Bob Clampett's Bugs was a bit different then the other directors protrayal of the character at the Termite Terrace,Bugs was a bit more vunerable and not always an ultra cool nice guy. Clampett's Bugs either would be concerned about his own pride, like in "What's Cookin' Doc?" or "Tortise wins by a Hare",or,more or less,be a antogonist like in "Buckaroo Bugs" or "Wabbit Twouble". I applaud Clampett for thinking outside the box for Bugs,but I ultimatetly prefer ultra cool and calm version Chuck Jones' version of Bugs. When I watched "Buckaroo Bugs" I found that Bugs was being real jerk torturing red hot rider, possibly the most idiotic foe Bugs ever went up against.Jones' Bugs would definetly was a hero but he still sadistically tortured his protagonist but for a good reason.Though I prefer the Jones' Bugs I think "Falling Hare" is an exellent example of how Bugs would be vunerble but woukld not come off as unesscarily mean,in fact, Bugs is the victim here.

"Falling Hare" starts off with Bugs reading about the mysterious gremlins,little creatures who destroy planes.Of course, Bugs encounters a gremlin then is almost accidently tricked into triggering a bomb and the chase begins. Robert McKimson once again dosen't hold back in his animating skills.Mckimson was one the best animators at the WB and his animation was alive and active,he took the time to exaggerate every movement or expression of a character.Just freeze a frame on "Falling Hare" and you can see the McKimson took the time to make his drawings solid and funny. As usual of a 1940's Clampett cartoon the was pacing was fast and they were great sight gags,the gremlin was also a hilarous character who sadistcly tortured Bugs.The germlin constantly attacks Bugs and Bugs dosen't know witch way to turn.The ending was great as well, Bugs' reaction to what looked a like grisly fate of the plane crashing. This short was the greastest exmaple of how Bugs whoul be as a victim for once and stands out as one of the great WB cartoons.

Bugs Bunny out of control? Surely not. But for most of this short (and I emphasise _most_), Bugs is the helpless object of the pranks of a little creature known as a Gremlin - those mythical beings who especially plague aircraft.

Bugs is hanging about an airforce base, and after being nearly driven mad ny a Gremlin, is lured aboard the plane, which then starts up.

At the start we see Bugs laughing over a newspaper article about gremlins (interestingly, this scene also shows him to be borderline illiterate - something which I don't think that the later, uber-cool Bugs would ever be).

Bugs takes unexpectedly to the sky, accompanied by one of those Gremlins, and boy does he have his hands full.

This is a pretty good cartoon, but no classic. Clampett directs here, and in the two or three years since his debut, Bug's voice has settled down to something close to what we would come to know during his classic period. He doesn't look exactly like the 1950 Bugs, but close enough. It's more his behaviour that still sets this apart as an early Bugs cartoon. He loses his cool, he's not in control. He gets scared. He gets confused. He's not yet the laid-back, unwufflable wabbit he'd soon become.

More than an historical curiosity, this cartoon is genuinely worth watching, even though it's not a classic. It' also one of the relatively few war-themed Warner cartoons which don't have any ethnic characters being ridiculed (which is probably why it made it to the official WB Golden Collection, as well as public domain DVDs.)