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Hare Tonic is a 1945 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones.

Plot

Elmer Fudd has purchased Bugs Bunny and is taking him home to make rabbit stew. Once there, Bugs easily secures his escape by distracting Elmer, tricking him into thinking the phone has rung. However, just as he's about to leave, he decides he'd rather stay and heckle his would-be devourer. Bugs effects a radio broadcast that warns of the dread disease "rabbititus," which is contracted from rabbits "sold within the last three days" and which causes people to see spots and have "delusions assuming the characteristics of rabbits", amongst other dubious symptoms. This frightens the gullible Elmer and he informs Bugs that he is free to leave. Bugs, however, points to a sign that says "quarantined due to rabbititus." Thus Bugs stays to torment Elmer and many hijinks ensue, including Bugs posings as a doctor ("Dr. Killpatient"). Finally, Elmer sees Bugs' game and chases him out of the house with a shotgun. But Bugs quickly halts the chase and convinces Elmer that members of the audience are now afflicted with rabbititus, which causes Elmer to flee back into his house in terror. Bugs then says the whole thing was a gag and that if the audience really had rabbititus, they'd see swirling red and yellow spots, whereupon red and yellow spots are seen swirling on the screen. Then, as Bugs says, "everything'd go black," which the screen does. Bugs laughs and the cartoon ends.

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