Bugs Bunny - 113 - Upswept Hare

Upswept Hare is a 1952-animated Merrie Melodies cartoon released in 1953 and re-issued in 1961 as a Blue Ribbon featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. ___________ The story opens at night with an unseen Bugs preparing to go to sleep. A highway is in the background and immediately after Bugs retires Elmer Fudd drives up because he has seen a rare desert flower next to Bugs’ hole that he wants to put in his tropical garden. Elmer does not notice the rabbit hole and is unaware of Bugs’ presence, but he is careful when digging up the flower to include lots of room so that the flower can “prosper in its native soil“. Elmer does not realize is that he has unknowingly taken Bugs as well as the flower back to his penthouse apartment.