Cartoon physics must be how those tires stay with the car.Coming from a blaze of light, Rocky and Mugsy hang on for dear life, yelling "STOP" over and over as a relaxed Bugs drives their bright red car at breakneck speed, asking, "What's STOP, Doc?
Cartoon physics must be how those tires stay with the car.As Rocky is checking out his look in a mirror, Mugsy interrupts by bringing Bugs Bunny into their hideout. Mugsy goofed and got a rabbit instead of "the Rabbit" who was to be their getaway driver. In a pinch, Rocky decides that Bugs will drive, despite the rabbit's protest that he's not licensed to drive hot rods. A little persuasion and they have a driver.
Bugs drives quickly, though not on the road, and they soon arrive at the Acme National Bank where they find a very long line. Bugs suggests a shortcut to an automatic teller machine, to which Rocky agrees. Bug's driving doesn't suit the gangsters who are jolted around. A lack of directions, as well as a bear trap in the glove compartment, doesn't help matters and Rocky decides he should drive.
Alas for Rocky and Mugsy they encounter an oncoming truck when trying to change places. And Rocky experiences the trap again. They are about to be on their way when they stop due to the car overheating and Bugs more than fills it with water. Next Bugs stops to pick up a lost badger, much to the gangsters' dismay, as the badger mauls them.
Somehow Bugs gets the car up to the high start of an automotive daredevil act. The rabbit then sends the car, with Rocky and Mugsy in it, on the way through the act while he announces and the badger acts as camera operator. The gangsters sail through a burning hoop, catching fire themselves, and exit the show arena by air, crash through a billboard, and then crash to the ground.
On the ground the wounded pair are caught by the police who have them sent on in an ambulance. The pair gets a nasty surprise when they discover the ambulance driver is Bugs, and he brought the badger along so they'd have company...
Page 1: Rocky is standing on a table to check out his look in the mirror. Page 2: Bugs must be feeling the heat, the way he's quite visibly pulling at his collar. Page 4: Either he's sucking up or Mugsy has an unusual fashion sense, saying Rocky looks good in spring-loaded metal. Page 11: Among the advertising at the daredevil show is a sign for Splin at 10 cents per second, parodying Sprint's dime-a-minute plan. The rest of the ads seem rather generic, though one wonders if Nitroso is for a fuel that is supposed pack the wallop of nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide, a powerful oxidizer, is used to very temporarily boost performance in some race cars. Another explanation is that Nitroso is as powerful as nitromethane, the fuel of "nitro" burning funny cars. Page 11: The bank they didn't heist is visible behind the stands. Page 11: The junk vehicles to be jumped appear to include an ice cream truck, and a few almosts. Almost include: the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard, except the color of the 'stars and bars' is reversed, Herbie (the racing Volkswagen Beetle from the Disney films) except Herbie's number was 53 and this car is 38 and Herbie was white, and maybe (and this is a stretch) the black car would almost be KITT from Knight Rider. Page 12: Speedy Gonzales shows up on the Enchilada Place billboard, which is based on a Taco Bell advertising slogan. And just for completeness, "Yo Quiero..." translates as "I want..." or "I like..." Page 14: Bugs is again driving on the grass instead of the road. Page 1: The Tommyguns' drum should be only underneath the barrel, not all around, as shown here. (EC) Page 3: Shouldn't that hydrant be beside the road rather than in it? Page 4: How did Bugs know what was in the gangster's car's glovebox? And why didn't Rocky know? Page 7: When did the top of the convertible get put up? Page 10: They set out for an ATM and now Rocky worries about the bank closing? Page 10: Now the top is down again. Page 11: How did the car get up there anyway? From the looks of things, it must have climbed a ladder. Page 14: Why isn't at least one of the medical people in the ambulance with Rocky and Mugsy? And how does the ambulance wind up a convertible in the last panel? Rocky's gun changes style throughout the story. The car changes styles as well, not having tailfins on pages 3 and 6, yet having definite tailfins on pages 4 and 7.Foghorn swipes away a book, on combustion engines, that Egghead Jr. was reading. Foghorn suggests a character building activity and rejects the offered game of parcheesi. Instead the Leghorn starts to build a crude go-cart, while berating Jr. for not paying attention to him.
When Foghorn wants to show off his finished work, Egghead Jr. isn't around. A puzzled moment later Jr. shows up in his rather souped up car. Foghorn says it's pretty but wonders if it can prove itself. In reply Jr. takes off in a burst of flame, leaving a smoldering Foghorn asking if anyone was interested in parcheesi.
The title plays off of the 1990 film Days of Thunder which was heavily promoted by NASCAR as being a very realistic depiction of the sport (of auto racing)... until the film was released. Then they simply never mentioned it again. Also, more than a few racing fans having been calling the film "Days of Blunder" long before this story appeared. (RM) I suppose that is light reading for Egghead Jr., as he has read Splitting the Fourth Dimension. Page 15: Foghorn speaks of paper and a T-square and while the paper can be seen, there is no T-square in sight. Nor is there there anything like a drafting table that it would go with. Page 16: Foghorn says, "The proof is in the pistons" which is a turn on the now common statement "the proof is in the pudding." This, though, is incorrect. The original version, which makes more sense, is "the proof of the pudding is in the eating."While Marc Antony and Pussyfoot sleep, their owners, who we only see the below the waist, carefully take Pussyfoot away for a trip to the vet. At about the same time a small panther is air-dropped supposedly to return to the wild. Instead, it lands on Marc Antony's back, where he sleepily mistakes it for Pussyfoot.
The dog is soon wide awake as the panther's claws mark their mark. Puzzled by this, Marc Antony infers a growth spurt and checks up on that in the house. This means the panther is in the house and it does what you'd expect a panther to do: devastate the place.
After encounters with a trash compactor, attempted home repair, and an falling entertainment center Marc is blamed for the mess and given the boot when the owners return. A confused swap of cats has Pussyfoot and Marc Antony back together, but the owners mistake the panther for Pussyfoot and wonder what caused the sudden change.
Bringing Up Baby is a classic Cary Grant - Katharine Hepburn screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks that featured, among other things, a leopard that was the pet of Hepburn's character, the Baby of the title. (EC) Page 22: All the pictures of people show only their feet and legs. Page 22: The books on the shelf are about Warner Bros. folk. Eric Costello explains: [Director Robert] Clampett, [Director Isadore] Freleng, Chuck Jones autobiography, [Director Robert] McKimson, [Voice Artist Mel] Blanc, and [Jones unit writer] Mike Maltese, who wrote the original Pussyfoot cartoons for Jones. (EC) Page 26: John Woo is a director famed for his action sequences, hence the clap-board with his credit. (EC) Page 26: Notice that the chair is sliced into eight slices by the seven claws. Good attention to detail. Page 18: Of all the way to release a panther into the wild, that would seem among the least desirable. Especially near a residential area. But then, this is a comic... Page 18: Wouldn't the folks releasing the panthers being be wearing protective clothing and a harness so they stay in the plane?There are two one-page fillers, Meanwhile In The Desert, featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.
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