Dawg's ears, and the top his head, should be brown rather than white. Also, if those are grenades they are very strange ones since they seem to have fuses that would need to be lit.Feathers rain down around a singed and smoldering Foghorn Leghorn who is staring at the remains of an explosive ear of corn. At his feet is a box of corn, each ear looking suspiciously like a grenade, while behind him Dawg is laughing hard and pointing. A sign next to the box of corn reads "FREE CORN! (Especially for loudmouthed Roosters.) Help Yourself!"
Dawg's ears, and the top his head, should be brown rather than white. Also, if those are grenades they are very strange ones since they seem to have fuses that would need to be lit.
Foghorn is up to his tricks at Dawg's expense again. While Dawg is fuming after an explosive gag, noise from the hen house gets Foghorn's attention. The hens are arguing over what television program to watch, with Miss Prissy insisting on watching the lotto drawing. A good thing, too, as her numbers are announced, with four million dollars behind them.
His heart on the money, Foghorn immediately sets about courting Prissy, but so does Chauncey von Chantileer, another rooster who has just arrived. The two roosters are about to slug it out when Prissy gets an idea: settle the dispute by a series of athletic contests.
The contests start off with a pitchfork throw, which Foghorn wins by a trick that backfires after a fashion. Next is a hay hurdle, which Foghorn loses despite his trickery. The last event is to be a barn raising, but it's pointed out that they have no building permit. Every offered alternative event is rejected. Finally, the roosters start into the brawl that the contest was supposed to avoid. This display settles it for Prissy. She decides she will wed the one true gentleman: Dawg!
Just as the pair are about to be pronounced Dog and Hen, a rat representative from the lottery commission shows up. An inspection of Prissy's ticket reveals that it was misread and she is not the winner. Dawg takes off and is pursued by Prissy, much to the amusement of the roosters.
Page 1: The American Gladiators televison program did indeed feature a set of athletic contests, sometimes as unusual as those in this story. Page 2: That would be Colonel Harland Sanders who started the Kentucky Fried Chicken, now known simply as KFC, chain. Page 3: The Egg of Night would be the fowl version of The Edge of Night, a long running soap opera. Page 3: Four million dollars sure isn't what it once was. Once upon a time you would have heard someone say "...that's not chicken feed!" Page 6: Chanticleer is a play by Edmond Rostand about a rooster who believes his crowing makes the sun rise. (EC) Page 6: Don King is a boxing promoter known for his wild hair. Page 6: The Hair Club for Men offers a method of hair replacement which is supposed to look natural. Page 11: Must-See-TV was the NBC television network's promotion of its prime time lineup for a while. Page 13: All the objections after barn raising highlight the troubles of a lawsuit-happy and "politically correct" age. The objection to cow milking is particularly silly. Page 15: It is interesting that the parson is human when all the other characters are not. Page 1: The windmill isn't colored, which would be no big deal as it is far in the background but then why is it colored on page 13? Page 3: Those are unusual lotto numbers as both 8 and 9 show up twice. Perhaps it was really a 'Pick Six'? (EC) Page 6: Given the play Chanticleer, Chantileer is likely a misspelling. (EC) Page 13: A tractor pull is a contest of machines to see which can pull the heaviest load which is hardly an athletic contest, and I'm not about to say what it gets called when folks actually pull tractors.Bugs doesn't arrive at a carrot convention, again having taken a wrong turn in Albuquerque. So he starts for home and runs into a blocked tunnel with a warning that tells of a mirror dimension where things look the same but are in fact opposite of normal. Disregarding the warning as nonsense, Bugs burrows around the obstruction.
After a decided dizzy spell Bugs emerges to find animal rights activist Elmer Fudd hunting nature scenes with a camera. Next he sees a well armed Tweety chasing Sylvester. A walk through the city reveals an adored Pepe le Pew in an ad and headlines of President Yosemite Sam promoting world peace. Porky Pig running a school of proper diction is reason for a doubletake and when Marvin arrives as a goodwill ambassador, the rabbit realizes the warning was right.
Bugs knows what he has to do: leave. Alas he trips over a slow Gonzales and meets officer Daffy Duck. Worse, he finds he's at the top of the most wanted list. When Bugs escapes Daffy he ends up at, well, his place where he meets Foghorn and Petunia who are part of his gang. He's not out of it yet as the other Bugs arrives. A bit of classic verbal trickery buys our Bugs enough time to escape again.
After a ride in Taz's well kept taxi and more burrowing, Bugs arrives back in the normal world. Everything seems well enough for a moment. Then Bugs finds he was followed...
Page 23: Sam's pose is one Richard Nixon was famous for, extended arms and peace (V for victory) signs. Page 28: Petunia calls Bugs 'Bugsy' which is an apt name for a gangster. She also calls him 'doll' which might refer to Lola Bunny from Space Jam who did not want to be called doll. Page 28: Our Bugs must not like chocolate chip cookies. Page 29: Camptown Races is one of Foghorn's favorite tunes. The word 'connoisseurs' is misspelled on pages 18 and 21, but this may be deliberate. (EC) Foghorn could have easily told his Bugs from our Bugs by just looking at the whiskers. Ours has straight whiskers, his has curly whiskers.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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