The credits were not printed for this story.On the sand Daffy is holding up a pistol, silhouetted against a yellow and orange background that could be a bonfire or a great sunset. Below is the text, "Who is Agent Duck? (International Super Spy, Vanquisher of Evil, Really Famous Rich Guy, Someone Who Likes Long Walks on Beaches or Former Spice Girl?)"
The credits were not printed for this story.
It's the psychedelic sixties and agent Daffy is enjoying swinging times in London, at least until he's interrupted by a call from chief Porky at Looney Tunes Intelligence. Agent Daffy's arch enemy, Cueball (Fudd) is making machines to take over the world. Daffy is to stop this, with the help of a new partner: Agent Fluffy Down. Miss Down is stunning in her accomplishments, competence, and beauty.
Cueball is gloating over his new duckbots which will make him the greatest hunter ever, having bagged the world. He's interrupted with word that intruders have been detected. Daffy and Fluffy have landed, arriving by submarine. After scaling a cliff they are soon captured by the duckbots.
Daffy almost takes Cueball apart; but it's a robot double. After a a barrage of puns from Daffy the real Cueball prepares to lower both agents into boiling oil. Fluffy deftly effects an escape. Seeing this by video, Cueball sends his dogbots to stop the agents.
Daffy tries to use music to soothe the savage beasts. This works, but not how Daffy expected. His painful singing scraps the mechanical mutts. The agents arrive on the scene just as a rocket that will send the duckbots throughout the world is about to launch. They stop the launch, but Daffy finds that Fluffy has been taken captive and replaced with a robot double.
Daffy attempts to rescue Fluffy and is successful. At least he provides a distraction for Cueball while Fluffy rescues herself and does an amazing number of other things as well.
For his efforts, though mostly really Fluffy's, Daffy is awarded the Royal Medal of Honor. By now he's suspicious of robot doubles and attacks the Queen. All is well though as the error is discovered and the Queen and Daffy head out for a night on the town.
Page 1: Daffy's odd toothy overbite isn't a mistake. This story is a parody of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. And Mr. Powers had an overbite.(EC) Page 2: Porky uses the traditional Mission: Impossible phrasing to tell Daffy what is expected. Page 4: Bird is sixties slang for a young woman. Page 6: Cueball has a valid point, after all if Looney Tunes Intelligence isn't an oxymoron... Page 10: The power centers of the world as marked on Cueball's map include Burbank as well as Washington DC, London, and Moscow. Page 10: The song Daffy is murdering is The Girl From Ipanema. (Anyone know who wrote the original?...PN) Page 3: The propeller on a submarine would be in the back, not the front. Page 7: Fluffy, tied up on the bottom of page six has now managed to free herself from the ropes, even while hanging in a net? Page 7: The lettering on the door present in the first panel is missing later on the page. Also, the on and off indications seem not to do anything. They could be for switch positions, but not a pushbutton. Page 10: Fluffy's tail is missing in the first panel. Page 10: For the time preceding a rocket launch the numbers should decrease. It is a countdown to launch after all. Page 12: Hong Kong Phooey is out of place, being a cartoon from the 1970s. (EC) Page 14: There is no Royal Medal of Honor that I am aware of, at least not that would be presented by the Queen of England. This is probably an adaptation of the Congressional Medal of Honor which doesn't fit an English story. Also, most United Kingdom medals are not worn around the neck. The medal shown bears some resemblance to the Victoria Cross. (CB)Sylvester is arranging books in a stack the top of which is near Tweety's cage. As the cat is about to grab Tweety, Hector arrives home early and takes a book from near the bottom of the stack. The stack collapses and Sylvester plummets, not even managing to land on his feet.
Looking for a first aid manual, Sylvester happens across a book on hypnosis. A couple of weeks later he has a cassette tape as part of the final course on hypnosis. The tape is soon put to use to hypnotize Granny. The cat has her catering to his every whim, even making a Tweety a sandwich.
Tweety escapes being sandwiched and tries to snap Granny out of it with a damp sponge. This fails but Hector sees things are amiss and busts in. As Sylvester flees Tweety picks up and then 'accidentally' drops the cassette player, breaking it. Just as the cat thinks he's safe, he's confronted by an angry Granny and Hector and Tweety.
After an unseen thrashing and some time at a hospital Sylvester has given up reading. He's content just watching television.
Page 18: Granny and Tweety must have encountered Yosemite Sam on their trip out west. Page 18: Decorating a wall is a picture of Elmer Fudd in uniform. Page 19: The cat toys include a stuffed Speedy Gonzales and a stuffed Tweety Bird as well as a toy car, a tennis ball, and yarn. (A nit: Would Granny really have a stuffed Tweety cat toy? It has been suggested that this may be a ploy by Granny to distract Sylvester from the real thing.) Page 23: Yes, small cassette players, at least some of them, are that fragile. Page 23: That's probably the best working in of the "That's All Folks!" ending I've seen in the comics. Page 23: The TV is an older model as fits Granny. No fancy remote or cable, just the old twist dials and rabbit ear antenna. Page 15: The electric outlets, another of which can be seen on page 22, are unlike any I've seen in a residential setting. Perhaps this is because Granny has very old house, but more likely because the artists who drew them drew outlets common in their country rather than the U.S. style. Page 16: If the mail carrier had just delivered that parcel, the flag on the mailbox should be down, not up. Also, that mailbox is backwards. The side that opens should face the street or road and the flag should be on the side from which the carrier approaches. I'm not sure if it's a printing flaw or intended effect that doesn't quite work, but in the copies of this issue that I've seen Sylvester has a couple of lighter shaded patterns that are a distraction.Wile E. makes an attempt at catching Road Runner, this time with the aid of bungee cord to save him from his jump. Alas the cord doesn't do its job and the coyote plunges into the road.
Trying again he jumps from a plane. Luckily his parachute, or parawing, opens. Unluckily, he catches a gust and lands in cactus patch.
The next attempt involves a rocket powered skateboard, with remote control. Just as Wile E. is about to catch Road Runner he drops the control. It lands on the button and gives an extra burst which sends the coyote to the moon.
Page 31: Perhaps the Mercury helmet foreshadows the Coyotes entry into the heavens. Page 29: It's a bad idea to be jumping out of a plane right in front of a spinning propeller. Page 29: An unusual and perhaps out of place element is the pilot giving the thumbs up to Wile E. Third party interaction in Coyote and Road Runner cartoons is very very rare. (EC)* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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