''Hare Lift'' is a 1952

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'' Looney Tunes'' short directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on December 20, 1952, and stars

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and

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. The title is a play on the term "air lift," as expressed in the plotline.

Plot

A newspaper announces the test flight of the world's biggest airplane. The plane lands at an airport, its giant wheel covering

's hole. Bugs struggles out and, impressed by the plane, decides to take a look inside. Meanwhile, in town,

robs the Last National Bank ("and keep a-reachin' for the ceilin'- till ya' REACH it!!") then wipes off the assets, which read $4,562,321.08 (stolen amount ), down to 8 cents. He hears the police approach and drives off to the airport, with plans to hijack a plane and take refuge in another country where the cops cannot find him. Inside the plane, Bugs has started to pretend he is a

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, and when Sam boards, he assumes Bugs is the pilot and orders him to take off at once. Before Bugs can protest, Sam threatens to shoot him. Bugs succeeds in finding the ignition button, and the plane sets off down the runway and flies over a busy traffic intersection. Racing toward a skyscraper, Bugs pulls the plane up into

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, sending Sam falling to the plane's tail. When it seems as if the plane is about to crash into the

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, Bugs steers the plane back down toward

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, sending Sam falling to the plane's nose. As Sam threatens to have Bugs' license revoked, he discovers the rabbit reading a flying manual and realizes in horror that Bugs is not a pilot and has absolutely no idea how to fly the aircraft. Noticing the Earth growing larger in the window and worrying that they might fatally crash to the ground if Bugs does not do something quick, Sam orders Bugs to read faster, or else. Bugs, however, refuses to read any further in the manual because of Sam's mean talk and orders him to apologize. Sam slaps himself in the head. The

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appears in the window; Sam apologizes to Bugs, but not without insulting him. Bugs then orders Sam to "say

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sorry with sugar on it." Sam refuses and tries to act nonchalant by playing with a yo-yo and a set of jacks. As a

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appears in the window, Sam finally gives in and apologizes properly. Bugs steers the plane straight back up to the sky, just barely missing the farm in the process, and goes to radio the authorities to inform them that he is bringing the plane back. Sam then orders Bugs to give him the flying manual to keep him from heading back to town where the cops are after him, but Bugs throws it out the open door. Sam runs out to retrieve it, but upon discovering how high he is, he "runs" back in. Bugs then lets Sam slip on a

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and out the other door. When he hears Sam knocking at the door, Bugs pretends to be a grocer ("Sorry, can't use any today! '' lams door on him' Try next Wednesday."). Burning with anger, Sam bursts back in and threatens to blow Bugs to Kingdom Come. Since Sam happens to be standing on the bomb bay doors, Bugs pulls a cord and sends Sam falling out of the plane. Sam panics mid-air and scrambles back into the plane. Fed up with Bugs' flying, Sam orders Bugs to turn the controls over to him. Instead, Bugs breaks off the

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and tosses it out of the plane, causing the aircraft to descend. Afraid of crashing, Sam activates the

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pilot. The pilot comes out, assesses the situation, concludes it is hopeless, takes one of the two parachutes from the parachute locker, and jumps out of the plane itself. With just one parachute left, Bugs decides he and Sam should draw straws to see who gets it. Sam suggests that Bugs should draw the straws, then quickly grabs the parachute and his bag of stolen money. Sam jumps out, opens the parachute, and, while shouting at Bugs ("So long, sucker! Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Ha-ha...Hoo-hoo...Hoo-hoo... Wooooh...."), the trailing off "hoo's" and "woooh's" come when he lands with the bank's bag of stolen money in his hands into a conveniently arriving police car full of officers. Bugs manages to stop the plane in midair (just a few feet from the ground) by pulling a lever (an ending reminiscent of that of ''

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''). He is just thankful the plane comes with " air brakes" (a play on a different type of " air brakes").

Notes

Some scenes where Yosemite Sam has trouble staying inside the plane as well as the banana peel gag sending him outside the door, sticking to it in fear, were somewhat reused from the 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon ''

''. Scenes from this cartoon were reused in the 1963 Merrie Melodies cartoon '' Devil's Feud Cake'' and "Act 1" of the 1981 package film ''

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''.

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