Fred Avery. Tortoise Beats Hare. USA 1941
Here we have the first appearance of Cecil Turtle, a character I've never cared for. Always found him too smug.
Bugs begins, after reading the credits, to read from the old fable "the Tortoise and the Hare", which he likes pretty well, except for the ending. Taking personal offense at that, he goes and challenges Cecil to a race for 10 bucks.
Cecil then cheats and wins. Interesting moral, but I suppose that was point. Good amount of anarchy, although given the involvement of Tex Avery I'm not surprised. Bugs is still a jerk but now he's facing down a bigger jerk.
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