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==Production details== * In two interviews conducted years after this cartoon was first released, director [[Chuck Jones]] fondly recalled voice artist [[Mel Blanc]] improvising hilariously as Daffy when he was trying to think of another word besides "despicable". However, in the finished film, only the words from [http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/RabbitFireScript.htm the original dialogue script] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207054041/http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/RabbitFireScript.htm |date=2012-02-07 }} actually appear. Historians believe that Blanc did indeed improvise, as Jones remembered, but then Jones had decided instead to use what was originally written.<ref>[http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesJan08.html#youredespicable "You're Despicable!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616013837/http://michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesJan08.html#youredespicable |date=2013-06-16 }} β ''michaelbarrier.com''. Retrieved 2008-01-16.</ref> * ''Rabbit Fire'' and its two sequels often have two characters in the same frame for some length of time β an atypical aspect of the "Hunting" trilogy. In order to keep budgets under control, most Warner Bros. cartoons would cut back and forth between characters, rather than put two or more in the same shot. Or, at least, both characters might be in the same shot, but only one would actually be animated.<ref>[[Michael Barrier (historian)|Michael Barrier's]] [[audio commentary]] for Disc One of ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1]]'' (2005).</ref> * Although the film is introduced by the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' music ''[[The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down]]'', the opening card indicates a ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' "[[Blue ribbon|Blue Ribbon]]" release from 1960, and the end card is ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'', replacing the original orange-red ''Looney Tunes'' title sequences. * It marked the first cartoon where Bugs and Daffy ''starred'' and appeared ''together''. While Bugs had made a cameo in ''[[Porky Pig's Feat]]'' (which co-starred Daffy and [[Porky Pig]]), this was the first where ''both'' were the stars. * Although this is the first cartoon with Daffy's selfish side replacing his screwball side, he still hollers "hoo-hoo", a catchphrase from his screwball personality.
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