Production
Falling Hare went into production under the title Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin. Walt Disney was developing a feature based on Roald Dahl's novel Gremlin Lore, and asked other animation studios not to produce any films involving gremlins. However, Warner Bros. was too far into production on this cartoon and Russian Rhapsody to remove the references to gremlins, so Leon Schlesinger merely re-titled the cartoons as a compromise.
Within the cartoon are several now-dated contemporary pop culture references, including to Wendell Willkie and John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. Among the folk songs used are "Yankee Doodle", "I've Been Working on the Railroad", and the Russian song "Dark Eyes".
The Gremlin's behavior is possibly an homage to Bob Clampett's version of Daffy Duck (for example, he is seen in one scene riding an invisible bicycle, one of Daffy's old trademarks, among other acts). The Gremlin holds the distinction, along with Cecil Turtle, the unnamed mouse from Rhapsody Rabbit, and the fly from Baton Bunny, of being one of the very few antagonists to actually outsmart and rattle Bugs.
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