one of the best bugs bunny cartoons friz freleng is my favourite looney tunes directer and he never lets me down. his cartoons are always great so this cartoon only has one running gag who cares as long as its entertaining well done to all who made this cartoon possible.

I almost feel like apologising, but once more I find myself underwhelmed by a postwar Warner 'classic' short.

Fearless Freep, the high-diving act, fails to turn up for the show, and Bugs has just sold about a gazillion tickets to Yosemite Sam. When Freep doesn't show, Sam is determined to see the act one way or the other. The rest of the cartoon consists of him trying to get Bugs to dive 500 feet into a bucket of water, and Bugs naturally managing to fool him every time.

If I take this apart, I can't blame my bordeom on the director. Freleng's timing is impeccable, and you couldn't ask much more of him. I think it's just the material. You often hear it said that an actor did 'the best he could' with the lines he was given. On this case I think Freleng did the best he could with Tedd Pierce's story, which is almost non-existant. It's more just a premise.

I know most people get something out of these type of shorts which I'm missing, but whatever it's just not enough for me. I admit that I've never liked Bug Bunny much (he's my second least favourite major Warner character after Tweetie, and has been ever since I was a kid), and that's a handicap, but I've tried to be objective. This, to me, is just one joke hammered into the ground. Hammered with considerable finesse on Freleng's part, but to me there's only so many laughs I can get from watching spmeone slipping on a banana skin, no matter how well they do it.

Yes this short is basically just one joke, Bugs tricks Sam into diving down to the bucket of water. However it is the inventiveness of how Bugs (and therefore Freleng) gets Sam to take the fall that marks this out as a classic. Friz’s sheer comic timing is razor sharp here, especially near the short’s conclusion, where it is as perfect as can be. And thanks to Yosemite's fierily persona, he makes a much better foil for Bugs. For all these reasons, the simplicity of the story, the invention, the paring: this is a long term favourite of mine.

EDIT: Although it is still a short that I still love, I'm finding it increasingly tricky to justify such a high mark in my own mind, so I'm docking it a half-star because it doesn't compare with the previous shorts I've given 3.5.

Friz Freleng is one of my favorite Looney Tunes directors.He knew how to do straight- up funny cartoons.He lacked the Jones wit or the Clampett edge but was a solid cartoon director. One of my favorite Freleng creations is Yosemite Sam because he is basically a all around nasty guy. Sam is the most versatile villain in the Looney Tunes gang because you can make him a theif,corupt politcian,greedy employer,anything all around bad. The key thing that made him funny was his anger,which was based on the short tempered Freleng.

"High Diving Hare" is a very funny cartoon. The funniest repeating gag is Sam trying to get Bugs Bunny to fall into a tank of water and Sam falling into it instead.

Seems like Yosemite Sam always brings out the best in Bugs far better than Elmer Fudd. This is one of those strange, goofy shorts where the laws of gravity and physics are defied in favor of Bugs, and the results are always hilarious.