"¡Yo quiero!" and the chihuahua are taken from Taco Bell advertising.With a background of a big pink valentine, a panicked Pepe Le Pew is trying to escape the clutches of an infatuated chihuahua that is holding him tight. To the chihuahua's "¡Yo quiero!" Pepe exclaims "¡Ay chihuahua!"
"¡Yo quiero!" and the chihuahua are taken from Taco Bell advertising.
Mary Heartless introduces Pepe Le Pew on Entertainment Toon-night, doing her best to fend him off while wearing a gas mask. Mary gladly gets to the show's first caller, Misty, who calls herself Pepe's biggest fan. Misty is obviously dangerously obsessed, but Pepe at once sets off to meet her anyway.
Pepe sees Penelope in a cafe and assumes she is Misty, completely missing the real Misty, a wheezing chihuahua, on the other side of the cafe. An accident adds a white stripe to Penelope's back, reinforcing the assumption. Pepe's entrance slams the door into Misty. As Penelope speedily escapes Pepe she runs over Misty.
The chase continues through a book store, where Pepe again misses Misty. Misty is again twice clobbered, once by Pepe's actions and once by Penelope's. This is repeated when the chase continues in a gym. Finally, Penelope escapes as a now very bedraggled Misty manages to introduce herself. Now it's Pepe's turn to flee but he isn't getting too far as the new chase takes place on a treadmill.
Page 1: Mary Heartless, who appeared in Animaniacs cartoons, of course refers to Mary Hart who hosts Entertainment Tonight which is the real world version of Entertainment Toon-night. The real show, however, does not take on-air calls. Page 1: Pepe's aroma is of amazing strength as it overwhelms the gas mask's filter. Page 2: The line about wanting to "Boil your bunny" comes from the 1987 file Fatal Attraction where Glenn Close plays a crazy woman who stalks the character played by Michael Douglas and at one point she kills his pet rabbit by boiling it. This is decidedly not a romantic movie. Page 4: Boundaries Books and Airplane Storage is the Looney version of Borders Books. The airplane storage refers to the huge size of the typical Border's store. The 'Read or Else' sign is a nice touch. Page 4: Penelope is reading "Are You Weird?" which is probably what Misty should be reading. Page 5: The 1977 movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar (first panel) and 1992's Basic Instinct (third panel) are also not romantic films. Each, in it's own way, deals with relationships that go very wrong.
The flowers shown sitting on the floor on page one are on a stand on page two, and the pot they're in changes color from blue to orange. And why don't they wilt in Pepe's presence? Well, they're probably plastic.Wile E. Coyote sets out to capture Road Runner, this time using an Acme luge. This proves as successful as ever and he and the luge plummet to desert floor. Wounded and with warranty in hand, Wile E. calls Acme and with the aid of their automated answering system arranges to exchange the luge for extendo-arms. A parcel arrives almost instantly.
The coyote eagerly opens the box, but is very much surprised as something from it hits him under his snout. He's even more surprised that freeing himself of the pole that struck him leaves him falling outside a large skyscraper onto a city street. A previously overlooked note explains that Acme was out of stock and substituted their City in a Box.
Wile E. is enraged until he sees Road Runner caught in traffic. Upon giving chase, the coyote is run over. Next he tries to send a Humvee crashing onto the bird, only to have it fall on himself. After that he tries painting an exit to the desert which Road Runner zips right through. When Wile E. tries, he hits the wall, though other traffic puzzlingly passes through.
A dazed and bewildered Wile E. falls onto the control to re-shrink the city. After extricating himself he gives the box an angry kick which lets something else out of the box. The story ends, at the request of the coyote, before further injury is shown.
Page 2: The automated phone system is a clever way of letting Wile E. use the phone and still not speak. Page 2: Acme Express's motto: Breaking records and your stuff. And it seems true enough, considering they didn't actually stop for that delivery. Page 3: Sternecky really shows Wile E.'s bewilderment well here. Page 7: Wile E. Coyote goes back and takes his medicine. Silly coyote. The box shatters upon opening yet is intact when the city is shrunk again. There are two things rather odd here. One is that the city, which sprang from a box, is populated. The other is that Wile E. interacts directly with at least one person, the umbrella seller on page 7. Page 9: Another Acme design flaw. Isn't that about the last place you'd put that button?Foghorn Leghorn sees Egghead Jr. reading a book about building tree houses and drags him off to go build a tree house. The first result is Egghead deftly causing a log cabin to be built. Foghorn points out that what was meant was not a house of trees but a house in a tree.
Egghead Jr. studies his blueprints and Foghorn builds a a rather unplanned tree house. As Foghorn berates him for the planning, Egghead sets loose trained termites that make a spectacular tree house. Insulted by a remark of Foghorn's the termites also remodel his clothes, including his spare set.
The next tree house is in a very thin trunked tree, but being rubber proves resilient against Foghorn's attack. Soon Foghorn has his own tree house and a battle ensues when Egghead demonstrates a problem with it. A water balloon attack results in a fiery solar counter-attack. Foghorn has one last try at one-upping Egghead, with a 'No Girls Allowed' sign. Foghorn finally realizes that Egghead may know something after all as the kid has a rather different sign, with enviable results.
Page 1: That must be more light reading for Egghead Jr. Page 6: Foghorn uses Bugs Bunny's famous line about commencing open hostilities. Page 5: Real rubber trees aren't that elastic. Cartoon rubber trees, however...Starting with this issue the pages are not numbered for the book. Instead each story is separately numbered and only the story pages are counted. Advertising pages are not counted. This arrangement means that an issue may have several pages labelled as "1." This is not as strange as it may seem as each story is created separately and already has its own page numbering well before it reaches the finishing stages of comic book production.
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Last updated 25 April 2001