Sylvester, ragged with smoke rising from him, staggers past Tweety who is perched on an upside down sign that reads "Warning Mine Field." While holding a mallet behind himself Tweety asks the still smoldering cat, "Aww...was the poor puddy tat playing in the mine fields again?"
One bandaged cat addresses several more cats who are also in bandages, some on crutches or in a wheelchair or bedridden. The cause of all the feline suffering is Tweety. So before things get any worse the lead cat is calling in Sergeant Al E. Catton.
Catton berates the bunch for letting a little bird clobber them. He decides to start with the most pathetic example of a cat: Sylvester. Basic training starts off wrong, with a backfiring bazooka and a tank that Sylvester doesn't stop in time. The first night ends with a very long, and very heavy, hike.
When Granny leaves, Sylvester is sent in to catch Tweety. With his timing exactly wrong he gets clobbered instead. Catton suggests a returning of the favor with a grenade. When Sylvester tosses it by Tweety, the bird fires it right back.
Going with armor, Sylvester next approaches in a tank only to be taunted by Tweety into firing nearly straight up. And after the bird scoots out of the way the shell falls almost straight down and takes out the tank. Seeing this, Catton decides to take thing over himself.
The attack is from all directions as cats arrive by land and parachute and enter through door and window. Tweety is well prepared however, as the house is full of dogs. Battered and treed, now even Catton surrenders.
Page 1: There is a small dog nipping at one of the cats. Page 1: Catton's name is a combination of Alley Cat and World War II general George S. "Old blood and Guts" Patton. Page 3: Sylvester isn't bandaged like the other cats, which shows he hadn't gone up against Tweety recently. Page 7: Granny certainly has unusual items in her attic. First a collection of bowling balls and now a grenade launcher. Page 12: One of the dogs has a camouflage pattern.
Page 1: The red slash on the No Tweetys sign is the wrong way around. Page 1: No Tweeties would be better grammar. (EC) Page 2: The cat should be saying "hear, hear" not "here, here." (EC) Page 4: Granny slam dancing? This just doesn't fit with Granny. Page 6: Those are some rather small bowling balls. Page 10: It is rather doubtful a tank cannon can reach that elevation, and even if they can that shell has very unusual trajectory. Catton's uniform stripes change number and color throughout the story.Elmer's repeated out of season hunting has gotten him sent to a psychiatrist. Fudd seems to be nice and quite successful at everything but hunting. With the help of hypnosis to find out Elmer's most traumatic experience the psychiatrist soon has a diagnosis.
It seems that after going bald at a very young age Elmer started hunting rabbits. He was trying get his hair back with the symbol of getting a hare. The doctor suggests he be nice to rabbits and perhaps his hair will return.
Being nice, Elmer gives Bugs a basketful of carrots only to get blown up in return. Bugs simply can't believe that Elmer is giving up hunting him and tries to annoy Fudd into being his old normal self.
After not being hunted by Fudd for a while Bugs takes it home. Or rather takes a pie to Fudd's home. Instead of getting upset at being hit with a pie Fudd suggests milk, or carrot juice, and Bugs almost goes for it. Just as the rabbit is trying to play the hunter to snap Elmer back to the Fudd everyone knows he makes a discovery. Elmer isn't bald anymore.
Stunned, Bugs walks back to the woods and meets Daffy who is just back from Pismo Beach. The news that Elmer has stopped hunting and is being nice thrills the duck. Daffy's looking forward to the presents from Elmer, one of which has already arrived.
Daffy's present is not kind and gentle; it's explosive. Elmer hasn't given up hunting completely. While he's no longer hunting rabbits, he can still hunt ducks.
Page 15: Now we know how Fudd earns his living. He's a siding salesman. Page 15: Pronoun trouble refers to one of a trio of classic hunting cartoons by Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese in the early 1950s. (EC) Page 23: Fudd has only brought sore feet home the hunt, as told on page 15, so the moose on the wall must be the result of someone else's hunting. That or the moose is hiding from other hunters. Page 21: The flag on Bugs' mailbox is facing the wrong way around. Page 23: Fudd's mailbox is facing the wrong direction and the flag is backwards for the way it is shown.Wile E. Coyote's adventure begins with his being clobbered by the box in which his fishing supplies are delivered. After a quick look in a fishing guide he tries casting and snags a cactus.
Next he almost catches Road Runner but gets yanked from the rock he was standing on and falls as his fishing pole bounces along. Trying again the coyote holds his ground as the line goes taut. Expecting to reel in Road Runner the coyote is surprised and then chomped by a very large, and very out of place, fish.
The final gag is right out of Hare Breadth Hurry (1963). (EC) Page 29: Perhaps not a real nit, but the credits don't list colorist but colorer. Page 31: Wile E. Coyote's eyes are white rather yellowish in two panels. Page 32: There is a bobber in the line with which Wile E. catches the fish, but it's not present on page 31. And why use a bobber at all when there's nothing for it to float in?* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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