Horse Hare
Horse Hare is a cartoon produced by Warner Bros back at 1960 . Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on February 13, 1960, and stars Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. It was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon released in the 1960s.[1]
Plot
The year is 1886, and Sergeant Bugs is assigned to protect a U.S. Calvary outpost, Fort Lariat, from invaders. Yosemite Sam, accompanied by local Indians, attempts to invade the fort and fails on several occasions, aggravating the Indians in the process. The story concludes with Bugs and Sam in the middle of a clash between the returning Calvary and the Indians. Bugs manages to escape into a hole in the ground, while Sam and his mule do not-and get flattened.
The Controversy
On The Merrie Melodies Show, the entire sequence of Bugs Bunny shooting the Indians attacking the fort and singing "Ten Little Indians" as he marks off the number of Indians he's killed (and shortening one of the tallies after he notices that the one he shot was a half-breed) was cut.[2] Ten Little Indians song itself got a lot of criticisms because of the use of the racist words.
Because of pressure from AOL Time Warner, this cartoon was one of 12 pulled from rotation by Cartoon Network during its 2001 "June Bugs" marathon due to its negative caricatures of Native Americans.
External Link
Watch Horse Hare at Dailymotion
Horse Hare at IMDb
See Also
Ten Little Indians
Censored Eleven
References
- ↑ Horse Hare, retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ↑ Horse Hare, Looney Tunes Fandom. Retrieved January 8, 2021.