Page 3: The selection of speeds for the bicycle have very descriptive names. Page 3: Daffy uses one of Bug's catchphrases, "Ain't I a stinker?" Page 7: Those are the perfect 'famous last words' for Daffy, considering what happens next.Daffy, in endorsement laden shirt, bicycle shorts, gloves, helmet and shoes (?) is standing with his arm resting on his bicycle. The bicycle is a 'decked out' mountain bike with a mirror, bell, flag, basket, and what looks like it might be a small rocket, as well as the usual water bottle. Daffy is pulling down his sunglasses, looking over them and saying, "They showed me the money." All of the endorsement advertising is duck related, save for the flag which tells the world "Eat at Joe's."
It's the Acme Off-Road Bike Rally, with Daffy chiding Bugs about his bike. Daffy shows off his 'Demon Duckcycle' and rattles off a bunch of mechanical nonsense, including a surprisingly heavy weight for a bicycle, to impress Bugs. Bugs is rather unconcerned as the race starts.
Taking a shortcut, Daffy paints a tunnel entrance in a hillside. Bugs bikes right on through. The racers following him crash into the hillside and each other.
Only mildly set back, the duck uses a feature of his bike to zoom ahead to a rope bridge which he sabotages after insulting a goat. Bugs pedals over the bridge without incident, much to Daffy's annoyance. When Daffy tries the bridge, it does collapse. The goat finds Daffy's predicament hilarious. Daffy drops into a river, and then over a falls.
The goat is still annoyed and works to dislodge a boulder which Daffy sees falling at him just in time to bike away in a panic. He again uses a feature of the bike in his escape, and nearly makes it to the finish line only to have the boulder meet him. Bugs wins and ends the story with the prize, the goat, and a pun.
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Page 1: The petals of the flower on Daffy's bicycle basket aren't colored. This nit happens again on the first panel of page three. Page 7: Just what side isn't the driver's side on a bicycle built for one?Sylvester and Junior watch some skateboarders, Junior asking if he'll ever be as cool. Sylvester's response, of course, is that he'll show them how it's done. Nevermind that he has no experience. Which he promptly demonstrates. Sylvester tries again, and loses control in a most impressive manner, thus impressing the skateboarders.
They are so impressed they suggest he run the gauntlet, a course so perilous it demands a special skateboard: the Suffering Succotash. After a moment of realization, Sylvester is off running the gauntlet. He somehow makes it through the various dangers, which include maces and flames, only to find the end isn't there; the finale is straight up! Sylvester soars and then lands hard. He turns down the offer to go along with the group tomorrow.
Page 15: Along with stars Tweety is circling Sylvester's head. Page 18: The gauntlet hazards are: a loop, steps, maces, jets of flame, a large trap, and the vertical ending. Page 19: One of the lines a skateboarder says as Sylvester runs the gauntlet, "Oh the humanity" may refer to a radio reporter saying "Oh the humanities" while describing the Hindenberg disaster. "Running the gauntlet" was form of punishment in which the victim ran, often impeded, between two columns of people who would hit as he passed. Page 15: A skateboard's wheels aren't colored in the second panel. Would the sign above the entrance to Acme Skateboard Park really be seen the right way round from inside the park?Penelope is vacationing at a ski resort. So is Pepe, who is looking for singles who may be riding the lift alone. He sees Penelope and starts after her, but despite creating a ruckus he is too late to ride with her. Penelope's lift chair has just been painted and leaves her with a white stripe on her back...which only encourages Pepe.
Going a bit too fast, Penelope passes the easy and intermediate slopes and starts down the slope that isn't recommended to anybody. Pepe see this and starts after her, to rescue her. Penelope skis well, well enough to avoid the unfinished ramp which Pepe ends up sailing from. Changing transport often, Pepe travels first by ski, then helicopter, bobsled, snowboard, and dogsled. Penelope trades her skis for a snowmobile as he approaches.
Pepe goes all out trying to catch up to her. The pair puts a new and quite literal twist on the winter game of crack the whip and Pepe goes flying. Penelope makes it back to the lodge and is about to relax when Pepe crashes through the wall in a snow making machine.
Page 22: One of the skiers says Pepe needs to check the bottom of his skis, his aroma suggesting perhaps that he had skied in something? Page 23: The snow on the bunny slope sign is shaped as the head and ears of a Warner Bros. bunny. Page 23: The most advanced slope keeps the Extreme Tunes theme of the issue, being labelled with skull and crossbones and "Don't even try it" which seems an invitation for those seeking the extreme. Page 23: A freshly painted lift chair in the working lift? Painting would be done before ski season was at hand. And that's quite the paint if it can dry and set properly at temperatures where snow remains snow. I don't recall ever seeing a snowmobile with more than a single headlight.There are three additional items:
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