Looney Tunes: October 2004
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A miffed Daffy Duck in a Bugs Bunny suit and wearing sticks for antlers has his head through a board as if he were a hunting trophy. The real Bugs, wearing a bowtie and straw hat, barks, carnival style, "Step right up and get your very own jackalope! Satisfaction guaranteed!" while holding up the supposed trophy for all to see.
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Synopsis
Host Ann Teek welcomes us and guest Elmer Fudd to the Unbelievable Collections! TV show. She's not all that interested as Fudd shows off his collection of mounted jackalope heads, which look like rabbits with antlers. Elmer claims to have every variety of Jackalope except for the "dotty jackalope" which is gray with a spotted tail. He's so keen to complete his collection he offers a million dollar bounty for a dotty jackalope.
Meanwhile, Daffy Duck is watching the show. The only problem is that he's settled into an electronics store where is he isn't welcome. As the duck is ejected, he hears Elmer offer his bounty and starts scheming. Seeing Bugs hanging his carrots to dry, he offers to help and immediately mangles one of the carrots. The duck claims he can fix the carrot with a bit of glue and talks his way down into the rabbit hole.
Down in Bugs' hole in the ground, Daffy claims the place needs paint and mixes up his version of spotted paint with which he starts to to paint the walls, and he just happens to get some on Bugs' tail. The duck is a bit more blatant when he glues a pair of branches onto the rabbit's head. Daffy tries to get Bugs out of his hole, but the rabbit would rather just saw the branches off. Daffy is about to start sawing when he realizes that would cut him off from the million dollars.
The duck drags Bugs to the TV station, claiming it's a hospital. Inside, Bugs simply pulls the branches off of his head, to Daffy's surprise. The glue was just molasses, but Bugs now uses the real glue to attach the branches to Daffy's head. When Elmer sees Bugs and Daffy, he first offers the money to Bugs for bringing him the incredibly rare duckalope. Daffy points out Bugs' spotted tail and Fudd proclaims Bugs to be the even rarer antlerless dotty jackalope. Both Bugs and Daffy end up mounted, though alive, as part of Fudd's collection.
Did You Notice...
The television stations callsign, KWB, refers to the former Saturday morning broadcast of the WB television network, Kid's WB.- More information about jackalopes, including the time of the remarkably short jackalope hunting season, can be found here in the Museum of Hoaxes, and here on a publcations, of sorts, from Douglas, Wyoming which has been declared the "Home of the Jackalope."
- Writer Earl Kress has given Daffy a neat variation on the classic woodchuck tongue twister.
- Edgare Degas (1834-1917) was a French artist whose works tended to be in the impressionist style.
- This story is a rare case of Bugs outwitting someone (Daffy) and then getting outwitted in turn. One has to wonder just how Elmer managed to get the upper hand to get Bugs and Daffy mounted, even without trying to get them stuffed. (EC)
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Bugs' use of the word youse to address a single carrot is odd. Youse, like y'all, indicates that a group is somehow being addressed. For those who keep track of such things, they're both second person plural. The American Heritage Dictionary has a good explanation.- Molasses seems a poor substitute for glue. It's been to known to run even in January, after all. (EC)
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Narration boxes start to tell about a meadow where a sheepdog hired a shepherd boy to help him and they mention that there is always a villain. Ralph shows up just then, but it's the boy who stuffs a sheep under his shirt and then yells, "Wolf!" The yell gets Sam Sheepdog's attention and Ralph gets kicked some distance.
Later Ralph sees the boy herding sheep into a cave. The boy suggests a deal, to which Ralph agrees, but the boy is just setting him up as he again yells, "Wolf!" Once more, Sam clobbers Ralph. When the wolf sees the shepherd loading the sheep onto a truck, he yells, "Boy!" and Sam shows up. The suspicious sheepdog pulls the mask off of the boy to reveal Pete Puma. Ralph doesn't get a break, as Sam clobbers him and Pete together - at least until quitting time.
Did You Notice...
- Pete Puma is rather more competent than his usual in this story.
Technical Nits
- Ralph Wolf should have a red nose and white eyes, not the black nose and cream yellow eyes of Wile E. Coyote.
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Little Chicken, Miss Prissy, runs around in a panic and when the narrator asks what's wrong she yells that the sky is falling. Little Chicken's running and clucking disturbs Dawg, who figures she just had a bad dream. Foghorn overhears the doubting dog and sets him up to get hit first by a jack-o-lantern and then by an anvil.
Egghead Jr. gets Foghorn's attention, but the rooster can't decipher Egghead's notes. As Foghorn goes on about stupid Egghead is, a fireball comes streaking out of the sky. It's a satellite that has re-entered the atmosphere and it crashes right on the bombastic rooster.
Did You Notice...
- The Jack-o-lantern changes expression. (EC)
Technical Nits
- The rhyming names suggest Henny Penny rather than Chicken Little. (EC)
- The satellite is remarkably intact, even still having its solar panels, for having re-entered the atmosphere. It does, however, make it easier to recognize as a satellite.
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Porky and Petunia find what appears to be a tin of ham as they walk through the woods. Instead of ham, Petunia finds a little stuffed toy pig when she opens the tin. Porky and Petunia celebrate the discovery by dancing, unconcerned about any wolves. Their celebration stops when they hear Charlie Dog, a real cause for concern.
After dealing with paperwork, the pigs have three houses. The first is made of cotton batting, since the littlest pig is stuffed with it. When Charlie isn't let in, he plans to huff and puff, but ends up blowing it down when the batting makes him sneeze.
The second house is brick, as Porky claims to be a smarter pig than the one in the original story. Charlie barges in, slamming the door into the wall. The walls all collapse, since Porky was not smart enough to use mortar.
The third house is Petunia's, and she's doesn't take any chances. Her house is made of reinforced concrete, steel, and titanium. Charlie can't get in. Petunia comes up with an idea that gives Charlie what he wants, and keeps him away from her and Porky. The house of cotton batting is rebuilt, with Charlie staying there along with the stuffed toy pig as his master. The only one not to like the arrangement is the toy, who is pained even with a head of cotton batting.
Did You Notice...
- What are titanium-injected rivets, you might ask? Funny, that's what.
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Bugs Bunny declares to Lola that despite losing races to Cecil Turtle, he won't lose the next race. He can't lose, since he's having Lola run instead. That way, Bugs can keep an eye on Cecil. The race starts and Lola is off like a shot, and Cecil makes a phone call to a cousin. Bugs puts a stop to the call, and also confiscates a jet engine. The engine blows up when Bugs tries to use it. As he and Cecil talk, Lola crosses the finish line.
Lola then shows up, apologizing to Bugs for being late. She had problems getting through a toll booth run by a disguised turtle. The winner of the race removes his Lola suit, revealing himself to be the real Cecil Turtle, and the other turtle as his cousin.
Did You Notice...
- The three previous races were in Tortoise Beats Hare (Avery, 1941), Tortoise Wins By a Hare (Clampett, 1943), and Rabbit Transit (Freleng, 1947). (EC)
- Bugs' reason for Lola running refers to From Hare to Eternity (Jones, 1996) which takes its title from the 1953 film From Here to Eternity, based on the book of the same name.
- Cecil uses a cell phone to attempt a more modern version of the cheating he pulled in Tortoise Beats Hare, when he originally entered a phone booth. (EC)
- While the jet engine lacks an air intake and appears to be a rocket, the term jet does apply to rockets, which emit a jet of hot gasses.
- Cecil's jet engine is a more modern version of the one he sported in Rabbit Transit. (EC)
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