Looney Tunes: June 1999
Cover
In a small room Sylvester, eyes closed and saying "Oh goodie goodie!", towers over Tweety who has placed a stick of TNT barely disguised as a bird on the cat's outstretched tongue. He tells the cat, "Open your mouth and close your eyes, puddy tat."
Credits
Synopsis
Tweety tries tempting Sylvester into chasing him, but the cat ignore him. Rather than give chase, Sylvester stares intently at the mail slot. Soon a parcel arrives. It's the first mouse of a twelve month subscription to the Mouse of the Month club. The mouse runs for his life, suggesting various alternate foods. Tweety manages to rescue the mouse and satisfy Sylvester's hunger. Well, sort of.
Another month, another mouse, and Sylvester tries his paw at cooking. The first mouse and Tweety change things and Sylvester cooks his own goose, so to speak. The following month Sylvester is set up and gets an explosive meal before the real mouse even arrives. And the next month has the arrival of a very shapely female chinchilla. She is rescued by Tweety and the earlier mice, and given a fur coat -- Sylvester's.
Finally it's the last month and Tiny, the giant shrew, arrives. Tiny deals with the cat himself, not needing to be rescued. The mice go off to start a Mouse of the Month Club of their own to enlighten other cats. Meanwhile Sylvester gets back to chasing Tweety, with predictable results that have considering a less carnivorous diet.
Did You Notice...
This story was originally written, or at least started, to go into a comic for the United States Postal Service's Sylvester and Tweety stamp. This comic did not happen, curiously, as USPS did not deliver answers confirming the go-ahead with the comic to Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing until it was too late for WBWP to have the comic ready by the stamp's release date.- The title is a twist on James M. Cain's 1946 film, The Postman Always Rings Twice.
- Page 2: The Mouse of the Month Club package proclaims that Mouse of the Month Club is "A division of Wild Game of the Month Club. This is familiar, but was the Live Game of the Month Club in the Bugs Bunny Stamp issue's story Express Yourself. Sean Carolan explains, "Wild Game Of The Month Club is the parent company of Live Game Of The Month Club and of Mouse Of The Month Club. All wholly-owned subsidiaries of MeatCo. "If it's MeatCo, it had better be meat." "
- Page 2: Once again pork is suggested as "the other white meat."
- Page 3: Pork was suggested, so Spam makes sense. Calling it the meat of the future is rather a stretch, though calling it 'future meat' has a certain humor.
- Page 3: The mouse uses commercial catch phrases for Trident gum and Sara Lee snack cakes.
- Page 4: The line "Say Goodnight, Gracie!" is from the Burns & Allen show, where, at the end of the show George Burns would often use that line. And then Gracie Allen would do exactly as told, saying "Goodnight, Gracie."
- Page 5: Sylvester calls Emeril Lagasse, of the Food Network show "Emeril Live!" for cooking advice.
- Page 7: "At'sa Spicy Meatball!" refers to a notable Alka-Seltzer commercial where that line is used or almost used in several takes, and only after many spicy meatballs have been eaten by the struggling actor is the actual product mentioned.
- Page 8: A meal and earmuff in one is reminiscent of Saturday Night Live's fictitious product that was a both a dessert topping and a floor cleaner.
- Page 9: Sylvester sings "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story.
Technical Nits
Sylvester's foot pads aren't colored in throughout the story.
Credits
Synopsis
Daffy Duck wonders where all his fans are, and only ends up more disgusted when one supposed fan mistakes him for Danny DeVito. The duck is determined to make the world acknowledge him. He sees the offices of the Book of Guddunuff World Records and decides he will break a world record.
The determined duck sets off to break the record for eating cheesecakes in 30 minutes. He appears to break the record, but Arnie Fisheye has just set a record slightly beyond Daffy's accomplishment. Undaunted, Daffy tries for another record: one legged flagpole standing. Again he does very well, only to be narrowly beat out by Arnie Fisheye. The duck tries more records: grizzly bear riding, hot stove sitting, lying in a freeway, free falling. And each and every time he's beaten out by Arnie.
Daffy asks if there is any record Arnie hasn't broken. There is one. Daffy has had more injuries in attempting records than Arnie has. The duck ends up next to Mr. Fisheye in the hospital, where they argue about who will set yet another record...
Did You Notice...
- Page 1: The movie posters are for Titanium (Titanic), Mimemageddon (Armageddon), and Fleaz (Antz).
- Page 1: The newsstand vendor is the construction worker from One Froggy Evening and Michigan J. Frog can be seen singing and dancing in the bottom right panel.
- Page 1: The Book of Guddunuff World Records is the Looney version of the Guinness Book of World Records. Guinness, unlike Guddunuff, has policies against recording things deemed too dangerous or stupid.
- Page 2: The chefs are caricatures of Warner Bros. animation directors. In the top panel, left to right, they are: Charles M. (Chuck) Jones, Frederick B. (Tex) Avery, Robert P. McKimson, Sr., and Isadore (Friz) Freleng. Note that all of these drawings, with the possible exception of McKimson, show the directors later in life.(EC)
- Page 5: The car in the second panel is from the January 1999 story Rocky Road, where Bugs Bunny becomes Rocky and Mugsy's driver.
Technical Nits
Credits
Synopsis
Charlie Dog is the host of an info-mercial, where he tries to sell his good points, with the aid of a paid studio audience. Alas, his support is tactless, his mood sensing doesn't sense raw pain, and his idea of sharing gives others things they'd rather not have.
Did You Notice...
- Shiatsu is a Japanese massage technique.
- Mange is a name for a few different types of mite infestation.
Technical Nits
Credits
Synopsis
The goofy gophers, Mac and Tosh, dine on apples as they are being hauled to a grocery store. Elmer Fudd, the store owner, starts setting up a display only to discover the gophers have eaten several apples. Finding that they're also devouring his watermelons does nothing to help his mood.
After being attacked with watermelon seeds, Fudd sets out gopher hunting. He spots the gophers drinking grape juice and sets after them, only to be run down by a shopping cart. When the gophers take a couple cans from a large display, an avalanche results. This triggers a few more disasters, all of which Elmer finds himself in the middle of.
Once things settle down, and Elmer regains something resembling consciousness, Mac and Tosh suggest he join them in eating peaches. Elmer, who seems to have finally snapped, quickly agrees and dines as the gophers do.
Did You Notice...
- The title plays on the 1987 film Stand and Deliver about a math teacher who turns trouble-prone kids into very good algebra and calculus students. A 'checkstand' is that rack display that stores have by the cashier in hopes of getting customers to add last minute purchases as they wait in line.
- Page 4: One of the gophers has been lifting weights, or as said, has been "pumping acorns."
Technical Nits
Credits
Synopsis
Pepe Le Pew seems to be giving a speech to someone, asking why they strayed from him. He carries on quite a one sided conversation, which is explained when we see to whom he's been talking.
Did You Notice...
Technical Nits
* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
* Animaniacs Comic Kompendium * Production Index (Text) * Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion *
Last updated 23 April 2001