Bugs, holding a can of paint and brush behind his back, and Daffy, some feathers missing and his beak blown back on his head, stand in front a tree. On the tree is a sign, Rabbit Season, but on that sign there is a freshly painted smaller sign, Duck, which obscures the word Rabbit. Daffy, holding the end of a smoking shotgun, mutters, "Now that's what I call the brush-off!"
Daffy duck runs from gunfire, saying he could mind his own business, but his contract requires him to stir up trouble. The duck asks Bugs if he'd like to aid in education and surprisingly Bugs agrees with the idea. The pair have a student: Elmer Fudd. Daffy starts off with a lesson on following directions, telling Elmer to shoot the rabbit behind him. Elmer shoots, but it was Daffy that was behind him.
Next Daffy insist Bugs take his role as target. The rabbit again seems to agree, and holds up a crude mask of himself. When Daffy takes it and insinuates that it doesn't look like a rabbit, Fudd finds it does look like a rabbit and without much urging on Bugs' part, blasts the mask and the duck. Trying again, Daffy has Elmer aim down the rabbit hole, but Bugs appears as a granny rabbit and Elmer can't bring himself to shoot. An attempt as fast talking Elmer into shooting backfires on Daffy and he asks for a replacement bill. Bugs offers the duck a bill with a sunroof and radio antenna.
Another lesson has Elmer hunting with dogs. The dogs find Bugs quickly, but before they do anything Bugs gives Daffy a bottle of of rabbit scent which the duck splashes on before reading the label. Finally, Daffy has Elmer try using remote controlled machinery. Bugs sees this and surrenders, only asking that he have his picture taken before his demise. Tricking the pair in front of their machine, Bugs activates it. The result leaves Bugs unscathed, but Elmer now hunts Daffy in the heavens.
Page 2: Bugs' line about liking the smell of buckshot in the morning echoes a line from the 1979 film Apocolypse Now. Page 6: Bugs' line refers to the many t-shirts that mention others visiting someplace and end with "...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Page 8: That an angel loses a wing when a shotgun blasts is a twist on a line from the 1946 movie It's Wonderful Life about angels getting wings whenever a bell rings.
One page seven, the remote control has no visible button, just the joystick. Yet on page eight the remote control has a button that should have been visible earlier.On the run from the police after a bank robbery, Yosemite Sam overhears Granny bemoaning the difficulty of finding a babysitter. He immediately introduces himself as a babysitter and asks about the baby. There's no baby, Granny wants someone to look after Tweety while she takes an ill Sylvester to the vet. Granny isn't sure about leaving the bird with a stranger, but Sam's deft application of sneezing powder to Sylvester convinces her the cat needs medical attention.
As Granny leaves Sam makes a show of telling Tweety they'll play games, though as soon as she's out the door he stops that and acts like himself again. When Tweety asks him about games, Sam tells him to count while he gets some sleep. Not liking that, Tweety leaves his cage and makes a wreck of the house to get some attention. Sam suggests a game of cleaning up, which Tweety also doesn't like, so Sam fixes up the place himself.
After the work of cleaning, Sam is hungry and cooks up some chili for himself. Tweety only gets birdseed, at least until he pulls a switch when Sam isn't looking. When Sam discovers the switch, he chases the bird around the house and makes the place a wreck again. Again he has to put the place right. Tweety suggests listening to the radio to relax, but a news report claims the police are closing in on Sam.
At that, Sam disguises himself as a lady, planning to escape in Granny's car. Tweety, however, has the keys and won't give them up until Sam relaxes. The bird flies up to the top of a tall bookcase. Sam makes an unstable of stack out of anything handy and climbs up after him. Despite the resulting crash, he does manage to get the keys. Sam is about to make his escape, but finds a policeman at the door. Amazingly, he doesn't seem to be looking for Sam, but is asking if he'd be interested in tickets the to Policeman's Ball.
Page 7: Sam wearing a dress, even as a disguise, let alone declaring it comfortable is a bit of a surprise. Sylvester's thermometer is backwards. The bulb of an oral thermometer should be under the tongue, not outside the mouth. Sylvester's footpads are not colored in.Porky is about to board a train when Daffy rushes on past him, knocking him over. Once aboard, Porky finds himself seated with the pushy duck, or rather he tries to sit but Daffy hogs the whole seat for himself. They argue over the seat until the conductor tells Porky he must be seated as the train is about to start moving. When Porky complains about the duck, Daffy suddenly appears overly polite, leaving the impression that it's the pig that's the problem.
When Porky isn't looking because he's trying to sleep, Daffy slides his luggage into the aisle, tripping the conductor. Leaving Porky with a black eye, he asks why the pig can't be more like the duck. Porky gives up on sleeping and tries the dining car. Daffy appears as a troublesome waiter, then as the even more troublesome meal that makes a mess and runs off. Porky gives chase only to trip, fly into the conductor, and get his other eye blackened.
The enraged conductor tells a traveling matador to move his pet carrier, which holds a bull(!), out of the aisle. The matador stuffs it into an overhead compartment, and the weight tilts the rail car so much he is told to put the carrier someplace else. The short matador drops the carrier onto what seems to be an empty seat. The seat isn't empty, so the bull's weight crushes Daffy's legs. Porky is under the seat, but happy to see the duck finally get what he deserved.
Page 1: The mice Hubie and Bertie and Sniffles appear to be scheming to bell a cat. The cat appears to be from The Aristo Cat (Jones, 1943) (EC). The mice and cat appear in the background on the next couple pages and again, with the cat chasing the belled mice, on the final page. Page 3: Daffy's newspaper is The Wall St. Jungle. Page 4: The weasel from Weasel Stop and Weasel While You Work (McKimson, 1956 and 1958) (EC) is chasing some chickens. On the next page, the chickens have captured the weasel, apparently for a meal of their own. Page 8: The train is an Acmetrac train, which is not quite the same as an Amtrak train. Page 8: The boy at the left in the last panel is the daydreamer Ralph Phillips* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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