History Film / LooneyTunesBackInAction

--> '''Bugs Bunny:''' I think you scratched it.

** When Elmer confronts the heroes at gunpoint, Bugs asks, "What gives, Doc? We made 35 pictures together!" If you count ''only'' the theatrical shorts (not any made-for TV shorts such as "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers"), 35 is the amount of cartoons Bugs and Elmer appeared in together.

* {{Slapstick}}

** Creator/RonPerlman's character (the VP who gets devoured by Taz), is a not-too subtle caricature of UsefulNotes/TedTurner.

* TakeThatAudience: Kate reports that Bugs Bunny is popular with both men and women of all ages and nationalities, whereas Daffy Duck is only popular with "fat, angry guys in basements."

* TeleporterAccident: There is a scene where Mr. Chairman transports the main characters to his office; however, a glitch caused their body parts to switch around (ex [=DJ=] has Bugs' tail, Kate has Daffy's legs, etc.) This was immediately fixed afterwards.

-->'''Daffy:''' Pft... welcome to my world.

-->'''Daffy:''' Oh, don't start ''that'' again!

--> '''DJ''': That's the great things about movies, you always know what's gonna happen. For instance, if this was a movie, [[RomanceArc you and I'd probably wind up together]].

* MoonLandingHoax: When Bugs and Daffy are in Area 52, they browse through a videotape shelf. One of the videotapes read "MOON LANDING DRESS REHEARSAL".

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Normally laid back [[NiceGuy nice guys]] [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Shaggy and Scooby]] are seen angrily chastising Creator/MatthewLillard for [[Film/ScoobyDoo his performance of the former]], and threatening violence if he "Goofs on" Shaggy in [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed the sequel]].

** In a deleted scene it's revealed that she actually ''does'' have a sense of humor; it's just a very lousy one. (We're talking {{Knock Knock Joke}}s and {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s here, people.)
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Marvin the Martian always has some form of blaster on hand, and won't hesitate to "wreck mayhem for the cause of evil".

-->'''Daffy''': Now that's just cheating.

-->'''Bugs''': [''for about the twentieth time''] Is ''this'' your card?
-->'''Elmer''': I said, it's the Qween o' Diamonds!
-->'''Bugs''': You mean... this card? [''snatches the card out of mid-air and runs off'']

--> '''DJ''': [''as Elmer Fudd is chasing Bugs and Daffy''] Do you think we should we go help them?

* UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation

--> '''Yosemite Sam''': Dadburn slapstick clichés! [''opens fire on the banana peel'']

--> '''Bugs''': Heh... outta gas!

* DidntThinkThisThrough[=/=]EpicFail: The attempt at making a DuckSeasonRabbitSeason cartoon without the recently-fired Daffy. See below.

--> '''Elmer Fudd''': Say your prayers, wabbit! It's wabbit season!\\

-->'''Bugs''': Paaaaain! Ooooh, agoneeee~eeeee~eeeee!
** At the end, Daffy ''thinks'' Bugs is attempting this when [[spoiler: he tells the others that Daffy was the real hero]].

--->'''Yosemite Sam:''' Throw it out the window! Throw it out, throw it out!

--> '''Daffy''': That's showbiz for ya.

** Acme Corporation

-->'''Bugs:''' Heh... Daff never misses a cue.

* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: The Chairman himself became a monkey in the end.]]

* PunchClockVillain: A deleted scene reveals that the henchman played by Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} is literally this, [[spoiler: clocking out when the whistle blows during the middle of a climatic battle.]]

* RobotDog: [[spoiler: An evil one tries to stop DJ from rescuing his dad.]]

* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler: After being the ButtMonkey for the entire film, Daffy weaponizes the fact that his beak gets constantly blown off and uses it to stop the satellite from firing, thus making him the hero.]]

* TwinkleSmile: [[spoiler: Duck Dodge-''*boom*'' I mean, Daffy, after he saves Bugs from falling to his doom after he blew the satellite up]].

* CraniumChase: Daffy Duck has his head detached while Mother is demonstrating the laser beam function of DJ's spy phone. Daffy's body starts feeling around the lab floor for its missing head. "No, no, stupid, over here."

->''"What am I talkin' to you for? All you gotta do is munch on a carrot and people love you."''

-->'''D.J''': What I really do is I... I'm a stunt man!\\

'''D.J.''': I am! You seen those ''[[Film/TheMummyTrilogy Mummy]] movies''? I'm in them more than Creator/BrendanFraser is![[note]]A lot of Fraser's commentary for the first ''Mummy'' movie is him pointing out stunts he didn't do.[[/note]]

** In one scene, [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Shaggy]] criticizes Creator/MatthewLillard on his performance in the [[Film/ScoobyDoo live-action film]] for making him sound like a "[[Film/WingCommander space cadet]]".

* BitingTheHandHumor: The "Brothers Warner", the studio executives, are portrayed as stuffy, fickle, shortsighted men with a NeverMyFault attitude.

* BlandNameProduct: Earth Geographic

--> '''Daffy Duck''': Say, that looks like the stuff from my office.

* TheComicallySerious: Kate doesn't seem to enjoy working with cartoons. While the gang wanders across the desert, Kate expresses a desire to quit comedy and work in movies about "the human condition with social relevance".

-->'''Bugs:''' Lady, if you don't find a rabbit in lipstick funny, then you and I have nuthin' to say to each other.

* CoDragons: Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Elmer Fudd, Tasmanian Devil, and Marvin the Martian all show up as henchmen of the Chairman.

--> '''Yosemite Sam''': Dadburn slapstick cliches!" [''opens fire on the banana peel'']

* ArtisticLicenseArt: ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory'' is actually on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, all public versions of''Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}'' are at the Munch Museum and at the National Gallery of Norway, both in Oslo, and ''Art/ASundayAfternoonOnTheIslandOfLaGrandeJatte'' is at the Art Institute of Chicago. However, all of these are incorrectly depicted as being in the Louvre in order to participate in the sequence in which Bugs Bunny, Daffy and Elmer Fudd enter in several iconic paintings.

* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: WesternAnimation/BugsBunny argues with the humorless Kate Houghton about rehiring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, and bolsters his argument with four Oscar statuettes and a chunk of granite with his Walk of Fame star on it. For the record, four Warner Brothers cartoons have won an Oscar, but only one went to a Bugs Bunny cartoon: "Knighty Knight Bugs". Bugs ''does'' have a real star on the Walk of Fame, though.

** Bugs pulls out five Oscar statues and a chunk of granite from the Hollywood Walk of Fame with his name on it during his conversation with Kate at the cafe. Five is in fact the correct number of Looney Tunes shorts that have won Academy Awards (although Bugs was in only one of them), and he does in fact have a star on the HWOF.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Daffy tampers with the Batmobile controls making it drive by itself and crashing into the standing of the Warner Bros. water tower making it fall to the ground and getting destroyed and thus getting D.J. fired.

* CartoonPhysics: As to be expected from all the animated characters, but several notable instances are when Daffy uses his OffscreenTeleportation to continually reappear in DJ’s car no matter how many times he gets thrown out, and when the spy car stops just before hitting the ground because it ran out of gas (though this is immediately averted once Kate points out that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome physics don’t work that way.]])

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Happens to DJ when he tries to use his rocket pants, but [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they simply rip off instead of lifting him in the air]].

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine How do they solve a mystery when they don't have a clue?]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine Real life has never been so animated.]]'']]

* MythologyGag: [[Film/SpaceJam Michael Jordan]] makes a brief cameo.
-->"Let's do some drills."

'''D.J.''': I am! You seen those ''[[Film/TheMummyTrilogy Mummy]] movies''? I'm in them more than Brendan Fraser is! (A lot of Fraser's commentary for the first ''Mummy'' movie is him pointing out stunts he didn't do.)
** Taken to extremes when D.J confronts 'Creator/BrendanFraser' and punches him out for getting him fired.

* AdamWesting: Besides playing D.J. Drake, Brendan Fraser also plays... Brendan Fraser. Who ends up [[SelfParody being a complete]] {{Jerkass}} and [[SelfDeprecation punched in the face by D.J.]] (who, just as a reminder, [[MindScrew is also played by Fraser]])

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: After Bugs Bunny explains the art technique of Pointillism, he says to the audience: "I think, when you go to the movies, you should learn something."
** Which is a CallBack to Kate insisting that nothing is learned in any of Bugs' cartoons.

* BagOfKidnapping: Kate Haughton (Jenna Elfman) is kidnapped in one by Bob Smith (Goldberg) while in France.
* BasementDweller: According to Warner Bros. executives, Daffy's entire fanbase is made up of these. [[UnpopularPopularCharacter Never mind that he was the one who]] [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers got his own series later]], [[HilariousInHindsight not Bugs.]]

* CartoonPhysics: As to be expected from all the animated characters, but several notable instances are when Daffy uses his OffscreenTeleportation to continually reappear in DJ’s car no matter how many times he gets thrown out, and when the spy car stops just before hitting the ground because it ran out of gas (though this is immediately averted once Kate points out that [[RealityEnsues physics don’t work that way.]])

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Happens to DJ when he tries to use his rocket pants, but [[RealityEnsues they simply rip off instead of lifting him in the air]].

Financially, it performed far worse than ''Space Jam''. It's estimated that Warner Bros. lost between $60 million and $80 million on the film, making it one of the biggest box office flops ''ever'' -- [[FranchiseKiller the series of brand new theatrical cartoon shorts were all canceled]] including ones that ''were already finished''. Some also claim that the failure of this movie is the reason why Creator/CartoonNetwork stopped airing the original Looney Tunes shorts regularly. This film made the company realize there doesn't seem to be any clear future for the Looney Tunes, except for the occasional television special, [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers a faithful new TV series]] and [[WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed some controversial]] [[http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/warner-bros-next-movie-star-bugs-bunny/#more-61224 updates]] (at least until Cartoon Network aired ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', but even that was short-lived). Despite this, fans have been known to state that this movie is much better than ''Space Jam'', bringing the characters back to their roots, and has gained a cult following on DVD. In fact, many claim one of the main reasons the film failed at the theaters was due in part to the lousy marketing of Warner Bros, and, considering their treatment of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' the previous year and ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' three years before that, the claim is not without justification.

Financially, it performed far worse than ''Space Jam''. It's estimated that Warner Bros. lost between $60 million and $80 million on the film, making it one of the biggest box office flops ''ever'' -- [[FranchiseKiller theaters retracted the film out of embarrassment, and the series of brand new theatrical cartoon shorts were all canceled]] including ones that ''were already finished''. Some also claim that the failure of this movie is the reason why Creator/CartoonNetwork stopped airing the original Looney Tunes shorts regularly. This film made the company realize there doesn't seem to be any clear future for the Looney Tunes, except for the occasional television special, [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers a faithful new TV series]] and [[WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed some controversial]] [[http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/warner-bros-next-movie-star-bugs-bunny/#more-61224 updates]] (at least until Cartoon Network aired ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', but even that was short-lived). Despite this, fans have been known to state that this movie is much better than ''Space Jam'', bringing the characters back to their roots, and has gained a cult following on DVD. In fact, many claim one of the main reasons the film failed at the theaters was due in part to the lousy marketing of Warner Bros, and, considering their treatment of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' the previous year and ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' three years before that, the claim is not without justification.

* HitMeDammit: Not "hit me" in the sense of punching, but Yosemite Sam and D.J are playing blackjack at a casino. Yosemite Sam keeps asking the dealer, WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn, to "hit me" (play a card) and gets a sock in the face because it's not his turn.