Page 8: Yanni is a "New Age" musician whose work is regarded as bland and simplistic, like much "New Age" music. Page 8: Ooffah Chimney and Jerky Springer are Looney versions of daytime talk show hosts Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Springer.A flummoxed Sylvester looks out at us. Behind him, in the corner of a room, is Tweety in his cage, telling him "Expect the unexpected, puddy tat!" Tweety's cage is guarded by steel traps, a moat with alligators, and the pole holding up the cage is wrapped with barbed wire.
Sylvester watches the new neighbors move in as Granny works on a cake. What Sylvester sees, and what Granny misses, is the neighbors are monsters with strange lab equipment and weapons. When Granny looks, she only sees rather normal items being brought in. Sylvester runs into Gossamer, and has his fur scared off. The cat ruins Granny's cake in his haste to escape the monster.
Granny leaves Sylvester outside while she bakes another cake. Another encounter with Gossamer sends the cat through the window, ruining the replacement cake. While baking yet another cake, Granny keeps the cat in one room of the house. Sylvester uses the computer in that room to tell the world about the monsters, then escapes out a window and sets out to trap a monster. A crowd of of reporters and other media personalities shows up to see Sylvester unveil... Granny.
Granny finally is able to take a cake to the neighbors and gets quite a shock when Gossamer answers the door and the mad scientist shows up a moment later. He quickly apologizes and the mad scientist and Gossamer both remove masks to reveal a rather normal couple. They claim to be having Halloween party and Granny, at long last, gives them the cake. Everyone is relieved, but this time even Sylvester doesn't see the couple remove the second set of masks.
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Sylvester's footpads are not colored in throughout the story. Page 1: The electrical outlet in the first panel is of a style not normally seen in a house, at least not the U.S. This can be perhaps explained by penciller Aranda being Argentine. Page 3: How could Granny see the Grover Cleveland plate? Also, none of the plates visible appear to show Grover Cleveland's likeness.Elmer and Daffy watch as Bugs rips away a sign to reveal another sign that claims it is duck season. Daffy rips that one away to reveal a sign claiming it is rabbit season. A couple more rips and an unexpected sign reveals that it is football season. Bugs, Elmer, and Daffy all sit down to snack and watch a game.
Each character has some sort of stereotypical football fan item to hold or wear. While most are generic and not specific to any team, it seems that Elmer is a fan of the Green Bay Packers. Some Packer fans wear foam hats in the shape of cheese wedge as Wisconsin is the Dairy State. They wear the label cheesehead proudly, though fans of other teams or people in other states do not intend the term to be a compliment. Bogart, used as a verb, means to hog something intended to be shared.The Rhode Island Ruffians are playing the University of Florida Fandangos in the Fruit Bowl and the Ruffians have a good lead. The rather excitable announcer wonders about the Fandangos' chances when Pepe Le Pew joins the field. The skunk sees athletics as a way to get girls. While left alone by his own team, Pepe also is avoided by the opposing team and so is able to run up the score.
Some of Ruffians try masking Pepe's smell by dousing themselves in perfume. Another tries using a clothespin to hold his noses closed, only to have Pepe pluck it off to hang hi laundry on a goalpost. The skunk brings the score to a tie with only a minute of play to go and has nobody trying to stop him. But Pepe doesn't try to win the game, heading in the wrong direction. He doesn't see it as being wrong, though, since he's running toward the cheerleaders.
Announcers Dick and Vern seem to act like classic CBS combination of John Madden and Pat Summerall, where one is rather excitable and the other is far more relaxed. (RM) Page 2: Pepe's comment in the second panel refers to the title of the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi). Page 2: It seems Pepe's knowledge of the details of U.S. football, even ignoring his not making the final touchdown, is rather dubious. While both teams are fictional, only the Florida team is beleivable, as Florida has a few teams that are contenders for bowl games. There is no such team in Rhode Island. Of course, that also means there's no team to be (mis)identified with the Ruffians, either.Bugs gives Yosemit Sam the Acme Taste Test and after sampling two different bowls, Sam declares one the tastiest "chow" he's had. Sam is rather less than pleased when he finds out it is dog chow.
The dogs in the past panel are Charlie Dog, Droopy, and Spike from the Tree For Two (Freleng, 1952) and Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (Freleng, 1954). (EC)Salesduck Daffy makes his way through the desert, passing a what seems to be a less fortunate salesduck, to the abode of Wile E Coyote. Wile E. brings him inside and immediately deduces that Daffy is an insurance salesman and tells the duck he has no need of insurance. Daffy persists, suggesting an accident policy.
Daffy watches as Wile E. sets out to catch a prairie dog. A misstep and some loose rope leaves the prairie dog unaffected and the coyote without much of the fur on his back. Another attempt ends with a glue gun explosion slamming Wile E. into a cactus. In each case, Daffy tells him how much money he would have gotten if he had an insurance policy.
The next attempt to get the prairie dog involves a bit of machinery, exploding candy, and water to set off the candy. The machine jams while being tested and as Wile E. inspects it, Daffy removes the item holding it back. The trap springs on the coyote, who gets force-fed the explosive candy and the water. After that disaster, Daffy manages to get Wile E. to start signing papers. The duck only later realizes that the coyote has had too many accidents and doesn't qualify for his insurance. Wile E. exacts vengeance by trapping Daffy and having him fed the explosive mix.
This story is unusual in that Wile E. is trying to trap a prairie dog rather than Road Runner or Bugs Bunny. The story is also unusual as Wile E. speaks to Daffy. Normally the coyote is silent, with an exception made for his talking to Bugs Bunny. (That rule, or exception to the rule, in the comics was, however, a thing I was told a few editors ago. ...PN) The Superwetter is Acme's equivalent of the Super Soaker® squirt gun. Indemnity is protection against future loss. Double indemnity is a provision for an additional payment, generally the same as the face amount, in an insurance policy. It wouldn't do Wile E. any good as double indemnity is a provision on life insurance policies, and those only benefit the survivor(s) rather than the victim. Page 1: Daffy's comment about it being an outdoor sauna is only half right. A sauna would have more humidity. Wile E. Coyote's eyes are left white in several panels of the story.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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