A shining radiance behind him, Daffy stands in what would be a triumphant pose. It would be, but he's atop a pile of toddler's toys, one arm holding a toddler, the other holding a rattle aloft. Another toddler is crawling on Daffy's head, and a few more seem ready to climb him. Next to him are the words "BABY POWDER!" with the letter D crossed out.
Daffy applies for a job at a daycare and after bothering the manager for a bit, gets hired. The deluded duck figures that with his sack of Acme products he'll be able to handle anything. When Daffy gets to his assigned room he finds he has only three toddlers to look after and, after stuffing his sack in a closet, starts to read them a story, How the Wonderful Duck Saved the World from the Horrible Rabbit. As he reads, he notices more kids.
Panic sets in as the number of kids Daffy notices increases considerably. The duck worries that they are coming from the closet with his sack. Investigating, he concludes that the Acme copy machine is duplicating kids. Just then a kid races by in an Acme car. The desperate duck looks through the sack and finds an aging compound which he hopes will make the kids a bit older and more likely to listen to him. Daffy keeps missing the kids and hitting the walls, which age and crumble.
In the confusion Daffy winds up on, then in, one of the racing cars and finally manages to get the kid driving it out. Pouring the remaining aging compound into the engine, the duck puts the car in reverse in hopes of reversing the aging of the walls. It works a little too well. When the manager shows up to see how Daffy is dealing with his assignment -- caring for 37 kids -- he finds 38, one of which is a very young Daffy.
Page 1: A worker moves what looks to be a rack of kids, hanging by hook protruding from their heads, in the background. Page 3: A doll of Bubbles, one of the Powerpuff Girls, is in the toybox. Besides the cars and aging compound, the Acme sack's contents include: noisemakers, a clock, a timebomb, a copy machine, a sideways transmission box, an electric pencil sharpener, an electric pencil, totem pole wax, and a six-pack of Teddy bears.
No daycare, well no good one anyway, would leave 37 children unsupervised as Daffy found them, nor would there be only one adult watching over so many children. Page 8: Putting a car into reverse does not reverse the engine. At least in a normal car. There's no telling what screwy design Acme might come up with.Wile E. Coyote launches himself toward Road Runner, only to end up on a truck's windshield. His departure from the truck results in a bump that causes the rear doors to unlatch and a few crates to fall out. The crates contain items for police use and the coyote gets an idea. His first action while dressed as a police officer is curiously not at all related to catching Road Runner. Instead he clubs Papa Bear before he can reach a fleeing Junyer.
The coyote sets up a toll booth with a small fee for cars and a huge fee for road runners. His hopes fall when he finds Road Runner has an Acme pass for the high rate. Worse, the toll booth doesn't recognize it and the alarms cause the booth to collapse with Wile E. inside it. He next tries a spike strip but when the bird zooms past, the strip flies up and wraps around the coyote. Wile E.'s attempt at radar tracking also ends in disaster as the signal brings a missile right to the hapless coyote.
Finally, Wile E. tries a motorcycle to catch up with the fast bird. Just as he does catch up with Road Runner, he's pulled over for speeding by a real policeman. The coyote winds up behind bars where he's mistaken for a puppy dog by his cellmate, the abominable snowman.
Page 3: The RV park where the three bear show up here is named Merry Melodies Flats. One wonders if a trailer park was intended, being more probable for the three bears. Page 1: The front turn signals of the truck are red. They should be yellow. Red lights should only be at the rear of a vehicle. Page 3: The presence of the three bears in the story is odd. It breaks the rule of Wile E. only interacting with Road Runner, and just seems awkward. (It does, however, extend the story by exactly one page, which might well explain their presence...PN) Page 7: Wile E. uses what appears to be a small radar dish rather than a gun, though the box behind him is clearly marked "radar gun."Elmer Fudd chases Bugs, but is so tired he falls asleep during the chase. Bugs goes back and, waking him up, asks him what's wrong. Fudd explains that he has insomnia. Bugs, playing psychiatrist, finds out that the insomnia is from the stress of never being able to catch a rabbit. Fudd had been trying a hunting a trip to relax, but he's just too tired to hunt. At that, Bugs gets an idea.
Fudd tries to rest in his tent and count sheep in order to get to sleep. As he counts, real sheep appear. Bugs has sheep enter the tent and crowd Fudd. While Fudd is busy counting, the rabbit enjoys carrots without any bullets flying. Next Elmer tries to go to sleep with the help of a radio, but instead of soft music he gets Bugs and a few other creatures playing and screaming loud obnoxious music. By the next morning Elmer is so out of it that he sees flying pink elephants - or are they balloons placed by Bugs?
Fudd tries warm milk, but Bugs uses a bellows to fan the flames and get the milk extremely hot. When Fudd tries it and gasps for water, the rabbit gives it to him with a hose. Elmer snaps and has a tantrum on the ground. Bugs appears in the open again and tells Elmer he needs an expert. Not only that, but happens to know the ideal person for the job. The rabbit leaves only to return in disguise as the sandman. Elmer begs for his help, asking for sleep from his magic sand. Obliging, Bugs has a heavy sack of sand drop on Elmer, knocking out. Bugs wonders if Yosemite Sam sleeps well...
Page 2: Bugs' notepad has an (overdone) tic tac toe game rather than any real notes. Page 4: Besides Bugs, the band also has the turtle Churchy La Femme and Pogo Possum from Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo. The characters can be identified by the striped shirt the possum is wearing, and the headgear for the turtle. (EC) Page 5: The cup Elmer uses for his milk has a picture of Speedy Gonzales on it. The signs and sounds all are in the mannerisms of Fudd's speech. Thus instead of a 'click' there is a 'kwick', and a trap is labelled 'wabbit twap.' The artwork for this story has a rather odd look to it. Bugs looks especially odd on the first page and the thick outlines stand out. Page 8: The ball at the tip of Bugs' sandman hat has the crescent moon purple in the second panel. At all other times, that crescent moon is yellow. * Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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Last updated 17 December 2003