Line #26 WesternAnimation/Carrotblanca


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: "Of all the juice joints in all the towns in all the countries in all the world, She picks this one"]]
3	''Carrotblanca'' is a 1995 theatrical ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester, Tweety]], WesternAnimation/PepeLePew, WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam, and [[UnexpectedCharacter most surprisingly]] Penelope Pussycat. It played before ''Film/TheAmazingPandaAdventure'' in North America, and before ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' in international areas.
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5	The short is an AffectionateParody of the classic film ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', being a WholePlotReference with just a bit of a [[{{Pun}} looney]] twist. When a German scientist is found unconscious courtesy of a frying pan to the head and an important document is stolen, General Pandemonium (Yosemite Sam) arrives in Carrotblanca to apprehend the culprit. It winds up being Usmarte (Tweety Bird), who brings said document to the nightclub, Café au lait américain -- and its owner Bugs Bunny. Usmarte plans to hand the document to an unknown recipient, who is shown to be Sylvester Slazlo; with him is his wife Kitty Ketty (Penelope), who just so happens to be Bugs's old flame. While the rabbit is sent into a downward spiral by Kitty's return, he's soon called on to help save Sylvester from the General.
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8	!!''Carrotblanca'' provides examples of:
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10	* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: This short makes a major change to its source material's famously BittersweetEnding; Sylvester drags Kitty onto the plane before Bugs can even make a goodbye speech, but she jumps off when she sees that Pepe is on it as well, reuniting with Bugs for good and thus rejecting her husband.
11	* AdaptationalBadass: Kitty. She outright attacks Daffy and Pepe when they try bothering her.
12	* AdaptationalCurves: Compared to how she looked in the classic shorts, Penelope here is noticeably more shapely and [[SheCleansUpNicely wears a form-fitting dress]].
13	* AdaptationalIntelligence: Kitty might not be mistaken for a skunk this time around, but that doesn't stop Pepe.
14	* AdaptationalJerkass: Bugs is far from his usual KarmicTrickster self here. He's openly apathetic to whatever Sylvester's plans with the document are and has no interest in helping him when Kitty comes to get his help. The only times he deals with Pandemonium are when the soldier harasses him over the stolen document and when he saves Sylvester, which he only does after Kitty manages to guilt him into it. Unsurprising, [[JustifiedTrope given he's playing the role of Rick Blaine here]].
15	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Daffy in the past has been written as either a hyperactive {{Cloudcuckoolander}} or a greedy {{Jerkass}}. Here he's an earnest piano player who's unquestionably loyal to Bugs, trying to send Kitty off when her return turns Bugs into an emotional wreck.
16	* AsideGlance: Bugs does a frustrated version of this when Kitty gives him the PuppyDogEyes to acknowledge that he just can't say no to this.
17	* BaitAndSwitch: As Bugs reads the DearJohnLetter letter, drips of water start hitting the paper as if he were crying, only for it to really start coming down. It turns out Daffy was fiddling with the water fountain while distracted by a woman.
18	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kitty. Compared to her usual meek escape routine when dealing with Pepe, she clobbers both him and Daffy when they antagonize her.
19	* BriefAccentImitation: Bugs says his CatchPhrase "What's up, doc?" in a Creator/HumphreyBogart accent.
20	* TheCameo: There are several Looney Tunes characters making a "blink and you'll miss it" appearance here.
21	** Patrons at the nightclub include Porky Pig, Barnyard Dawg, Beaky Buzzard, Miss Prissy, Gossamer, Mugsy and Nasty Canasta. Workers there include Giovanni Jones as a maitre'd, the Crusher as a doorman and Pete Puma as a waiter.
22	** Foghorn Leghorn appears in silhouette to announce the document's theft.
23	** Sam Sheepdog is Pandemonium's chauffeur.
24	** When Daffy drops all of the luggage, Elmer Fudd can be seen mixed in with it.
25	* CassandraTruth: Sylvester professes that he doesn't have the document Pandemonium is looking for. He genuinely doesn't but the General doesn't believe him.
26	* TheDoorSlamsYou: The Crusher (as the doorman) is slammed by the door of the café when General Pandemonium makes his BigEntrance... with a car.
27	* DrivingADesk: Parodied. The GoodTimesMontage includes a clip of Bugs and Kitty driving a cartoon car in front of a live-action backdrop.
28	* DrowningMySorrows: Bugs does this with Daffy after seeing Kitty.
29	* FreezeFrameBonus: Bugs' luggage falling on Daffy includes a brain in a jar, a Franchise/{{Batman}} mug, Elmer Fudd, a set of bagpipes, and a suitcase with hazardous materials within.
30	* GoodTimesMontage: Bugs has one after seeing Kitty again.
31	* HumanPackMule: Daffy has to carry [[LotsOfLuggage all of Kitty's luggage]] in the flashback to when she left, eventually losing his grip and getting buried under it.
32	* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Much to the frustration of Bugs himself.
33	-->'''Bugs:''' Of all the juice joints in all the towns in all the countries in all the worlds, she picks this one.
34	* LorreLookalike: Tweety, in the Ugarte role, does a few Creator/PeterLorre impersonations, even looking like him whenever he does.
35	* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: Bugs turns into a sucker as Kitty is guilting him into helping her.
36	* MythologyGag: The airport announcer calling flights to "Anaheim, Azusa and Cu... camonga!" is one not to ''Looney Tunes'' exactly (thought it was used once or twice) but to Creator/MelBlanc as the train announcer in ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram''.
37	* OhCrap:
38	** Bugs upon seeing that "a little birdy" told Pandemonium who had the plans.
39	** Daffy over seeing Kitty is in the club.
40	** Pandemonium, [[PrisonRape when his cellmates flashes him a seductive look]].
41	* PrisonRape: When General Pandemonium locks himself up, he is greeted by a very effeminate cellmate who gives him a flirtatious look. [[OhCrap The general is appropriately horrified]].
42	* PuppyDogEyes: How Kitty gets Bugs to help save Sylvester from Pandemonium. Bugs freely acknowledges he's a sucker for being won over by it.
43	* ShaggyDogStory: Those very important plans that drive the whole plot? [[spoiler:They're for Groucho glasses.]]
44	* SuddenlyVoiced: The eternally silent Penelope is now given a voice in her role as Kitty.
45	* ThatsAllFolks: Done by Tweety in the vein of Creator/PeterLorre.
46	* ThrowTheDogABone: In a meta sense, given that Penelope is mostly known for constantly being hounded by a CasanovaWannabe [[SmellySkunk who reeks to high heavens]], it's rather cathartic to see her in a consensual relationship with a guy she genuinely likes.

Context WesternAnimation / Carrotblanca