Oily Hare

Oily Hare
Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny) series
What's up? I'm aiming to dynamite this oil-drilling hole, that's what's up!
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Edward Selzer (uncredited)
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc Marian Richman (uncredited)
Animation by	Charles McKimson Phil De Lara Rod Scribner Herman Cohen
Layouts by	Peter Alvarado
Backgrounds by	Richard H. Thomas
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons The Vitaphone Corporation
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	July 26, 1952
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes 10 seconds
Language	English

Oily Hare is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short, released in 1952, directed by Robert McKimson, written by Tedd Pierce, and starring Bugs Bunny. The title is a pun on oily hair, as with the earlier cartoon Slick Hare, along with the plot-line actually having to do with oil. The plot is similar to the short The Fair-Haired Hare, which was released one year earlier and features Orville (Yosemite Sam's Brother) as Bugs' antagonist. Oily Hare also recycles the same ending where Bugs' home is filled with explosives and blown up.

Along Highway $101.00, approximately 531 miles from "Dollar$, Texas" and near "Deepinahearta", Texas, Bugs' rabbit hole in "Deepinahola", Texas upsets an oil tycoon(Orville), who sounds and acts like Yosemite Sam, because it isn't producing any oil.

Orville pulls up to the hole in a green stretch limousine that is so long that it requires a long-distance telephone operator in the middle of the car to connect the tycoon to his chauffeur, Maverick, so he can tell Maverick (who does not have a speaking role, but communicates by nodding his head) to stop the car. The tycoon says: "Stop the car Maverick! There's a hole on my property that aint a gushing oil!" On the back door of the limousine, a crest is shown which carries the legend, "Orvil Rich—Texan".

Once Maverick stops the car, pulls a motor scooter out from behind the driver's seat (a Western saddle) and rides the scooter back to Orville's back door.