Captain Hareblower

Plot

Captain Yosemite Sam, a one-man pirate crew, sails his ship singing "Blow the Man Down." Through his telescope, he spots a trading sailship and decides to steal it. He fires a warning cannon shot, pulls alongside, and orders surrender. The crew, terrified of "Sam the Pirate," abandons the ship.

Bugs Bunny, lying in a box of carrots, hears the commotion and jokingly says, "Sam the Pirate." Sam boards; Bugs greets him with "Ahoy there! What's up doc?" Sam demands surrender, but Bugs replies, "Surrender?

Never hoid of the woid. So you'll have to try to take the ship!" Sam fires a warning shot through Bugs' Napoleonic hat, leaving a lump on Bugs' head. A duel follows: Bugs shoots Sam first, then again when Sam tries to retaliate.

Later, Bugs wanders onto Sam's ship and shoots Sam while he loads a cannon, turning Sam into rubble. Sam tries the same tactic, but the cannon fires backward, launching him out of the ship. Sam then tries to board Bugs' ship, shouting, "Prepare to defend yourself, rabbit, cuz I'm a-boarding your ship! Charge!" but lands in a cannon, which fires as he retreats.

Sam builds a model sailship from a barrel of dynamite, lights it, and blows it toward Bugs' ship. Bugs uses an electric fan to send it back; it explodes in Sam's face. Sam dons a diving suit, lights a bomb, and swims underwater. A fish eats Sam; the bomb detonates, leaving only the fish's skeleton and a burned, dazed Sam.

Sam corners Bugs on the crow's nest; Bugs challenges him to climb up. Sam chops the mast with an axe, but the mast falls and crushes him. Sam climbs net ladders and corners Bugs on the rigging, saying, "A-ha! Now I got ya, ya fur-bearin' critter!"

Bugs dives into the ocean; Sam dives after him but lands head-first on a rock. Back on ship, Bugs tosses a lit match into Sam's powder room. Sam retrieves it, warning, "Ya doggone idjit galut! You'll blow the ship to smithereenies!

And if ya does that once more, I ain't a-goin' after it!" Bugs throws another match; Sam hesitates, then runs after it, but the ship blows up. An injured Sam is blown onto Bugs' ship. Sam lights a match and tosses it into Bugs' powder room, saying, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander!"

Bugs refuses to go after it; Sam panics and swims off. Bugs reveals his powder room is a make-up room, commenting, "I don't know what he's so excited about. Talcum powder doesn't explode." But the ship blows up anyway, and a defeated Bugs says, "I could be wrong, you know."