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A Hare Grows in Manhattan

February 13, 1947

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Bugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.

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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection: Season 3 - 54 Episode s

3x1 - Hare Force
February 1, 1944
On a cold snowy night a frozen Bugs gets taken in by a kind old lady and set by the fireplace. The woman's dog can only think of ways to kill the rabbit and a war begins between the two for who gets the boot outside to the shivering cold.
3x2 - Hare Remover
February 8, 1946
Elmer Fudd is a mad scientist who wants to turn Bugs Bunny into a fiend. Bugs tricks this ersatz Dr. Jekyll into drinking his own mixture; later, each thinks the other has changed into a bear.
3x3 - Hare Tonic
February 12, 1945
Bugs Bunny tricks Elmer Fudd into believing his house has been quarantined for something called "rabbititus."
3x4 - A Hare Grows in Manhattan
February 13, 1947
Bugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.
3x5 - Easter Yeggs
February 14, 1947
Bugs Bunny delivers eggs for the lazy Easter Bunny; he encounters a sadistic brat and a rabbit stew-hungry Elmer Fudd.
3x6 - The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
February 17, 1942
Elmer Fudd and his dogs are hunting for Bugs Bunny in the woods. As Fudd is about to shoot Bugs, he receives a telegram telling him that his uncle is leaving him three million dollars on the condition he doesn't harm any animals.
3x7 - Bowery Bugs
February 19, 1949
Bugs Bunny recounts a story of how he tricked a man so much so that he jumped off a bridge.
3x8 - Homeless Hare
February 21, 1950
A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.
3x9 - Case of the Missing Hare
February 23, 1942
Bugs' home in a hollow tree is marred when the magician, Ala Bahma, plasters his show posters all over it. Bugs goes to the show to heckle.
3x10 - Acrobatty Bunny
February 24, 1946
When the circus arrives they put the lion's cage right over Bugs' rabbit hole.
3x11 - Wackiki Wabbit
February 25, 1943
On a tropical island a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.
3x12 - Hare Do
February 26, 1949
Elmer Fudd hunts for Bugs with an army surplus wabbit detector but it doesn't seem to work when Bugs leads him off a cliff. Bugs hitchhikes to a local theatre to get away from Elmer but he finds Bugs
3x13 - Rebel Rabbit
February 27, 1949
The signs indicate current bounty prices: for a fox, for a bear, only 2 cents for a rabbit. Bugs is insulted.
3x14 - Hillbilly Hare
February 28, 1950
While vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Bugs Bunny encounters Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin, two dimwitted hillbillies who are duped by Bugs into a violent square dance.
3x15 - Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
March 2, 1953
The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy" once again has Elmer out hunting, while Bugs and Daffy try to con him into shooting the other.
3x16 - Daffy Duck in Hollywood
March 3, 1938
Daffy Duck wreaks havoc on a movie set at Wonder Pictures ("if it's good, it's a Wonder"). Daffy's creative editing impresses producer I. M. Stupendous.
3x17 - Hollywood Capers
March 4, 1935
Beans sneaks in to a Hollywood movie studio lot, where he gets into a heap of trouble.
3x18 - The CooCoo Nut Grove
March 5, 1936
A night at the Cocanut Grove night club. Many Hollywood celebrities are caricatured. Ben Birdie (Ben Bernie) leads the house band. In real life he had an ongoing feud with Walter Winchel. This feud is addressed in the cartoon with Winchel being called Walter Windpipe. The great torch singer Helen Morgan is caricatured singing the Dubin and Warren song The Little Things You Use To Do. Her singing such a sad song as to drive the crowd into uncontrolled crying is the main joke in the story. Other stars caricatured are Edna Mae Oliver, George Raft, Katharine Hepburn (Miss Heartburn), W.C. Fields, Johnny Weissmuller, The Dionne Quintuplets, Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks, Mae West, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Clark Gable, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Wallace Beery, Edna May Oliver, George Arliss and Gary Cooper.
3x19 - Porky's Road Race
March 6, 1937
It's race day, and first prize is million (less ,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky's little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. When the black #13 driven by "Borax Karoff" makes a bid for the finish line, can Porky fend him off?
3x20 - The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos
March 7, 1937
A program for radio KUKU set in the woods, mostly starring birds as caricatures of celebrities of the day. The MC is bandleader Ben Birdie, heckled by Walter Finchell. Wendell Howell prepares to lead a singalong; he gives several different page numbers in the songbook, then says, "Never mind, we won't use the books." The audience, responding "Oh yes we will" pelts him. Billy Goat and Ernie Bear introduce and sing the title song. Everyone sings along, except a fox, who informed he's singing the wrong song, responds, "Why don't somebody tell me these things?" We pan across a series of celebrity guests, like W.C. Field-mouse, Dick Fowl, Deanna Terrapin, Bing Crowsby, and the high-note competing duo of Grace Moose and Lily Swans. Tizzie Fish has a cooking segment. Finally, Louella Possums introduces a company performing a scene from The Prodigal's Return.
3x21 - She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
March 8, 1937
A typical afternoon at the movies is lampooned in this looney trip to the cinema.
3x22 - The Film Fan
March 9, 1939
Porky Pig is on his way to the store to pick up some groceries for his mother when he walks by a sign saying that the local movie theater is having a "kids admitted free" day. The excited Porky rushes in and views a series of spoofs of newsreels, movie trailers, feature films, and even the Lone Ranger!
3x23 - Speaking of the Weather
March 10, 1937
It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, and sentenced to, of course "Life" (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed "Escape" magazine....
3x24 - Thugs with Dirty Mugs
March 11, 1939
Killer and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order, except they skip the 13th National Bank. The police are unable to catch them, despite their predictability (and their endless sight gags). Finally, they get help from an unlikely source: the guy in the front of the theatre who sat through the picture before. They capture Killer, and he gets a long sentence, which he has to write on the blackboard 1,000 times.
3x25 - Goofy Groceries
March 12, 1941
Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.
3x26 - Swooner Crooner
March 13, 1944
Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.
3x27 - Wideo Wabbit
March 14, 1956
Bugs Bunny is chased by Elmer Fudd throughout a TV studio and its various productions.
3x28 - The Honey-Mousers
March 15, 1956
The Honey-Mousers are starved for food and a cat stands between them and the refrigerator. Ralph and his friend concoct unsuccessful cat-passing techniques, the best being a Trojan dog made from a barrel.
3x29 - The Last Hungry Cat
March 16, 1961
Sylvester Cat slips when making a grab for Tweety Bird in Granny's flat, and falls dazed to the floor as one of Tweety's feathers lands in his mouth. Tweety runs off. Sylvester comes to and finds the feather lodged between his lips. He thinks he has swallowed and killed Tweety and suffers terrible remorse as an Alfred Hitchcock-like voice-over chides him for his "crime". Sylvester cracks, runs into the streets confessing, and returns to Granny's place, where he finds he didn't eat Tweety after all.
3x30 - The Mouse That Jack Built
March 17, 1959
A mouse version of The Jack Benny Program (1950).
3x31 - I Haven't Got a Hat
March 18, 1935
The occasion is a school musical with many acts in which each of them end with a problem. The biggest one being when Beans pulls a gag on Oliver and embarrasses him in front of the rest of the students.
3x32 - Porky's Romance
March 19, 1937
The introduction cartoon for Petunia Pig deals with Porky's courtship with her. Once he's won her hand in marriage, he fantasizes about his future with her, which doesn't seem very appealing.
3x33 - Porky's Party
March 20, 1938
Porky's birthday. His uncle sends him a silkworm that churns out articles of clothing when it hears the word "sew." After a sock and a bra, Porky stuffs it in a pocket to prepare for his party. He uses some hair tonic, then his dog Black Fury has some for himself it's 99% alcohol. The guests arrive: a penguin and a goose. The penguin, shoveling in the food, accidentally swallows the worm, which starts churning out top hats, which pop open inside the penguin's head. The goose tries increasingly violent ways of remedying this. Meanwhile, Porky's dog, lathered with shaving cream, runs in and is branded a mad dog.
3x34 - Porky in Egypt
March 21, 1938
Porky is a tourist. He's missed the main camel, so he rents one of his own. Both of them are soon overcome by the hot desert sun; the camel starts hallucinating, and marches off, playing the bagpipes. Porky sees the camel swimming in a pool, but it turns out to be a mirage. The camel eventually recovers enough to bring both of them back to town, where Porky goes mad.
3x35 - Porky and Teabiscuit
March 22, 1939
Porky accidentally buys an old horse at an auction and must enter him in a race to recoup his loss.
3x36 - Pigs Is Pigs
March 23, 1954
A stubbornly officious station master's stand-off with a miserly customer over the shipping rate for transporting guinea pigs gets completely out of hand.
3x37 - Pigs in a Polka
March 24, 1943
The story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.
3x38 - Porky Pig's Feat
March 25, 1943
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.
3x39 - Daffy Duck Slept Here
March 26, 1948
Porky Pig fights to get a room in the only vacant hotel in town. Unfortunately, he must share his room with Daffy Duck, who irritates Porky and makes the night uncomfortable for him.
3x40 - Bye, Bye Bluebeard
March 27, 1949
Bluebeard the killer is at large, and in Porky Pig's home, a crafty mouse disguises himself as Bluebeard to scare Porky into providing him with a generous serving of food. Just as Porky realizes the mouse is too tiny to be Bluebeard, the real Bluebeard appears and ties Porky onto a rocket, intending to blast the pig into orbit! But when Bluebeard is distracted by Porky's food and decides to help himself to it, he his challenged by the mouse, who leads him on a chase.
3x41 - An Egg Scramble
March 28, 1950
On Porky Pig's farm, Miss Prissy, a slow-witted hen, has never laid an egg. So, one of her fellow hens paints Prissy's name on an egg and places it in Prissy's nest. Prissy believes she laid the egg and proudly refuses to let Porky have it to give to a market's truck. Porky takes the egg from her and gives it to the driver of the truck. Prissy follows the truck to a nearby city, determined to regain her egg. She grabs it from a woman in a house and flees. Convinced she's being chased by police, Prissy takes refuge in a run-down building where Pretty Boy Bagel, an escaped criminal, is also hiding out.
3x42 - Robin Hood Daffy
March 29, 1958
Daffy attempts to convince Porky, as Friar Tuck, that he really is Robin Hood.
3x43 - The Windblown Hare
March 30, 1949
Bugs Bunny gets swindled by the Three Little Pigs into buying their houses of straw and wood.
3x44 - Claws for Alarm
March 31, 1954
Porky Pig doesn't realize that the old hotel where he and Sylvester are spending the night is really part of a ghost town. It's only Sylvester who sees the band of murderous mice trying to do them in, while Porky chalks his fears up to insanity.
3x45 - Rocket Squad
April 1, 1956
In a futuristic city, Detectives Monday and Tuesday pursue a wanted criminal.
3x46 - Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
April 2, 1939
Go back billions of years to the dinosaur age with Caspar Caveman and his pet dino, Fido. Caspar spots Daffy in a lake and hunts him but Daffy just keeps outsmarting him.
3x47 - Super-Rabbit
April 3, 1943
Bugs Bunny becomes a superhero who does battle with a rabbit-hating cowboy and his horse.
3x48 - Daffy Duck & Egghead
April 4, 1938
A very early appearance of a barely recognizable Daffy Duck, seen here tormenting Egghead, a prototype Elmer Fudd who is just as unsuccessful with ducks as he was later to be with a certain wascally wabbit.
3x49 - A Gruesome Twosome
April 5, 1945
Two cats (one a caricature of Jimmy Durante) battle violently for the affections of a pretty girl cat, who'll dispense her favors on the one who brings her a little bird. Unfortunately for the lovestruck felines, the bird in question is a vicious little thing named Tweety.
3x50 - Draftee Daffy
April 6, 1945
Daffy Duck is desperate to elude the draft board representative bearing his conscription order.
3x51 - Falling Hare
April 7, 1943
Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.
3x52 - Steal Wool
April 8, 1957
alph Wolf tries to forcibly remove Sam Sheepdog in order to gain access to a flock of sheep. Without success, he uses a lasso, cannon, a string of firecrackers, and a giant rubber band.
3x53 - Birds Anonymous
April 9, 1957
When Sylvester learns of the possibly dire consequences of his passion for birds, he joins Birds Anonymous to quit. Unfortunately, the outside world taxes his resolve to the limit.
3x54 - No Barking
April 10, 1954
In a junkyard, Frisky Puppy's loud yapping keeps high-strung Claude Cat jumping, onto trains, planes and up past Tweety Bird's nest.

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection: All seasons

S3: Volume Three
60 Episode s

3x1 - Hare Force

3x2 - Hare Remover

3x3 - Hare Tonic

3x4 - A Hare Grows in Manhattan

3x5 - Easter Yeggs

3x6 - The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

3x7 - Bowery Bugs

3x8 - Homeless Hare

3x9 - Case of the Missing Hare

3x10 - Acrobatty Bunny

3x11 - Wackiki Wabbit

3x12 - Hare Do

3x13 - Rebel Rabbit

3x14 - Hillbilly Hare

3x15 - Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

3x16 - Daffy Duck in Hollywood

3x17 - Hollywood Capers

3x18 - The CooCoo Nut Grove

3x19 - Porky's Road Race

3x20 - The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos

3x21 - She Was an Acrobat's Daughter

3x22 - The Film Fan

3x23 - Speaking of the Weather

3x24 - Thugs with Dirty Mugs

3x25 - Goofy Groceries

3x26 - Swooner Crooner

3x27 - Wideo Wabbit

3x28 - The Honey-Mousers

3x29 - The Last Hungry Cat

3x30 - The Mouse That Jack Built

3x31 - I Haven't Got a Hat

3x32 - Porky's Romance

3x33 - Porky's Party

3x34 - Porky in Egypt

3x35 - Porky and Teabiscuit

3x36 - Pigs Is Pigs

3x37 - Pigs in a Polka

3x38 - Porky Pig's Feat

3x39 - Daffy Duck Slept Here

3x40 - Bye, Bye Bluebeard

3x41 - An Egg Scramble

3x42 - Robin Hood Daffy

3x43 - The Windblown Hare

3x44 - Claws for Alarm

3x45 - Rocket Squad

3x46 - Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

3x47 - Super-Rabbit

3x48 - Daffy Duck & Egghead

3x49 - A Gruesome Twosome

3x50 - Draftee Daffy

3x51 - Falling Hare

3x52 - Steal Wool

3x53 - Birds Anonymous

3x54 - No Barking

S3: Volume Three