On two later occasions Bugs again distracts Jones and sends him into a rage-first when he sings " My Gal is a High-Born Lady" with a harp, which results in Jones trapping Bugs' neck by closing both sides of the harp like a vise, and then by performing "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba" on a sousaphone, after which Jones bumps Bugs' head repeatedly against a tree branch. Jones absent-mindedly starts singing along with Bugs, then angrily walks over to his rabbit hole and destroys the banjo. His singing distracts opera singer Giovanni Jones, who is trying to rehearse " Largo al Factotum" in a nearby Frank Lloyd Wright-style house. On a hillside, Bugs is singing " A Rainy Night in Rio" as he plays a banjo. Nicolai Shutorov provides the singing voice of Giovanni Jones. In addition to including the homophones "hair" and "hare", the title is also a pun on "longhairs", a characterization of classical music lovers. Pictures as part of the Looney Tunes series, and was the 60th short to feature Bugs Bunny. "Bugs" or "Bugsy" as a nickname means "crazy".Long-Haired Hare is a 1949 American animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. When Bugs meets other characters who are also "winners", however, like Cecil the Turtle in Tortoise Beats Hare, or, in World War II, the Gremlin of Falling Hare, his record is rather dismal his overconfidence tends to work against him. Other directors like Friz Freleng had Bugs go out of his way to help others in trouble, again creating an acceptable circumstance for his mischief. Thus offended, (usually three times) Bugs would often state "Of course, you realize this means war" (a line which Jones noted was taken from Groucho Marx) and the audience gives Bugs silent permission to inflict his havoc, having earned his right to retaliate and/or defend himself. Worrying that audiences would lose sympathy for an aggressor who always won, Jones found the perfect way to make Bugs sympathetic in the films by having the antagonist repeatedly bully, cheat or threaten Bugs in some way. This is especially obvious in films directed by Chuck Jones, who liked to pit "winners" against "losers". Almost invariably, Bugs comes out the winner in these conflicts, because that is in his nature. Coyote, who usually takes on the Road Runner. He is noted for his signature line of "Eh, what's up, doc?" and his feuds with Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian, Daffy Duck, and even Wile E. But according to Mel Blanc, his voice actor, his accent is an equal blend of someone from the Bronx and someone from Brooklyn. According to his biography, he was "born" in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York and the product of five fathers: Bob Clampett (who created a prototypical version of the character in 1938), Tex Avery (who developed Bugs' definitive personality in 1940), Robert McKimson (created the definitive Bugs Bunny character design), Chuck Jones, and Friz Freleng. Bugs Bunny is this funny rabbit appearing in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, and is one of the most recognizable characters, real or imaginary, in the world.
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