Bugs' method of travel leaves a lion bewildered.Dressed as an infant, Bugs Bunny swings on a vine to flee the angry chest-pounding ape behind him. Across the ape's chest and hands are the words "King of the jungle gym!" Above the Looney Tunes title a line reads, "There can be only one..."
Bugs Bunny emerges into a jungle rather than Pismo Beach, where he was going to attend a costume party. In a moment Bugs, in baby clothes for the party, is adopted by a mothering ape. The ape would seem to be the father is not so enchanted with the newcomer. Momma tries to set things straight, but the father is still not easily convinced. Bugs offers a banana, which explodes cigar style.
The father ape's anger is about to erupt on Bugs when the rabbit screams a cry, summoning a very determined Momma ape. She suggests a change of diaper, which is not something the supposed father is familiar with. Bugs offers to help and soon has him wrapped up like a mummy and slipping on banana peels.
Enraged by the treatment, and the fall, the father ape chases after Bugs until he's stopped by jungle traffic. It only gets worse for him when Bugs introduces another adoptee into the family. Mama is pleased, but Papa is doomed, being up against not only Bugs but Taz as well.
Bugs' method of travel leaves a lion bewildered.
Bugs' entrance seems to suit Daffy more than Bugs. (Though perhaps I'm just thinking of Duck Dodgers Season. ...PN)K-9 struts on Mars when a shadow appears on him and grows larger. Something hits the dog, who quickly alerts Marvin that the sky is falling. Marvin dismisses that as nonsense, but is hit by a descending space probe. The Martian claims that K-9 always breaks his toys. NASA, coincidentally, has lost contact with a rover...
The delay in notice at NASA shows some attention to detail. Communications from Mars are not instant, taking several minutes to reach Earth. While the Spirit and Opportunity rovers are rather well-known Mars rovers, their missions have been quite successful, with acceptable if not perfect landings and lasting longer than originally expected.Tweety flees Sylvester, the chase leaving the house a mess. After making it to the relative safety of his cage, the bird gets a phone call. A telemarketer is selling security systems. Tweety orders one, figuring that as bad as telemarketers are, Sylvester is worse. The system is delivered and installed while Sylvester sleeps.
The cat wakes up to find Tweety in an armored cage. Sylvester tries simply removing some crews, but gets clobbered by a spring-loaded cage bottom. A more careful attempt using a wooden pole results in a surprising electrical shock. An attempt at armor of his own only gets the cat kicked out and into the trash.
Sylvester goes after Tweety rather than his cage by using a tweety-bird puppet. This gets the bird to fly out of the cage. The cage, however, hasn't quit and goes after Sylvester. Soon Sylvester, Tweety, and Granny are all fleeing the overprotective cage.
Tweety sings a rather different version of the 1978 Rod Stewart song Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? Sylvester uses Douglas MacArthur's famous line upon departing the Philippines, "I shall return." Inker Mike DeCarlo seems to to be having some fun with Tweety's newspaper, the headline of which reads, "DeCarlo Flees U.S. Millions Exult" Sylvester's hand and foot pads are not colored in throughout the story.Daffy hatches from an egg larger than the rest and sees a sign which reads, "Looney Fables presents The Ugly Duckling with Daffy Duck." Daffy addresses the artist while pointing to his contract, demanding star billing. Once the sign is changed to the his satisfaction, the story begins. The duck sees cute ducklings hatch and realizes if the cute ones are hatching, then he has to be the ugly one.
Daffy tries to deny that he's unattractive, but others insist that he's terribly ugly. A couple ducks claim he's quite ugly. A hen protects her chick from the sight of him. A goat sends him flying after an unfortunate comment. He gets another insult from Foghorn and from Dawg as well. When Foghorn, Dawg, and the goat gather around him, Daffy points out that none of them are all that great looking but he knows where ugly people get amazingly good treatment. The result is that the four form a rock band and get an audience of admirers.
The artists uses a Sharpest marker, which is the Looney version of the Sharpie marker. Freddy Krueger is from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of movies, and Jason Voorhees is from the Friday the 13th series. Dawg's possible answer to where the ugly are welcome is a rather roundabout way saying "nowhere" as the Alamo has no basement. This fact was made use of in the 1985 movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure. The bands name, The Moss Gatherers refers, though an old saying, to The Rolling Stones. The name of keyboard maker suggests something less than ideal. The keyboard is a Monotone.While typing on a dish-eqipped laptop computer, Egghead Jr is interrupted by Foghorn Leghorn. Evidently Egghead is trying to detect signals from space and Foghorn figures Martians are mythical. The big rooster types something nasty, carefully not revealled, which offends Marvin enough that he sends a rather strong reply. The reply is strong is a powerful zap as Foghorn discovers.
While Egghead types, Foghorn only pecks (with his fingers) at the keyboard.A hungry Daffy calls Bugs, figuring on inviting himself over for a free meal. The duck is delighted to hear that Bugs is having a barbecue. Daffy isn't so thrilled when he sees what should have been obvious: Bugs' meal is barbecued carrot.
* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
* Animaniacs Comic Kompendium * Production Index (Text) * Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion *
Last updated 21 October 2004