History WesternAnimation / WetHare

-->'''Jacques''': ''This'' is being '' saved''?

-->'''Jacques''': ''This'' is being saved?

* BrickJoke: A fairly subtle one, but Jacques’ eventual arrest by the police via launching himself into their paddywagon was signalled earlier by Bugs’ questioning Jacques’ supposed (legal) right to dam the river. Ironically, ABC would cut the earlier scene (due to Jacques pointing a gun in Bugs’ face as his answer), making the ending an OrphanedPunchline of sorts instead.

* ThreateningShark: When Jacques sees a shark fin in the water, he assumes it's one of Bugs' tricks and dives in to deal with him personally...only to see it really *was* a shark. Cue mad panic.

!!Tropes:

* MauriceChevalierAccent: Jacques talks in a grossly exaggarated French accent.

* BriarPatching: Bugs wins his final victory over Jacques by begging him not to destroy a series of dams, which Jacque of course does.

* SerialEscalation: The dams keep getting bigger, and Bugs’ schemes to get rid of them keep getting wackier.

* WaterfallShower

* ShoutOut: Each time he tries to take a shower Bugs sings “April Showers” in an imitation of Music/AlJolson.

'''Wet Hare''' is a 1962 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and rarely recurring villain Blacque Jacques Shellacque. It was directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson.

** During the final confrontation, he is so eager to one-up Bugs that he scoffs at this latest dam, thinking it to have been a hastily bunny-built creation ... and not seeing that it is the concrete Grand Cooler Dam (a play on "Grand Coulee"), and fires his cannon into it. However, before he realizes that it is a real dam, the cannonball ricochets off the dam and back into the muzzle of his cannon, the force of which blows him into a waiting police paddywagon, off to federal court to await terrorism charges.

* BriarPatching: Bugs wins his final victory over Jacque by begging him not to destroy a series of dams, which Jacque of course does.

* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Jacque swims out to meet the shark this way, when he thinks it’s just Bugs with a fake shark fin.

''Wet Hare'' is a 1962 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and rarely recurring villain Blacque Jacque Shellacque. It was directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson.

While taking a shower under a waterfall, Bugs is unpleasantly surprised to find the water drying up on him. He briefly worries that the water is simply gone, but then concludes that it’s probably the fault of beavers damming the river upstream. He goes to confront the beavers, but instead finds the villainous lumberjack Blacque Jacque Shellacque building an illegal rock dam in order to control the water supply and profit off the scarcity. Bugs removes a large rock at the top, which Jacque prompty replaces. He then asks what would happen if a little rock at the bottom of the dam became dislodged. Jacque is so eager to show that his dam is solid that he removes a small rock himself, and the whole thing comes crumbling down.

Bugs’ shower is again interrupted by the dam, which Jacques has rebuilt stronger. Standing on top of the dam Jacque sees a shark fin. He assumes this to be another trick by Bugs and goes out to meet it with a knife in his teeth. It turns out to be a real shark. Bugs saves Jacques from the predator but at the same time crashes a log boat through the dam, destroying it again.

Jacque builds a third, even bigger dam. Bugs throws a stick of dynamite at it, which Jacques easily catches. It blows up in his face, of course, and Jacque doesn’t notice an entire raft full of dynamite heading for the dam.

Jacque follows the sound of Bugs’ singing voice to the waterfall and hits what he thinks is Bugs with a rifle blast. Instead he’s destroyed Bugs’ Victrola, enraging the rabbit. Finally he builds another dam, this time out of steel. This time his own supply of water has been cut off, by a dam that Bugs built. Jacque destroys a series of dams that Bugs has built while Bugs begs him to stop. Finally he gets to the Grand Cooler Dam, which he tries to destroy with a cannonball. The cannonball ricochets, plowing into Jacque and knocking him into a police van that drives him away. Bugs says that he’s sure he’ll see Jacque again, “In, uh, about 20 years."

* CatchPhrase: The Victrola being destroyed prompts Bugs to say, “Of course you realize this means war.”

''Wet Hare'' is a 1962 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and rarely recurring villain Blacque Jacque Shellacque. It was directed by Robert [=McKimson=].