WHOOPS! This issue is dated APR 96 in the corner, up by the issue number and prices. The artwork is dated '96, but with the lead time needed, that isn't surprising.A sweet cover, almost, with Daffy and a redheaded starry-eyed goose in a heart. Daffy glares at the star-struck goose. Above, the traditional Looney Tunes logo has been changed to pink scripted letters with shadowing.
The background for the heart and logo is gray with small sketches of Daffy beating a drum and the goose, in a Carmen Miranda fruit hat, shaking maracas.
WHOOPS! This issue is dated APR 96 in the corner, up by the issue number and prices. The artwork is dated '96, but with the lead time needed, that isn't surprising.
Daffy eagerly awaits cable TV installation, trying not to admit it. The cable installer warns Daffy that it's easy to get sucked in. As soon as the installer leaves Daffy experiences his version of the American Dream: A pizza ordered, a comfy chair, and all the TV he can watch.
A knocking at the door awakens Daffy and he finds himself in the part of Daffy Ricardo, with his wife Goosey and neighbors Fred and Ethel Birdze. Everything and everybody but Daffy is in black and white now. He realizes things are weird, but since he'll be performing before a big Hollywood producer he goes along with everything. Daffy warns Goosey not to get into trouble on his big night.Goosey plans on it being her big break if she can just find a way to get into the show.
During rehearsal Daffy gets the bad news that his lead dancer will be unable to perform and he'll have to choose a replacement from the chorus. The chorus girls all vie for Daffy's attention much to his delight. Goosey is watching and accidently knocks a potted tree over on him, then runs.
Daffy chases and ends up in a chocolate factory where he is mistaken for a new hire. He can't keep up with the conveyor and leaves in a mad rush when he realizes he may be late for his big show. Daffy gets back just in time to find Goosey stealing the show and get told to leave as the show is sold out.
Daffy is again awakened by pounding, this time back at home which is in color now. The pizza has arrived. Daffy gives the delivery boy a tip: Turn off the TV. Not taking his own advice, or unable to, Daffy is right back in front of TV just as a 24 hour Gilligan's Island marathon is starting...
Page 3: The words twin beds are emphasized. In television shows of the I Love Lucy era couples portrayed as married were shown in seperate twin beds if there was a bedroom scene at all. (I recall hearing of an exception to this. Sorry, I don't recall the name of the show. In that case the two actors were married in real life...PN) Page 9: The hood ornament on one car looks like Tweety. Page 9: The doors on the cars, as seen by the handles, have 'suicide' doors. The back doors open to the front rather than the rear of the car. Page 10: The outline on the pizza box is a heart. Page 1: The cable installer's hat faces forward in the first panel and backward in the second. Page 4: Where are Goosey's earrings in the bottom left panel? They aren't shown in some other panels, but those show Goosey at a distance, this is panel shows her close. Page 10: Daffy spent three hours in the chocolate factory, from 5:00 to 8:00. Daffy was that patient? Page 12: The pizza delivery boy's hat is sideways, except for the fifth panel where it is backwards. The lamp in the first scene of the story has moved to the opposite side of the fireplace in the last scene.Marvin and K-9 arrive at the Earth at last with K-9 making a less than ideal landing. The plan: Conquer New York City, shrink it, and keep it in a snow dome. Marvin and K-9 aren't received as conquerers. Instead they are mistaken for lost Duck Dodgers fans and then actors for a low budget flying saucer film.
An attempt to get people to notice him and his intent only results in Marvin getting a more complete New York City experience; he's mugged. After a misunderstanding with a pawn broker, and a trade of shoes, Marvin recovers his disintegrating pistol only to find his spacecraft covered with graffitti. Marvin gets upset with K-9, who was supposed to be guarding the craft, but finds the dogcatcher caught him.
Marvin gets another New York City experience with an incomprehensible cab driver and a traffic jam. Fed up, he climbs over the cars and blasts K-9 free. Marvin loses his pistol down a drain as the dogs rush out of the dogcatcher's truck. Reaching into the drain he gets bit by a small alligator.
The mayor of New York City stops Marvin's spacecraft from being towed away and offers the key to the city, telling Marvin to take Manhattan, it's his. But Marvin has had quite enough of New York and zooms off, not waiting for the tow truck to release his craft.
Page 16: Marvin's dialogue is very close to the lyrics of the song New York, New York. Page 16: One of the people in the lower left panel is wearing a Tweety shirt. Page 17: Marvin's flying saucer has an accent; it hoimmmmmms. Page 17: The Warner brothers and their sister Dot appear on the side of a bus. Page 22: Marvin inquires about a weapon of unfathomable destruction and gets the Macarena blasted at him. (So that's what it really is...PN ). Page 24: The name on the hotdog stand is Frank's Furters. Page 16: The Earth and view in the first panel shows the eastern US in daylight and since the Earth turns counterclockwise as viewed from above the north pole, it should be morning in New York City. Yet the second panel shows an evening scene, complete with first quarter moon. The moon is also shown as being on the opposite side of the Earth as New York in the first panel. Page 16: Marvin must not be coming from Mars if K-9 made a wrong turn in the Andromeda galaxy. There's no need to go through a different galaxy to get to a planet in your own solar system. Page 25: The lamppost that was damaged when the ship landed is now in perfect shape again.There are two one-page fillers. Each is a one page uncredited cartoon with a single joke.
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