History WesternAnimation / TheLooneyTunesShow

** In the episode "To Bowl or Not to Bowl" Daffy is tied with the opposing team in a bowling tournament and is ''two pins'' away from winning. He first gets a gutter ball, is given a free turn due to a technicality, then gets another gutter ball. He's so mortified by his embarrassing loss that he stands motionless in the bowling alley all night.
** In "Working Duck", Daffy is hired to be a muffin man in Enormocorp, the fifth largest congolmerate in the world. The CEO, Foghorn Leghorn, is so impressed with Daffy that he makes Daffy his successor. On his first day as CEO, Daffy makes one bad decision leading to the company going bankrupt, 100,000s of people losing their jobs, and experts fearing the entire world economy could collapse.

* BookEnds: The series began with the episode "Best Friends", and in production order (because [[OutOfOrder SuperRabbit was aired as the finale instead]]), ends with "Best Friends Redux", both revolving around Daffy wanting to keep Bugs' friendship, but in different ways.

* OutOfOrder: "The Foghorn Leghorn Story" (which aired ninth) almost definitely took place after "Working Duck" (which aired twentieth), since Foghorn's assistant references the events of "Working Duck" in the former. This is the most obvious example, but it's not the only one. It's not a huge problem, due to the show's episodic nature, but what continuity there is can get a bit screwy at times.

* PapaWolf: In the Merrie Melody "Yellow Bird", Crusher beats the tar out of Sylvester for ruining his daughter's sand castle.

* PaperDestructionOfAnger: Bugs Bunny, jittery from the effects of caffeine, accuses his physician, Doctor Weisberg, of not being a real doctor. Pulling the doctor's diploma off the wall, Bugs reads it, and cries: "Syracuse? That's a basketball school!" Bugs breaks the frame open, then halves the diploma. Doctor Weisberg calmly explains his diagnosis, at which Bugs cools down, and hands the wrecked diploma to his doctor. "You can probably tape this."

** Cecil Turtle refers to Bugs as "Byoogs Byoony".

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!!Tropes Related to this series:

** Porky became chubbier, with rounder features and overall closer to how he looked in the original shorts.

* TeamPet: Taz has been regulated to this role with Bugs as the owner, and by the end of "Devil Dog" may actually become a recurring pet.

* NonMammalMammaries: Tina. In fact when Daffy used a wig and makeup to disguise himself as Tina "Beauty School" the only visible difference was that the fake 'Tina' was flat chested.

** Daffy claims to have met Music/MichaelJackson at some point. Bugs asks about it, but Daffy doesn't clarify. Though knowing Daffy, he was likely lying or mistaken.

* {{Flanderization}}: Daffy Duck is an example of this. Every episode he seems to be getting more idiotic but in season he got nicer.

** His mother Witch Lezah. She looks like Witch Hazel, but she's not the crackling laughing mad witch always trying to kill someone for an ingredient to her potion anymore; she's just a doting mother.

* IdiotBall: Bugs seems to be only person in the entire world who did not know on first sight that Taz is not a dog.

* StealthPun: In "Bugs and Daffy Get a Job", Bugs gets a job working in Porky's office, but Daffy doesn't. The subplot involves Daffy getting his beak redone.

* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Bugs and Tina barely interacted in the show and when they do interact it was brief. There hasn't been an episode where it focuses on them together although their DistaffCounterpart, Daffy and Lola,do.

** Foghorn Leghorn's assistant [[NumberTwo Carol]] also tends to be one. Even though she points out how many of Leghorn's decisions are idiotic, Leghorn dismisses her almost every time.

* AffablyEvil: Marvin the Martian. He believes in being polite, but also shoots people with laser beams.

** We also never find out what Daffy had in the bag in "Father Figures".

** In "Devil Dog", Bugs staunchly insists that Taz is a dog, whom he dubs Poochie. Speedy teaches him a dog-training trick, but cautions that it only works on dogs, and he's not convinced Poochie ''is'' one.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: In "Gossamer is Awesomer" Porky rearranges Speedy's mouse hole and Bugs, being annoyed by Porky's antics himself, expects him to yell at Porky for doing so...but instead he gets praised and Speedy asks him to reorganize Pizzariba.

* IdiotBall: Bugs seems to be only person in the entire world who did not know on first sight that Poochie is not a dog.

* IronicEcho: In "Casa de Calma":
--> "I'll send you a postcard from our honeymoon!"

** AmbiguouslyBi: In the episode "Double Date", Porky was quite excited to accept a date from Daffy after the latter won a romantic dinner. (Daffy asked Bugs first, then called Porky.) When Daffy came by in a limo with his chosen (female) date, Porky wasn't upset; in fact, he was happy that Daffy remembered to come by, and had went so far as to buy flowers. (It was only when Daffy took the flowers and left him sitting on the curb that Porky became sullen and said he needed to get a girlfriend.)

* BilingualBonus: Yosemite Sam really is speaking in Russian when he calls the woman he met online over the phone.

* DescentIntoAddiction: One episode has Bugs get horribly addicted to Porky's unhealthy catering food, causing him to host parties every night just to get more of it, and he eventually gets morbidly obese.

* IAmSong: [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "I'M A MARTIAN! Not a dead, white shark, I'M A MARTIAN!"]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: Cecil Turtle refers to Bugs as "Byoogs Byoony".

* ActingForTwo: In-universe when Daffy ends up playing ''all the roles'' in ''The Foghorn Leghorn Story''.

* AdaptationalUgliness:
** When Bugs has dressed in drag before, he's always been treated as a bomb shell. Whenever he does it in this version, he's typically called out as being ugly. [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Except for Speedy.]]

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: In "Devil Dog", Bugs staunchly insists that Taz is a dog, whom he dubs Poochie. Speedy teaches him a dog-training trick, but cautions that it only works on dogs, and he's not convinced Poochie ''is'' one.

* AnimationBump: Invoked in the Merry Melody video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PvJ1zBJ-us ''Daffy Duck: The Wizard'']]

* ArtShift: While Bugs tries his hand at running a restaurant, we get a glimpse into the epic life of Daffy the Wizard, showcasing a fantasy style animation better suited for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: It seems Daffy has a severe case of this. Bugs as well in "Reunion", because he had never gone to high school himself ("Are those ''lockers?!''").

* AttractiveBentGender: ZigZagged. Bugs's drag act doesn't work as much as it did in the old shorts. Some think he's an ugly woman, while others think "she" is gorgeous. Played for laughs when it works, though.

* BerserkButton: Porky is usually a nice guy, but when he realizes that Daffy has swindled him out of all his money, he loses it and beats the snot out of Daffy.

* ButtMonkey: Poor Bugs Bunny. After many decades of being the screwball, he falls down the hole and winds up in this situation, especially in Episode 1.

* CatchPhrase: Bugs' is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the first episode.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: It should come to no surprise that a lot of characters are this since it's ''Looney Tunes'', but of all characters [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Lola seems to be developing this the most.]]

* ContinuityNod: A good example is in episode 10, "Eligible Bachelors", when Daffy confuses "literacy" with "littering" and says how it should be a crime. Bugs replies:

* {{Crossdresser}}: What Bugs Bunny does best in the episode "Beauty School"; Daffy Duck included, though done as a DisguisedInDrag. Daffy disguises himself as Tina to take a cosmetology test.

* ADayInTheLimelight: "Point, Laser Point" is this for Sylvester, with Bugs and Daffy appearing in the B-story.
** The entire episode of "Ridiculous Journey" focuses on Sylvester, Tweety, AND Taz themselves without a B-story or Merry Melody to go with it.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Bugs can either be a pitiable OnlySaneMan or a [[TheAce smug]] DeadpanSnarker. Daffy is either an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]] or an idiot who doesn't know any better.

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Daffy attempts to clear up his unintentional insult to the Crusher in prison, only to put himself in more danger. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0U-4qQLirI Even he wishes he can keep his mouth shut.]]
** Does it again in "Devil Dog".

* DisproportionateRetribution: Two words: "French Fries".

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Episode 1. Throughout the episode (which was about 'best friends'), Bugs and Daffy go on a game show, lose because Daffy doesn't know Bugs that well, Bugs gets upset, Daffy gets [[ExiledToTheCouch banished to the car]] and is not made breakfast in the morning, Daffy becomes a StalkerWithACrush and tries to shower Bugs with gifts, and at the end the two make up.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Casa de Calma'', which aired early in season 1, was [[{{Slapstick}} completely different]] [[NoFourthWall in tone]] than every other episode in the series. This is a rare [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example because that episode was created before the show was completely retooled.

* EvilLaugh: Daffy utters one after declaring that he will become Bugs' best friend.

* {{Expy}}: Tina Russo, Daffy's new girlfriend, is essentially a new version of Melissa Duck from two old shorts.

** In the Merry Melody "Be Polite", a cop is seen aiming a very realistic looking Beretta 92FS at a criminal.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Lola loses her mother's bracelet in "The Black Widow" [[spoiler:her ankles are always concealed from the audience's view, foreshadowing that it's there the whole time]].

* FreudianExcuse: In "Newspaper Thief," Bugs seriously considers this to be the case for Daffy.

* FurryDenial: Tina Russo's sister's baby, Zachary, is never referred to as a duckling even though he is one. He is instead always referred to as a baby as if he were a human baby. Also, he's drinking milk, which human and other mammal babies drink, not ducklings or any other baby bird for that matter.

* GoKartingWithBowser: Reportedly the major premise of the show is that everyone in the ''Looney Tunes'' world is friends and they live in the suburbs together.

* HotterAndSexier: The Merrie Melodies appear to parody this often, whether with Sam's backup singers for "Blow My Stack", the female bird aliens dancers in "I'm a Martian", or Fudd's attempt to be seductive with "Grilled Cheese."

* IAmNotWeasel: Daffy thinks Speedy is a rat.

* InterspeciesRomance: The episode "Casa De Calma" has Daffy swooning over sexy actress [[Creator/ScarlettJohansson Starlett Johansson]], but in the end Bugs wins.

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy

* MemeticBadass: In-universe, Daffy claims to be this. He's a pathological liar though. Bugs is the real deal, having been among other things an astronaut, the (interim) President of Mexico, a medal-winning Olympic athlete, and Franchise/{{Batman}}.

** Foghorn Leghorn sings about his badassedness in his Merry Melody, "Cock of the Walk."

* MundaneMadeAwesome: ''Daffy Duck: The Wizard''

* NoodleIncident: Bugs has a Nobel Prize, but we never learn what he got it for.

* OnlySaneMan: Bugs and Tina are generally the most normal characters of the show. Season 2 sees Bugs shying away from this trope.

* PapaWolf: In the Merry Melody "Yellow Bird", Crusher beats the tar out of Sylvester for ruining his daughter's sand castle.

* RunningGag: Daffy has taken to asking, "What is this, communist Russia?" or "What happened to this country?" when someone requests simple information from him.

* SanitySlippage: Porky Pig to varying degrees, especially in “Bugs & Daffy Get a Job”.

* ShoutOut: Bugs uses this trope to get Daffy's attention by telling [[Film/{{Superman}} Superman's origin]], except with Bugs Bunny replacing Superman. It backfires, big time.

%%* SliceOfLife

* StrawLoser: Daffy pretty much exists to make Bugs (and everybody else) look better.
** That being said, he's a [[HiddenDepths talented cosmetologist]]. The trope is played straight in his license acceptance speech, where he admits he has been placed in the world to make other people look better.

* TakeThat: First jab at Disney: In Daffy's Merrie Melody, "The Wizard," one of the frozen beasts that Daffy roasts resembles Pumbaa from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.

* TyopOnTheCover: An in-universe example happens in the Merry Melodies short "Pizzariba". Apparently Slowpoke Rodriguez put "Pibbariza" on the front page of the website for Speedy's pizza place.

* {{Yandere}}: Lola Bunny is a mild version. She also becomes one to Daffy for one episode.

* Panty Shot: Starlett Johansson gets one in "Casa de Calma."
Marvin the Martian gets one in "I'm A Martian". And they glow.

* PhonyDegree: Inverted when Bugs is affected by the narcotic beverage Spargle, and rips up Dr Weisberg's completely valid diploma on the grounds that Syracuse is "a ''basketball'' school".