History Awesome / LooneyTunes

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--> '''Bugs:''' ''(chomps on carrot)'' [[{{Catchphrase}} What's up, doc?]]

* The entirety of "Daffy's Rhapsody" is one for Daffy. Elmer Fudd goes and sees an anti-duck hunting performance starring Daffy, and of course, starts trying to chase and shoot him, and Daffy foils his attempts... WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF ELMER'S PRESENCE, and when he does become aware of him, he starts avoiding all of Elmer's shots with athletic ease, all the while continuing his song and acting like it's all part of the show, ending with him covering Elmer's eyes while he's shooting all over the place, with Fudd being flattened by a stage prop... all in glorious CGI.

--->'''Daffy:''' HEY, THAT'S MINE! (''[[LetsGetDangerous furiously, as they brawl off-screen]]'') LET GO OF THAT MONEY! IT'S MINE! MINE! DO YOU HEAR ME?! MINE! ALL MINE! AND WHAT'S MINE IS MINE AND NOBODY'S GONNA GET IT! (''re-emerges with the dropped dollar, and smugly turns to the audience'') [[BondOneLiner Like I said, I'm a coward. But I'm a]] ''[[BondOneLiner greeeeeeedy]]'' [[BondOneLiner little coward!]]

--->'''Daffy:''' (''to the audience'') Like I said, I'm a coward. But I'm a ''greeeeeeedy'' little coward!

** To elaborate, ''Ducking The Devil'' involves Daffy luring the escaped Tasmanian Devil back to his zoo for a cash reward of "five Gs". Daffy succeeds through [[MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast clever use of singing the Devil into compliance]]; being completely exhausted from having to keep singing almost constantly by the time he lures him back. However, when [[BerserkButton Taz snatches up a dollar he dropped]], an enraged Daffy charges ''straight back'' into the Devil's cage. It looks briefly from off-camera that [[CurbStompBattle Daffy's picked a fight he'll regret]] -- especially against [[TheDreaded a foe he was flat-out terrified of the whole time]] when trying to capture him -- but it soon cuts back to a smug Daffy with the lost dollar and a dazed Tasmanian Devil slumped in the corner; revealing that he not only won a brawl against the much larger and more ferocious Taz, but ''[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass flat-out destroyed him]]''.

--> "The cartoons you are about to see are [[FairForItsDay products of their time]]. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, [[DoingItForTheArt these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created]], because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed."

* Sylvester finally [[KnowWhenToFoldEm Knowing When To Fold 'em]] in "Goldimouse and the Three Cats". After Junior (once again) lays it on thick to his father for not catching a mouse, Sylvester takes the expected beating. By the end of the cartoon, Junior asks if he got breakfast, Sylvester confirms and ''throws a bowl of porridge in his face'' before storming off to rest.

* Meta: At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a local Utah animator named Mark Aaron created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n_zo7EQi5c a picture]] of the Looney Tunes ending title card, with WesternAnimation/PorkyPig dressed in a face mask, a nurse's outfit, and rubber gloves, with a caption above reading "Stay Home Folks!" (a variation of the classic "[[ThatsAllFolks That's All, Folks"]] spiel). Oh, and the piece de resistance? The animator reached out to '''''Creator/BobBergen''''' to record the line in the voice of Porky! How cool is ''that''?

* In "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", an episode chock full of Bugs tricking and humiliating Taz, Taz finally gets even by tricking Bugs with an explosive cigar. Bugs even says "I just wonder if he's as dumb as he looks."
** And as the finishing touch, Bugs brings the Frankenstein monster back to life to beat up Taz, but after he's done with Taz, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he beats the crap out]] of [[LaserGuidedKarma Bugs as well]]. This is extremely satisfying if you're tired of Bugs never being punished. Also, it shows that [[EvilIsNotAToy there are some things that you shouldn't mess with, even if you're Bugs Bunny]].

* [[http://imgur.com/gallery/sOklpJa This title card]] is basically Creator/WarnerBros admitting about the rampant racist moments of these cartoons, especially the ones from wartime. They admitted about [[ValuesDissonance how wrong it was, then and now]], as well as giving us the ultimate reason why they're still going to show those cartoons;

* The entire Square Dance sequence in "WesternAnimation/HillbillyHare". On top of being a genuinely catchy tune, it's a hilariously-violent sequence where Bugs uses a fiddle and a song to send Punkinhead and Curt on a torturous "dance routine" that has them falling into a river after playing tug-of-war with each other's beards, rolling around in a pigpen, beating each other up with fenceposts, walking into a combine harvester, and ultimately ends with them striding right off a cliff... with the duo being none-the-wiser the whole time.

--->'''Elmer''': "Typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes....'''SMOOOOOGGGGGGGG'''!!!!!''"

--->'''Bugs''': "Well, what did ya expect in an opera? A happy ending?" ''(Bugs goes back to playing dead)''

* At the ending to "Chow Hound", the dog who has been abusing a poor cat brings him to [[ItMakesSenseInContext his many owners]] in exchange for several big cash rewards which he blows on meat...and winds up at the hospital for eating too much. The cat then returns with his similarly abused mouse friend, and this time, [[TheDogBitesBack he didn't forget the gravy]] (the very reason for the dog's abuse of him).

** The ending of "WesternAnimation/DaffyTheCommando", where Daffy actually knocks [[ThoseWackyNazis Adolf Hitler]] (animated very realistically) in the head with a large mallet.
*** Bugs Bunny [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMs5Trf9DU taking out the entire Japanese army]] in "WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyNipsTheNips" with booby-trapped ice cream bars. '''Warning:''' Though [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Bugs calling the Japanese soldiers "bow legs," "monkey face," and "slant eyes"]] will make you sick to your stomach; remember, this cartoon was made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, where demonizing the enemy with outrageous stereotypes was common. This is not cutesy, {{Moe}} ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''-grade stuff, so don't watch if you can't handle it.

** The icing on the cake? At the end, Daffy bows to his audience...and finally gets thunderous applause.

** And as the finishing touch, Bugs brings the Frankenstein monster back to life to beat up Taz, but after he's done with Taz, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he beats the crap]] [[LaserGuidedKarma out of Bugs as well]]. This is extremely satisfying if you're tired of Bugs never being punished. Also, it shows that [[EvilIsNotAToy there are some things that you shouldn't mess with, even if you're Bugs Bunny]].

-->'''Sylvester:''' ''*grumbles*'' Spoiled brat!

* Sylvester gets a Crowning Moment in the Chuck Jones cartoon ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat''. Porky Pig and his pet Sylvester find themselves in a haunted house, where the mice terrorize Sylvester by throwing knives, bowling balls and other weapons at him and Porky. Porky, of course, is oblivious to the threat, until, fed up with Sylvester's seeming cowardice, heads into the kitchen to confront the source of Sylvester's fears. The mice end up leading him to the executioner's block, and Porky, tied up under a mass of ropes, can only hold a sign saying, "You were right, Sylvester." Sylvester runs to the hills, only to be confronted by his conscience (a pale blue Sylvester standing next to a reader-board). His conscience points out that Porky raised him from a kitten, and then shows a comparative size chart of Sylvester and a mouse, and finally produces a sign reading, "Now get in there and fight! Fight! FIGHT!!!". This starts Sylvester getting riled up, to the point where he runs up to a tree, rips off a limb with his bare hands and brandishes it like a club--before discarding the limb and [[UpToEleven uprooting the whole tree]] and charging back to the haunted house to kick mouse butt!

-->'''Bugs:''' Heh, the evil character's after that nice old lady's money. Looks like this Boy Scout's gonna do his good deed for today. ''(puts on a Boy Scout hat and salutes)''

* In "Porky in the Northwoods", when Porky is cornered and helpless under the villainous trapper Jean Baptise, the animals he had previously saved from Jean's traps [[GondorCallsForAid call for the aid of]] [[BigDamnHeroes an entire cavalry of woodland animals]], who proceed to mop the floor with the trapper!

* Sylvester gets a Crowning Moment in the Chuck Jones cartoon ''Scaredy Cat''. Porky Pig and his pet Sylvester find themselves in a haunted house, where the mice terrorize Sylvester by throwing knives, bowling balls and other weapons at him and Porky. Porky, of course, is oblivious to the threat, until, fed up with Sylvester's seeming cowardice, heads into the kitchen to confront the source of Sylvester's fears. The mice end up leading him to the executioner's block, and Porky, tied up under a mass of ropes, can only hold a sign saying, "You were right, Sylvester." Sylvester runs to the hills, only to be confronted by his conscience (a pale blue Sylvester standing next to a reader-board). His conscience points out that Porky raised him from a kitten, and then shows a comparative size chart of Sylvester and a mouse, and finally produces a sign reading, "Now get in there and fight! Fight! FIGHT!!!". This starts Sylvester getting riled up, to the point where he runs up to a tree, rips off a limb with his bare hands and brandishes it like a club--before discarding the limb and [[UpToEleven uprooting the whole tree]] and charging back to the haunted house to kick mouse butt!