Bugs Bunny & Cecil Turtle cartoon: Tortoise beats hare (1941)
Tortoise Beats Hare is a 1941 Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Tex Avery. The short stars Bugs Bunny and, in his first appearance, Cecil Turtle. Even from the cartoon's opening titles, Avery lets on that Bugs Bunny is about to meet his match. Tortoise Beats Hare is, of course, a take off of the Aesop fable The Tortoise and the Hare. But even more directly, it is Avery's parody of the 1934 Disney Silly Symphony, The Tortoise and the Hare. Interestingly, Max Hare from the earlier Disney film is often cited as one of the inspirations behind Bugs Bunny.
this sure is one of my favorites :D
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