While a nonplussed Elmer walks along spraying weedkiller on plants, Bugs walks behind him with a bucket of seeds and a water can, with which he waters Elmer's head. Elmer's head is sprouting grass and flowers - the same plants he is spraying.
Elmer Fudd welcomes viewers to his home improvement show and explains that this particular show will be about cleaning up and landscaping a yard and building a deck. The yard does look like it is overdue for some attention. Elmer starts off with an Acme, his sponsor, combination lawn care machine that he rides like a bucking bronco.
The noisy machine disturbs Bugs Bunny, and then almost mangles him. Bugs asks what the fuss is about and gets told he's being evicted. Elmer has the deed to the property. He does not, however, have his eyes on where he is going and crashes into the house while arguing with Bugs.
Fudd follows up with rolls of grass sod. This neatly avoids seeding and weeds, but Bugs is unavoidable. When the sod is down, signs go up. The signs are intended to tell Bugs to keep away. They don't work. Elmer plans the deck right over the hole Bugs calls home. Trying to fill in that hole gets the dirt thrown back at him. Changing plans to place a large rock there instead only results in Fudd getting crushed.
Desperate, Fudd turns to the Acme Insta-Turbopaver, planning on filling Bugs' hole with concrete. Bugs arranges for the thing to fill the house instead. When the house is filled, the excessive splashes out and coats Elmer. Afterwards, while resting in a hammock, Bugs notes that Elmer was right after all and the yard is better, at least aside from the statue in it.
The title of Elmer's show parodies the real television show Home Improvement, about a person who hosted a home improvement show. The fictional host had an unhealthy attraction to things with excessive power which Fudd seems to share. Elmer's Home Impairment shows up again, in the October 2001 story Bye-Bye Birdhouse and in the March 2002 story Tool Duel.
The name Acme only appears on Elmer's hat on page one. While perspective changes might account for not seeing the name all the time, it really should be visible in the second panel of page four.Daffy and Porky stand before a police seargent who tells them that dynamite is exploding when expected, guns are firing as planned, and anvils are not falling. Somehow, Acme products are becoming reliable, changing the world in a worrisome way. Daffy and Porky are to investigate undercover as FBI agents and get Acme back to its usual, low quality.
The pair go to the Bahamas to check out the Acme warehouse, which is on a strangely stormy and forbidding island. After a pause to put on useless disguises, they get into the warehouse. Porky keeps his composure and asks to look through safety records while Daffy loses his self-control upon seeing the very shapely Acme district manager, Exotica Ladame. The duck falls for Exotica, not believing Porky when he points out the altered documents, nor his own eyes as evidence is shred.
Daffy tests several Acme products and is surprised. Anvils don't fall when he pulls a rope going to the shelf they are on. A catapults doesn't send him flying, or anywhere. A rocket doesn't blow up or turn back on him, or even launch. Just as he concludes that everything is safe, the anvils falls on him, the catapult clobbers him, and rocket crashes into him.
The duck and pig awaken strapped to a table. Ernst Stavros Fudd is masterminding a plan to make Acme products work so that villains will have working weaponry. To ensure that, Fudd will blast Daffy and Porky with an atomic cannon so they can't interfere. Fudd must press the button to fire the cannon himself, as Exotica refuses, saying she's fallen in love.
After a huge explosion, Daffy, Porky, and Exotica share a rubber raft. Porky explains that the atomic cannon was made by Fiends-R-Us which is a division of Acme. Daffy tells Exotica to kiss her sweetheart, thinking it's himself. The duck is put out to discover it's Porky that Exotica has fallen for.
The title puns the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. Page 1: While the title and much of the story refers to James Bond, the introduction is in a style approximatelt that of Dragnet. Page 1: The lollipop refers to television detective Kojak, played by Telly Savalas. Page 2: The camera-iris sequence is a generic James Bond title sequence. Though there is, of course, no pie in the Bond version. Page 4: Exotica Ladame has the look of a typical "Bond girl." The name also is an ideal followup to Daffy's last line on the previou page. The somewhat suggestive name, too, is in the vein of some the Bond girls more apt to be remembered. (Though certainly not as suggestive as some Bond girl names. This is a CCA approved comic. ...PN) Page 7: Ernst Stavros Blofeld was the villain in several Bond movies. In the movies, but not in the books on which the movies are based, Blofeld also has a white cat. Telly Savalas played Blofeld in many, but not all, of those movies. Page 7: The exotic weapon aimed at someone strapped to a table refers to a(n in)famous scene in the 1964 Bond movie Goldfinger. Page 7: A base inside a volcano was Blofeld's lair in the 1967 movie You Only Live Twice. Page 8: The escape from disaster and ending up in a raft, or some other rather private conveyance, with the girl is the cliché ending common to all James Bond movies. The flower in Daffy's coat changes color through the story. It's white on page three and four, and pink after that, except on page seven where it's quite red.A sign shows that rabbit season is open and so Elmer Fudd is out hunting. Fudd interrupts Bugs' reading and gets his gun barrels tied in a bow for it. Bugs' also points out the sign which now shows that rabbit season is closed and a bewildered Elmer start to walk away, dejected.
Daffy suspects something is up and, looking closer at the sign, sees that it's one sign covering another. The duck calls Elmer back. Daffy rips away the top sign so Elmer can see the sign underneath. Elmer is delighted, but Daffy isn't. Daffy gets blasted. The sign indicates that duck season is now open.
Page 1: Stephen King's books are not known for being cheery, tending rather more toward horror and the macabre.Granny gets some bird food ready for Tweety, but finds Tweety has been replaced with a bird doll when its head falls off. A very angry Granny insists Sylvester spit out Tweety, and even reaches inside the cat to extract Tweety. She doesn't find Tweety in Sylvester, but does remove a good many items, even including the cat's skeleton. Luckily for Sylvester, the phone rings.
Granny has to leave for a while, but warns a recovering Sylvester that if Tweety isn't in his cage before she gets back, he's going to the pound. Once Granny is out of the house, the cat panics and starts frantically searching. Sylvester gets washed when he checks the washing machine. He makes a mess of the refrigerator, finds mousetraps the hard way, cleans the gutters. The terrified cat goes through a closet, and even digs in the basement.
By the time Granny returns, the house is a mess and Sylvester still hasn't found Tweety. The cat crawls into a coffin, figuring he's doomed. To his astonishment, Granny find Tweety is in his cage. The cat now has to clean up the mess he made of the house. Unlike Sylvester, Tweety enjoyed the day's activity and wants to do it again tomorrow.
Page 3: Extracted from Sylvester: a sock, sandal, golf ball, coat hanger, piggy bank, hairbrush, saltshaker, hairbrush, plastic bottle, glass, license plate, and his skeleton. Page 6: Sylvester was rather thorough, even checking inside light switches as can be seen in the first panel. Sylvester's footpads are not colored in throughout the story.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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