History Headscratchers / LooneyTunes

** She tried, once. Brought back pet food for the both of them through a driving blizzard. Except that she forgot the cat food back at the trading post. In another short she had a whole pantry full of canned cat food for him-but a Jerkass mouse stole the can opener from Sylvester, who went insane trying to get it back.

* Has granny ever even had the thought to seperate sylvester from tweety or even just rehome the cat or bird entirely? She berates the cat multiple times yet that doesn't usually stop him, and even if that doesn't work she's still not taking safety measures for her canary. Those cage bars are wider apart than the state of Texas and she still thinks it's a good idea to let her (assumedly) 5 foot long cat near the cage.

** Most animals can't actually read, but may associate phrases with certain event sif trained, such as a dog learning how to roll over. Maybe The Road Runner just saw the combination of letters enough times he eventually associated food with it?

* Why does Elmer Fudd hunt? Ignore his lack of success against Bugs for the moment and consider three of the all-time classic cartoons, in which Bugs and Daffy argue about which of them is to be hunted. (It's the RabbitSeasonDuckSeason TropeNamer, after all.) Every time Daffy loses such an argument, ''he gets shot'', yet recovers nicely with nothing more than some bill readjustment. Clearly Elmer's not out for game. Perhaps sport, then? (In contrast, Yosemite Sam has also hunted Bugs on at least one occasion, but he explicitly intends to cook him, as proven when the second half is devoted to putting Bugs in the oven.)
** Somewhere in the hunting trilogy (forget which one) this is explicitly covered when Bugs and Daffy take turns reading duck and rabbit recipes in an effort to get Elmer excited. The little guy just shrugs. "Sowwy fellas, but I'm a vegetawian. I just hunt for the sport of it!"

*** Well, he may not be intending to kill Bugs. In the Hunting Trilogy he shot Daffy repeatedly, and Daffy was fine, though singed. He probably just wants to hurt Bugs as revenge for all the injury the rabbit's inflicted on him.
*** There's another where a mountain lion hides out in his home to escape hunting season. There's other animal trophies. And they all run away when hunting season's over. Elmer's comment: How long it took. ForTheLulz indeed.

** One also has to remember during ''every'' Coyote/Road Runner confrontation that the RR really, really enjoys messing with Wile E.'s mind. He ''may'' be telling the truth about being illiterate, but more likely isn't.

* Because no one has yet listed it here: In "Rabbit Fire", we clearly see Daffy getting the ''How to Cook Rabbits'' book out of Bugs' rabbit hole. Why does Bugs own a copy of a book about cooking his own species? This is so bewildering that John Madden pointed it out while commentating on Creator/CartoonNetwork's Big Game between Bugs and Daffy in 2001.

** A number of shorts show that Roadrunner is the one driving the truck.

** Of course he is. Schrödinger's Cat anyone?

* Why do people hate Daffy Duck in the AnimatedActors shorts and second live action movie? I like Daffy because he's a ComedicSociopath and Bugs, to me nowadays, seems like a smug douche. They never really go into detail why we're supposed to like Bugs more and you would think that Bugs would be the more egotistical one in the relationship from knowing how popular he was.

** Well, half the times Sylvester isn't Granny's cat, and many of ''those'' time Tweetie isn't Granny's bird, either, since some don't have Granny at all.

** My cats are well fed and they still sometimes hunt other animals including birds in the backyard, and any cat owner knows that if you have another pet (like a mouse, hamster, bird, fish) you have to protect it from the cat. Cats hunt by instinct even if they are well fed. Silvester looks like a normally well fed animal (unlike the Coyote that is so thin) and Granny doesn’t seem to be the kind of person that won’t feed her pets, so is just instinct.

** Maybe he does hunt other rabbits and succeed in his aim. But it's not funny, so we don't need to see it.
** According to "The Big Snooze" (1946), Elmer made a contract with Creator/WarnerBros to chase the same rabbit, aka Bugs Bunny, for the benefit of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. The plot of the episode is that, he doesn't actually want to chase Bugs and be humiliated, but he does so anyway because he promised the company. Also seen in this short, he's always in Bugs' presence simply because he can't escape him. When he tried, Bugs proceeded to annoy him until he returned to his contract. Maybe it's just me, but I would sure as hell chase down a rabbit if he constantly bugged me hours on end.

** "Road runner burger."

* Why oh why is it that everytime Yosemite Sam is in a different persona or position... he always wears that bandit mask? The strangest example is when he was a prison guard, who the hell would hire someone that looks like a criminal to perform the job of keeping criminals behind bars... also I remember the times he tries to marry a rich widow for her money, it's surprising the widow doesn't find anything wrong with that bandit mask he wears all the time.

* I've always wondered and - forgive me if I'm incredibly dense - but is the Roadrunner as smart as Wile E. Coyote or is he dumb? As he is a bird, the way he regards Coyote's attempts at catching him looks like he's full-on oblivious to it rather than careless, and has the speed as his luck to escape whenever he does feel threatened. On the other hand, he has displayed minor hints of competency when dealing with his foe (like in the newer CGI shorts of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''), so he can't be flat out stupid after all. This is really confusing. Is he a bird-brain, or is he a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] to all of Wile's advances?

** Also, at one point in that "Adventures of the Roadrunner" pilot (I think you can find it as a bonus feature on one of the ''Looney Tunes'' [=DVDs=]), one of the kids watching the show asks why Wile E. chases the Roadrunner in the first place. Wile E. then pauses and explains that the reason he chases the Roadrunner is because roadrunners are the most delicious things on Earth (at least to coyotes). So there's that. Plus, where exactly CAN he buy food? He lives in the middle of the desert, I doubt that there are any grocery stores around.
* In ''Hare-Way to the Stars'', Marvin does know that the Orbit of Venus, Earth and Mars are vastly different, right? He could just wait an hour or two and Venus would stop being obscured by the Earth, thus he wouldn't need to blow it up.

He was named Egghead, more because in his earlier cartoons, he had a literal egg-shaped head.

** Also, at one point in that "Adventures of the Roadrunner" pilot (I think you can find it as a bonus feature on one of the ''Looney Tunes'' DVDs), one of the kids watching the show asks why Wile E. chases the Roadrunner in the first place. Wile E. then pauses and explains that the reason he chases the Roadrunner is because roadrunners are the most delicious things on Earth (at least to coyotes). So there's that. Plus, where exactly CAN he buy food? He lives in the middle of the desert, I doubt that there are any grocery stores around.

* I've always wondered and - forgive me if I'm incredibly dense - but is the Roadrunner as smart as Wile E. Coyote or is he dumb? As he is a bird, the way he regards Coyote's attempts at catching him looks like he's full-on oblivious to it rather than careless, and has the speed as his luck to escape whenever he does feel threatened. On the other hand, he has displayed minor hints of competency when dealing with his foe (like in the newer CGI shorts of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''), so he can't be flat out stupid after all. This is really confusing. Is he a bird-brain, or is he a MagnificentBastard to all of Wile's advances?

* Because no one has yet listed it here: In "Rabbit Fire", we clearly see Daffy getting the ''How to Cook Rabbits'' book out of Bugs' rabbit hole. Why does Bugs own a copy of a book about cooking his own species? This is so bewildering that JohnMadden pointed it out while commentating on Creator/CartoonNetwork's Big Game between Bugs and Daffy in 2001.

** Same reason Krusty from TheSimpsons always wears the clown makeup. It just became an irrevocable part of the character, and it looks weird any time they try to change it.

** My cats are well fed and they still sometimes hunt other animals including birds in the backyard, and any cat owner knows that if you have another pet (like a mouse, hamster, bird, fish) you have to protect it from the cat. Cats hunt by instinct even if they are well fed. Silvester looks like a normally well fed animal (unlike the Coyote that is so thin) and Granny doesn’t seem to be the kind of person that won’t fed her pets, so is just instinct.

*** On the other hand, Elmer isn't always married in every short, so his motives to kill Bugs can't be always for her service. This is especially evident when he wolf whistles at dancing women on stage, or when he's attracted to Bugs in drag. [[YourCheatingHeart Unless he...oh, no.]]

** Since Pepe's entire schtick is based around the fact that he doesn't realise ''he'' smells -- or at least, smells bad -- no, not really.

** if that is the case, it proves how pettily war-like he is.

* Sylvester appears to have absolutely no loss aversion. He will hunt Tweedy down and try to eat him no matter how much the effort hurts or humiliates him, even though the baby bird could barely qualify as a snack. Why does Sylvester even bother? Aren't there other ways he can get food? Or does the universe hate him so much that any other way will be met with failure?

*** After all he IS a pussshhthy-cat!

** Slappy Squirrel of {{Animaniacs}} was once asked a similar question, and in her GenreSavvy, NoFourthWall way replied, "Oh. Yeah. Six minutes in the checkout line. We'll have 'em in hysterics with that."

* So Willie E. Coyote has money to buy all those unuseful Roadrunner-hunting machines but he has no money to buy food?

** According to "The Big Snooze" (1946), Elmer made a contract with WarnerBros to chase the same rabbit, aka Bugs Bunny, for the benefit of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. The plot of the episode is that, he doesn't actually want to chase Bugs and be humiliated, but he does so anyway because he promised the company. Also seen in this short, he's always in Bugs' presence simply because he can't escape him. When he tried, Bugs proceeded to annoy him until he returned to his contract. Maybe it's just me, but I would sure as hell chase down a rabbit if he constantly bugged me hours on end.