Looney Tunes: September 1994
Cover
It's a festive Hip Fab Fun cover with party hats, balloons, confetti, and streamers surrounding the stars. The four stars, top to bottom, are occupied by Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Sylvester. All but Bugs wear party hats.
Taz asks "Why birthday present tick?" with the ticking present before him. In the background there are tables with lemonade and cookies. Streamers, confetti, and noisemakers are scattered on the floor. A banner reading "Happy Birthday Taz" hangs above.
Credits
Synopsis
The Hotel Extempore is the setting for Bugs' introduction of Taz to his birthday party. Taz spins in, knocking Bugs over and then eating his microphone. Claiming his status as birthday boy, Taz says he can't have tricks played on him for that reason. To show he means well, Bugs has Pepe wheel in a birthday present: wild turkey surprise. The dish is devoured just before it detonates.
Bugs asks Taz if he remembers when they first met and even recreates some of the events resulting from their initial encounter. Next the rabbit introduces Daffy, who is first only heard over a speaker. Daffy offers a banana which gets munched quickly rather than savored. This upsets Daffy who gets irate, then nearly eaten.
Since Taz is hungry, Bugs' suggests a couple dishes. Taz declines these ideas since he remembers what they turned out to be. As he can't feed the Tasmanian Devil, Bug's introduces him to another voice from his past. The voice belongs to another Tasmanian Devil. The pair get along instantly, as they had before. The female devil, wearing a wedding gown, offers a birthday cake, but won't let Taz eat it until she adds the final ingredient: bunny flavoring.
Bugs dashes off, pursued by the whirling she-devil. The party guests are left staring at Taz. When he notices, they all dive for cover. Taz eats the cake but is still hungry. The final page of the story has Taz whirling and zooming back and forth across it, eating everything in sight...
Did You Notice...
Yes, Taz did turn 40 in 1994. His first animated short was Devil May Hare (McKimson, 1954).- Bugs' treating Taz to folks he previously encountered is taken from the radio, and later television, show This Is Your Life.
- Page 1: The hotel name is a good joke, as it means unprepared, since the party is well prepared indeed.
- Page 1: Party attendees include: Bugs Bunny as host, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Porky and Petunia Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe Le Pew, Elmer Fudd, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot, and Tweety (shown on pages 3 and 4).
- Page 4: Daffy giving Taz a banana is the (1990s) Looney Tunes version of a congratulatory cigar. The banana is even Cuban, the name ever so close to Havana, and has a band around it. There had to have been great restraint exercised here since the full rhyme was unused. It was not referred to as a 'Hanna-Savanna Banana.'
Technical Nits
Wile E. Coyote's eyes are left white through the story rather than colored yellow.
Credits
Synopsis
A high-speed chase! No, Foghorn Leghorn pointing at charts and going on about decreased egg production in front of very bored hens. He sends them back into the coop to lay more eggs. There is a chase after all as a jewel thief, Lightfinger Louie, is on the run and looking for a place to store the Hopeless diamond before he's caught. He tosses the diamond into the chicken coop as he passes it.
Miss Prissy is about to get back to her place when the diamond lands. Shrieking leads Foghorn to investigate. The chickens are amazed, for Miss Prissy has laid a diamond egg! Foghorn sees that it is properly secured, and charges admission to view it.
Returning to retrieve the gem, Louie finds he has to steal it again. With the aid of a crossbow and some rope he makes it to the roof of the building holding the diamond. He pries part of the roof away and uses a couple gadgets to get the diamond, but falls through his hole in the roof when an alarm sounds. The alarm also sends up an elaborate display to alert the police.
Foghorn turns Louie, and the diamond, and his admission fees, over to the police. He's just relieved that it's all over, but Miss Prissy has just laid a golden egg...
Did You Notice...
- The title plays on the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.
- Page 13: Foghorn really is demanding, that pie chart adds up to 101%.
Technical Nits
- A coop is a cage or pen. What's called a coop here might be more accurately termed a henhouse, even if there is a rooster in it.
- Page 14: The hens in the last panel aren't fully penciled and inked, but this may have been the intent as the coloring is still correct.
- Page 15: The sky is still dark as the night scenes when it's supposed to be the afternoon.
- Page 21: The hen's heads were white earlier and are now brown.
- Page 23: The golden egg has a golden aura, but rather than being colored in is left white.
- Page 23: The color registration is noticeably off.
- A crescent moon after last quarter is shown throughout this story. That works for the opening scene, showing how late it is, but is wrong later in the story when it's supposedly evening.
Credits
Synopsis
Granny has entered Tweety in the annual Most Beautiful Bird Contest (where the elite meet to cheep) for the first time. Sylvester watches through a window, his strategy already planned. He's going undercover as a bird. Almost gaining entrance at the same minute as a rare North American Twerp, his disguise, and a meow, give him away.
On the run from the show officials, Sylvester gets asylum from one of the entrants. His salvation is also the host a of party for some of the other entrants. Soon everyone but Sylvester is having a good time. Sylvester's lack of participation leads to the discovery that he's really a cat.
As Sylvester tries to leave the group to go after Tweety, the birds attack. They subdue him, but more than ruffle their feathers in the process. As they all look the worse for wear, the winner of the contest is the one bird that wasn't in the fracas: Tweety.
Did You Notice...
- Page 27: Wishful thinking shows. If only North American Twerps really were very rare.
Technical Nits
- Page 30: A bar of Tweety's cage isn't colored below the announcer's speech balloon in the final panel. This gives the strange impression of a really thin middle panel on the bottom of the page.
Other items:
There are two one-page fillers.
- Dive Right In
- A crossword type puzzle featuring swimming related words. Answer given upside down.
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- The Last Laugh
- Four three-panel cartoon strips, all with Taz.
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- Taz may not know his age, but knows exactly when he was born.
- Tasmanian Devils have a different approach when it comes to apple trees.
- Daffy asks Taz if he can rub his stomach and pat his head the same time and finds that Taz can...
- Taz sees Daffy with a parasol and adapts his surroundings for his own portable shade.
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