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"Half Fare Hare" (McKimson; 1956):

ABC: Deleted from this cartoon was a scene wherein Norton offers to attend to Bugs' scarf. Norton lifts Bugs upward by the scarf and then hangs him up on the boxcar wall. Also missing was Ralph shoving Norton's face into the pot of hot water after Norton comments on Ralph looking like a boiled lobster. Norton comes out of the pot, his nose bright red, and says, "Gee, what a grouch!"
CBS: Edited as on ABC but with Norton's statement of the scarf hanging offer retained.

"The Hardship of Miles Standish" (Freleng; 1940):

Syndication: When the (Cleveland!) Indians attack the cabin, there is a sequence in which a cross-eyed Indian bows an arrow and accidently hits the head of another Indian. After being hit by the arrow, Indian two clearly mouths the words, "G-- DA-- SON OF A BI---!" Speculation and controversy abounds about this line being audible when "The Hardship of Miles Standish" played theatrically.

"Hare-Abian Nights" (Harris; 1958):

ABC: The excerpt from "Water, Water Every Hare", in which beautician Bugs gives to Gossamer/Rudolph a dynamite-roller "permanenenent", was completely gone.

"Hare-Breadth Hurry" (Jones; 1963):

CBS: Part of this scene was excised: Wile E. Coyote fires a rifle at Bugs Bunny, who is substituting for the Road Runner. The gun sounds muted; so, Wile E. investigates and follows a protracted section of metal pipe attached to the rifle, until he reaches the end of the pipe, at which point the bullet that he fired shoots him in the face. Also edited out of this cartoon was another gun blast striking Wile E's backside after Wile E. is catapulted against a big rock that he had hung on a rope and over a teeter-totter.

"Hare Brush" (Freleng; 1955):

ABC: Mental diseases can no longer be mentioned, much less ridiculed. Hence, the shot of the sign on "The "Fruit Cake Sanatarium- It's Full of Nuts" was removed from "Hare Brush". ABC also edited away the part where Bugs points a gun at Elmer, and Elmer sticks his finger in the barrel of the gun, which then explodes in Bugs' face. Gone too was the scene of Elmer diving into the water because Bugs hits his head on a rock and then shoots his rifle at Fudd.

"Hare Do" (Freleng; 1949):

ABC: The scene of the theatre patrons puffing a haze of cigarette smoke during Bugs' intermission gag was removed so that one sees only the patrons scrambling to the theatre lobby then back into the screening area. Further, after Bugs and Elmer repeatedly climb over people in their seats, Bugs dresses as an old lady and begins shaking Elmer. Deleted was a part after this, of Elmer sitting on the seat next to Bugs, realizing that the old lady is really Bugs, and then beginning to strangle Bugs, at which point Bugs calls for the usher, the point at which ABC rejoins the scene.

"Hare Force" (Freleng; 1944):

TBS: Cut from this cartoon was Bugs' line, "It's the hot seat for you."

"A Hare Grows in Manhattan" (Freleng; 1947):

WB: The scene in which Bugs becomes part of the Egyptian cigarette billboard was butchered, removing the parts of the billboard that show one Egyptian giving to another a hot-foot, and the victimized Egyptian picking up from the ground at his feet the other Egyptian's cigarette butt. The shot of the billboard was also enlarged so that the word, cigarettes, could no longer be seen. Further was the description of Bugs' property shortened, so that one only heard Lola Beverly mentioning Bugs' swimming pool.

"Hare-Less Wolf" (Freleng; 1958):

ABC: Wholesale deletion of this cartoon's gags. Missing parts: 1) Charles M. Wolf confides to the audience that he hates his wife and is hit in the head with a frying pan thrown at him by her; 2) Bugs comments that Charles M.'s gun may be faulty and as a test of it fires it at a tin can that he has thrown upward and which has dropped to directly in front of Charles M.'s face, which receives the gunshot- and Bugs then says, "Nothing wrong with this gun. Eh, must be you;" 3) Bugs places a box with a hand grenade in front of Charles M., who tries to use the grenade against Bugs but too slowly reads the grenade instructions and does not throw the grenade at Bugs prior to the expiration of 10 seconds following his pulling of the pin; 4) Bugs lights a long fuse that Charles M. follows, leading to a TNT cannister that explodes when Charles M. is standing beside it.

"Hare Ribbin'"(Clampett; 1944):

Syndication: After thinking that he has killed Bugs, the dog wishes that he were dead. Bugs asks, "Do you mean it?" and hands to the canine a gun, and the dog shoots gun into his own head. The gun blast is cut to the scene where the dog is laying down and rises to say, "This shouldn't even happen to a dog!" In other showings of this cartoon, an alternate editing job was apparent. The dog says, "Oh, I wish I were dead!" Then, Bugs says, "Do you mean it?" After this was a cut to the part where the dog is laying on the ground. No gun at all. Some prints of this cartoon exist wherein Bugs grabs the gun and himself administers the gunshot to the dog (through the dog's mouth), but such a scene was never permissible on television.

"Hare Splitter" (Freleng; 1948):

ABC: This was censored. When Casbah becomes wise to Bugs' trickery, he says, "You can't fool me no more. You're dat screwy rabbit," and readies to punch Bugs. Bugs dons a pair of glasses and says, "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses on, would you?" Casbah responds by delivering a punch into Bugs' eyes, breaking the glasses, and Bugs utters, "You know, I believe he would."
CN: After the novelty-carrot-induced explosive kiss between Bugs and Daisy Lou, was a deletion of their responses of, "What a man!" and "What a woman!" The scene cuts to the two rabbits happily jumping around the room. The scene has been restored.

"Hare Trigger" (Freleng; 1945):

WB: A scene of Bugs and Yosemite Sam shooting six guns at each other on the train was shortened.

"Hare Trimmed" (Freleng; 1953):

ABC: This network's favorite cartoon, as it aired more often than any other, was riddled with deletions. After Bugs in the guise of Granny pushes a piano on top of Yosemite Sam, there was a cut to bona fide Granny scurrying up a flight of stairs, saying, "Oooh, he flipped his lid." Missing here was the real Granny's comment that Sam, laying on her floor after the piano flattened him, is "looped" and her offer to Sam of some coffee. Bugs again disguised as Granny appears and asks of Sam how many "lumps" that Sam wants in the coffee. Sam answers that he wants two lumps, and Bugs mallets him twice on the head. Real Granny, unaware of this incident, brings coffee to Sam and too inquires as to how many "lumps" he prefers. Sam irately kicks the coffee out of Granny's hand, and Granny is shocked by Sam's seemingly inexplicable rage. She then runs up the stairs. Further edits occurred when Sam peeks through the keyhole of the door to Granny's bedroom (where the terrified Granny is) and is blasted in the face by Granny's rifle and again incurs gunshot from Granny when he tries to gain access to her room through a window above the door. These violent acts were gone, but the effect of them on Sam's clothes remained and thus made no sense to the viewer. Finally, Bugs as Granny administers another two "lumps" to Sam before proposing an elopement. The dual impact of the mallet and their product on Sam's noggin were excised.

"Hare-Um Scare-Um" (Hardaway and Dalton; 1939):

Syndication: When hunter tells to bunny that he can whip bunny and bunny's whole family, a bunch of look-alike rabbits suddenly appear and start waving their fists at him. The picture then fades to black rather abruptly. This is said to have been deleted: all of the rabbits attack the hunter and his dog, the smoke of the hostilities clears, and the viewer sees two heads, the hunter's and the dog's, rolling down a roadway into the sunset as the iris closes to end the cartoon. There is some question as to whether the cartoon in its original form ends here or immediately after the fighting causes the cloud of smoke.

"Hare-Way to the Stars" (Jones; 1958):

CBS: Marvin finding his explosive in the Instant Martians glass and the explosion that damages Marvin's space platform and ruffles the broom blades of the woefully hurt Martian's helmet were cut out of this cartoon.

"Hare We Go" (McKimson; 1951):

ABC: The part where the King hits Christopher Columbus on the head with a mallet and says, "It (the world) is flat like your head," was removed from this cartoon.

"The Hasty Hare" (Jones; 1952):

CBS: A short scene of Marvin Martian laser-blasting his dog, K-9, was censored.
CN: Eliminated was an innocuous part at cartoon's end where the astronomer, having just seen Bugs in the flying saucer with all of the planets and stars attached thereto, writes a note that says, "I quit! When I start seeing things like this it's time to take up turkey farming." CN just cut from him seeing Bugs and the items to him walking out of the observatory.

"Have You Got Any Castles? (Tashlin; 1938):

TBS: Scenes which involve the animated version of Cab Calloway singing "I've Got Swing for Sale" and the scene wherein Rip Van Winkle appropriates Uncle Tom's hair to use as ear-plugs, were gone. Also, all Blue Ribbon reissue prints of this cartoon are missing the scenes with Alex Woolcott, which were cut as per his owner's request.

"The Heckling Hare" (Avery; 1941):

CN, Video: This cartoon is a legend for Leon Schlesinger's edict that director Tex Avery refrain from ending the cartoon with Bugs and the dog falling through a second hole and plummeting again through air, their ultimate fate uncertain. Schlesinger wanted the cartoon to finish with Bugs and the dog securely on ground following their first fall. Avery protested and was terminated from Warner Brothers' employ. A new video copy of "The Heckling Hare" now ends earlier relative to most other prints of this cartoon, at the point where Bugs is jeering the audience, after he and the dog originally chasing him each land safely from their huge fall through the sky. The canine's comments agreeing with the rabbit have been edited out of the cartoon.

"Heir Conditioned" (Freleng; 1955):

ABC: Removed was this scene: an alley cat comes out of a dumpster and says, "Hey, Benny! Hear about Sylvester? Inherited..." A light from a building is illuminated and a person (off-screen) throws an iron at the putty tat, whacking him in the face. The dazed cat finishes his sentence, "... 3 million dollars," before collapsing.

"Hen House Henery" (McKimson; 1949):

WB: Henery attempts to subdue Foghorn by striking his head with a hammer. The WB was the first network to eliminate this scene from broadcast.

"Here Today, Gone Tamale" (Freleng; 1959):

Nickelodeon: The part where the famished Mexican mouse named Fernando attempts to kill himself, pointing a gun to his own head, was cut from this cartoon.