Richard LeGrand's character Richard Q.The 'That's all, Folks!' card appears already pre-written and the firecracker explodes off-screen, rumbling and shaking the on-screen title card. While Elmer shivers and doesn't do anything, the screen immediately fades out and Robert Clampett's famous vocalized 'Bay-woop!' is heard with the firecracker still hissing. Peavey' character from The Great Gildersleeve, 'Well, now, I wouldn't say that,' plants a kiss on Elmer, then hands him a large firecracker with a lit fuse, and quickly departs. Just at the point where it seems that Bugs is going to bury himself, he switches places with the weeping and distracted Elmer, and cheerfully buries him alive instead ('So long, Methuselah!') The buried Elmer quips, 'Weww anyway, that pesky wabbit is out of my wife fowevew and evew !' However, Bugs suddenly pops in and repeats the popular catchphrase of the 'Richard Q. This leads to a flashback sequence with a baby Elmer hunting a baby Bugs (both are still in diapers Bugs, whose 'baby' voice is virtually identical to the normal voice of Blanc's Tweety, is drinking carrot juice from a baby bottle Elmer is crawling and toting a pop-gun and they interrupt their chase to take a baby nap-time together.)Īfter the flashback is over, a tearful Bugs starts to dig his own grave, with Elmer getting equally emotional. After a short chase (at slow speed, due to their ages), Elmer gets the upper hand, shooting Bugs with his ultra-modern weapon.Īt the moment when it seems Elmer has finally beaten his nemesis, the apparently dying Bugs thinks back to when he and Elmer were much younger. This time Elmer is armed with a 'Buck Rogers' ray gun. One headline says, Smellevision Replaces Television! Carl Stalling Sez It Will Never Work!' In sporting news, 'Bing Crosby's Horse Hasn't Come In Yet!' (Crosby was known for investing in racehorses that did poorly).īy now, both Elmer and Bugs are very old and wrinkled ('What's up, prune-face?') - Bugs even has a large white beard and a cane - and lumbago - but their chase resumes. This offers the chance to use some contemporary gags with a futuristic twist, as Elmer finds a year 2000 newspaper. A voice tells Elmer that he would eventually catch him, and proceeds to transport him 'far into the future' past the years 1950, 1960, 1970, etc., until reaching the then-distant year of 2000. Some theater cards for this cartoon gave the alternate spelling, The Old Gray Hare.Įlmer sits under a tree, crying over never being able to catch Bugs. The title also refers to the old song, 'The Old Gray Mare'. One is the typical pun between 'hare' and 'hair', with the bunny (who was already grey-haired) rendered 'old and grey' for this cartoon.

Elmer fudd baby picture