What a Maroon, Pig Version

“What a maroon!” is one of Bugs Bunny’s immortal lines—I think he said it first in “Falling Hare” (1943)—but other Warner Bros. characters used it, too.

One is one of the three pigs in “Windblown Hare” (released 1949), a really funny cartoon and an atypical early directorial effort for Bob McKimson. His Bugs is easily conned, and characters have huge mouths and gesticulate an awful lot. Here’s the pig saying “What a maroon!” and slapping his knee.



Chuck McKimson, Manny Gould, Phil De Lara and John Carey animated on this one.