Elmer, blown up and smoldering, endures Acme salesduck Daffy at his door proclaiming, "For unwanted visitors, there's nothing like the Acme Exploding Doormat!"
Daffy introduces himself to the reader, explaining how keeps up his appearance. Besides good diet and exercise, there are various beauty treatments. But it all seems wasted when his work involves retakes of his being crushed by an anvil.
Tweety is going through the same fitness routine as Daffy.The oxygen-rich air treatment is taken from a myth about Michael Jackson. Jackson had been photographed in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. The National Enquirer reported that Jackson slept in high pressure oxygen every night in an attempt at slowing aging.Marc Antony also is getting the oxygen treatment.The story starts out looking like it might be the Three Little Pigs, but quickly shows that it is another story. There is, however, an explanation of why the wolf wanted inside the pig's houses. It wasn't that he wanted to eat the pigs. It was that he sought shelter from Acme's super salesman, Daffy Duck. The horrified pigs watch from inside as Daffy sells the wolf an astonishing amount of herring flavored taffy. They then barricade their door, only to discover Daffy is in the house with them.
Daffy demonstrates a furniture mover, which moves the pigs along with the furniture. It also make a big hole in the wall, but Daffy has a backdrop to cover it. The pigs order Daffy out, but he ignores them and acts like they're inviting him to stay. They get more vocal about it and Daffy reveals that he is wearing a translating headset that subsitutes things people might like to hear for anything unpleasant. The pigs resort to an anvil, only to find Daffy equipped to handle the impact without being harmed.
The pigs try to scare Daffy away, claiming the house is fill with toxic waste. Daffy shows off a gadget that turns waste into meatloaf. Well, sort of. The pigs claim to be gangsters, only to have the duck demonstrate an alibi robot. Claims of being space aliens result in Daffy trying to sell a fishbowl as a space helmet. They even ask him to sell something really big, and try to trap him in his trunk and send him away with a slingshot. They're shocked to see Daffy still in the house, trying to sell them a sturdier slingshot.
Finally, the desperate pigs resort to explosives. They blow their own house up, with them and Daffy sent into space. Even in space Daffy tries to make a sale. The pigs managed to lasso a passing spaceship and wind up on planet that seems to be free of Daffy. When they ask where they are, a visiting Marvin explains that they are on the planet of pushy salesmen. Acme salesmen, in the form of Gossamer and Instant Martians, chase after the fleeing pigs. Daffy explains that they'll be back, as he has the only rocket ship. Daffy then tries to sell outside the comic page, but a pencil starts to erase him.
The three little pigs are likely the pigs from The Windblown Hare (McKimson, 1949). (EC)Page 5: The pigs have the classic gangster look, complete with coin flipping.Page 6: While two pig have ray guns, or at least things that look like ray guns, the other has a Star Wars style light saber.Page 7: The Williamsburg Bridge is two bridges up from the Brooklyn Bridge. The Manhattan Bridge is between them. (EC)Page 9: Starrybucks, like the real Starbucks, must be notorious for seeming to be everwhere.Page 10: Potzrebie is a made-up word that appeared often in Mad Magazine in the 1950s. (EC)This story is unusual, but not bad, in that Daffy wins, at least against everyone but the holder of the pencil.
Page 5: An unmarked wooden barrel for toxic waste?Page 8: A barrell of TNT? Gunpowder I'd beleive, but not TNT.Yosemite Sam demands Bugs draw, so Bugs starts drawing on the background. The drawing, of one of Bugs nemeses, starts out looking like like it might be Sam, but ends up as Taz. Sam bolts as the very lifelike Taz considers him a possible meal.
A beat up and bandaged Yosemite Sam's anger is defused when Bugs says he is drawing the "shootin'est hombre in the universe." Sam's pleasure is short-lived as this turns out to be not him, but Marvin Martian. Things get worse for Sam when a strange disintegrator zaps him.
Bugs bids a fond goodnight to his carrot crop and turns in for the night. The next morning he finds that the carrots are gone and there is truck on the way to a supermarket. Bugs makes his way to the store to recover his carrots. Finding his carrots isn't to difficult, but recovering them gets complicated when a store manager considers Bugs to be the theiving party. Though Bugs gets the better of him a couple times, he ends up being kicked out. The rabbit, of course, does not take kindly to such treatment.
The rabbit returns disguised as a cute but clumsy shopper. By causing many messy disasters he distracts most of the store. Bugs doesn't get his carrots because the manager is the one person not completely distracted. Bugs tricks him into investigating the lobster tank too closely, has him charged by an enraged steer, and finally traps him inside a freezer. The manager finally surrenders and makes arrangements with Bugs regarding carrots. Now Bugs won't have to raise carrots himself.
Page 3: Bugs' brand is his initials in the Warner Bros. sheildPage 3: Bugs misses the turn at "Aisle B's Turkeys" this time.Page 7: Those fish don't appear as fresh as they ought to be.The manager's mannerisms are those of The Great Gildersleeve. Bugs calling him "Gildersneeze" on page 9 clinches the identity. (And so help me, he looks like how I would expect Gildersleeve would look, having heard the radio show. -- PN)Page 1: A waning crescent moon, a morning sight, is shown in the evening when a waxing cresent moon would be appropriate.A now enraged Sam demands that Bugs teach folks to draw him. Bugs obliges by drawing a very good likeness of Sam, but in a wanted poster. Sam then flees as riders come after him.
The rider at far right in the last panel is Red Hot Ryder from Clampett's Buckaroo Bugs. (EC)* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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