Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Porky's Hare Hunt is a 1938 animated short movie directed by Ben \"Bugs\" Hardaway and an uncredited Cal Dalton, which starred Porky Pig as a hunter whose prey is an unnamed rabbit. The rabbit's hyperactive personality and laughing voice provided by Mel Blanc predated the 1940 Walter Lantz/Universal Pictures release Knock Knock which starred Andy Panda and introduced cartoon audiences to Woody Woodpecker which was created for the Lantz studio by Hardaway after his departure from the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros. studio.This cartoon marked the first appearance of the rabbit that would evolve into Bugs Bunny, who is barely recognizable compared to his more familiar later form. Bugs' first official appearance would come two years later in A Wild Hare. Additionally, this marks the only time the prototype was seen chewing on a carrot.This cartoon also introduces the rabbit repeating a well-known Groucho Marx line for the first time that would become part of Bugs Bunny's lexicon. The exact wording, in this first appearance, is \"'Course you know that this means war!\" The proto-Bugs' rendering in this cartoon is a direct impression of Groucho, including dropping the trailing \"r\" of \"war\"."@en }
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- Porkys_Hare_Hunt abstract "Porky's Hare Hunt is a 1938 animated short movie directed by Ben \"Bugs\" Hardaway and an uncredited Cal Dalton, which starred Porky Pig as a hunter whose prey is an unnamed rabbit. The rabbit's hyperactive personality and laughing voice provided by Mel Blanc predated the 1940 Walter Lantz/Universal Pictures release Knock Knock which starred Andy Panda and introduced cartoon audiences to Woody Woodpecker which was created for the Lantz studio by Hardaway after his departure from the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros. studio.This cartoon marked the first appearance of the rabbit that would evolve into Bugs Bunny, who is barely recognizable compared to his more familiar later form. Bugs' first official appearance would come two years later in A Wild Hare. Additionally, this marks the only time the prototype was seen chewing on a carrot.This cartoon also introduces the rabbit repeating a well-known Groucho Marx line for the first time that would become part of Bugs Bunny's lexicon. The exact wording, in this first appearance, is \"'Course you know that this means war!\" The proto-Bugs' rendering in this cartoon is a direct impression of Groucho, including dropping the trailing \"r\" of \"war\".".