back onto the stage. Elmer, seeing the audience, quickly runs offstage, leaving Bugs to dance to the orchestra's samba rhythms. Elmer is seen next to the band sharpening his meat cleaver to the rhythm during the performance. Bugs then makes his way back to the kitchen, where he revels in the audience's appreciation of his performance by saying "Ah, my public! How they love me! A-huh-huh!" (the little laugh being a Jack Benny shtick). Elmer, holding a meat cleaver, rushes towards Bugs, and Bugs immediately dresses as a mustachioed waiter, orders pies and twice splatters Elmer in the face. The third time (a comic triple), when Bugs orders a coconut custard pie with whipped cream, Elmer finally realizes that the waiter just might be Bugs. After producing the pie, Elmer throws it at Bugs, but Bugs ducks and the pie sails out into the dining room, hitting Bogart in the face. Bogart walks into the kitchen, grabs Elmer by his shirt, and asks him why he hit him in the face with a pie. Bogart then warns Elmer that he has just five minutes to prepare his fried rabbit. Elmer searches frantically, but cannot find a rabbit in time. Bogart returns, and sticks his hand in his jacket menacingly. Elmer cowers, thinking Bogart is about to shoot him, but Bogart only pulls out a handkerchief to dab his forehead as he says resignedly "Baby will just have to have a ham sandwich instead." Upon hearing "Baby", Bugs jumps out of his hiding place and takes his place on a platter as the main course (Lauren Bacall being "Baby") noting "Remember, garçon, the customer is always right! If it's rabbit Baby wants, rabbit Baby gets!" before howling and wolf whistling at Bacall. Production Background artist Paul Julian visited the kitchen at the Mocambo, and based this cartoon's kitchen backgrounds on the unhygienic things he observed, later commenting in an interview: "I was so bloody revolted by it that I came back and made a documentary out of it!" Reception Cartoon voice actor Keith Scott writes, "One of the last of Warner Bros.' topical caricature cartoons, Slick Hare is much more accessible to a modern audience than some other entries in the movie-star parody genre. This is because Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd carry the comedy. With these two strong personalities in the foreground, the throwaway movie-star gags are more like the