A very cramped Daffy is in Tweety's cage. He holds a page of Tweety's lines and complains "Who wrote this script?!?" A dazed Sylvester looks out at the reader from below and behind the cage as small yellow feathers rain down.
Tweety's cage is well guarded, with barbed wire, lasers, canon, alligator, and saws. But Sylvester, like a commando or well prepared jewel thief, manages to get past every defense only to find the covered cage to be empty.
Just then a "CUT!" is heard and we see it is all a set. Sylvester complains that without Tweety he just doesn't have the motivation for the scene. As the cat is tended to, the director explains they have to keep going and there is a big co-star coming. This encourages Sylvester.
The enthusiasm is short lived as he discovers the co-star is quite big. It's Foghorn Leghorn, who squashes Sylvester without trying. More re-takes are done, trying Bugs Bunny, Crusher, Pepe Le Pew, Rocky, Taz, and even Hector, none of which even come close to working out. Finally the director promises the perfect co-star. After a repeat of the thrilling beginning sequence, the co-star turns out to be Daffy Duck. Daffy proclaims himself a 'real actor' and an argument ensues and quickly escalates. Tweety watches the resulting pyrotechnics from a great distance, commenting that it's good to see how needed one is when contracts are coming up...
The director is a caricature of Friz Freleng, who directed the classic era Sylvester and Tweety cartoons. Page 3: Evidently Sylvester is the latest 'Morris' for 9 Lives cat food. Actually Sylvester was in at least one cat food commercial for 9 Lives.
The pads on Sylvester's feet are left white. They should be black. Page 8: It seems as if the first panel should be flipped left to right as Daffy's reply comes before Sylvester's comment.Foghorn Leghorn uses a huge bungee strung through a tire to hurl the tire at Dawg's doghouse, demolishing the roof. As Dawg is about to clobber Foghorn, the tire returns to flatten him. Dawg has had enough and orders a new rooster delivered.
In mere moments the new rooster arrives and he's huge, in the way of a sumo wrestler. Foghorn tries to put him in his place, only to wind up thrust through a tree. Foghorn tries again and gets no farther than before, to Dawg's amusement.
Dawg is not so amused when the new rooster eats not only vast quantities of corn, but also his food. His challenge results in Foghorn's turn to laugh. Leghorn's laughter doesn't last too long as he's soon the victim of Dawg's training program.
The program a success, Foghorn again challenges the new rooster, and after being knocked flat, relatively, gets some more help from Dawg. The second round is slightly more successful, and the third sends the new rooster flying, or at least bouncing, away. Foghorn would also go flying, but Dawg snags him with the bungee from the beginning of the story. The now overweight Leghorn is going to be bouncing in place for a while, it seems.
Page 4: Amongst the stars circling Foghorn's head are a pair of anime roosters. Page 5: The favorite film of Foghorn's, The Mutt in the Iron Mask, plays off of the film The Man in the Iron Mask. Actually there are two films, a 1939 and a 1998 version, not counting any made for television. Page 7: Dawg uses a couple phrases, modified, from more typical training, "No pain, no (weight) gain" and "Feel the (heart)burn." Page 8: The background for the new rooster's attack is similar to the rising sun symbol with rays, that was the flag of Japan from sometime before World War II until 1945. This flag was modified to be just the red disk, no rays, after the war. The Allied forces would have liked to have replaced it totally but encountered strong resistance from the people of Japan. The use of this symbol here seems in rather poor taste. (BC) Page 8: "Banzai!" translates as "A thousand years!" but Dawg's version seems valid enough here. (BC) The tires shown look more like big rubber washers, and the tread should be around rather than across the tire. Also, on page 2, the tire in the fourth panel seems to have no inside, just sky. The pads on Dawg's feet are left white on pages 4 and 9. Page 9: Foghorn's mawashi is not colored in on the fifth panel.We are introduced to the Amazon Basin, a harsh region that no man has explored and lived, but a bunny is another matter. Lola is first seen fighting off a leopard. She then enters a pyramid where an angry goddess is about to set her skeleton warriors on the bunny for the intrusion. The attack stops and celebration starts when Lola reveals the reason for the intrusion: a pizza delivery. For her troubles, Lola is rewarded with a substantial tip.
This is Lola Bunny's debut in the Looney Tunes comics and while short, is carried off quite well. The joke is set up, delivered, and a graceful exit made with no unneeded extras. It speaks highly of Sean Carolan and Jennifer Moore that they were the ones who got to write Lola into the comics first. Just in case you missed it, "Thetzalatlhui" is pronounced to sound very much like "That's a lotta hooey." Need I even point out the title's similarity to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Page 1: Not only are the two explorers about to be eaten, the bird looking on has a knife and a monkey is swiping the hubcaps from the jeep. Indeed a harsh environment. Page 1: The board with a nail while reminiscent of a certain episode of The Simpsons actually refers to an incident in the production of Space Jam where early on, possibly at the storyboard stage, the animators were told take such a board out of Foghorn Leghorn's hands in a scene with Dawg. Page 2: This story casts Lola similar to Lara Croft, the protagonist of the Tomb Raider games. The inset panel clinches this, as if the the rest didn't already. Page 2: Machu Pizza puns Machu Picchu, where a large set of Incan ruins were discovered. Page 2: Why are the skeletons so happy about pizza? Sean Carolan answers, "The cheese sticks to their ribs." Lola looks a bit strange here as her ears seem to be missing.There are four one-page fillers.
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