"Now just a minute, Doc!"
The Windblown Hare is a 1949 Looney Tunes cartoon starring Bugs Bunny. It was directed by Robert McKimson.
After reading their own story, The Three Little Pigs decide to sell their straw and stick houses before the Big Bad Wolf blows them down, with Bugs being the unfortunate buyer. When the Wolf blows the houses down, Bugs retaliates in his usual manner, until he learns that both he and the Wolf have been had. The Pigs don't laugh for long.
"The Windblown Hare" provides examples of:
- Adaptational Jerkass: Here, the Three Little Pigs are major jerks who trick Bugs into taking their homes so he has to deal with the Wolf instead of them. Those same pigs would continue being jerks on their next cartoon, "The Turn-Tale Wolf".
- Adaptational Nice Guy: On the other hand, the Big Bad Wolf isn't a bad guy at all and is just following what the book says. When he goes to take care of Grandma in Little Red Riding Hood, he just makes her leave the house rather than eating her, since he ain't got time.
- Bowdlerization: On CBS' The Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Show, the part where Bugs (as Little Red Riding Hood) pokes the wolf in the eyes after saying "What big eyes you have, Grandma!" was cut.
- Brainy Pig: The three little pigs are guile conmen smart enough to dupe Bugs, of all people, into buying their houses which the wolf was going to blow down.
- Disguised in Drag: Bugs dresses as Little Red Riding Hood to trick the Wolf. The Wolf in turn disguises himself as Grandma like in the story.
- Duck Season, Rabbit Season: The lightswitch variant. When the Wolf chases Bugs down to the basement, Bugs would turn off the light, causing the Wolf to run back up the stairs to turn them back on. Eventually, Bugs simply says "Click!", causing the Wolf to run back and turn the lights off and get hit in the head by Bugs in the dark.
- Everything Explodes Ending: Bugs convinces the Wolf to try to blow down the pigs' brick house, despite the book saying it's impossible. So he tries anyway, and after a pause, the house blows up.
- Eye Poke: Bugs pokes the Wolf in the eyes while pretending to be Little Red Riding Hood, right after asking him "What big eyes you've got!" He goes on to do the same with the nose and ears, then the Wolf returns the favor.
- Get Out!: The Wolf screams this at Grandma while throwing her out of her own house.
- Motor Mouth: When Bugs poses as Little Red Riding Hood, he gives the Wolf the story, and hilariously, he proceeds to speed-read it out loud very fast. (The lines are clearly sped up, as evidenced by the higher pitch of the Wolf.)
- Multiple Reference Pun: Bugs, having unmasked the Wolf:Bugs: Why Granny, you're just a wolf in cheap clothing!
- Noble Wolf: The Wolf is actually a swell guy who plays the role of a villain because it's what the book says. The only time he turns into a Savage Wolf is when Bugs starts retaliating for blowing his houses down.
- Not Hyperbole: When the Wolf sees a sign that says "Shortcut to Grandma's House", he races down it... and crashes into the front door.
- Pet the Dog: Bugs himself gets one when he advises the Wolf to read “Red Riding Hood” in his fairy tales book, even giving the wolf time to read the story and get to Grandma’s house before him.
- Punch-Clock Villain: The Big Bad Wolf has no actual malice, he's just following what the book says. Though he only got antagonistic towards Bugs when the latter retaliated for blowing his houses down.
- Reading Ahead in the Script: The characters from "The Three Little Pigs" have read their own story and know exactly how it's supposed to turn out. (Makes the jerkassery easier to understand.)
- Team Rocket Wins: The Wolf, with some outside assistance from Bugs, successfully blows down the Three Little Pigs' brick house.
- Tempting Fate: When Bugs says he won't give the Wolf the present he brought for him, he begs "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!". In his usual fashion, Bugs gives him a Pie in the Face, saying "Always remember, you asked for it!".
- This Means War!: After the Wolf blows down the stick house, Bugs makes his usual declaration of war.
- Word, Schmord!: When the Wolf states to Bugs that the book says he's not able to blow down the brick house, Bugs retaliates:"Book, schnook, blow the house down!"
