[1] The short was released on October 28, 1944, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, voiced by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan respectively.

Bugs pops into the screen and quips: "Well now I wouldn't say that," kisses Elmer as usual, hands him a large firecracker, lights the fuse and quickly departs.

Animation historian Greg Ford writes, "In the last two or three years before Robert Clampett abruptly left the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the mid 1940s, the renegade director surrendered an unwieldy bunch of late-blooming, oddly self-reflexive masterworks.

Clampett's craving for summation reaches epochal proportions in The Old Grey Hare, as Elmer is fast-forwarded all the way to the year 2000 (gasp!).

So comically premature is Clampett's yen for retrospection that he essays a cradle-to-grave biopic of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, reminiscing over their longstanding relationship, even though the pair had only existed onscreen for about four years at the time.