"Of course you know, this means war"

[SEATTLECHEF]

Looking for some help.
Does anyone know when the first time this line was used?
Was it voiced by Hardaway? Was the same voice track used whenever the character used the line or was it recorded at different times by different voice actors?

[Bugsy-Kun]

I don't know what are the first time but i think it's in "Porky's Hare Hunt" with the rabbit.

[J Lee]

It's a non-Blanc/pseudo Groucho voice in "Hare Hunt", which could have been Hardaway. After that, it's all Blanc, starting with the grumpy, complaining Bugs voice in "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" (the real Bugs voice finally says the line in "The Case of the Missing Hare").

[Dell Comics Fan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Groucho himself originate the line in one of

the Marx Brothers' movies?

[J Lee]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Groucho himself originate the line in one of

the Marx Brothers' movies?

He uses it during the insult scenes with Ambassador Trentino in "Duck Soup".

[Barb Herholzer]

He uses it during the insult scenes with Ambassador Trentino in "Duck Soup".

He also used it in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA during the phoney aviation heroes scene.

[SEATTLECHEF]

I found a mention from Keith Scott on Mark Evanier's site that attributes the line to Hardaway;

Blanc did Bugs from the start, all through the various prototype versions. One brief exception is Bugs' line, "Of course you know, this means war" in Porky's Hare Hunt. That one line was done by director-storyman Ben "Bugs" Hardaway. Hardaway later replaced Blanc as the voice of Woody Woodpecker.

So then Hardaway would have been recording that line in '37 '38 at about the same time that Chuck Jones was animating "What Price Porky?", right?

This and a bunch of other voice info can be found @
http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL295.htm