Looney Tunes: March 2000
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A nonplussed Foghorn Leghorn is "Today's Special: Chicken ala King" for Henery Hawk, who is seated and ready to dine. Other chicken hawks act as waiter and violinist for Henery.
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Synopsis
Henery Hawk traps Foghorn Leghorn, and the rooster fast talks his way out of the situation, describing Dawg to him and claiming that is a chicken. Dawg overhears and interrupts, tired of the same old routine of each convincing Henery that the other is a chicken over and over. Dawg suggests Foghorn come up with a new definition of chicken to rid them both of Henery once and for all.
Foghorn seizes on the idea, and describes a Do-Do. While the rooster laughs at his own joke, he's surprised by Henery actually having found and brought a Do-Do. Foghorn rescues the Do-Do, well sort of, next describing a stealth aircraft. The incredible chicken hawk brings one down, so Foghorn tries again. Amazingly, being told a planet is a chicken, Henery proceeds pulling one to him. Foghorn tries yet again, thinking he's found the ideal description.
Foghorn, Dawg, and many others are astonished when the chicken hawk manages to dine on gravitation itself. Before everyone floats off, Foghorn manages to rescue gravity. Henry is now told that as a chicken hawk he is half chicken. Ever determined, he tries to dine on himself, which drive Foghorn to tell him yet another definition. Just as Henery is about to eat the sign for the end of the comic, Foghorn stops him. This time though Henery has double checked and the dictionary agrees with the last definition. Foghorn, however, might not like where the sign has wound up...
Did You Notice...
The title plays on the 1940 film My Little Chicadee which starred W.C. Fields and Mae West.- Page 3: The Do-Do, appropriately in shades of grey, appeared in Porky in Wackyland (Bob Clampett, 1938).
- Page 5: Slott's done his homework, those numbers for the size and location of Venus are right, as is Foghorn's description of the planet.
- Page 6: Even the law of gravity tastes like chicken. What doesn't?
- Page 8: The Hawksford English Dictionary is the chicken hawk version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Technical Nits
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With Sylvester Junior watching, Sylvester chases a mouse into its hole, ending up with his head inside the wall. The mouse is prepared as Sylvester painfully discovers. The determined cat figures to get the mouse out of the hole without having to go in himself by filling the mouse hole with a very pungent odor.
As this going on, a discovery is made aboard a passing circus train: the tasmanian devil is missing. The mouse tunnels away from the stench, only to be found by a hungry Taz. A little fast talking later and Taz follow the mouse's plans. The mouse leads Sylvester around a corner, right to Taz, who clobbers the cat. This happens a couple more times, the final time the mouse adds something sticky before Sylvester and Taz reach pillows. The struggle shreds the pillows and Sylvester is coated in fluff.
Mistaken for a tasmanian devil, Sylvester is caught by a rail worker. Sylvester realizes this is a way away from the 'giant mouse' and plays along. Later Junior, the mouse, and Taz are getting along and going to the circus -- Taz likes to watch a circus -- and Junior admires him for being able, in a way, to catch a mouse.
Did You Notice...
- Page 2: The Cirque de Soleil-Moon one-ups the Cirque du Soleil or 'Circus of the Sun' by adding the Moon.
- The smelly substance is Eau de Pepe, so must have a quite potent odor.
Technical Nits
Sylvester's, and Sylvester Junior's, pads aren't colored in throughout the story. Also, in the classic cartoons Sylvester had no pads on his hands, but did have two, sometimes three, on each foot and not just the one.
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Bugs Bunny narrates, telling the story of The Midnight Ride Of Duck Revere who has to be awakened to warn of the arrival of Hessian (Yosemite) Sam. No only does the duck need to be awakened, he has trouble staying on a horse -- and the horse doesn't help him any when he stops for a cute filly, sending the duck flying into a bath.
Duck Revere is told to keep quiet in the night, his warning ignored and his dignity injured by a shoe thrown at him. So he tries a warn with a song and gets another shoe for his efforts. Another try, using a singing telegram, only results in more shoes. Spotting a figure in the dark, Duck starts to warn him, only to realize the figure is Hessian Sam.
Thinking fast, Duck Revere bangs on a drum and when everyone is awake, and angry, gives it to Sam and and blames him for the noise. A rain of shoes quickly results in Sam's surrender, depriving his troops of their commander. Duck Revere makes do the the next day, selling shoes back to people...at high price.
Did You Notice...
- Sam played a Hessian before, Sam von Schamm in Bunker Hill Bunny (Freleng, 1950). History: Hesse referred to the German kingdom of Hesse-Kassel, which supplied troops to England under contract. The landgrave of Hesse-Kassel grew rich from renting out his army.(EC)
Technical Nits
- Page 1: The British soldier's rifles are lacking stocks, and the bayonets are in a position that would be above rather than under the barrel when the rifle was fired. Bayonets are under the barrel to be out of the way for aiming.
- Page 2: The glue bottle that Porky uses probably should be labelled. And the saddle blanket and cinch are missing in the fourth panel. Reins and stirrups are missing overall, and Daffy sure could use them.
- Page 3: The cinch for Daffy's horse should be over, not under, the saddle blanket in the center panel.
- Page 8: The Colonist's rifles are short here, whereas colonial rifles were generally anywhere from four to six feet long (there was no standardization). Also the rifles are being held as if they were modern machine guns rather than what they are. And the bayonet error from the first page is repeated.
- Page 8: The currency used in the American colonies in 1775 varied but was often pieces of eight (which is why the New York Stock Exchange listed stock prices in eighths until it switched to decimals) due to extensive trading throughout the Spanish Caribbean. While colonies did issue colonial dollars, they were generally not considered to be worth much, and were pretty much worthless outside the issuing colony.
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