History Film / LooneyTunesBackInAction

* CelebrityParadox: DJ Drake is played by Creator/Brendan Fraser but is Fraser's stuntman in-universe. On the set of this very movie, where Fraser is apparently playing DJ. It's hilariously confusing.

* AnimatedActors: Just about all of the toons are portrayed this way.

* CelebrityParadox: See Art Shift above. Also, as stated above: DJ Drake, played by Brendan Fraser, punches... Brendan Fraser. On the set of this very movie, where Fraser is apparently playing DJ. It's hilariously confusing.
** In an AnimatedActors kind of way, this trope also applies to the Looney Tunes themselves. Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, Speedy and several others are depicted as actors who did star in their real-life shorts, but Tweety, Sylvester, Taz, Yosemite Sam, Marvin and several others are just depicted as people who have seemingly no connection to the Warner Bros. studio. Though they've probably retired, semi-retired or on vacation.
** Resolved to a degree with Elmer Fudd who acknowledges he was Bugs's costar and is [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome secwetwy evil]].

** The character Kate Houghton was based on a producer named Dalisa Cooper Cohen, one of the producers on WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot. She is portrayed as a person who doesn't know what she's doing and making controversial changes to animated characters, specifically Bugs Bunny and to a lesser extent Daffy.

* 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''': ''(upon being restored to his original solid self)'': Unbelievable!\\
'''Man in video''': "Unbelievable," you may say.

** In crash-landing scene, the car runs out of gas about a foot off the ground and stops dead in midair. When Kate exclaims that gravity doesn't work like that, the cosmic force promptly reasserts itself and the car finishes its fall to the ground.

** After Sam slips on a banana peel...
--> '''Yosemite Sam''': Ooooooooh, dadburn slapstick clichés! [''opens fire on the banana peel'']
** The crash-landing scene:
--> ''[car stops a foot from the ground]''
--> '''Bugs''': Huh... outta gas!
--> [''the scene begins to fade out'']
--> '''Kate''': What?! It doesn't work like that!
---> [''[[FakeOutFadeOut the fadeout disappears]] and [[ReminderOfImpossibility the car smashes into the ground]]'']
--> '''Bugs''': [[SarcasmMode ...thanks, toots.]]

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

WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck is fired from the Warner Studios and falls in the middle of a search for a mysterious Blue Monkey diamond that the secret agent father of a security guard is also trying to find before the Head of Acme does. Without Daffy, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny just can't do his job, and he heads out across the world with the VP of Comedy to retrieve him. Creator/BrendanFraser and Creator/JennaElfman star as said security guard and VP, Creator/JoeAlaskey voices both Bugs ''and'' Daffy, and Creator/SteveMartin is a live-action villain who is the Head of the {{Acme|Products}} Corporation that apparently invents all the malfunctioning devices known to cartoon-dom. Creator/JoeDante directs. Eric Goldberg, who animated ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'''s Genie, directs the animation.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Parodied when the Chairman reveals he is actually Damian Drake in a FullBodyDisguise. When DJ insists this can't possibly be true, Damian admits, "You're right, it isn't!" and unzips to reveal [[Film/SpaceJam Michael]] [[MythologyGag Jordan]], then unzips again to "reveal" he really was just the Chairman all along.

* 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]].

--> '''ACME Chairman''': ''You see, if the [[ChainedToARailway Train of Death]] doesn't kill him, then those [[CartoonBomb crates of TNT]] will. Not to mention the [[AnvilOnHead 2-ton anvil hanging over his head]], and-- Oh, look. There's the [[PendulumOfDeath Pendulum]] [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]! What's the Pendulum of Doom doing there?! I did not order the Pendulum of Doom! [[SubvertedTrope It's overkill! Get rid of it!]]

* ToTheBatnoun: Daffy, upon climbing into the Batmobile:
--> "Bat-lights, Bat-conditioning, Bat-stereo. To the Duckcave!"

** [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Shaggy and Scooby]] in their [[TheCameo Cameo]] criticize Creator/MatthewLillard's performace as the former in the [[Film/ScoobyDoo live action Scooby-Doo movie]] and threaten him if he messes up further in the [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed sequel]].

* FiveManBand:
** The heroes:
*** TheLeader / TheHero / TheBigGuy: DJ
*** TheLancer: Daffy
*** TheSmartGuy: Bugs
*** TheChick: Kate
*** SixthRanger: Dusty Tails and Mother
** Acme Corporation:
*** BigBadDuumvirate: Mr. Chairman & Marvin the Martian
*** CoDragons: Mr. Smith [[spoiler:aka She-Devil]] & WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam
*** TheEvilGenius: Wile E. Coyote
*** TheBrute: Taz
*** TheDarkChick: WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd

* GayParee: In France, the Louvre and Eiffel Tower are depicted as only being 2 seconds away from each other. [[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+Louvre/Eiffel+Tower/@48.8623524,2.3154171,13z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m2!1m1!1s0x47e671d877937b0f:0xb975fcfa192f84d4!1m2!1m1!1s0x47e66e2964e34e2d:0x8ddca9ee380ef7e0!3e0?hl=en They're not]]. The scene also displays the [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff "French love Jerry Lewis"]] stereotype by displaying French posters for his movies there. And yes, this ''is'' Pepe le Pew makes his appearance in the film.

* LatexPerfection: Taken UpToEleven with the zippered disguises worn by the Chairman and his henchmen. While disguised as [[spoiler:Granny]], the Chairman is apparently wearing '''four''' layers of Latex Perfection at once. Never mind that Taz is somehow able to disguise himself as [[spoiler:Tweety]], who's ten times smaller than him...

--> '''Daffy Duck''': ''[breaking fourth wall]'' Symbolically, this is bad.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Kate firing Daffy ultimately gets ''her'' fired, after her attempt at making a DuckSeasonRabbitSeason cartoon without him falls flat on its face.
** The Chairman's plan is to use the Blue Monkey Diamond to turn everyone in the world into monkeys. [[spoiler:He's the only one who gets transformed.]]

* 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.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:
** In the Warner Bros. dining area, Porky and Speedy Gonzales are seen commiserating that they can't find work because of this trope. Speedy, because he's been branded a stereotype to Mexicans and Latinos; Porky, because his stuttering is considered offensive to those with speech impediments.

** During the climax, after Marvin is sucked out of his own spaceship, Bugs and Daffy think that they've lost him. Unbeknownst to them, [[Film/CapeFear Marvin has mysteriously clung to the underside of 'their' spaceship.]]

* StealthPun: As DJ and Daffy go into the garage, the theme from ''Film/Gremlins'' (which was also directed by Dante and whose score was also composed by Music/JerryGoldsmith) sneaks into the music. Guess what model of car they drive off in.

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

-->'''Bugs''': Ohhhhhh! *cough, cough* Oh pain! Oh agoneeee~eeeee~eeeee!

* ExecutiveMeddling: The plotline itself is the result of an in-universe use of this trope.

* FaceHeelTurn: Elmer revealing his employment with Acme is almost certainly an excuse for him to describe himself as "secwetwy eviw".

* GayParee: In France, the Louvre and Eiffel Tower are depicted as only being 2 seconds away from each other. [[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+Louvre/Eiffel+Tower/@48.8623524,2.3154171,13z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m2!1m1!1s0x47e671d877937b0f:0xb975fcfa192f84d4!1m2!1m1!1s0x47e66e2964e34e2d:0x8ddca9ee380ef7e0!3e0?hl=en They're not]]. The scene also displays the [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff "French love Jerry Lewis"]] stereotype by displaying French posters for his movies there.

* GravityIsAHarshMistress: When the flying car runs out of gas, it stays hovering just above the ground until Kate points out that gravity doesn't work like that.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Bugs gets the heroes from one location to the next by simply lifting the current shot to the next one.

* NeverMyFault: The Chairman insists that all Acme products function perfectly and Wile E. Coyote must be using them wrong.

* NoodleIncident: Bugs: "Daffy learns not to stick his head in a jet engine!"

* PaperThinDisguise: D.J. dresses up as one of the WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam background dancers to board the casino stage and talk to Dusty Tails. However, the clothes barely fit him and he is very tall while the dancers are dwarf-sized. Neither WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck nor Dusty Tails were fooled.
* PendulumOfDeath: In the film's climax, the Chairman's DeathTrap for DJ's father includes one of these on top of a [[ChainedToARailway Train of Death]], [[CartoonBomb crates of TNT]], and a [[AnvilOnHead 2-ton anvil]]. However, he decides that the Pendulum is overkill and orders Wile E. Coyote to remove it.

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

* {{Retcon}}: The whole reason this movie exists (see opening paragraph for an explanation). It managed to be truer to the characters and humor than ''Film/SpaceJam'', but barely anyone saw it in theaters!

* ShoutOut: "Hey, whadda ya know? I [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo found Nemo]]!"

* StealthPun: As DJ and Daffy go into the garage, the theme from Gremlins (which was also directed by Dante and whose score was also composed by Music/JerryGoldsmith) sneaks into the music. Guess what model of car they drive off in.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When Daffy enters DJ's home, he sees all of Damian's movie posters and thinks that DJ is the son of a famous spy. When DJ counters that Damian just plays a spy, Daffy explains that Damian must be a spy who maintains the persona of a famous actor playing a spy as a cover. He's completely right, naturally.
* TakeThat: Two in one scene: First one, see CelebrityParadox above. Meanwhile at a nearby table...

* 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 "angry, fat guys in basements."
** They also comment on how the audience just eats everything up without questioning it, such as when they discover Wal-Mart in the desert.

** In fact, the character Kate Houghton was based on a producer named Dalisa Cooper Cohen one of the producers on WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot, She is portrayed as a person who doesn't know what she's doing and making controversial changes to animated characters, Spasificly Bugs Bunny and to a lesser extent Daffy.

** In fact, the character Kate Houghton was based on a producer named Dalisa Cooper Cohen one of the producers on WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot, She is portrayed as a person who doesn't know what she's doing and making controversial changes to animated characters, Spasificly Bugs Bunny and to a lesser extent Daffy.