What a waste of my time!!!

That was an excellent one.

Lack of good storyline.

Boring, long, and too preachy.

. . . a few years back, when patrons of a restaurant chain rhyming with "Baco Tell" began dropping like flies and the American Fast Food Foister first blamed onion greens and PERMANENTLY banned them from its already scanty stock of food ingredients WITHOUT DUE PROCESS (and NEVER reinstating them, even after admitting that the onion greens were perfectly nutritious, wholesome, healthy, tasty and edible all along--it was the cheap, lowest-bidder lettuce plucked from fields without Port-a-Johns by Unvetted alien saboteurs which doomed so many; lettuce, of course, stayed in Baco Tell's stew of offerings, since it costs a few cents less per pound than onion greens), Warner Bros. uses HARE TONIC to warn U.S. consumers of Baco Tell's upcoming shenanigans. A careful viewer of HARE TONIC will notice how its plot serves perfectly to provide a blow-by-blow report about Baco Tell's perfidy in besmirching the good name of onion greens. Bugs Bunny labels the symptoms of Baco Tell Lettuce Poisoning as "Rabbititus" in HARE TONIC, but all aspects of Baco Tell Lettuce Disease will be familiar to anyone who suffered and survived it back in the day. As Bugs says, first you see spots before your eyes. Next, the spots start whirling around. This is followed by tics, spasms, convulsions, headaches, nausea, diarrhea, fainting, and--in fatal cases--death with government-mandated cremation as "Toxic Medical Waste." I wish that I had seen HARE TONIC before I began eating at Baco Tell!

Chuck Jones's 'Hare Tonic' is a brilliant but little known cartoon. Deliciously sick, 'Hare Tonic' involves Bugs Bunny convincing the hapless Elmer Fudd that he has caught the dreaded Rabbititus! Taking place almost entirely in Elmer's suburban home, 'Hare Tonic's' success is entirely down to Bugs's inspired heckling. He is never in any real danger (he forfeits an easy escape early on in the cartoon in order to have some fun torturing Elmer) and is therefore free to carry his devilish bluff to the extreme, convincing Elmer that he is trapped quarantined with an infectious rabbit. In contrast with cartoons in which Bugs heckles his opponent in a variety of different ways, 'Hare Tonic' simply extends one routine across the whole seven minutes and it works fantastically, right up to the great fourth-wall breaking climax. While it doesn't quite weigh in with Jones's all time classics (and bear in mind the level of quality that involves), 'Hare Tonic' is still a lesser known piece of sheer brilliance that I would recommend to anyone.

Clearly nothing was sacred to the Termite Terrace Crowd. In "Hare Tonic", Bugs Bunny tricks Elmer Fudd into thinking that the latter has a rampaging, deadly disease called "rabbit-itus", going so far as to paint dots all over the room to convince Elmer. How fun it would be to try that! Of course, Elmer - the sap that he is - believes just about anything, so maybe it wouldn't be so easy in real life.I have to say that beyond being just a wacky cartoon, this one brings up the issue - if inadvertently - about how our society is too afraid of diseases, and we focus on the wrong things. People do things like put toilet paper on the toilet seat; it turns out that there are more germs on a computer keyboard than on a toilet seat. And anyway, we should focus on fighting terrorism while protecting civil liberties.But I digress. It's a really funny cartoon.

HARE TONIC is one of the best Bugs Bunny vs. Elmer Fudd shorts out there. Bugs convinces Elmer Fudd that "rabbititus", an epidemic of doomsday proportions is sweeping through the nation. He creates this illusion in Mr. Fudd's eyes by painting the walls a sickly color and dressing up as the bearded, and very dangerous Dr. Killpatient. Viva Bugs!