-sized stack of dollar store DVDs. None of this is high-quality stuff, but that&#8217;s not really the point: it&#8217;s fun stuff. Old, bad movies make up a lot of it (we had fun watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00026WUB4%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B00026WUB4%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"John Hough: The Lady and the Highwayman\">The Lady and the Highwayman<\/a>, an old TV movie featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000424\/\" title=\"IMDB: Hugh Grant\">Hugh Grant<\/a> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulletsgalore.com\/\" title=\"Mullets Galore\">mullet<\/a>), but she also picked up a lot of compilations of old cartoons: Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, and quite a few others.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of nights ago, we popped in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B0006B6WWI%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B0006B6WWI%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"Bugs Bunny: Cartoon Craze Presents: Bugs Bunny: Falling Hare\">Cartoon Craze presents: Bugs Bunny: Falling Hare<\/a>, mostly a collection of Bugs Bunny cartoons, with a few other non-Bugs cartoons as well, and settled back for a fun evening of cartoon silliness.<\/p>\n<p>What we didn&#8217;t expect to discover was that two of the cartoons on the disc are shorts that have been either edited or outright banned for many years due to racist content. They&#8217;re fascinating from a historical context, and I actually think it&#8217;s kind of neat to have them and be able to see them &#8212; but <em>man<\/em> was it a surprise when we weren&#8217;t expecting them to pop up!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first surprise came at the end of a 1942 short titled &#8220;Fresh Hare&#8221;, which is mostly your standard Bugs vs. Elmer Fudd hijinks. At the end of the short, as Bugs is blindfolded and about to be shot by a Canadian Mountie firing squad, Fudd grants him a last wish. &#8220;Yeah? Let&#8217;s see now,&#8221; says Bugs. &#8220;I wish, eh&#8230;. I wish&#8230;.&#8221; He flings off the blindfold and starts dancing around, singing, &#8220;I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! Hooray!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As his wish is granted, the scene fades out and then in&#8230;and suddenly we&#8217;re greeted with Bugs, Elmer, and the five Mounties now in front of a cotton field, all in blackface, singing both &#8220;Dixie&#8221; and &#8220;Camptown Ladies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/04\/graphics\/fh_blackface.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Bugs in blackface\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prairie and I were both stunned. We&#8217;d both certainly known that cartoons like these existed, but neither of us had ever actually seen them &#8212; and having them pop up unexpectedly on a disc we&#8217;d picked up for a dollar was a bit of a shocker.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that was a few short seconds at the end of an otherwise fairly standard cartoon. An even larger surprise was next to come, with the short &#8220;All This and Rabbit Stew&#8221;, from 1941. The cartoon itself is essentially another Bugs vs. Elmer Fudd series of gags, only instead of Fudd as the protagonist, we&#8217;re greeted with this young lad:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/04\/graphics\/atars_notfudd.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"That's not Elmer Fudd!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah&#8217;m gonna ca-a-a-atch me a ra-a-a-a-bit,&#8221; he says as he lopes along. &#8220;Oh my <em>god<\/em>,&#8221; said Prairie, and I couldn&#8217;t do much more at first than laugh somewhat nervously in amazement. Once you get over the initial shock (and accustom yourself to squirming a bit at watching something so blatantly racist by today&#8217;s standards), the cartoon&#8217;s not that terrible &#8212; as said, it&#8217;s basically a Bugs vs. Fudd story&#8230;only that&#8217;s certainly no Elmer Fudd!<\/p>\n<p>According to one customer review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2Fcustomer-reviews%2FB0006B6WWI%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_dp_pt%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26n%3D130%26s%3Ddvd\" title=\"Amazon: Customer Reviews for 'Cartoon Craze Presents: Bugs Bunny: Falling Hare'\">Amazon&#8217;s info page<\/a> (&#8220;Hare Today, but Surely Gone Tomrrow&#8221;, by Alajandra Vernon), this is actually one of <a href=\"http:\/\/looney.goldenagecartoons.com\/ltcuts\/ltcuts11.html\" title=\"Censored Looney Tunes: 'The Censored 11'\">eleven cartoons censored by United Artists in 1968<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  There is some stupendous animation in this Cartoon Craze collection that contains 4 Bugs Bunny episodes, and includes one that is on &#8220;The Censored 11&#8221; list, a list United Artists made in 1968 of eleven cartoons they deemed too politically incorrect or racist for today&#8217;s audiences. &#8220;All This and Rabbit Stew&#8221; is the offending cartoon, and there is a scene in &#8220;Fresh Hare&#8221; that also usually gets edited. When Ted Turner bought the cartoons from United Artists, he continued the ban, but Digiview has managed to get &#8220;Rabbit Stew&#8221; and an uncut version of &#8220;Fresh Hare&#8221; released.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Fresh Hare&#8221; (1942). Directed by Isadore &#8220;Friz&#8221; Freleng, animated by Manuel Perez.<br \/>\n  Mountie Elmer Fudd chases Bugs, saying &#8220;At wast the wong arm of the waw is weaching out and cwosing in on you.&#8221; This is an episode that usually has its final scene deleted (where Bugs along with Fudd and five Mounties sing &#8220;I Wish I Was in Dixie&#8221; and &#8220;Camptown Races&#8221; in blackface) but is here seen in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;All This and Rabbit Stew&#8221; (1941). Directed by Fred &#8220;Tex&#8221; Avery, animated by Virgil Ross.<br \/>\n  One of the 11 cartoons censored by United Artists, this edition will surely not be around for long. Watching this may make one wince, somewhat like watching &#8220;Birth of a Nation,&#8221; where the work is brilliant, but goes way over the line by today&#8217;s sensitivities.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually think it&#8217;s rather neat that we ended up with these. It certainly wasn&#8217;t what we expected when we popped the disc in, and I&#8217;d be cautious about showing them to kids without a parent around&#8230;but they&#8217;re historically interesting and important (if a little embarrassing), and I&#8217;ve long believed that things like this are better kept around so that they can be watched and discussed rather than just swept under a rug or locked in a vault somewhere in a misguided attempt to pretend we <em>never<\/em> produced things like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeastie Boys, The%2526songTerm=Stand Together%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Stand Together' on the iTMS\">Stand Together<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeastie Boys, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Beastie Boys, The' on the iTMS\">Beastie Boys, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeastie Boys, The%2526albumTerm=Check Your Head%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Check Your Head' on the iTMS\">Check Your Head<\/a><\/em> (1992, 2:47).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights ago, we popped in a collection of Bugs Bunny cartoons and settled back for a fun evening of cartoon silliness. 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