Looney Tunes: May 1999
Cover
It's the fair, with colorful tents, a ferris wheel, and Bugs Bunny as a carnival barker. He has just hit Yosemite Sam on the head with a mallet. Sam, now with a very tall lump on his head, staggers past a sign that reads "You must be this tall to enter." Bugs, in carnival barker outfit, holds the mallet behind him and remarks, "Ehh, now you look taller, Doc." Sam's reply is a bewildered, "Gee, t'anks."
Credits
Synopsis
Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf start another day at work, Ralph perusing the Acme catalog for idea. His first idea is to use a bungee cord and bungee jump for sheep. Sam, though, is waiting when the wolf springs back up and uses the cord a bit differently. Next Ralph tries to distract the sheepdog with Acme itching powder, but the wolf gets used as a back scratcher.
The wolf tries something more sophisticated: an Acme virtual cyber sheep. While Ralph can control the robotic sheep, he soon discovers that he experiences whatever it experiences. He also discovers that Sam has his own controller. Ralph then tries a much simpler grass suit to blend in. Unfortunately for him he overlooked that sheep eat grass.
Trying yet again, the wolf uses a musical flagpole to distract Sam and this time he gets a sheep. To his surprise and dismay he's managed to get the cyber sheep, which now is quite capable of self-preservation. Irked, Ralph tries to take out the cyber sheep with an auto-destruct device. This device is rather more literal in its operation than he expects. Enraged, Ralph tears up the Acme catalog as the workday end. The end shows that they all, sheepdog, sheep, and wolf, all work for Acme and that if Ralph looked a bit more closely at his catalog he could possibly avoid a lot of trouble.
Did You Notice...
Daffy Duck is in each picture in the Acme catalog, dressed the part of a salesman as he was in The High and the Flighty (McKimson, 1956) though in that he was working for the Ace Novelty Company.- Page 7: Acme must also sell in Canada, since the flag and anthem in the catalog are Canadian. This seems to have caught Daffy by surprise.
- Page 8: Cartoon physics even applies to robots, the cyber sheep inflates its wheel before clobbering Ralph with it.
- Page 10: This story does something never done in the classic era cartoons. It has the sheep clock out at the end of the day and also has them capable of speech.
- Page 10: One of the sheep leaving is the now independent cyber sheep, named Cy.
Technical Nits
Ralph's eyes are colored cream yellow as if he were Wile E. Coyote. Ralph Wolf's eyes should be white.- Page 7: The Canadian national anthem is O Canada, not Oh Canada.
- Page 10: The time on the punchclock differs greatly from panel three to four. Is quitting time at 3:00 or 8:00?
Credits
Synopsis
Marvin is about to blow up the earth, having waited till a recommended time. As he's preparing to do so, he is interrupt by a disguised Bugs Bunny at his door. Bugs is claiming to be a Martian Scout and sells Marvin a Martian Nut Roll. The nut roll is really dynamite and the explosion sends Marvin spinning into space, providing Bugs with the closing pun about watching a Martin nut roll.
Did You Notice...
- Martian's line about where the moon, Jupiter and Mars are refer to the song Dawning of the Age of Aquarius from the musical HAIR.
- Jeane Dixon was an astrologer most often noted for "predicting" the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Other predictions of hers were rather less accurate. Marvin must have been planning for a while, as she died in 1997.
Technical Nits
- No credits were printed. The writers and penciller were confirmed, the rest are assumed.
Credits
Synopsis
Miss Prissy is engrossed in a romance novel when Henery Hawk interrupts her reading, using a line like she had just read. Agreeing that she won't give Henery "no" for an answer, she surprises the chicken hawk with her assumption of his demand being a proposal. At the alter, Henery reconsiders what answer he'd have taken.
Did You Notice...
- In the first panel one chick is wearing Groucho glasses and another is wearing a top hat with hair that gives the appearance of Harpo Marx.
Technical Nits
- No credits were printed. The writers and penciller were confirmed, the rest are assumed.
Credits
Synopsis
At the fair Yosemite Sam has a stand, "Yosemite Sam's Wild West Shootin' Gallery" which just happens to only have guns with bent barrels. Pumpkinhead Martin tries his luck, after protesting about a problem with the sight. The gun explodes, blasting him and his brother Curt before Yosemite sends them unexpectedly on their way.
Just then Bugs Bunny says he'll try. The rabbit, though an incredible series of ricochets, manages to bring the stand down on Yosemite and he demands his prize. Yosemite offers up a customer-eating bear and tries sending Bugs on his way. Bugs has other ideas.
Yosemite is irked when Bugs sets up his own contests. First a dunking stand, but it's Yosemite who gets dunked...and attacked by a shark that regrets the move. Then a strength testing device allows Yosemite to clobber himself. After Bugs guesses his weight rather high, and a train of elephants falls from the sky, Yosemite stops going along with trying to do things the nice way.
Instead, Yosemite lobs a bomb at the rabbit, blowing up a stand but not Bugs, or a pair of bottles. Bugs questions his strength and Yosemite proceeds to try knock the bottles down. Despite his efforts, which range from a big fan to a cannon, the bottles remain stubbornly upright. When he tries to force the bottles over with his hands he suddenly finds that the bottles are in fact the nose of a rocket ship and he's headed for space. Before Yosemite leaves the atmosphere Bugs sees that the bear from earlier joins him on his trip. On another planet Yosemite is again involved in a shooting stand, but now the bear is in charge...
Did You Notice...
- Page 1: Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin showed up originally in Hillbilly Hare (McKimson, 1950) in which Bugs calls a very unorthodox square dance.
- Page 1: The sign disclaims responsibility for lost body parts.
- Page 5: Arnold Schwarzenfeffer puns both strongman actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rabbit recipe hasenpfeffer.
- Page 10: A young Marvin, or someone that looks like a young Marvin, is one of the aliens shooting at Yosemite.
Technical Nits
Credits
Synopsis
Tweety lands on a birdbath which is really Sylvester disguised with a sign and funnel. When the cat tries to swallow the him through the funnel, Tweety start to inflate a rubber raft which Sylvester ends up swallowing.
Did You Notice...
Technical Nits
- No credits were printed. The writers and penciller were confirmed, the rest are assumed.
- Sylvester's foot pad is left uncolored.
Credits
Synopsis
Wile E. Coyote has donned a female Road Runner costume and actually gets the Road Runner to follow him. The plan fails when another coyote manages to catch the disguised Wile E., planning to do to him what coyotes dream of doing to Road Runners.
Did You Notice...
Technical Nits
- No credits were printed. The writers and penciller were confirmed, the rest are assumed.
* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
* Animaniacs Comic Kompendium * Production Index (Text) * Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion *
Last updated 04 March 2004