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Falling Hare is a 1943 Merrie Melodies
cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, starring Bugs Bunny. Within the cartoon are several pop culture references, including to Wendell Wilkie, John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men and the folk songs "Yankee Doodle" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad".

Synopsis

Bugs, while reclining on an Army Air Force base, reads Victory Through Hare Power and laughs at the book's claim that gremlins are sabotaging American planes. He immediately encounters one on the airfield experimentally striking a blockbuster bomb with a mallet. Noticing the gremlin's lack of success, Bugs offers to "take a whack at it" but comes to his senses an instant before striking the detonator. He is soon doing battle with the gremlin (and losing) in a flying but unpiloted bomber.

In a finale that brings Chico Marx's speech in A Night at the Opera to mind, the plane on which the two are fighting goes into a tailspin, but runs out of gasoline due to wartime rationing (the punchline of the cartoon is that the plane has only an "A Card", limiting the bearer to minimal gasoline purchases) and stops about six feet before hitting the ground, hanging in midair.

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