The name of the bat comes from the real Louisville Slugger bat made by Hillerich & Bradsby.Lola is delivering a pizza, a Tweety Pie, to Sylvester. It really is Tweety on top of the pizza and the bird has hit the cat several times with a Looneyville Slugger baseball bat. Lola quips to the reader, "We use only the freshest toppings!"
The name of the bat comes from the real Louisville Slugger bat made by Hillerich & Bradsby.
It's the Delivery Girl of the Millennium Pageant and Lola Bunny is one of the four contestants. Lola is also rethinking her presence in the competition. A flashback reveals that her boss, Huactui, talked her into going by telling her there'd be movie directors and agents as well as available millionaires in the audience. He did not mention the pizza slice shaped outfit she'd be wearing until later. The other three contestants are Vinda Loo, Ylang-Ylang, and Fausta.
Rather than the original method of competing, fighting wild bears, the pageant starts with a talent competition. Vinda Loo shows off her skeet shooting skills, Ylang-Ylang carves an ice sculpture with a chainsaw, and Fausta juggles anvils. This worries Lola, but snide comments from Vinda Loo and Ylang-Ylang steels Lola's resolve. The rabbit shows off her unusual skill: Looking good in bad clothing. This goes over well most of the judges; the fashion critic isn't quite so impressed.
The next competition involved getting tips out of a cheapskate. Vinda Loo gets a gratuity with a gratuitous complement. Ylang-Ylang hypnotizes the cheapskate. Lola talks overly cute as she talks up her efforts, and Fausta takes a very direct approach that's more mugging than anything else.
After the tip extracting contest is the question of what would they deliver to everyone in the world if they could. Fausta doesn't quite seem to get the idea of the question and its only slightly hidden meaning. Vinda Loo's answer is better, but still amiss. Ylang-Ylang almost has the idea. Lola comes up with the more expected sort of answer of peace, love, and understanding for everyone. Everyone, that is, except the girl who swiped her lunch box in school. Lola goes on quite a rant about her.
The final competition is an obstacle course of flames, giant swinging axes, and alligators amongst other things. Again fun is made at Lola's expense before the race starts. While the other three take on the course more or less directly, Lola uses a motor scooter to bypass it or at least get through it quickly. For all her efforts Lola wins and is proclaimed the Delivery Girl of the Millennium. Her only prize is a lifetime of free delivery from the losers - a prize she enjoys as now she can make as miserable as they made her.
Page 1: Host Wink Rothgar, or at least his first name, is based on game show host Wink Martindale. Page 1: Vindaloo is a hot curry dish. Page 1: Ylang-Ylang is also the name of a tropical tree, the flowers of which are used in folk medicine. Interestingly, a little Ylang-Ylnag goes a long way: excessive use can cause headaches. Page 2: Huactui molds the pizza dough into animal shapes. Page 3: Ylang-Ylang's ice sculpture seems to be inspired by Auguste Rodin's sculpture, The Thinker. Page 4: Singer Jennifer Lopez, in February 2000, wore a dress with a plunging neckline that plunged rather deeply, rather like the dress Lola wears in the last panel. This explains her comment in that panel. Page 5: Richard Blackwell publishes a list of who he considers the best and worst dressed celebrities every year. It should be noted that he did not place Jennifer Lopez (see above DYN entry) on his worst dressed list of 2000. Page 5: In Norse mythology, Thokk, who was really a disguised Loki, was a giantess who refused to weep for the slain Baldur. This forced Baldur to remain dead until Ragnarok. Page 5: Sturm und Drang was a literary movement that took its name from a play by F. M. von Klinger, which put an emphasis on unease and rebellion against standards of society. Page 6: The pizza box and pizza must be a standard prop for the tip seeking competion. It's certainly not Vinda Loo's curry, Ylang-Ylang's moo goo gai pan, or the ice cream that Fausta would be delivering. Page 7: The disclaimer about "Linda Breckheimer" ("If your name is Linda Breckheimer, this is't you.") is quite correct. Writers Sean Carolan and Jennifer Moore made a list of possible names and then did a web search to find one that did not exist, at least on the web. At the time, there were no hits for "Linda Breckheimer" on Google. That situation has changed as there are, as of August 2004, five hits, total, for that name on Google. All five lead to the same piece of promotional text. Page 7: Lola seems to be a Beatles fan. Page 9: Ylang-Ylang's cry is the same as that of Xena, from the television series Xena: Warrior Princess which originally aired from 1995 to 2001 Page 10: Lola's complaint regarding moo goo gai pan having pan in it is the same as that of the cheapskate. You can determine for yourself how silly the complaint is by looking at the etymology of moo goo gai pan. Page 10: Vinda Loo's tail is getting chewed upon in the final panel.
Page 8: Lola, who doesn't wear glasses, is wearing a pair of pince nez style glasses in the third panel. (I get the feeling this should a be a DYN, but I haven't figured out to what it refers. ...PN) Page 9: Lola is wearing a different outfit while on the scooter than she wears when starting the race. Also, she carries a surprising load on the scooter. Batic is not one to make such a large error, so it is likely that some panels were dropped from this admittedly long (10 page) story.While Sylvester rummages through alley garbage cans Sylvester Junior complains that it's embarrassing. The elder cat tries to pass off his foraging as hunting but Junior doesn't believe it. Just then Junior spots a mouse and Sylvester chases into a building. After quite a fight, Sylvester is ejected - by a very angry librarian. The librarian sees Sylvester Junior and treats him kindly.
Sylvester leads Junior into the library and past the librarian so he can get the mouse. Seeing the mouse on the top of the bookshelves, he stacks books into a column so he can climb up. A boast of Sylvester's leads to Junior pulling a book from the column, bring it and Sylvester crashing down. The mouse is next spotted by a microfilm viewer. In his haste, Sylvester ends up running himself through it.
Sylvester also digs into a copy machine, having seen the mouse duck into it. Junior thoughtfully unplugs the device to prevent problems, but is told to plug it back in by the well-meaning but unaware librarian. Even the copies of himself don't think much of Sylvester. When Sylvester tries to use a globe to crush the mouse, he winds up rolling with it and crashing into the librarian who had been helping Junior choose a book. While she chases after Sylvester, Junior notices the mouse has selected a book of survival tips.
Page 1: The soda can in the trash would seem to be an Acme product. Also, notice that the pull tab is of the older design where it was pulled and removed from the can rather than retained with the can. Page 3: Sylvester Junior picks the, still fictional as of 2004, book Mountain Climbing for Dummies from the column. After the column collapses the spines of a couple books seem to sho the authors Cody, and King. Presumably the latter is one of the books by prolific thriller author Stephen King. Neither Sylvester's nor Sylvester Junior's footpads are colored in through the story.A couple men have Pete Puma tied to the roof of their vehicle. They had planned to tranquilize him, but he fainted first. Their fortune changes when they see Foghorn Leghorn in the road, obliviously pulling a rope. They end up crashing into a tree and sending Pete flying. The rooster has just managed to haul Dawg's house into the air, with Dawg asleep inside. As the Foghorn tricks the dog into stepping out, a suddenly awake Pete Puma lands on him. Dawg then falls onto both of them. Before Pete can make any sense of things, Dawg sends him flying again, this time out of the chicken coop.
After Foghorn drops his doghouse on him, Dawg is a bit more willing to talk to the puma who has come back to figure where he is. Rather than kick him out again, the dog points out Foghorn as something to chomp. When he tries munching on the big rooster, it doesn't work out as planned. Foghorn points out a smaller, more manageable chicken which Pete catches easily. Unfortunately for the puma the chicken is both mechanical and loaded with explosives.
Dawg gives Pete a butterfly net to use on Foghorn, but the rooster sees him coming and prepares for him. Putting a sheet to use, Foghorn scares Pete by claiming he's a ghost out to avenge the chickens the puma has eaten. Pete seems to almost see through the disguise, but for the wrong reason. A small effort on Foghorn's part causes Pate to faint. When he comes to, Foghorn is wearing a red outfit, a cap with horns, and is holding a pitchfork. The rooster starts to really scare Pete when first Dawg tries to interrupt, then he falls over from a tranquilizer dart. The men are back and chase after Pete, which Foghorn see as spoiling his fun. Dawg, however, gives the rooster a less than glowing review of his acting.
Page 5: While Pete corrects Foghorn about his name and species, the rooster isn't too wrong. Pumas are also known as mountain lions. Page 7: The name Foghorn gives, with his form of address, is one of the many names for the main evil spirit and adversary of God in Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. Page 1: Although the rooftop placement is needed for the story to progress as it does, nobody (well, nobody in their right mind) would risk moving a tranquilized puma that way. The effects of a tranquilizer dart only last so long. Judging by how quickly Foghorn comes to at the end, the tranquilizers here don't last long at all. Page 3: Barnyard Dawg's footpads are colored in. On page four, in the third panel, they seem to have disappeared. Pages 5 and 6: The wind-up chicken has no wires (for the explosive charge) going it on page five, but does have them on page six. Page 8: The darts are at the end of the gun barrel away from the stock. While this makes it clear that the rifles are indeed tranquilizer guns, it is incorrect. The darts should be well inside the barrel, near the stock, in a loaded tranquilizer gun. Also, if the one fellow did have one dart left, he must be quite quick about reloading.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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Last updated 08 August 2004