The title puns that of Erich von Däniken's book, Chariots of the Gods. Erich von Däniken made the claim that primitive people of ancient earth were visited and guided by aliens.On a starry night in the desert a flying saucer lifts a surprised Wile E. Coyote away as Road Runner runs by. Wile E. holds a sign which reads, "Yipe!"
Wile E. Coyote is at the control panel for a very large missile. When the coyote tries to lite the fuse, it fizzles. As he's puzzling over the failure and starting to take the missile apart, a flying saucer appears and pulls him aboard. Wile E. finds himself strapped to a table and surrounded by strange instruments.
Marvin is delighted to have an earth creature to study. As he explains to K-9 how primitive the creature is and how it has a small brain, the coyote escapes and clobbers Marvin. While the martian is knocked out, Wile E. helps himself to a few items on the saucer that he hopes will aid him in his quest for a Road Runner meal.
Martian technology is no more useful than Acme products to the coyote. A light saber cuts a hole in the bridge Wile E. stands on. A rocket pack explodes. Cloning means he has to fight himself, as every instance of Wile E. wants Road Runner for himself. When Marvin recovers, he catches up with Wile E. and lectures him about stealing and telling him he's not very smart or he could use what he already had. The smug martian tries to demonstrate, but only manages to blow up Wile E.'s missile as well as the coyote, K-9, and himself.
The title puns that of Erich von Däniken's book, Chariots of the Gods. Erich von Däniken made the claim that primitive people of ancient earth were visited and guided by aliens.
A missile with all those controls has a fuse that must be lit? Must be another screwy Acme design.Rocky and Mugsy are hiding out in an abandoned warehouse when there's a knock at the door and a demand to open the door. Rocky says he's giving up, but instead has a shipping crate dropped on his pursuer. Despite that, the knocking resumes. This time Rocky sets up a trap with a tiger, only to see the tiger run scared after the trap is sprung.
The gangsters flee by boat and take a strange course to a little-known island, yet are followed just the same. This time Rocky really does give and just opens the door. The pursuer is just delivering a pizza and wants to be paid. Rocky points out that the delivery took longer than 30 minutes and so the pizza is free.
The title, while perhaps fitting, has been used before in the Looney Tunes comic in a the May 1994 issue. The pizza delivery person is not Lola. This makes sense as Lola works for Machu Pizza, not Acme Pizzeria. The "30 minutes or less" delivery or the pizza is free is from a campaign once used by Domino's Pizza with just that guarantee. The campaign was ended after accusations, and lawsuits, claimin the guarantee encouraged delivery drivers to drive in a dangerous manner. In the first panel of the last page of the story, the wheel for the boat has the person steering facing backward rather than forward.Claude Cat, caught by the lady of the house as he is scratching a cabinet door, is told he must get some rest or he's in for a visit to the vet. Just as she leaves, Claude is startled up onto the ceiling by Frisky Puppy. The cat tries to carefully make his way down, only to be startled again by Frisky.
Claude tries to bait Frisky with sausages so he can clobber the dog and slow it down, but Frisky surprises him once more. The cat tries again, tricking the dog into the clothes dryer. The cat doesn't notice that the canine is ejected as a fuzzball. That is, Claude doesn't notice until he tries using the fuzzball as a pillow and gets another start or two.
An outdoor trap fails as bad as the indoor traps, leaving Claude as high-strung as ever. The lady of the house returns with a surprise for the cat. She has decided that Frisky needs another companion and has brought home a tweety bird. Claude rests, but only because he's beaten himself senseless in his frustration.
Yosemite Sam greets the day ready to rob a bank. Too bad for Sam that he gets to the bank just as someone else makes a getaway from his own robbery. The robber also bears a striking resemblance to Sam, though is not a perfect look-alike, having yellow rather than red hair. Sam changes plans from bank robbery to robbing miners. Sam tries to rob some miners just after his double has already robbed them. The result is Sam getting clobbered.
Not one to give up, Sam plans to rob a stagecoach. Again his double beats him to it. This time, though, catches up with him and finds out he's Sacramento Sven, from Sweden. Sam begins to tell Sven to stop doing what he does when the stage's strongbox is delivered, clobbering him again. Sam decides he's going to put an end to his look-alike troubles and gets clean-shaven. His plan doesn't work out as when he tries to rob a bank everyone bursts out laughing. Sam is puzzled until a lady shows him how he look in a mirror. Sam now looks like Elmer Fudd.
Witch Hazel is late delivering a cake for her niece's 112th birthday when she's mistaken for Mrs. O'Grady, a contestant from the Ozarks, who hasn't shown up at a bake-off. She's lead into a room where judges are proclaiming the virtues of larger, more normal, cakes. The judges don't think much of the appearance of Hazel's cake. Upon sampling the cake, however, they instantly declare Hazel, as Mrs. O'Grady, the winner. The cake didn't just transform the opinion of the judges, but their shape as well.
Betty Croaker is a variation on Betty Crocker, a name invented by The Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis, which later became of General Mills, for signatures on replies to baking questions. The Bake-Off is from Pillsbury, rather than General Mills' Betty Crocker. Pillsbury, however, was bought by General Mills in 2001.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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