Looney Tunes: March 1999
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It's the 50th issue of the comic and many of the Looney Tunes characters are crowded in or near a big standard reddish WB concentric circle design, with Bugs at center. Pictured are: Tweety, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Foghorn Leghorn, Taz, Marvin, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, Penelope, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Road Runner, Porky Pig, and Speedy Gonzales. Each is acting in character.
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Elmer introduces himself as host of Fun With Duck Hunting, the top rated duck hunting comic story. Daffy then introduces himself as co-host and Elmer objects as Daffy is a duck. Who knows better how a duck's mind works is the reply.
Daffy proceeds to trick Elmer into acting like a duck, of sorts, and other hunters fire at him. The duck tries to trick Elmer again, setting him up as a prize target but this time things don't quite work and Daffy is blasted. He discovers that although the shooters are dressed as hunters they aren't after ducks but they are out to make an example of anyone making comic book stories that embarrass duck hunters. As Daffy runs from them, stating his agent will hear of this, Elmer comments that hunting comics are getting more dangerous.
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Bugs Bunny looks out from his hole and sees that the state fair has arrived and quickly finds that he's inside a display with a Tasmanian Devil. The rabbit claims a lack of proper feeding, saying the Devil's not being fed three squares a day. Taz escapes, sending people, and rabbit, fleeing.
Bugs closes the door behind Taz as he enters an exhibit showing cow milking machines. The Devil emerges carrying bottles of milk and looking rather bewildered. The chase resumes, Bugs ducks, and Taz ends up in a hay compactor. When he emerges, Bugs has him on display as 'The Living Cube!' with Bugs making a crack about him finally getting a square meal.
Did You Notice...
Page 1: The signs on Taz's cage read Winner Best Carnivorous Mammal 4-H Club (4-H contests for best animal raised being common at fairs), Contains Small Parts! Keep Away From Children Under 3 (a common warning on toys), Do Not Remove Tag (as if it were a mattress), and Do Not Taunt! Tasmanian Devil (from the Saturday Night Live commercial for Happy Fun Ball which poked fun at disclaimers such as this).- Page 1: The unusual build of the fellow calling attention to Taz is explained in the last panel.
- Page 2: Those sure are some contented cows.
- Page 2: I'm not touching that line either.
- Page 2: Porky is in the pigpen, and doesn't seem pleased by the situation.
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Bugs' foot pads are not colored in.
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Porky and Petunia are at the beach and Rocky runs past, kicking up sand at them. When Porky complains Rocky insults Porky, not to mention his pulling out a pistol. We see Porky send away for instructions and after some time Porky appears with the look of a bodybuilder. The next time he and Petunia are at the beach, he sends Rocky flying with a solid punch. Porky has the admiration of all the women at the beach. At the end we see that Porky sent for information about how to be like Crusher, the "Da Woild's Most Marginally Developed Man."
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- This one page story is styled after the Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads which were once common in comic books.
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Sylvester has just caught Tweety and is about to eat when the bird clobbers him with a mallet. As the cat is recovering, Tweety gives a history lesson of the chase through the ages, from the Stone Age, through the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Enlightenment, and the Wild West. In each era the cat is clobbered and the bird is left unscathed. Sylvester hasn't learned the main lesson though and Tweety painfully reminds him.
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- Page 2: The horses pulling Sylvester's chariot are built like the horse in What's Opera Doc? (Jones, 1957).
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- Page 3: Sylvester has a hand pad, but it is not colored in. He really should not have any pads on his hands.
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Foghorn Leghorn relaxes, remarking on the burden of leadership when he sees Dawg taking a break from work in the field. Being a helpful sort, Foghorn adjusts machinery speed and sends Dawg flying in a path of destruction. Walking back from that, the rooster comes across Miss Prissy who reminds him of his promise to clean the henhouse. Just then Henery Hawk appears and, misunderstanding the chicken hawk, Foghorn puts him to work, with dire results. Finally it's Egghead Jr.'s time to be assisted. Foghorn neglects to read directions and miswires an air conditioner with rather explosive results.
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- Henery Hawk actually gets some chickens, and not Foghorn, at long last.
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Marvin and K-9 land on Earth, to blow it up since television signals from it are reaching Mars and they've had quite enough of the low quality shows. Bugs hears of the attempt and diverts them to a bowling alley, so Marvin can rescue his fellow Martians. The sight of bowling balls horrifies Marvin. Marvin is even more put out when Crusher uses him as a bowling ball. Bugs gets Marvin out of the place and into alley where he mistakes simply disguised bombs for Martians. Bugs Bunny again saves the Earth, but upon seeing a televised version of Hamlet with a dubious lead actor and bad rewrite he's ready to use Marvin's ship himself.
Did You Notice...
- Page 1: Marvin complains about the Grady Bunch Reunion which is the Looney version of the Brady Bunch Reunion. He also worries about an upcoming Pauly Shore film festival. (Those would make anyone want to blow something up, I think...PN)
- Page 1: Sniffles, the mouse, is whisking off a bowling ball.
- Page 2: Also at the bowling alley are: Rocky, Mugsy, Crusher, the bull from Bully for Bugs (Jones, 1953), and Cecil Turtle.
- Page 3: Hamlet starring Sly Stale-one (Sylvester Stallone) drives Bugs to ask about the spaceship. Can you blame him?
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- Page 3: The fuses of the bombs are unlit in the first panel yet lit in the second.
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Sylvester shows Sylvester Junior how to set a trap, planning to trap Speedy Gonzales. Junior points out the trap is cruel but Sylvester is unconcerned. Speedy shows up immediately and, while the cats hide, takes the cheese from the trap. When the cats emerge, Speedy is projecting his voice at a figure of himself in a trap. Sylvester falls for it and gets to experience being spring-trapped firsthand.
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- Page 1: Speedy's line, "Yo quiero la quesa" (adapted from Taco Bell commercials) translates as "I want the cheese."
- Page 2: "¡Este es todo amigos!" is roughly, "That's all, folks!"
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Pepe has cornered Penelope on a ship, but that doesn't last long as two members of the SPCA separate them, taking Pepe away. As he's being taken away he promises to meet her again in a year, at the Empire State Building.
A year passes and Penelope gets a note from Pepe. As Pepe waits atop the Empire State Building, Penelope travels madly around the world, getting as far away as she can. She ends up on a tropical island. The island, however, has a volcano which erupts at just the wrong time, sending Penelope flying right to the top of Empire State Building where Pepe is waiting.
Did You Notice...
- The title plays off of the 1957 film An Affair To Remember which had a couple planning to meet atop Empire State Building.
- Page 2: In the elevator with Pepe are Mama, Papa, and Junyer Bear.
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- The credits for this story were not printed.
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Puzzling over instruction manuals and tossing them aside, Wile E. Coyote prepares to use an Acme Death Ray. An initial test work flawlessly. When Road Runner enters the target area, the ray doesn't fire, despite Wile E. triggering it. We see a page of the manual that the coyote either missed or forgot: the ray needs time to recharge between firings. He inspects the ray hardware, accidentally firing it at himself, but for once he manages to deflect the danger and the rays reflects off into space. Just as he comments, by sign, that it wasn't too bad something bad does happen and the Mir space station falls onto the hapless coyote.
Did You Notice...
- Page 1: The manuals Wile E. has tossed aside are: Operator's Manual, Read Me First, Don't Forget!, Important, Don't Do It!, We Mean It!, and Do's And Don't's For Coyote Stories complete with Warner Bros. emblem on the cover.
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