#falling hare

In the first few minutes of Falling Hare Bugs is reading a book that mentions gremlins:

"A constant menace to pilots are gremlins who wreck planes with diabolical sabotage. They are most often..."

And in Russian Rhapsody the gremlins sing "we are gremlins from the Kremlin" while destroying a plane mid-flight.

[Long side note: According to Wikipedia, the cartoons went in production under the titles "Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin" and "Gremlins from the Kremlin".

But Roald Dahl had just written a book for Walt Disney Productions called The Gremlins and Disney had plans to make Dahl's book an animated feature. To prevent any future confusion with audiences, and because Disney is Disney, they asked other companies not to use the word "gremlin" in their works.

Warner Bros. was too far in production to scrap the projects so compromised by renaming the cartoons "Falling Hare" and "Russian Rhapsody". Despite all the trouble, Disney never went through with the adaptation.]

Fi's research in the Simplicity episode does mention World War II:

"They were said to have caused machinery to break down at the most inconvenient moments during World War Two, providing an unusual explanation for how Britain bested Germany."

And like the lyrics in Russian Rhapsody, the ones in So Weird are little and not there when people try to catch them.

Bugs Bunny in Falling Hare