April 19, 1952–
The Looney Tunes short, Water, Water Every Hare, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny and Gossamer, debuted on this date.
This is the second appearance of the orange monster, but here he is named Rudolph. In his debut in Hair-Raising Hare, he had no name and was simply “Monster” (as is indicated on the locked door from where he first appears in this short). In his third appearance (decades later) in Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century, his name is Gossamer. The mad scientist in this short is patterned after Boris Karloff right down to the heavy eyebrows and Dr. Frankenstein riffs that made Karloff a household name from the 1930s through the 1960s.
The Haus of Dcaligari 