Sylvester, holding a lit stick of TNT disguised as an ice cream cone, is badly surprised by the flash of Tweety's camera. As he takes the cat's picture, Tweety says, "Say...BOOM!"
Duck Dodgers has a pleasant task, deciding where to spend vacation. Cadet Porky makes a suggestion which gets him yelled at, then gets followed. The pair wind up on Relaxxon-7, the most relaxing planet in the galaxy according to an advertisement. Once there, the pair sets up camp. Dodgers plans on fishing while Porky gets a campfire going.
As Dodgers wonder where the lake is, he and Porky suddenly find themselves in the middle of a lake. As they make their way to land they discover Marvin working the console of a machine that can change the planet. The Martian is making Relaxxon-7 more Mars-like for Martian settlement. Ignoring the obvious, Dodgers suggests making sure there is ocean life so he can fish. Marvin agrees, in his own way. The result is that Dodgers catches a fish the hard way - from the inside.
Porky cooks the fish and dries out the tents while Dodgers tries to relax in a hammock. The duck's repose quickly ends as a forming mountain peak juts up into the hammock. For this he clouts Marvin. The pig has dinner ready when a very sudden snowstorm hits. Worse, what appears to be a wooly mammoth charges Dodgers. Porky's request of Marvin to get some heat results in volcanoes from, which the duck must flee.
An enraged Dodgers insists Marvin stop altering the planet. The Martian refuses. Dodgers uses Marvin's machine against him, and Marvin retaliates. The battle escalates, Marvin and Dodger each making violent changes. In the end all that's left of Relaxxon-7 is a shard just big enough for Marvin, Dodgers, and Porky to sit on.
The brochures Dodgers looks over are for: Galaxy Arrenarr, Relaxxon-7, Hogan 18, Star Rest, and Vay-K-12. The ending is similar to ending of Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Jones, 1953) where there was almost nothing left of the disputed Planet X.
Marvin's uses of the word "terraforming" is in the metaphoric sense. Terraforming is to make a planet Earth-like. Marvin wants to make the planet more Mars-like. Terra is Latin for Earth, so perhaps what Marvin is doing would be called "Martiforming" as Martis is Latin for Mars. Having Marvin say "terraforming" does having to explain what "martiforming" is.A doctor tells Sylvester he must take a stomach medicine three time a day and also must not eat for twenty-four hours. Upon seeing Tweety waiting for an appointment, the cat figures a snack can't hurt too much and disguises himself as a doctor. Sylvester has Tweety in a microwave, claiming it is an x-ray machine, but can't get it going. The bird suggests changing batteries, and the cat digs around inside the machine and the jolt he gets reveals him as Sylvester.
Tweety flies around, leading Sylvester to the chiropractor's where the cat it tied in knots. The chase through the optometrist's office leaves the cat flash-blinded, and he stumbles back into the chiropractor's and gets tied in knots again. Recovering from his ordeals in time to see Tweety fly into the pharmacy, Sylvester follows and finds nothing but shelves full of pill bottles. Sylvester eats the pills from each bottle, save the very last which is where the bird was hiding. Tweety says he hopes one of the bottles was Sylvester's stomach medicine.
Sylvester getting thoroughly zapped by the circuitry in the microwave is right if perhaps optimistic in that he didn't lose one of his nine lives from it. (Someone who did appliance repair once explained, "The high voltage section of a TV can throw you across a room and make you wish you were dead. With a microwave, there's no wishing." -- PN) Granny and Tweety talk to each other. While Granny talks to animals, they never have a conversation with her, only each other. Neither a microwave oven nor an X-ray machine would run on batteries, and especially not the couple flashlight cells shown on the second page. Sylvester's handpads and footpads are not colored in through the story. Sylvester may be stubborn to excess, but he's not usually this amazingly stupid. While he has eaten things he though contained Tweety, he was quite certain of the fact. Here, he's eating everything in every bottle not knowing which bottle contains the bird. Even Sylvester should be able to see the problem with doing such a thing. How did tweety know Sylvester needed stomach medicine?Ralph Phillips takes the garbage out and the trash becomes part of a daydream. In the daydream, Ralph crosses an alien desert accompanied by a beeping trash can shaped robot, RU-1-2. They make it to his Z-wing fighter spacecraft and head for the Deathly Planet where Ralph duels with the evil Ella Vator. The daydream ends as his mother yells at him to stop hitting the car with a rake handle.
The title and most of the puns and gags refer to the Star Wars movies:
Ralph's first line refers to not Star Wars but to Star Trek. The Deathly Planet resembles a bomb. As he duels with Vator, Ralph's line uses several baseball terms, as Vator head the "Evil Umpire" and wears catcher's gear.Ralph Phillips is pushed into some mud by a larger kid. A comment by the school nurse as he is being cleaned up triggers a daydream. Ralph is the Draped Crusader, battling his enemy the Fiddler who is playing his instrument atop a flaming building. Fiddler uses his fiddle as a bow and his bow as an arrow, but the bow-arrow is deflected by the Crusader's muddy cape. The Crusader cuts the strings of the fiddle.. and Ralph returns to reality, having cut the strings of some window blinds.
This story uses imagery inspired by Batman who is called the Caped Crusader and has an enemy known as the Riddler who wear a costume with a question mark theme. Here Ralph is the Draped Crusader and battles the Fiddler who wears a costume with a musical note theme. The building that is aflame the fiddler plays is the Rome Department Store, refering to the myth of Nero fiddling as Rome burned. The use of a fiddle bow as an arrow is an amusing visual pun. The only part that doesn't make sense in a Batman based story is Ralph flying around. The Caped Crusader never really flies by himself, he climbs or glides. But then, this is a young boy's daydream.Yosemite Sam has just opened a "coffee saloon" almost on top of Bugs' vacation hole. Bugs gives it a try but is put off by the steep prices. Since the rabbit isn't buying, Sam throws him out. Bugs is not about to let him get away with that.
Disguised as rich patron, Bugs returns and orders several drinks of various sorts including a triple tizzy timber tea. Sam produces everything but the unusual tea. He'll lose a rich customer if no such tea is provided. Bugs, now disguised as an employee, gets yelled at by Sam who demands he make the tea. The rabbit sets about a complex process of supposedly making the tea when Sam spots his tail and realizes what's happening.
The ensuing chase has Bugs lose his disguise, hide in a coffee pot, honk Sam's nose, and finally stuff carrots into the spigots of steaming coffee machines. The resulting explosion of the machines devastates the building as well as Sam, putting him out of business.
Sam's coffee saloon, Sambucks refers to the Starbucks chain of coffee shops which is known for high prices and fancy or complicated coffees. On the first page, Sam holds teapots like he'd hold his pistols. While Sam's building near Bugs' hole and Sam's greed are beleivable, it's hard to picture Sam at upscale coffee shop even if he does call it a saloon.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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