the real rabbit. In despair, realizing they just helped Cecil win again, and thus lost everything they put on Bugs to win, the rabbit mob replies, "Ehhh, now he tells us," and kill themselves with a single bullet through all their heads. Production Crew Supervision: Robert Clampett Story: Warren Foster Animation: Robert McKimson (As Bob McKimson) Additional Animation: Rod Scribner, Virgil Ross, Sid Sutherland, Manny Gould Layout and Backgrounds: Thomas McKimson, Michael Sasanoff Character Designer: Robert McKimson Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling Producer: Leon Schlesinger Voice Actors Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Narrators, Rabbit Bookie, Rabbit Thugs and Mrs. Turtle Kent Rogers as Rabbit with Telescope Michael Maltese as Various Rabbit Thugs Tedd Pierce as Various Rabbit Thugs Analysis The animated short contains wartime references. Bugs displays "A" and "C" ration cards. He claims he has a secret weapon. A Japanese cruiser is mentioned in a newspaper headline, as is the accurate prediction of Adolf Hitler's suicide two years later. A chorus of turtles sing "He did it before and he can do it again". Nichola Dobson mentions the short as an example of both Bob Clampett's attention to detail and of the fast pace of his work. The suicide gag at the end is normally edited out of television broadcasts, fading out just as the rabbits say, "NOW he tells us." Reception Animation historian Jerry Beck writes, "One of the things that most fans of director Bob Clampett's cartoons relish is that he would do almost anything to create a funny cartoon. That meant he would violate established character personality traits and traditional story points to get laughs. Here, he not only shreds the Aesop fable and Disney's 1935 short The Tortoise and the Hare but also Tex Avery's send-up of this famous race. The results are priceless... Only Clampett could twist his characters into such pretzels, and put them through the emotional wringer, with such hilarious results." Home media This short was released, uncut and uncensored, on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2. Sources See also Rabbit Transit References External links Tortoise Wins by a Hare at the Big Cartoon Database 1943 films 1943 short films 1943 animated films American track and field films Merrie Melodies short films Films about organized crime in the United States Films directed by Bob Clampett Self-reflexive films Films based on the Tortoise and