Looney Tunes: February 1998
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The faces of Bugs Bunny and muscle man Crusher stare each other down, glowering. Some of Crusher's teeth are partially covered with a green coating. Below the faceoff is "ROUND 1" in letters with a 'digital' look to them.
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Synopsis
As Bugs prepares his dinner he's shaken by the earth moving around him. Upon investigating he find the tremors are caused by Crusher dropping his weights on the ground above. Crusher is getting ready for the big "Mr. Universally Muscle-Bound" contest.
Since Crusher doesn't understand the rabbits request he practice elsewhere Bugs moves him by dragging the weights with a large magnet. Bugs sends the weights and Crusher into a river. Not amused by this, Crusher pounds Bugs back into his rabbit hole. Of course, you know what that means.
The night of the contest there are many contestants, at least until Bugs shows up and even the slower-witted, except for Crusher, have the good sense to leave. Now it's just Bugs and Crusher. They each lift, with Crusher lifting more and being tricked into lifting both of his feet at the same time. When Bugs juggles barbells, Crusher juggles bigger barbells until the rabbit uses another magnet.
Some fast talking later, Bugs presents Crusher, dressed in an evening gown, to the audience. Enraged by the laughter at his expense, Crusher starts to rip off the dress only to be arrested for doing so in public which leaves Bugs the contest winner by default.
Did You Notice...
Page 1: The carrot juice carton has the WB production number for the story on it.- Page 1: Clean and jerk is a style of weightlifting.
- Page 6: "I won't be back" turns on the Schwarzenegger line "I'll be back" from the first Terminator movie. Appropriately, the one delivering that line is a Schwarzenegger caricature.
- Page 9: A talent contest in a weightlifting competition certainly is an amusing bit of equality considering the talent portion of various beauty contests.
- Page 9: Bugs is singing a variation of George and Ira Gershwin's I Got Rhythm from the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
Technical Nits
Page 6: The Schwarzenegger character's sweatband, red on the rest of the page, is yellow in the last panel.- Page 11: Crusher's leg is shown hairy in the first panel no where else in the story, even in closer shots.
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Filming on location at the Eiffel Tower is not going well with takes reaching the triple digits. Between takes, Pepe mistakes actors and props for a real crime and rescues Penelope. Penelope dashes to the one place she should be safe from Pepe but remarkably Pepe, donning a disguise, follows her even there.
Penelope zips away and is caught by an actress who was searching for the cat. She is soon overcome by Pepe's aroma. This aroma also drives away the leading man who won't be returning. Upset at the prospect of another rewrite, the director decides to make the best of things and casts Pepe as the lead.
Pepe likes the idea after a little convincing. Casting him as lead works, but the other actors are less than thrilled. Penelope, especially so, but she hasn't seen Pepe's latest draft of the script...
Did You Notice...
- The title plays on the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
- Unusually, Penelope has a white stripe from the very beginning and doesn't get it from dye or paint. In the 1959 Pepe cartoon Really Scent a cat named Fabrette has a similar stripe from birth.
- Page 14: Newman Crisscross is based on Alfred Hitchcock. (EC).
- Page 24: A sequel? Is this the start of (another) acting career for Pepe?
- Page 24: Pepe's introduction of himself follows in the Bond, James Bond tradition.
Technical Nits
- Page 14: The actress is shown with only one bracelet in the second panel and with two bracelets the rest of the story.
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Synopsis
On the run away from Hector, Sylvester takes shelter in a garbage can. When the coast is clear he discovers he's at Granny's Candy Shop where he sees his favorite sweet: Tweety.
In the store, Sylvester narrowly avoids falling into a candy making machine as he chases Tweety. Relieved, the cat jumps and, after being warned not to look down, falls to the floor when he does look. Upon recovering Sylvester tries again, only to end up stretched by a taffy puller. The cat next tries hiding in a barrel and waiting to spring on the bird, only to miss and after a moment land right in the very candy making machine he avoided earlier.
Tweety pushes the candy coated cat outside where he makes a nice statue for the shop or maybe he's about to become a chew-toy for Hector.
Did You Notice...
- Page 29: As Yakko Warner said "Ooh, I thought they were supposed to land on their feet."
Technical Nits
- Page 32: That fire hydrant in front of the shop wasn't there before. Also the big candy canes in front of the shop were facing out on page 26 and are facing forward now.
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