Looney Tunes: April 1995
Cover
It's the Hip Fab Fun cover. The four stars, top to bottom, are occupied by Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, Bugs Bunny, and the Tasmanian Devil
Wile E. Coyote (Deadus Meatus), wearing a leopard skin, swings through the jungle from vine to vine. But the next vine is really a snake (Bigus Snakeus) coiled around a branch. The snake is quickly uncoiling and is quite alarmed.
Credits
Synopsis
Wile E. Coyote, using his new inflatable shoes, chases Road Runner until the bird zooms off at a fork in the road and the dust suggests that he took both forks. Wile E. pauses and picks a direction. The coyote winds up at the Dome-O-Sphere as a pair of scientists are about to enter it for a six month stretch of studying the jungle environment it contains. Before they can enter the dome Wile E. bounces in, triggering a time lock.
Inside, Wile E. comes to a crashing halt and realizes he's not in his usual desert environment. His bewilderment doesn't last long as he hears a "Beep! Beep!" and starts looking for Road Runner again. After climbing a tree, the coyote swings from a vine, but his trajectory causes him to gain a baby ape as a passenger. The baby does not like the situation and does his best to clobber Wile E. before falling into his mother's arms.
Another "Beep! Beep!" and the coyote tries again, this time using the vine as a bowstring, the tree as a bow, he launches himself as an arrow. The coyote-arrow flies right into the father ape. Luckily for Wile E. the ape is quite dazed and he escapes easily. The coyote nearly steps into a tar pit, which gives him idea. He paints the surface in a camouflage pattern to make a trap and then waits, hiding in the vegetation.
The vegetation turns out to be poison ivy, causing the coyote to jump. Wile E. comes crashing down on the angry father ape, knocking him into the tar pit. Before the ape can escape, with the help of mother and baby, the coyote uses a rubber tree to fling himself at the "Beep! Beep!" and crash into the wall of the dome. The beeping was from the electronic lock, and Wile E.'s impact triggered a temporary emergency door opening. He's about to make his escape when the three angry apes catch up with him and start clobbering him as the door closes, sealing him in - and everyone else out - for six months.
Did You Notice...
The Dome-O-Sphere is based on the Biosphere 2 structure that was completed in 1991. It was intended to be a self-contained system, but quickly revealed that information, if not planning, was inadequate for that work.- Page 1: Wile E. Coyote's new shoes are Air Acmes, based on the Air Jordan shoes. Appropriate for the accident prone, and Acme afflicted, coyote they are for two left feet.
- Page 10: Poisonous Ivyus is readily understood to be poison ivy, moreso than the correct name, Toxicodendron radicans.
- I suspect that the rather large, if not excessive, number of pseudo-Latin name labels in this story were both fun and tiresome for the artists.
Technical Nits
One would expect that the dome would have an access override on the outside as well as the inside. Perhaps it's an Acme design?
Credits
Synopsis
Despite Bugs' protests that he would be good eating, Taz chases him with dining in mind. The rabbit tries nicely asking Taz to leave alone, but that doesn't work. A bit of quick maneuvering has Taz running into a rock, dazing the Devil. Being helpful, Bugs dons a nurse's uniform and rushes Taz to Acme General Hospital. The rabbit stops rather abruptly, leaving Taz to fly into a wall.
As the Devil is recovering from his Bugs reappears as a doctor who proceeds to do some odd and quite useless tests on him. The supposed doctor indicates a specialist is required as he leaves. Reappearing as stereotypical psychiatrist, Bugs suggests a primal scream. Taz roars powerfully enough to wreck the walls and ceiling.
Another change has the rabbit appear as an accountant or perhaps a lawyer who tells Taz about the expenses he is now expected to pay. Bewildered and irate, the Devil rips up the bill just in time for Bugs the policeman to arrest for not paying. Taz gets dragged into a court room where he faces a judge, also played by Bugs. Only as Judge does the rabbit show any leniency and has Taz taken back to the wild by, who else, Bugs as animal handler. Back in the woods, Taz encounters Bugs and takes off running, only this time Taz runs away from the rabbit.
Did You Notice...
- Page 16: Taz sees smalls Tazzes rather than birds around his head after that crash.
- Page 16: Bugs can run in heels.
- Page 18: The primal scream is part of a psychological therapy supposed to treat emotional problems by having patients scream and otherwise express themselves rather aggressively than polite society allows.
- Page 18: So just who is allowed to destroy the property?
Technical Nits
- Page 18: When Bugs rushes into the room, the doors are on thier hinger. In the next panel, the doors are shown hanging askew.
Credits
Synopsis
Schoolteacher Miss Prissy asks Foghorn Leghorn to look after the class while she runs an errand. With only two pupils that should be easy enough even for Foghorn, who dons a mortarboard for the job, but one of them is Henery Hawk and the other is Egghead Jr. The moment he turns his back, Henery tries to eat Egghead. Moments later, the chickenhawk tries to cook Egghead.
The big rooster asks if Egghead has considered self-preservation and is shown what seems to be a simple noose leg trap. The trap does seem useless as Foghorn jumps all around it, but proves quite effective when he gives the rope a slight tug and is clobbered by the school bell. Hoping to get a rapport with his students, Foghorn has lunch with them and suggests a half-sandwich trade with Henery. He's about to cut Henery's sandwich when he realizes that Egghead is in it.
Lessons in self-defense are obviously called for and Foghorn is ready to teach. While boxing is what the rooster has in mind, Egghead reads an odd martial arts book, The Pinky Death Touch. This is dismissed as nonsense by Foghorn, at least until a light tap requires an emergency heart transplant. Amazingly, Foghorn was prepared for such a thing.
Miss Prissy returns to find the schoolhouse a wreck. The chimney is falling apart, the roof has holes, and the the windows are broken. Inside, there is more mess, but Henery is caught in a rope trap while Egghead reads up on atomic weapons. Foghorn sits in the corner, having traded his mortarboard for a more appropriate dunce's cap.
Did You Notice...
- The title puns that of the 1983 movie Mr. Mom about a father who winds up staying at home with his kids while his wife has a business career.
- Page 26: Foghorn has bells as well as stars around after being hit by the school bell.
- Page 31: Miss Prissy sings one of Foghorn's seemingly favorite songs, Camptown Races.
- Page 31: An alarmed fish looks at the water dripping from his cracked bowl in the last panel.
Technical Nits
- Egghead Jr's cap ends with a blue stripe at the bottom some of the time and with a white stripe at the bottom at other times in the story.
- Page 25: While Foghorn calls Henry and Egghead for attendance, the names of the characters are more known and accepted as Henery and Egghead Jr.
- Page 25: Someone has their math wrong, as 5 times 7 is not 12.
- Page 26: Ship's bells used for announcing times of watches would be rung only up to eight times, so twelve bells is nonsense.
- Page 30: The finger Egghead Jr. uses is not his pinky. Perhaps that's part of why Foghorn survived?
- Page 31: The woodpile that was next to the schoolhouse on page 24 is gone, as are the fenceposts that lined the walk.
Other items:
There are two one-page fillers.
- Bugs Bunny
- Bugs comments on a certain duck's name after seeing him wait out a rain shower - underwater.
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- The Last Laugh
- Four three-panel cartoon strips featuring Daffy Duck
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- Daffy has trouble communicating with Bugs.
- Bugs supplies a very accurate answer to Daffy's joke.
- Daffy's greed shows even when he's relaxing.
- Daffy even has problems with a tree.
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