The Jack-in-the-Box crank is on the front of the box when it should be on the side.Bugs has just opened Santa's sack, which reveals a now sprung Jack-in-the-box. Bugs looks up the cover to Santa, only his feet showing, and proclaims, "Eeh, I was just trying to help!" Santa's hat and bits of ceiling plaster fall. In the background a Christmas tree and a fireplace, complete with stocking, can be seen.
The Jack-in-the-Box crank is on the front of the box when it should be on the side.
Roughcut Sprockets, a documentary filmmaker, has set out to discover Littlefoot but instead encounters Bugs Bunny who asks for directions to the worlds's biggest ball of lint. Roughcut at first thinks he's found Littlefoot but is soon informed otherwise and hurls Bugs away. As Bugs starts out again to find the ball of lint he blunders into a trap, which an annoyed Roughcut kicks downhill. The resulting crash is too much for the rabbit to leave alone.
Walking on stilts that have small foot patterns at the base, Bugs sets Roughcut up to follow tracks into a cave. The filmmaker ends up in a fight but does seem to get Littlefoot out of the cave. He then gets blown up as the monster is a radio controlled gadget with Bugs at the controls. Now it's Bugs turn to be surprised as he sees the real Littlefoot - Yukon Sam. Trying to be helpful, Bugs warn of Roughcut, but Sam is more interested in rabbit fur. The rabbit's response gets Sam mostly frozen in a block of ice, then painfully freed from it.
As an irate Roughcut comes for Bugs, the rabbit "helps" Sam again, which only enrages Sam further. Roughcut's celebration at catching up with Sam, the real Littlefoot, is short and soon both chase after Bugs. The rabbit manages to evade them and trap them both in a single block of ice. Rather than look for the biggest ball of lint, Bugs sells tickets to see the ice-trapped pair.
Page 5: Who ever thought the call of the wild would sound like an antique auto horn? "Aaaaoooooga." Page 7: The Nappyland joke refers to the DisneyWorld promotions that featured winning athletes being asked what they would do next. Page 7: The shadow in the second panel suggests the monster Gossamer. Page 9: While "Wild King-Dumb" puns the generic term "wild kingdom" it also refers to the 1960s TV show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom in which host Marlin Perkins, along with Jim Fowler, would show animals in their natural habitat. This story parodies Wild Kingdom and the shows it inspired. Page 5: How does Bugs stay on the stilts like that? Page 6: A radio controlled toy with a windup key? An antenna would make more sense and be harder for Roughcut to notice. Is Bugs wearing mittens or gloves? It varies, even in same panel on page 1.A mother buzzard with an Italian accent tells her kids go fly out and bring back food. Three are quite eager and go right off. The fourth, Killer, is so reluctant, if not outright stupid, that the mother buzzard ends up kicking him from the tree to get him going. Killer flies for a bit and then makes a wrong turn, based on his misunderstanding of what a fork in the road is.
The turn sends Killer into a blizzard, which he manages to fall out of. His situation doesn't improve as he's found by an abominable snowman who wants to keep him as a pet. A bit too much of the snowman's attention has Killer scheming his escape. He suggests a game of fetch. Killer throws. The snowman chases and runs into a couple obstacles that trip him... and cause an avalanche that buries most of him. Just then, the mother buzzard finds Killer and likes his selection - frozen dessert on a stick. It seems Killer is brighter than he appears.
Killer is Beaky Buzzard and he has been called Killer before, in 1945's The Bashful Buzzard for example. (EC)Sylvester Junior is just about to the door of the house when a wind-blown top hat lands on his head. The hat moves and Junior runs into the house to show Sylvester his "haunted hat." It's not really haunted but it is occupied by Playboy Penguin who Sylvester figures would be good as dinner. Junior disagrees, thinking they should return the lost bird to the south pole.
After a curious argument between Sylvester's personal angel and demon, Sylvester agrees that they should go to the south pole after all. They sneak aboard a dilapidated boat where Junior gets Sylvester to fish, or try to. The first try at casting gets Sylvester tangled in the line. The second try removes the suit from a sailor and gets the cats and penguin kicked off the boat.
The trio drifts for days but they do end up at the south pole, but there are no penguins there for Playboy to return to, nor for Sylvester to eat. The penguins left a note -- they've gone to Muncie, Indiana to see Playboy perform with Ala Bama the magician. Playboy does magic tricks for Sylvester Junior as Sylvester is chased by an improbable polar bear.
Page 3: The cats have an iMac. Page 7: The sailor looks roughly like Bluto from Popeye, and his tattoo shows he's not likely to be friendly. Page 7: The Tom Hanks bit is from the 2000 movie Cast Away where Hank's character, Chuck, talks to Wilson, a volleyball. Page 7: The cats reached Antarctica, which is not quite the south pole itself. Of course, penguins are found in Antarctica, but not actually at the south pole. Page 8: The magician's name was originally spelled "Ala Bahma" rather than "Ala Bama" in the 1942 Jones short Case of the Missing Hare. (EC) Page 8: Polar bears are Arctic, not Antarctic creatures. Sylvester's and Sylvester Junior's footpads are not colored in.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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