"SWIFT HARE"
(not affiliated with Warner Bros.)
After his ship
goes down in a raging storm, sailor Lemuel "Bugs"
Gulliver regains consciousness on a deserted beach. Hoping that
everyone else in the crew gets to dry land safely, Bugs begins to
explore his surroundings. He trips and falls on what he thinks is
an oddly constructed roller skate which is really a farmer's cart.
Famished, he mistakes a grove of tiny trees for a carrot patch.
Pulling one of the "carrots" out of the ground, he
chomps into it and spits out a mouthful of clothespins. As he
inspects the "carrot" stub, a tiny voice orders "Suwwender,
giant!". The voice belongs to the half-inch tall Captain of
the Royal Guard of Lilliput, Elmer Fudd. Hearing the word "giant",
Bugs flattens to the ground for cover. "No funny stuff,
giant!" says the voice. The tiny Elmer draws a tiny sword
and stabs Bugs's toe. Bugs leaps to his feet and when Elmer stabs
his OTHER foot, Bugs sits down to tend to 2 painful toes. Elmer
climbs up on Bugs's nose and orders "Come peacefully, giant,
or I'll have to use force!". When Bugs asks "You and
what army, Doc?", he is mobbed by a swarm of tiny soldiers
who tie him to a cart drawn by 4 horses. Bugs rolls his eyes
toward the viewer and quips "When am I gonna learn to keep
my big mouth shut?"
Bugs is wheeled through the streets
of Lilliput, which is populated by other tiny Looney Tunes
characters. Tweety Bird, wearing an apron and sweeping the
sidewalk in front of a fish market, gestures to someone inside
the market. Sylvester the Cat, also wearing an apron and holding
a small fish by the tail, pokes his head out the door and they
both watch the giant rabbit pass by. Barber Wile E. Coyote and
his customer the Road Runner also pause to see what's going on.
The procession passes a public commons where Foghorn Leghorn and
Barnyard Dog are playing chess. While Barnyard Dog is distracted
by the passing spectacle, Foghorn moves the pieces around on the
chess board and announces "Checkmate!" when Barnyard
Dog turns his attention back to the game. Bugs is drawn into the
castle of His Royal Highness, King (Yosemite) Sam of Lilliput.
Surrounded by an army of crossbow archers under the command of
Daffy Duck, Bugs is freed from his rope bonds and ordered to
"Stand before the King!" Still sitting on the tiny
cart, Bugs notices that his head is only a few inches from the
ceiling. He looks toward the viewer, shrugs and begins to rise to
his full standing height. The roof of the castle begins to bulge
and one of the guard towers collapses as Bugs emerges through the
roof . "Sit down, you overgrown varmint!" orders King
Sam. The Royal Page is summoned to read the charges against Bugs.
The Tasmanian Devil, wearing a powdered wig, a wide-brimmed hat
with a large feather in its band, a ceremonial sword and a beauty
mark on his face, struts out and unrolls a scroll. He reads the
charges in unintelligible gibberish while pantomiming the actions
of a giant demolishing a town. Accused of being being sent to
destroy Lilliput, Bugs is ordered to sign a confession of guilt.
When he balks and threatens to leave via the hole he made in the
castle roof ("Uh, excuse me, Doc,
but I refuse to answer any of the charges until I come back with
my attorney"), Daffy gives the command for the archers to
fire. Their tiny arrows have no effect, so Elmer wheels in a tiny
lighted cannon. Bugs laughs heartily as he picks it up and holds
it mere inches from his face. The cannon explodes like an atom
bomb and Bugs, now blackened from the ears to his waist, is
momentarily stunned. He shakes off the effects of the blast and
leaps through the hole in the roof.
As he bounds through the streets of
Lilliput, he leaps over buildings to get away. He lands behind
the town hall, but his ears betray his hiding place. Elmer wheels
in another of the tiny cannons, and Bugs is blown from his hiding
place sideways. After 2 more such encounters with Elmer's tiny
cannons, Bugs realizes that his ears are giving him away, so he
ducks behind another row of buildings and pulls his ears down by
the side of his face. Elmer wheels another cannon right up
against the only visible part of Bugs's anatomy: his tail. When
the cannon goes off, Bugs flies into the air again, landing on
his back. Once more, Elmer's tiny army swarms over him and he
tries to fight them off. The image dissolves to Bugs now dressed
in beach attire with a book covering his face as he continues to
fight off the invisible army. The title of the book is, of
course, "Gulliver's Travels" and Bugs is relieved to
find out it was only a dream until. . . .Bugs catches sight of
the roof of a tiny castle. It's all he needs to leap to his feet
and run wildly down the beach past other Looney Tunes characters
who are also dressed for a day at the beach and who are the same
size as Bugs. They are all working in pairs on miniature sand
buildings, literally creating Lilliput at the water's edge. Back
at the tiny castle, we see a normal-sized Elmer Fudd and Yosemite
Sam, who are building the very detailed sand castle that Bugs has
just seen. Elmer says to Sam "Now, what do you suppose got
into that scwewy wabbit?" Iris out. "That's All Folks!"
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