High Diving Hare is a 1948-produced Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.

[1] Released to theaters on April 30, 1949,[2] the short is an expansion of a gag from Stage Door Cartoon, which was also directed by Friz Freleng, and co-stars Elmer Fudd.

Bugs Bunny is drumming up business for a vaudeville show in a remote western town (notably one of the posters in the background is for "Frizby the Magician", a reference to director Friz Freleng).

As Sam descends to the tank, Bugs zooms down the ladder and watches this dramatic scene from the audience saying, "This I gotta see."

6: As his antagonist climbs up guns blazing, Bugs, dressed as an Indian, points Sam to a "shortcut" in a desert-like setting.

[3] Similarly, cartoonist Jeff Smith writes, "Written by Ted Pierce, High Diving Hare is a one-gag cartoon.

The timing of Sam's high diving is all the more remarkable when you think about the fact that Warner's directors had no budget for editing after the film was finished.

All Looney Tunes are fast, pared-down affairs that never waste a frame, but even by these standards, High Diving Hare is a precision masterpiece.