#falling hare

[aaaaanas1]

aborted scribner study, i'll finish 'er up soon

[thespian-wallflower]

"I like him! He's silly!" ✈️

[soweirdondisney]

One of our YouTube subscribers, Whyteroze28, pointed out that the gremlins in Simplicity might be based on the Warner Bros. cartoons Falling Hare (1943) and Russian Rhapsody (1944).

In the first few minutes of Falling Hare Bugs is reading a book that mentions gremlins:

"A constant menace to pilots are gremlins who wreck planes with diabolical sabotage. They are most often..."

And in Russian Rhapsody the gremlins sing "we are gremlins from the Kremlin" while destroying a plane mid-flight.

[Long side note: According to Wikipedia, the cartoons went in production under the titles "Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin" and "Gremlins from the Kremlin".

But Roald Dahl had just written a book for Walt Disney Productions called The Gremlins and Disney had plans to make Dahl's book an animated feature. To prevent any future confusion with audiences, and because Disney is Disney, they asked other companies not to use the word "gremlin" in their works.

Warner Bros. was too far in production to scrap the projects so compromised by renaming the cartoons "Falling Hare" and "Russian Rhapsody". Despite all the trouble, Disney never went through with the adaptation.]

Fi's research in the Simplicity episode does mention World War II:

"They were said to have caused machinery to break down at the most inconvenient moments during World War Two, providing an unusual explanation for how Britain bested Germany."

And like the lyrics in Russian Rhapsody, the ones in So Weird are little and not there when people try to catch them.

So the writers had some inspiration from the gremlins of the animated shorts, even if it might not have been their full intention.

[tymime]

Imagine my surprise to find that this image of gremlins from the Bugs Bunny cartoon Falling Hare is copied almost verbatim from an issue of Life magazine from Nov. 1942. The additional gremlins are copied from further pages. As far as I can tell, no one else has noticed this...

[plasticfang]

Merrie Melodies and Gremlins

[awtumnmist]

Bugs Bunny in Falling Hare

In this classic Bugs Bunny cartoon Bugs faces off with a gremlin trying to sabotage American planes.

[looneytunescreenshots]

Falling Hare (1943)

[saciro]

omgg while looking through “gremlins 2″ and “looney tunes” stuff, i found this cartoon again.. i remember watching this when i was little, and it honestly used to make me a little uncomfortable x’D probably because bugs was my favourite back then, and it felt strange to see him be the loser but watching it again, it’s rly amusing and funny… especially with how bugs slowly loses his cool, and how even though the little gremlin is quiet, he can still drive him nuts (although the ending bit still makes me feel nauseous ahaha)