Looney Tunes: March 2003
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A panicked Foghorn exclaims, "Ah say, babysitting is for the birds!" as a huge spiked tail emerges from the very large spotted egg on which he is sitting.
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As truck from the city zoo runs into a pothole, the resulting bump big enough to cause the loss of a large, unusual egg. This egg winds up at the feet of Foghorn Leghorn and Miss Prissy. He wants to be rid of the egg, she plans to hatch it. But first Miss Prissy must go shopping and so gets Foghorn to egg sit while she is out. Naturally the egg hatches while Miss Prissy is away. The hatchling is no chicken, but is a lizard, a komodo dragon that Miss Prissy adopts as her own.
Wanting to protect Prissy, and dispose of the lizard, Foghorn tries to keep her away from the dragon. Miss Prissy, though, seems to have no problems at all with the dragon, while Foghorn gets bitten. He tries to beat the lizard. He tries to net the lizard. He tries to rope the lizard. Each time the lizard gets the better of Foghorn.
Foghorn finally asks Miss Prissy why the dragon chases him, but doesn't bother her. She answers in a whisper that since he was there when it hatched, the dragon looks to Foghorn as parent. In the end, Foghorn resigns himself to a strange parenthood.
Did You Notice...
The story title comes from the 1973 martial arts film Enter the Dragonin which Bruce Lee starred.- Page 3: Foghorn reads a magazine with a rooster on the cover. The cover rooster seems to being doing a martial arts kick, though the kicking foot is not colored as a foot.
- Page 5: The Komodo Dragon is indeed on the endangered species list.
- Page 6: Imprinting, the idea of a young animal, especially a bird, latching onto the first larger creature it sees when young as a parent is a common cartoon theme. Here things are stretched as komodo dragon parenting is pretty much nonexistent, so there should be no imprinting.
- Miss Prissy only says "Yeeees!" aloud, as was often the case in the classic era cartoons.
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Daffy watches as the artist, unseen, makes a guide in four parts to drawing the head of "your favorite character." The duck mistakes it for himself until ears are mentioned. At the end, Daffy uses a marker to deface the resulting face of Bugs.
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Noah, here played by Porky, guides the loading of the ark. The last pair of animals loaded are the ducks, one of which is Daffy, who thinks he's on a pleasure cruise. Daffy is irate when he discovers his whims will not be catered to and he tries to leave the ark, but thinks again when he sees the storm.
Somehow Daffy and everyone else manage to get though forty days, and Daffy is still being demanding despite more urgent things, such as feeding all the animals and dealing with seasick pachyderms. Noah tries to put Daffy off the ark, but in cartoon fashion the duck reappears behind him. When asked how he did that, Daffy tricks Noah and, with the aid of a horse, kicks him off the ark.
Just as Daffy gets into enjoying his new role as Captain, a horn sounds. Porky is now just Porky again, and enjoying himself on a real cruise ship. Meanwhile Daffy gets to deal with the ill pachyderm. The duck figures things can't get worse, but he doesn't see the iceberg in his immediate future.
Did You Notice...
- Page 1: The penguins are appropriately concerned about the leopards behind them. (Anyone know why one leopard wears a red shirt or vest?...PN)
- Page 2: Not only is there an EXIT sign above the hatchway, there is a Greenpeace poster on nearby.
- Page 2: Notice the mouse taking advantage of Noah wringing out his robe.
- Page 4: Maybe Daffy isn't getting exercise, but a couple mice are jogging around the ark.
Technical Nits
Page 6: The color pattern of the rainbow is very wrong. The colors are not simply reversed, but are completely out of order. Red and violet are at opposite ends of the visible spectrum and should not be adjacent in the middle of the rainbow.
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Another drawing lesson and again Daffy watches, encouraged that it's how to draw "a certain feathered friend." His joy doesn't last as the image looks less and less like him as it takes shape. Rather than Daffy's head, it is Tweety's, on which the duck hastily uses an eraser.
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Elmer Fudd rests after a hard, and very unsuccessful, day of rabbit hunting when there is a knocking at his door. A mad scientist is collecting donations for the Mad Science For Insane Teens, M.I.S.F.I.T. Elmer slams the door on him and mutters, only to be confronted by by him again, suddenly in the house. Another try, with a twisted Christmas carol, also gets a slammed door.
No longer patient, the mad scientist blasts his way in. Between that and Gossamer, Elmer is convinced to donate. For his donation Fudd gets a ray gun that can hypnotize rabbits. When he tries to use the gun on Bugs, though, he finds that Bugs is armed with a much more powerful device. Bugs made a larger donation.
Did You Notice...
- One does not get M.I.S.F.I.T. from Mad Science For Insane Teens, thus the attempted acronym is, aptly, a misfit.
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- Page 1: Elmer has pink slippers on as he relaxes in the second panel, but has his regular shoes on when he answers the door.
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A story told in blueprint, that is, solid blue background with white line artwork. These blueprints show Wile E. Coyote getting an Acme motorized scooter hang glider and his actions as he reads the instructions. The directions, alas, do not provide warnings until after dangerous mistakes can be made. Thus Wile E. starts the engine, as instructed, before he gets to the note about securing it before starting it. The coyote has similar troubles with the hang glider wings that are not locked into place, his choice of flight path, how he loads the scooter, and the use of a parachute. In the end he finds that Acme employs a certain bird in its drafting department.
Did You Notice...
- Blueprints, while common in the era of the original cartoons, are now quite obsolete. Nowadays Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) is the standard for engineering drawings. Even so, this style is a neat idea and quite suited for a Wile E. Coyote story.
- The lettering is not only very good, it is the correct style for hand lettered engineering drawings.
- Page 4: The pencil & compass are quite right. The pencils were held by bumps in the holder, and so they would get that chewed up look.
- Page 6: The ruler is, appropriately, an Acme product.
- Page 6: Road Runner is at a drafting table with a catapult design before him. In Roadrunner A Go Go, a short made from part of the 1962 TV movie Adventures of the Road Runner Wile E. had nothing but trouble from such a catapult. In the end the nameplate on the catapult revealed it was made by the Roadrunner Mfg. Co.
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- Page 1: Stencil lettering, as shown in the credits, was not typically used on blueprints.
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With some reluctance the narrator explains how to draw Daffy. As the drawing of his head takes shape, Daffy gloats. This time there is more than just a head, but it not more of Daffy. Instead a lit stick of TNT is added to the image. The resulting explosion leaves Daffy smoldering and with a severely displaced bill. The now revealed artists, Bugs and Tweety, claim that that is the best he has ever looked.
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- Is the explosive a stick of dynamite as suggested or TNT as drawn? While dynamite and TNT are both explosives, they are not the same explosive.
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