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* ProWrestlingEpisode: In "WesternAnimation/BunnyHugged", Bugs was the mascot of wrestler Ravishing Ronald, but when he gets pummeled by the Crusher, Bugs steps into the ring as the Masked Terror.
** Also, "Porky The Wrestler" (1936, Avery). Porky is mistaken to be wrestling champ Hugo Bernowskiwoskinowskiskowski and faces Man Mountain in the ring.

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In "WesternAnimation/BunnyHugged", Bugs was the mascot of wrestler Ravishing Ronald, but when he gets pummeled by the Crusher, Bugs steps into the ring as the Masked Terror.
** Also, "Porky The Wrestler" (1936, Avery). Porky is mistaken to be wrestling champ Hugo Bernowskiwoskinowskiskowski and faces Man Mountain in the ring.


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* PropellerHatOfWhimsy: The [[ThePrankster mischievous]] crow in the short "Corn Plastered" wears a beanie with ''two'' propellers, which he sometimes uses to fly around.
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Another defensive entry defending things that feel worth interrogating. Rephrasing without the anti-PC tone.


* RomanticComedy: The Pepé [=LePew=] shorts. Though, in this PC age, some people would put them more in the BlackComedyRape category. In fact, for some, it's funnier to think of it this way.

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* RomanticComedy: The Pepé [=LePew=] shorts. Though, in this PC age, some people would put them more in shorts parody romance movies with an AbhorrentAdmirer who doesn't understand how repellent he is. Today, the BlackComedyRape category. In fact, for some, it's funnier to think of it this way.shorts are contentious and less often seen as humorous or romantic.
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* {{Prehistoria}}: Most notably ''Caveman Inki'', ''Prehysterical Hare,'' and especially ''Wild Wild World''

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* {{Prehistoria}}: Most notably ''Caveman Inki'', ''Prehysterical Hare,'' ''WesternAnimation/PrehystericalHare,'' and especially ''Wild Wild World''
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%%* PlummetPerspective: When Wile E. Coyote falls.

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%%* * PlummetPerspective: When One famous running gag in the Road Runner cartoons is a bird's-eye view of Wile E. Coyote falls.falling off a cliff and shrinking in the distance, followed by a cloud of dust rising from the canyon floor to mark his landing.

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-->'''Champ:''' [[SubvertedTrope Like you?]]
-->'''Bugs:''' [[OhCrap Eh... (gulps) Eh... what's up, doc?]]

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-->'''Champ:''' [[SubvertedTrope Like you?]]
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[[OhCrap Eh... (gulps) Eh... what's up, doc?]]



* RecycledInSpace: During the 1964-1969 AudienceAlienatingEra, the WB animation studio tried recycling the Road Runner formula with woodland animals, resulting in Rapid Rabbit -- who uses a blowhorn as his trademark -- and Quick Brown Fox. Only one cartoon with this premise was produced.


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* RecycledWithAGimmick: During the 1964-1969 AudienceAlienatingEra, the WB animation studio tried recycling the Road Runner formula with woodland animals, resulting in Rapid Rabbit -- who uses a blowhorn as his trademark -- and Quick Brown Fox. Only one cartoon with this premise was produced.
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: A common trait of the cartoons worked on by composer Carl W. Stalling. The most notable cases include the "Skocna" from "The Bartered Bride" by Bedrich Smetana in the "Wile E. Coyote" cartoons and "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Vagner in WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc.
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* [[Pun]]: The ending of "Bugged by a Bee", where Cool Cat makes a bunch of bee-related puns.
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Newly launched trope was sent back to TLP. If launched again, it likely won't keep this name.


* RidingInThePalmsOfGiantHands: In an episode of the 1966 TV series, "Solid Tin Coyote", Wile E. Coyote constructs a giant robot coyote to pursue and catch the roadrunner by riding on the robot's left palm.
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* RidingInThePalmsOfGiantHands: In an episode of the 1966 TV series, "Solid Tin Coyote", Wile E. Coyote constructs a giant robot coyote to pursue and catch the roadrunner by riding on the robot's left palm.
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* PepperSneeze / SneezeOfDoom

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* PepperSneeze / SneezeOfDoom%%* PepperSneeze
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Dork Age was renamed


* RecycledInSpace: During the 1964-1969 DorkAge, the WB animation studio tried recycling the Road Runner formula with woodland animals, resulting in Rapid Rabbit -- who uses a blowhorn as his trademark -- and Quick Brown Fox. Only one cartoon with this premise was produced.

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* RecycledInSpace: During the 1964-1969 DorkAge, AudienceAlienatingEra, the WB animation studio tried recycling the Road Runner formula with woodland animals, resulting in Rapid Rabbit -- who uses a blowhorn as his trademark -- and Quick Brown Fox. Only one cartoon with this premise was produced.
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* PricklyPorcupine: A gag in "Unnatural History" involves kissing porcupines, who leap into the air in pain every time they do so.
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* {{Retcon}}: The compilation films ''The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie'', ''1001 Rabbit Tales'' and ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters'' change certain things about the original shorts so that they work into the movies' plots.
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* Pun: The ending of "Bugged by a Bee", where Cool Cat makes a bunch of bee-related puns.

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* Pun: [[Pun]]: The ending of "Bugged by a Bee", where Cool Cat makes a bunch of bee-related puns.
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* Pun: The ending of "Bugged by a Bee", where Cool Cat makes a bunch of bee-related puns.
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* PoliceBrutality: "Big House Bunny" sees Bugs, who had accidentally tunneled into a maximum security prison where Yosemite Sam works, trick Sam into swapping clothes. Once Sam realizes he's put on a prisoner's smock, it's too late for the "OhCrap" as four of his fellow guards pounce on him and mercilessly beat him into submission, before throwing him into a holding cell.

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* PlummetPerspective: When Wile E. Coyote falls.

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* PlayfulPursuit: Pepe Le Pew assumes that whenever Penelope runs away from him, she's playing hard to get, when in reality she is running away [[SmellySkunk for completely different reasons]].
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PlummetPerspective: When Wile E. Coyote falls.



* PortraitPaintingPeephole
* PowderGag
* PowderTrail

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* PunBasedTitle: Practically every WB short has one of these.

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* %%* PunBasedTitle: Practically every WB short has one of these.



* RascallyRabbit: Bugs Bunny

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** The legendary Porky Pig "blooper", made by Bob Clampett for Warner's 1939 in-house gag reel, in which he hits his thumb with a hammer and stammers "Son of a b-b-b-b...son of a b-b-b...son of a b-b-b-b..gun!" He then [[NoFourthWall turns to the camera]] and says "[[DoubleSubversion You thought I was gonna say 'son of a bitch,' didn'tcha?]]" Oh yes, it's real, all right -- it was included on "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 4" as an extra. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK4j88PvLyg See it here.]]

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** The legendary Porky Pig "blooper", made by Bob Clampett for Warner's 1939 in-house gag reel, in which he hits his thumb with a hammer and stammers "Son of a b-b-b-b..."Oh, son of a b-b-b...bi-bi-bit...son of a b-b-b-b..gun!" bi-bi-bit...son of a bi-bi-bi- ''Gun!''" He then [[NoFourthWall turns to the camera]] and says "[[DoubleSubversion You thought I was gonna say 'son 's-suh-son of a bitch,' didn'tcha?]]" Oh yes, it's real, all right -- it was included on "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 4" as an extra. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK4j88PvLyg See it here.]]
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* PushyGunTotingVillain:
** WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam may as well be one of the ur-examples of this kind of character (even if he's PlayedForLaughs): his standard response to Bugs trying to swindle him was to draw his six-shooters and tell Bugs to not try any funny business (of course, Bugs did so anyway, leading to a very karmic and ''painful'' resolution for Sam).
** WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd is another ur-example, also PlayedForLaughs. In his hunter's outfit, he's pushy to both WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, and usually will fire his shotgun in their direction. He'll always get Daffy in the face if he shoots directly at him, but always in a comedic manner. (e.g. Daffy's beak will be blown off, but his face will be nothing but black, or his beak will spin around his face from the blast.)

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** The most major revisions for both theme tunes came in 1941 (when the two, but especially ''The Merry Go Round Broke Down'' became noticeably faster and more bombastic in terms of performance) and in 1945 (when a section of each - the steam whistle solo for ''Merry Go Round'' and the xylophone solo for ''Merrily'' - got taken out to allow for longer credits that would credit much more of the staff working instead of just the director, a single animator, the screenwriter and Creator/CarlStalling).

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** The most major revisions for both theme tunes came in 1941 (when the two, but especially ''The Merry Go Round Broke Down'' became noticeably faster and more bombastic in terms of performance) and in 1945 (when a section of each - the steam whistle solo for ''Merry Go Round'' and the xylophone solo for ''Merrily'' - got taken out to allow for longer credits that would credit much more of the staff working instead of just the director, a single animator, the screenwriter and Creator/CarlStalling).Carl Stalling, the composer).


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** Inevitable to a lot of the earlier shorts that were re-released as "Blue Ribbon" Merrie Melodies - the 1941 version of ''Merrily We Roll Along'' would replace the intro theme (be it an earlier version of ''Merrily'' or ''I Think You' re Ducky'' on 1934-1936 color Merrie Melodies) and the original title card music. Sadly this causes much grief among the fandom, especially regarding cartoons from which the title cards got cut away. Later shorts released as part of the program would only get a new set of rings and keep the title cards as released originally.
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** The most major revisions for both theme tunes came in 1941 (when the two, but especially ''The Merry Go Round Broke Down'' became noticeably faster and more bombastic in terms of performance) and in 1945 (when a section of each - the steam whistle solo for ''Merry Go Round'' and the xylophone solo for ''Merrily'' - got taken out to allow for longer credits that would credit much more of the staff working instead of just the director, a single animator, the screenwriter and Creator/CarlStalling).
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* RealityEnsues: The plot of every ''Private Snafu'' story.
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** 1938's "WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland" was remade in 1949 as "Dough for the Do-Do". Besides being in color, "Do-Do" had a completely new soundtrack, some vocal differences, and a brand new ending. Many of the gags are the same between both cartoons, though. Animation of some of the Wackyland inhabitants was repurposed and crafted in color for 1943's "Tin Pan Alley Cats," with the Fats Waller cat substituting for Porky.

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** 1938's "WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland" was remade in 1949 as "Dough for the Do-Do". Besides being in color, "Do-Do" had a completely new soundtrack, some vocal differences, and a brand new ending. Many of the gags are the same between both cartoons, though. Animation of some of the Wackyland inhabitants was repurposed and crafted in color for 1943's "Tin Pan Alley Cats," with the Fats Waller cat (himself a remake of a figure in "September In The Rain") substituting for Porky.
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** "Rocket Squad" (''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' and ''Racket Squad'')

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** "Rocket Squad" "WesternAnimation/RocketSquad" (''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' and ''Racket Squad'')
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* ReadingAheadInTheScript: In "Wind-Blown Hare", TheBigBadWolf reads a copy of ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' to know what to do. When WesternAnimation/BugsBunny pretends to be Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, he gives the wolf a copy of that book to catch up.

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* ReadingAheadInTheScript: In "Wind-Blown Hare", TheBigBadWolf reads a copy of ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs" to know what to do. When WesternAnimation/BugsBunny pretends to be Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, he gives the wolf a copy of that book to catch up.
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* RightBehindMe: Happens to Bugs in "Devil May Hare" when he insults Taz, who happens to be standing right behind him.

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* RightBehindMe: Happens to Bugs in "Devil May Hare" "WesternAnimation/DevilMayHare" when he insults Taz, who happens to be standing right behind him.
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** "Trip for Tat" re-uses numerous scenes from earlier Sylvester & Tweety cartoons but Milt Franklyn wrote new music for them.

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