Looney Tunes: September 1999
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Foghorn Leghorn, facing away from the reader, calls out "Where'd yuh go, son? Ain'tcha gonna catch me?" But we see that Foghorn has sat on and squashed a pained Henery Hawk, who is still stuck to the big rooster and looking quite distressed.
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Egghead Jr. plays with plastic construction blocks as Foghorn Leghorn interrupts and tries to impress him with a quickly built action figure. By the time Foghorn is done yammering, Egghead has a Godzilla-like creation finished and demonstrates it rather forcefully. As this is going on, Henery Hawk is scheming to get himself a meal of chicken.
Foghorn and Henery argue over the size of portions, and the species, of Henery's meals. Egghead, meanwhile, builds a radio controlled airplane out of blocks. Henery downs this easily with a slingshot, but Foghorn, gets the worst of it having brought it on himself as usual.
Henery tries to haul Foghorn away but quickly forgets the big rooster when he sees the silhouette of a truly giant rooster against the sunset. The chicken hawk rushes to it only to be clobbered as the huge bird collapses on him; Henery made it of construction blocks.
Did You Notice...
Page 1: Egghead's block creature seems to be inspired by the mecha of one type of anime.- Page 2: Egghead refers to Foghorn as Value Meal and to supersizing Extra Crispy. All refer to fast food. Value Meal is McDonald's name for a quick and easy to order combination of items. Super-sizing is McDonald's name for an order with a larger than normal amount of french fries and a larger drink. Extra Crispy is an option for how KFC prepares chicken.
- Page 3: Coquille St. Jacques is a scallop dish.
- Page 4: The "other white meat" is pork.
Technical Nits
The sun seems to be about to set behind the mountains on page 3, but the sunset on page 4 shows no mountains.
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It's the Honolulu Hawks versus the Miami Maulers at the Soup-or-Salad Bowl. For luck, the Hawks have brought the world's oldest cheerleader: Granny. They also have their team mascot, Tweety. This attracts alley cat Sylvester's attention and soon he's at the game and interested only in the mascot.
Sylvester tries a simple grab but is defeated first by one of Granny's cheers, then by a bag of peanuts, and next by, a boulder. Posing as a vendor fails due to Granny's active intervention, and her strong throwing arm. Next he tries to borrow the opposing team's mascot's outfit, but he discovers their mascot is a very large dog. Another try has Sylvester using a magnet to lift Tweety's cage up to the stadium roof, but Tweety sees to it that the dog gets the lift instead.
Sylvester planned for problems and makes his escape by parachute only to be blown back up to the big dog. Finally Sylvester gets Tweety by dressing a football player. He also ends up with the ball and with Tweety guiding him manages to help the Hawks win the game. The Mauler's mascot is none too pleased with the result, however, and starts chasing Sylvester.
Did You Notice...
- Page 1: Brent Summerco is mixture of Brent Musburger and Pat Summerall, both of whom once called football games for CBS. Summerall now calls matches for Fox..
- Page 2: An sign advertises Friz. Another sign on page six also advertises it. This drink is named for Warner Bros. animation director Isadore "Friz Freleng."
- Page 2: Daydreamer Ralph Phillips appears in the bottom panel.
- Page 4: Sylvester uses Marvin's helmet for protection. (If hot boulders are some items actually vended at ball games, I don't know what they really are. -- PN)
- Page 5: The Scotsman, MacRory, from My Bunny Lies Over The Sea, Nasty Canasta, and the second-generation demolition man seen at the very end of One Froggy Evening are among those in the stands.
- Page 5: "Do you want fries with that?" is perhaps the line of the times for indicating a low skill, low pay, and lowly regarded job.
- Page 5: Sylvester knows his hot dogs, even if it is a Tweety bird. He chases Tweety with a bun and mustard, not ketchup.
- Page 9: Sylvester is wearing number 5. This is the number of the player who appears on the opening page.
Technical Nits
- Page 1: The microphones are labelled for the networks ABC and XYZ. Television networks aren't known to share complete broadcasts of games.
- Page 9: The Mauler's uniform should have the number in yellow, not darker red.
- On page one the Hawk player's number is colored the gold of his helmet, but later only white numbers are shown. While both color schemes are possible, they should not appear in the same game.
- Sylvester's footpads aren't colored in throughout the story.
- The Mauler's mascot is wearing Hawks colors.
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Elmer's duck hunting isn't going well as there are no ducks around. Salesduck Daffy appears, in an obnoxiously loud outfit, selling a duck call, the Duck Baiter. Elmer quickly buys it and gets an English-to-Duck dictionary with his purchase. Using the Duck Baiter, Elmer quickly gets three very large ducks to appear. Unfortunately the calls Elmer used were insulting and these ducks clobber him.
Did You Notice...
- Baiting is the act of trying to provoke an argument or fight.
- Webbster's Dictionary puns the real Webster's Dictionary and webbed feet.
- The insult, "...their Mama's a mallard and their father smells like kitty litter" is a form similar to the insult "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Charlie Dog has just been kicked out yet again when he sees Marvin's well armed flying saucer of a spaceship. Charlie decides that is where his new master lives, and thus is where he will be living. He tries to introduce himself to Marvin, but K-9 makes it plan that Charlie is not welcome.
Undaunted, Charlie blasts K-9 with noise and arranges for him to appear rabid, at least to Marvin. Marvin and K-9 fight as rabies shots are called for. Not having gotten K-9 evicted, Charlie tries hypnosis and has K-9 weld an ax. This gets K-9 put outside, but doesn't get Charlie inside so he disguises himself as Marvin and enters the ship. K-9 spots the deception and attacks... but he attacks the real Marvin who kicks him out.
Inside and accepted, Charlie finds he'll finally have the life he's dreamed of with seemingly everything he could want. Charlie and Marvin get along well enough until Charlie finds out just what it is that Marvin intends for the Earth. One "accidentally" pushed self-destruct button later, Charlie is again kicked out. Well, he's kicked, anyway. Marvin tries to get K-9 back, but instead K-9 gets back at Marvin.
Did You Notice...
- The title refers to the silly 1967 film Mars Needs Women.
- Page 2: Silliness abounds. This Martian spaceship happens to have a typical Earth house door, with flowers at each side. Also a typical doorbell as well.
- Page 2: Even Marvin likes Girl Scout Cookies.
Technical Nits
- Page 3: K-9's "rabid" look seems more a mask than the frothing associated with rabies.
- Page 5: K-9 says "A-ha!" K-9 might make sounds, but he does not speak.
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Wile E. Coyote plans to fly from cliff to cliff across a canyon with a hang glider armed with a bomb. An unconcerned Road Runner watches from the next cliff. The glider flies, but the bomb is too heavy so coyote, glider, and bomb all plummet to the cliff floor. The force of the resulting blast sends Wile E. back up to where he started.
Did You Notice...
Technical Nits
- Wile E. Coyote's sign is misspelled. It should be "Whoa! Deja vu!" rather than "Wo! Deja vu!"
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