Looney Tunes: July 1999
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Taz is at the controls, pressing buttons in Marvin's spacecraft, causing onboard machinery to zap Marvin quite thoroughly. Taz declares, "Taz love but-tons!"
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An Australian rocket has landed on Mars and this concerns Marvin, for that can only mean one thing: Earthlings. The Martian sets out to meet, and annihilate, his visitors. There is only one visitor, which is just as well, since the visitor is Taz. A large burp from Taz has Marvin changing his approach to ridding Mars of Earthlings.
Marvin sends an army of instant Martians to attack Taz. Taz defeats this army easily and sends it back, damaging Marvin, K-9, and Marvin's dome. Since a live army failed, a mechanical monster is next tried. This robot acts much like Taz and two end up not fighting, but having a date by candlelight.
Finally the Martian decides he must resort to the ultimate weapon: the Q-bomb. Taz simply eats it. When he burps again, the force is enough to send Marvin and K-9 hurtling to the Earth.
Did You Notice...
Page 1: K-9 was the one to realize and Earth rocket was coming to Mars.- Page 7: Now we know another substance Marvin can make use of: Quentillium.
- Marvin has unusual asides through the story. He's not just a Martian bent on destruction, he's a polite and conscientious Martian bent on destruction.
- Page 8: The person in the lower right corner of the third panel resembles the Sheriff of Nottingham from the Chuck Jones cartoon Rabbit Hood.
- K-9 has his own wordless comments on how things are going, especially on the last two pages.
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Page 2: The sight on Marvin's pistol disappears after the fourth panel.- Page 3: That should be a Mars to Earth dictionary, not a directory.
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Daffy, who refuses to fly south for the Winter, needs a place to stay and decides that staying with Elmer Fudd will do and tries posing as his uncle.. Elmer would rather not endure Winter with Daffy, however. Trying again, Daffy disguises himself as a gift. This also fails.
When Daffy plays fireman and uses an ax, he does get into the house. His treating of the place as a hotel infuriates Elmer, who tries to throw the duck out. The duck then tries throw Elmer out and the two trade places a couple times before Daffy gets rather zany. Disco, posing as a grandmother, and wanting to take some of Elmer's property with him when he leaves are too much. Elmer gets his shotgun out. Daffy responds with dynamite.
With a bit of trickery of his own, Elmer finally manages to get Daffy out of his house. Daffy is not defeated though: He manages to make off with the house with Elmer still inside.
Did You Notice...
- Page 2: That's an impressive CD. Even if the music was recorded as mp3 files a normal CD could only hold about 10 hours and normal audio CDs are limited to 74 minutes.
- Page 5: The picture on the wall is of a screw and a ball.
- Page 8: The person with glasses and earmuffs on the right looks like Dr. Oro Mycin from Hare Brush Hare (Freleng, 1956) and the person second from the left looks like the hotel detective from Room and Bird (Freleng, 1951).
Technical Nits
- Page 3: Daffy's luggage includes socks?
- Page 5: The refrigerator door's handle moves from the right in the second panel to the left in the following panels.
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Penelope is diving in the sea, escaping the surface world. Alas for her she is not alone in her diving suit. Pepe has stowed away in her suit. This has Penelope swimming fast for land. Pepe, as usual, follows at a seemingly more relaxed pace.
Did You Notice...
- "Bonne Chance" is French for "good luck." And it's spelled Bonne, not Bon, since chance is feminine, whereas a voyage is masculine. (EC)
- "Bon Jovi" refers to the hard rock band started by Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi).
- Even a nearby fish is affected by Pepe's presence, though he's sealed inside the diving suit.
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Granny is having difficulty getting started with her new computer and decides to go back to the store to get help. She warns Sylvester, after stopping his attempt to get Tweety, that everything better be as she left it when she returns. Atypically it's Tweety, not Sylvester, who ignores what Granny said.
Tweety manages to get a password right, and Sylvester sends things farther along as he tries to catch Tweety. Meanwhile at the Octagon the cat and bird's antics have the military worried about an attack. Sylvester's further chasing of Tweety results in a confirming message being transmitted, but just as the Octagon is about to get a fix on the location, Sylvester trips on the computer's power cord and unplugs it.
Granny returns with the man from the computer store and finds a big mess which she blames entirely on Sylvester. The man finds that the computer isn't plugged in, despite what Granny recalls, and plugs it in. This gives people at the Octagon the last piece of information they need to mount an attack. The computer man's manner doesn't help Granny any, but he does try to get her over her unease with the machine. Just as she pushes a key, the attack hits, leaving him, Granny, Sylvester, and Tweety in a crater that seems to confirm Granny's worst fears.
Did You Notice...
- The title plays on the 1998 movie You've Got Mail.
- Granny's computer is a Lemon, which is take at Apple computer as well as suggesting the machine isn't quite what it could be.
- Page 3: Need I mention the Octagon is a Looney version of the real Pentagon?
- Page 3: Tweety is singing a variation on Tiptoe Though The Tulips, which was Tiny Tim's signature tune. In fact, Tiny Tim died of a heart attack in 1996 while performing this song.
Technical Nits
- The premise of a newly set up civilian computer accidently sending information in top secret codes to the military is rather farfetched, even for Looney Tunes.
- This interpretation of Granny is rather different from the way she was presented in the classic era.
- Page 6: That seems an odd location on the keyboard for pressing a key to get things started.
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Yummy Bubble welcomes the new quality tester, Gossamer. Gossamer really gets into things, ending up in a vat of gum and getting the batch full of hair. The head of Yummy Bubble has an idea to save the batch, though the other testers don't seem too thrilled with the prospect.
Did You Notice...
- The sign warns test chewers to be alert for signs of "carpal mandible syndrome."
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