After reaching the finish line, thinking he's won, Bugs finds Cecil waiting for him, the apparent victor. The plan works, with Bugs being befuddled at what looks like Cecil always being one step ahead of him.

He devises a scheme in which they will double as him at significant points along the track while he himself crosses the finish line ahead of Bugs. After a brief tirade involving ripping apart the opening credits, he finds Cecil Turtle and bets him ten dollars he can win against him in a race.Ĭecil accepts and, after Bugs takes a big lead, hurries to a telephone center, to a phone intended for turtles only, and rings up his cousins on a telephone. As he finishes, he sees the name of the cartoon and becomes infuriated, spitting out his mouthful of the carrot he was eating. ə ˈ v ɛr ɪ/ for 'Avery' over the correct / ˈ eɪ v ər ɪ/), except for the words 'story,' 'animation,' the first names of Charles McKimson, Dave Monahan, and Fred Avery, and all of Carl W. Bugs 'tears up' the title card.Īs the opening credits appear Bugs Bunny comes on the screen eating a carrot and absentmindedly begins reading them, grossly mispronouncing all of them in the process (e.g. The short, loosely based on Aesop's fable The Tortoise and the Hare, stars Bugs Bunny and, in his first appearance, Cecil Turtle. Tortoise Beats Hare is a 1941 Merrie Melodies animated short supervised and laid out by Tex Avery (solely supervisal credited as 'Fred A-Very,' as read by Bugs Bunny).

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