Robert Reynolds This is a Bugs Bunny short produced by Warner Brothers. There will be spoilers ahead:This is a Bugs Bunny short with a one shot nemesis, a Texas oilman whose temper rivals Yosemite Sam's. The short starts out on a series of signs which play off one another (Deepinaharta TX, for example) with the last, Deepinahola TX, pointing down to Bugs's hole. An incredibly long stretch limo driving down the highway carries the oilman and he's heard calling his driver ("long distance" through an operator switchboard in the middle of the limo). The oilman orders his driver, a silent cowboy named Maverick, to stop the car, as there's a hole on his property "ain't a-gushin' oil outen it!", which is impossible in Texas.Maverick dutifully stops and gets on a motor scooter to drive to the passenger compartment to get his boss and they check out the hole. After an oil derrick is built by Maverick, Bugs comes out and has words with the oilman and the battle of wits is joined. Silly oilman apparently hasn't seen any Bugs cartoons or he'd get back in his limo and leave.Bugs gets the better of the oilman repeatedly and then sends Maverick down the hole after Bugs. That doesn't work at all, so the oilman goes down, not realizing that Bugs is impersonating Maverick even when Maverick runs up to him in the hole.After the ground is literally packed with dynamite, the oilman does something incredibly silly which leads to a thoroughly hilarious and improbable ending, anywhere but Texas, that is.This short is available on the Looney Toons Golden Collection, Volume 5 DVD and is well worth getting. Most recommended.

slymusic Directed by Robert McKimson, "Oily Hare" is a nice Bugs Bunny cartoon about an oil field in Texas and the frustration of a multi-millionaire just because one measly hole is not gushing oil. Well, it can't, because Bugs lives down there! Two scenes that I especially like: The millionaire's dopey, red-haired chauffeur Maverick bumps squarely into him when they first approach Bugs' hole. The oilman also has quite expressive eyes after he blows out his "birthday candles"."Oily Hare" is just another one of those Bugs Bunny cartoons in which the rabbit easily outwits his adversaries, no better or worse than any of Bugs' other pictures. The oilman's voice bears a resemblance to the cold, mean-spirited, hot-tempered Yosemite Sam!

TheLittleSongbird While not the best of the canon, Oily Hare is a fun and worthwhile Looney Tunes. The animation is colourful and vibrant with interesting character designs, and the music is fun and authentic. The dialogue is great and filled with clever puns, while the sight gags are funny and the story doesn't fall into the trap of being predictable. The ending is also effective, and Bugs and the Texan are fun individually and together, coupled with superb voice work from Mel Blanc. The cartoon is a little too fast at times but overall, it is a very good and perhaps under-seen cartoon.8/10 Bethany Cox

Mightyzebra Ah, what splendours are the oil drills of this cartoon, giving SOO much money to the people of the US of A... That is, until one excessively spoilt man in the most excessive limousine I have seen EVEN in a cartoon, spots one hole out in the Wild West that 'as no oil drill on it. He and his "assistant" Maverick work on it right away, but soon enough Bugs Bunny comes up to see why an oil drill is being built over his home. The man heading the oil drill building (who sounds like Yosemite Sam but doesn't look very much like him) decides he's gonna blast Bugs Bunny outta his 'ole, he's determined to get that oil. On the other hand, Bugs Bunny's not so pleased and does his best to stop his hole being blown up...This cartoon was very slapsticky and was full of pretty predictable jokes, however I could not help finding it entertaining. (Usually I do not enjoy the slapstick in Looney Tunes very much, by the way.) Just to see the excessiveness of the limousine and to see how the characters thought of the oil drills made me find this cartoon funny. What saddens me is that Bugs Bunny was all right with oil drills in principle, I would be put off them if they covered the whole of the Wild West (as they did in the cartoon)! However, I disapprove of them in principle already anyway.If you are interested in seeing cartoon representing Wild West people hungry for money and to see Bugs Bunny up to his usual, pretty entertaining antics, I recommend "Oily Hare". Enjoy! :-)