Line #45 Awesome/LooneyTunes


1	[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/DuckingTheDevil https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bs_adndcmaalrsb.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[AtLeastIAdmitIt "Like I said, I'm a coward]]. But [[LetsGetDangerous I'm a]] ''[[LetsGetDangerous greeeeeeedy]]'' [[LetsGetDangerous little coward!"]]]]
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4	* Bugs is a walking fountain of this. Take for example, being able to defy gravity for comedy in the Creator/FrizFreleng short "High Diving Hare".
5	* "WesternAnimation/AWildHare", Bugs's first official short, may well have been the CMOA for the entire series. As soon as Bugs walks off into the distance, playing his carrot like a flute, you just know things are never going to be the same in the Looney Tunes world again.
6	** Special mention goes to the opening moments of the short: Elmer Fudd tries to kill a rabbit in its hole. Said rabbit, Bugs, pops up and climbs out of the hole. Most rabbits would be rightfully afraid of people trying to kill them. Bugs' reaction upon first seeing his soon-to-be arch-nemesis?
7	--> '''Bugs:''' ''(chomps on carrot)'' [[CharacterCatchphrase What's up, doc?]]
8	* Even more so, anytime Bugs goes against a foe that ''isn't'' a HarmlessVillain, simply to see the guy up his usual game on a proper challenge. Most of his feuds with Marvin the Martian apply, along with cases such as "Rabbit Punch" and "WesternAnimation/HareConditioned".
9	* ''Carrotblanca'' can be considered one for the guys back in Warner Bros., for being able to insert so many of the Looney Tunes regulars (WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, etc.) in a single short while managing to keep to the loosest interpretation of ''{{Film/Casablanca}}'' and taking affectionate shots at it, i.e. the importance of Lazlo, the contents of the plans, Daffy hitting one key on the piano and Bugs knowing instinctively what song he's gonna play, and Tweety's dead-on impersonation of Creator/PeterLorre just to name a few.
10	* The very first DuckSeasonRabbitSeason bit in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' episode ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire.'' After the part quoted, Bugs pulls it off on Daffy ''two more times'', but each time doesn't make the switch until ''just before'' Daffy calls on Elmer to fire. He's got Daffy figured just that quickly.
11	** '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syAkQmc-lM ELMER SEASON.]]'''''
12	* While WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's entire filmography is pretty much wall-to-wall Awesome, the second half of Chuck Jones' ''Long-Haired Hare'' stands out in particular.
13	** Honorable mention: The square dance at the end of ''Hillbilly Hare'' makes up the entire second half of the short and is [[JustForFun/MadeOfWin made of]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments utterly hilarious]] [[JustForFun/MadeOfWin win]]. Arguably a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for voice artist Mel Blanc as well, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkiJDw1Kung don't take our word for it]].
14	* WesternAnimation/OldGlory, in terms of art and its dramatic depiction of American history and teaching Porky the reason why the Pledge of Allegiance is important.
15	* WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid gets a moment of awesome in "Bosko the Doughboy"; not once, but twice, he runs right through a volley of machine gun bullets, the first time on his own initiative, and the second to aid an ally who was struck by a cannonball!
16	* Beans The Cat gets a few moments in his handful of cartoons, like defeating the Frankenstein Monster at the end of "Hollywood Capers" (by tricking it into walk in an industrial fan, which tears it to pieces), saving the cartoonist from the monster in "A Cartoonist's Nightmare", and fighting alongside Porky Pig in a war and saving their general in "Boom Boom"!
17	* WesternAnimation/PorkyPig gets his shining hour in "Porky's Poultry Plant"; when a hawk is terrorizing his farm of hens and kidnaps a chicklet, what does he do? He takes the charge and leads an airplane, donned with ''machine guns'', to take down the hawk and his cohorts! And he ''wins''!
18	* In "Porky in the North Woods", when Porky is cornered and helpless under the villainous trapper Jean Baptise, the animals he had previously saved from Jean's traps [[GondorCallsForAid call for the aid of]] [[BigDamnHeroes an entire cavalry of woodland animals]], who proceed to mop the floor with the trapper!
19	* Bugs and Elmer [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments harmonizing]] in "The Wacky Wabbit".
20	** In the same vein, their duet in "What's Opera, Doc" is actually quite lovely to the ears. It's almost romantic if you can forget that one of the singers is a rabbit in drag.
21	* As awesome as many of the protagonist's victories were, it was even more awesome when one of the shorts' recurring {{Butt Monkey}}s finally got a victory over them (granted they were usually villains, but their sheer [[HarmlessVillain harmlessness]] and [[AffablyEvil likable]] qualities made you desire at least one moment of triumph over their smug foes). Elmer Fudd (eg. ''Rabbit Rampage'', ''Hare Brush'') and Daffy Duck, even post-Flanderization (eg. ''Ducking The Devil'', ''Mucho Locos'') perhaps scored the most frequent and most satisfying victories.
22	** To elaborate, ''WesternAnimation/DuckingTheDevil'' involves Daffy luring the escaped Tasmanian Devil back to his zoo for a cash reward of "five Gs". Daffy succeeds through [[MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast clever use of singing the Devil into compliance]]; being completely exhausted from having to keep singing almost constantly by the time he lures him back. However, when [[BerserkButton Taz snatches up a dollar he dropped]], an enraged Daffy charges ''straight back'' into the Devil's cage. It looks briefly from off-camera that [[CurbStompBattle Daffy's picked a fight he'll regret]] -- especially against [[TheDreaded a foe he was flat-out terrified of the whole time]] when trying to capture him -- but it soon cuts back to a smug Daffy with the lost dollar and a dazed Tasmanian Devil slumped in the corner; revealing that he not only won a brawl against the much larger and more ferocious Taz, but ''[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass flat-out destroyed him]]''.
23	--->'''Daffy:''' HEY, THAT'S MINE! (''[[LetsGetDangerous furiously, as he and Taz fight off-screen]]'') LET GO OF THAT MONEY! IT'S MINE! MINE! DO YOU HEAR ME?! MINE! ALL MINE! AND WHAT'S MINE IS MINE AND NOBODY'S GONNA GET IT! (''re-emerges with the dropped dollar, and smugly turns to the audience'') [[BondOneLiner Like I said, I'm a coward. But I'm a]] ''[[BondOneLiner greeeeeeedy]]'' [[BondOneLiner little coward!]]
24	** ''Mucho Locos'' exists as perhaps the only cartoon where a foe actually defeats [[InvincibleHero Speedy Gonzales]], with Daffy whacking him with a mallet after hearing him tell one too many stories about "El Stupid Duck".
25	** ''Rabbit Rampage'' basically involves Elmer Fudd beating Bugs at the same game he used on Daffy in ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck''; taking the animator's chair and [[RealityWarper using his brush to change reality]], morphing Bugs and the cartoon itself to inflict [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment all manners of creative torture]] on his normally-untouchable nemesis. The fact Bugs is ''aware'' of who's doing it from the beginning -- in contrast to Daffy, who didn't know Bugs was responsible until the end -- but [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll is powerless to stop Elmer for once]] makes it even more cathartic.
26	--->'''Elmer:''' (''[[SignatureLaugh does his signature chuckle]] as he reveals himself'') Well, anyway. I finally got even with that screwy rabbit!
27	** ''To Duck... or Not to Duck'', with Elmer Fudd facing Daffy in a boxing match with another duck as the referee. Naturally, things are pretty skewed against him, starting from when the referee demonstrates all the illegal moves on him. Except at the end of the fight, Elmer points out that Daffy had done a few of those moves, and demonstrates the whole routine again against Daffy and the referee ''at the same time''.
28	** And of course Elmer seemingly killing the wabbit in the most dramatic and atmospheric manner possible in '''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc''', avoiding crossing the MoralEventHorizon by [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone breaking into remorseful tears straight afterwards]].
29	--->'''Elmer''': [[UnstoppableRage I'LL KILL THE WABBIT!]] Awise, stowm! (''conjures the atmospheric conditions as he yells them'') North Winds bwow! South Winds bwow! Typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes... '''''SMOOOOOGGGGGGGG!'''''
30	** And then Bugs lampshading the nature of the medium they were enacting while still in Elmer's arms with Elmer walking forward as if none the wiser his victim came back to life.
31	--->'''Bugs''': Well, what did ya expect in an opera? A happy ending? (''Bugs goes back to playing dead'')
32	** Another for Elmer comes in "Hare Brush", in the very surreal case of switching their roles. And, since Bugs believes he's Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire, he gets arrested on suspicion of tax evasion.
33	--->'''Elmer''': I may be a scwewy wabbit, ''but I'm not going to Alcatwaz!''
34	** Out of all the characters Bugs manages to outwit, Cecil Turtle is the only one who could basically outwit HIM... in three consecutive episodes no less! First he calls all his relatives to appear at different points of the race, then he convinces Bugs to make himself a 'super-fast shell' where a whole rabbit gang, convinced he's the turtle, goes out of their way to beat him up... and [[PyrrhicVictory when Bugs finally manages to win a race, he gets arrested for going over the speed limit.]] Daffy, Elmer and Sam got ''nothing'' on this turtle.
35	*** The tale continues on ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', but this time...well, just see the CMOA page of that show...
36	** A slightly PyrrhicVictory, but admirable one no less in "Mouse Mazurka". Sylvester's prey dupes him into believing he's swallowed Nitroglycerin and spends the remainder of the episode tormenting him with no worry of retaliation, until he eventually causes himself to explode (having unknowingly swallowed the real deal). The narrator mocks Sylvester as he will never get the mouse now. "That's what ''you'' think!" Sylvester then swallows a similar bottle and deliberately detonates himself, before appearing before the angel mouse in cloud heaven and the cartoon closing on the continued chase. Sylvester's zeal excelled the point of ''killing himself'' just to get revenge on the little rodent.
37	* "WesternAnimation/TheDucktators" has to be ''the'' best anti-Nazi propaganda cartoon from Warner Bros..
38	* Sylvester gets a Crowning Moment in the Chuck Jones cartoon ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat''. Porky Pig and his pet Sylvester find themselves in a haunted house, where the mice terrorize Sylvester by throwing knives, bowling balls and other weapons at him and Porky. Porky, of course, is oblivious to the threat, until, fed up with Sylvester's seeming cowardice, heads into the kitchen to confront the source of Sylvester's fears. The mice end up leading him to the executioner's block, and Porky, tied up under a mass of ropes, can only hold a sign saying, "You were right, Sylvester." Sylvester runs to the hills, only to be confronted by his conscience (a pale blue Sylvester standing next to a reader-board). His conscience points out that Porky raised him from a kitten, and then shows a comparative size chart of Sylvester and a mouse, and finally produces a sign reading, "Now get in there and fight! Fight! FIGHT!!!". This starts Sylvester getting riled up, to the point where he runs up to a tree, rips off a limb with his bare hands and brandishes it like a club--before discarding the limb and uprooting the whole tree and charging back to the haunted house to kick mouse butt!
39	* A small one from the special ''Bug's and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals'': while playing separate pianos, Bugs and Daffy alternately recite lines of the poem that accompanies the section. They begin to lean progressively further back against each other, until they can't ''possibly'' be able to touch the keyboards, but the piano music inexplicably continues. Pan out to reveal that they're now playing ''with their feet''. While looking absolutely chill about it.
40	* At the ending to "Chow Hound", the dog who has been abusing a poor cat brings him to [[ItMakesSenseInContext his many owners]] in exchange for several big cash rewards which he blows on meat... and winds up at the hospital for eating too much. The cat then returns with his similarly abused mouse friend, and this time, [[TheDogBitesBack he didn't forget the gravy]] (the very reason for the dog's abuse of him).
41	* [[WartimeCartoon "Scrap Happy]] [[WesternAnimation/ScrapHappyDaffy Daffy"]] "AMERICANS DON'T GIVE UP"!
42	** To elaborate; Daffy Duck is on the verge of defeat at the hands of the Axis and their metal-eating goat, when a vision of his American ancestors goads his morale back up to full blast with a variation of Yankee Doodle Dandy with custom lyrics. Daffy is so emotionally charged from this, that [[ThemeMusicPowerUp he transforms into]] '''SUPER AMERICAN''', and mops the floor with the Axis!
43	** The ending of "WesternAnimation/DaffyTheCommando", where Daffy, upon landing in Berlin after being shot out of a cannon, actually bashes [[ThoseWackyNazis Adolf Hitler]] -- animated very realistically -- over the head with a large mallet, [[ShutUpHannibal while he's giving one of his infamous speeches]]. It's truly something else to see one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time inflict some hilarious karma on one of history's most brutal dictators.
44	-->'''Hitler:''' (''screaming in pain'') '''SCHUUUUU''UUUUUUUULTZ!'''''
45	** Bugs Bunny [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMs5Trf9DU taking out the entire Japanese army]] in "WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyNipsTheNips" by riding up on an ice cream bike and selling them ice cream bars... all of which are booby-trapped with hand grenades. [[labelnote:Warning]]Though [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Bugs calling the Japanese soldiers "bow legs," "monkey face," and "slant eyes"]] will make you sick to your stomach; remember, this cartoon was made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, where demonizing the enemy with outrageous stereotypes was common. This is not cutesy, {{Moe}} ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''-grade stuff, so don't watch if you can't handle it.[[/labelnote]]
46	* '''Bugs:''' Heh, that evil character's after that nice old lady's money. Looks like this Boy Scout's gonna do his good deed for today. ''(puts on a Boy Scout hat and salutes)''
47	* After warming up to the little baby mouse he was accidentally given by a stork when the little guy calls him "Daddy", Sylvester turns into a gigantic PapaWolf for the rest of ''"A Mouse Divided"''. When a horde of neighborhood cats keep trying to come after his kid, by either trickery or brute forcing their way into the house, Sylvester repulses them in the most direct method possible. Beating the everloving crap out of every single one of them!
48	* One has to give props to the hotel manager in Porky Pig's Feat. He was a true {{Determinator}} in going against every one of Daffy's attempts to give him the slip as a very cunning character, including [[ItOnlyWorksOnce mimicking the grunts and sounds of falling down the stairs]] to lure Daffy and Porky into a false sense of security. And if that isn't enough he [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome actually managed]] [[OutGambit to outwit]] [[InvincibleHero Bugs f-ing Bunny]] of all people... who just happened [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike to have used all the same methods of escape Daffy and Porky used in the episode]].
49	* "The Hole Idea", which Creator/RobertMcKimson animated ''entirely by himself''.
50	** Within the short itself, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome apparently]] Calvin Q. Calculus somehow figured out how to create a [[OxymoronicBeing round square]].
51	* The opera in "Notes to You" which lasts a full thirty seconds and sounds awesome.
52	** The remake of this short "Back Alley Oproar" is one long CMOA for Sylvester, both in his performances (which may be SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic for Creator/MelBlanc) and in the fact that it's another one of his rare victories. Well... [[DiedHappilyEverAfter sort of]].
53	* In "Thumb Fun" Porky has been putting up with Daffy's antics and after he gets arrested and forced to pay a fine thanks to his Antics plots revenge. He buys a gift for him and tells him not to open it. Daffy greedily opens the trunk and all his luggage flies out and Porky speeds off ditching him. To make things better what was his gift to him? A rubber hitchhiker's thumb for Daffy to use.
54	** In "The Prize Pest", Porky, upon finding out that Daffy didn't have a split-personality disorder if he isn't treated nicely enough, plots revenge by dressing up in a monster costume. When Daffy goes to scare Porky again, he sees Porky and the two briefly get into a MirrorRoutine and Daffy initially thinks he's that scary, until he realizes he's NOT. He then proceeds to literally fall apart and then pulls himself back together and flees the house in the gift box he came out of, screaming.
55	* An example from the comics: In issue #82 there's a story that has Tweety and Sylvester switch roles in order to prove to the other how hard they have it. It results in ''Tweety actually getting outsmarted by and comically hurt by Sylvester''. It's very brief and things naturally snap back to status quo by the end, but it was extremely gratifying while it lasted.
56	* Daffy is at the top of his game in the 1948 short "What Makes Daffy Duck?", combining a sly trickster persona with a hint of classic "wacky" Daffy. Daffy is being hunted by both Elmer Fudd and a fox, and spends most of the short effortlessly playing the two against each other. Daffy's line in the end says it all, really:
57	-->'''Daffy:''' Obviously I am dealing with inferior mentalities.
58	* The entirety of "Daffy's Rhapsody" is one for Daffy. Elmer Fudd goes and sees an anti-duck hunting performance starring Daffy, and of course, starts trying to chase and shoot him, and Daffy foils his attempts... WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF ELMER'S PRESENCE, and when he does realize that Elmer's on the stage with him, he starts avoiding all of Elmer's shots with athletic ease, all the while continuing his song and acting like it's all part of the show, ending with him covering Elmer's eyes while he's shooting all over the place, with Fudd being flattened by a stage prop... all in glorious CGI.
59	** The icing on the cake? At the end, Daffy bows to his audience... and finally gets thunderous applause.
60	* In "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", an episode chock full of Bugs tricking and humiliating Taz, the latter gets even by tricking Bugs with an explosive cigar. Bugs even says "I just wonder if he's as dumb as he looks."
61	** Lastly, Bugs brings the Frankenstein monster back to life to beat up Taz, but after he's done with Taz, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he beats the crap out]] of [[LaserGuidedKarma Bugs as well]]. It goes to show that [[EvilIsNotAToy there are some things that you shouldn't mess with, even if you're Bugs Bunny]].
62	* One-shot character Crimson O'Hairoil gets this in ''Gone With the Wind'' parody ''Confederate Honey''. After waiting throughout the war to find out exactly how Cutler (Elmer Fudd) feels about her, he finally tells her, "Can you validate my parking ticket?" She angrily stamps "REVOKED" on his head.
63	* The bride bee coming to her groom's rescue in ''Eatin' on the Cuff''.
64	* The ending of ''The Three Little Bops''; in which the Big Bad Wolf finally becomes good enough at the trumpet to join the band after literally going to Hell and back.
65	* In the Curious Puppies short ''Prest-O Change-O'', the large pup spends the whole short getting pranked and beaten by the heckling magic rabbit, until his final trick, when the livid pup catches him mid-disappearing act. He gives the rabbit a few seconds to [[OhCrap grasp he's crossed the line]], before the pup [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches him across the room]], leaving him dazed and black-eyed inside a goldfish bowl.
66	* "The Solid Tin Coyote." Through most of the short, the Coyote manages to terrify the tar out of the Road Runner on ''three'' separate shots: when he unveils his creation, during one chase just before he instructs the robot to STRIKE, and on another chase, where the robot actually snags the darn thing ("EAT... ''STUPID")''.
67	* Blink and you'll miss it, but in "Operation: Rabbit", one of Wile E. Coyote's contraptions actually does what it's supposed to without [[GoneHorriblyWrong going horribly wrong]] ''[[GoneHorriblyRight or]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight horribly right]]: a device for treating the massive lump on his head.
68	* In "Bell Hopper", Sylvester is tasked to bell the "giant mouse" (really the baby kangaroo Hippety Hopper) and spends most of the episode beaten up by the cat gang mishearing the bell. He finally gets the bell over the kangaroo's head by some clever trickery with use of MirrorRoutine and make him ''want'' to wear the bell. Between the cat gang getting run over by a truck, and how episodes with Hippety turn out, Sylvester gets another rare (albeit slightly battered) victory at the end.
69	* Sylvester finally [[KnowWhenToFoldEm Knowing When To Fold 'em]] in "Goldimouse and the Three Cats". After [[BrattyHalfPint Junior]] -- once again -- lays it on thick to his father for not catching a mouse, Sylvester takes the expected beating. By the end of the cartoon, Junior repeatedly and annoyingly asks if he got breakfast. Having [[RageBreakingPoint reached his last straw]] after being blown up by his own backfiring explosives (from attempting to catch said mouse), Sylvester confirms that he has by ''dumping a bowl of porridge on his head'', before storming off to get some rest.
70	-->'''Sylvester:''' (''grumbles to himself'') Spoiled brat!
71	* The entire Square Dance in "WesternAnimation/HillbillyHare". On top of being a genuinely catchy tune, it's a hilariously-violent sequence where Bugs uses a fiddle and a song to send Punkinhead and Curt on a torturous "dance routine" that has them falling into a river after playing tug-of-war with each other's beards, rolling around in a pigpen, beating each other up with fenceposts, walking into a combine harvester, and ultimately ends with them striding right off a cliff... with the duo being none-the-wiser the whole time.
72	-->'''Bugs:''' (''as the two exhaustedly do the last steps'') Now bow to your partner, and bow to the gent across the room... (''the hillbillies collapse unconscious'') '''And that is all!''' (''[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall plays along to the ending music on the fiddle]]'')
73	* [[http://imgur.com/gallery/sOklpJa This title card]] is essentially Creator/WarnerBros admitting about the rampant racist moments of these cartoons, especially the ones from wartime. They admitted about [[ValuesDissonance how wrong it was, then and now]], as well as giving us the biggest reason why they're still going to show those cartoons;
74	--> "The cartoons you are about to see are [[FairForItsDay products of their time]]. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed."
75	* Even "Stooge for a mouse" has one. After [[WithFriendsLikeThese having to listen the dog berate and torment his]] [[TheScapegoat friend Sylvester for minutes upon end]] ([[ManipulativeBastard which was caused by a mouse all to get some food.]]) [[LaserGuidedKarma both dog]] and cat are knocked out. Even better is that the mouse happily goes to eat... [[LaserGuidedKarma Until the chandler falls and knocks him out.]]

Context Awesome / LooneyTunes