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''Herr Meets Hare'' is a 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, under the Merrie Melodies series. This short, coming a few months before the collapse of the Third Reich, was one of the last major wartime cartoons from Warner Bros.. It was released 4 months and 27 days before Adolf Hitler committed suicide. ''Herr Meets Hare'' also sets up two important facets of Bugs Bunny: one in which Bugs would realize he "should have made a left toin () at Albukoykee". The other is an extended dance sequence in the middle, which would later be retooled by Chuck Jones into ''What's Opera, Doc?''. ==Synopsis== The cartoon opens with a faux Walter Winchell-like voice discussing the end of Germany, saying that "Germany has been battered into a fare-thee-well", and musing about where the high leadership, and "Fatso" Göring in particular has gone. The scene soon cuts to the Black Forest, where Hermann Göring - in bemedalled lederhosen - is "soothing his jangled nerves" marching while on a hunt. Nearby, a familiar furrow in the ground appears, with a hole at the end. Bugs pops out of the hole, and sees no sign of the Black Forest on his map. (Variants on this comment would be used in later cartoons as the lead-in to the joke that Bugs while tunneling did indeed turn wrong somewhere in New Mexico, usually by not taking a left turn at Albuquerque, this cartoon being the first time Bugs says his popular catchphrase: "I KNEW I ‘shoulda’ (have ) made ‘dat’ () left ‘toin’ () in ‘Albakoikie’ ()"). Bugs asks Göring about the directions to Las Vegas, oblivious to his location. Göring is almost tricked into going to Las Vegas, but then quickly realizes he’s being tricked and replies: "Las Veegas? Why, there is no Las Veegas in Germany!" For once genuinely alarmed by his mistaken destination, Bugs hightails it, saying "‘Joimany’ ()? Yipe!". Göring chases after him, sucking him with his musket as a plunger. A few chase gags go by in which Bugs insults the integrity of Göring’s medals by bending one with his teeth. Suckered into bending one himself, Göring declares them ersatz and mumbles all sorts of anti-Hitler sentiments ("Oh, do I hate that Hitler swine, that phony führer, that…").〔Shull, Wilt (2004), p. 181-182〕 Bugs masquerades as Adolf Hitler using a bit of mud, and faces the surprised Göring. Göring disappears off-screen in a flash to change into his Nazi uniform adorned with all sorts of medals. After the usual Nazi salute, Bugs berates him in faux German as he strips Göring of his medals (Klooten-flooten-blooten-pooten-meirooten-tooten!) and even his belt, causing Göring to "kiss" in reverence, saying in order: "Look! I kiss mein Führer’s hand. I kiss right in der Führer’s face!" (the joke being a wildly popular song at the time of the same name composed by Oliver Wallace, and performed by Spike Jones’s band, and the subject of a rival short animated subject from the Walt Disney Company. Afterwards, Göring exclaims "Oh, I’m a bad flooten-boy-glooten!", a variant on Warner Bros. cartoons’ frequently-cited Lou Costello-type catchphrase: "I’m a bad boy!". Later, when the jig is up, Bugs rides in on a white horse, dressed as Brünhilde – from Wagnerian opera, to the tune of the "Pilgrims’ Chorus" from “Tannhäuser”). Entranced, Göring responds by dressing up as Siegfried. The two dance, before Bugs once again makes a fool of Göring and escapes (a scene later re-used in ''What's Opera, Doc?'', co-starring Elmer Fudd).〔Goldmark (2005), p. 143-145〕 Eventually, Göring gets a hawk to capture Bugs. Bugs asks "Do you think he’ll catch me, doc?"; to which Göring replies "Will he catch you? Why, he’ll have you back here faster than you can say Schicklgruber." (Schicklgruber was the original surname of Hitler’s father Alois.) The hawk imitates Jimmy Durante and captures Bugs in a bag. Göring brings the bag to Hitler, who plays solitaire in front of a map depicting the decline of Fortress Europe.〔 Göring identifies the captive in the bag as "Bugsenheimer Bunny" (as opposed to ‘Weisenheimer’, or "wise guy") to ''der Führer''.〔During this final sequence, realistic hand prints are visible on a wall map. These prints represent a signature of background artist Robert Gribbroek, who is not credited in this cartoon.〕 As Herr Hitler talks of the great rewards he’s going to pile upon Göring for this act of heroism, he peeks inside the bag and is shocked ("Ach!! Himmel!"). Göring goes and looks inside the bag as well, to be shocked as well (Again, "Ach!! Himmel!"). Out of the bag comes Bugs dressed as Joseph Stalin — complete with an enormous pipe and a large moustache — staring back at them.〔 Göring and Hitler flee. As the cartoon ends, Bugs glances back at the camera and asks, in a Russian accent: "Does your tobacco taste different lately?" citing an ad slogan of that era for the Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco manufactured by the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herr Meets Hare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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