Heartwarming / Looney Tunes

Awww....how cute!

• The ending of Feed the Kitty, where Marc Anthony discovers Pussyfoot is alive.
  • And when his Reasonable Authority Figure owner lets him keep Pussyfoot.
  • The beginning where Pussyfoot isn't scared of him at all when he tries terrorizing him. He tries some more, but he just climbs up onto his back, kneads his fur, and then settles down. Becomes cute when he warms up to the kitten and kisses it on the forehead as he naps, and he licks him.
  • When we see Pussyfoot's face in the measuring cup (just eyes, nose and mouth).
  • The cat-shaped cookie.
• In "Scalp Trouble/Slightly Daffy" (the latter is a color remake of the former), Porky's a soldier at a fort, and Daffy's the general. Of course, Daffy's incredibly bossy and yells at the soldiers when they won't get up, and then he and Porky engage in typical hijinks trying to get out the door. On the way out, Daffy slips, and Porky catches him, bridal-style; Daffy bats his eyelashes at Porky, says, "Gosh, I didn't know you cared," and nuzzles his head against Porky's chin while Porky hugs him, laughing adorably. The fact that Porky and Daffy spend ninety percent of their cartoons trying to annoy and/or kill each other only serves to heighten the extreme levels of cute.
  • This wouldn't have seemed so heartwarming if it wasn't the Daffy Duck that deserved his name, and when he was just starting out.
• At the end of “Rabbit Every Monday”, Bugs manages to trick Yosemite Sam to go inside the oven and prepares to let him roast. However, Bugs feels bad about the whole thing and tries to get Sam to come out only to find a huge party inside the oven. Rather than ask questions, Bugs joins in on the fun, making this cartoon one of the few times where things end well for both characters.
• The entirety of the short "A Mouse Divided," in which Sylvester has a wife who wishes the stork would bring them a baby. Sylvester is completely against the idea, until the stork does indeed bring them a baby and he ends up being even more excited than she is. When they find that the baby given to them is a mouse, Sylvester is all set to eat it.... until it calls him "da-da!" Sylvester then spends the rest of the short protecting his "son" from all the other hungry cats in the neighborhood.
  • Later on a similar short called "Father of the Bird" was made, again starring Sylvester. In that one he steals a bird egg, but he doesn't have the heart to eat the little bird when it hatches because it calls him "Mama." Begrudgingly he lets it go, but it continues to follow him, and soon Sylvester's going out of his way to rescue it from all the danger it puts itself in.
• The short "8 Ball Bunny" that has Bugs Bunny trying to get a lost penguin back home. It leads to hilarious results but the fact that Bugs went out of his way to help the penguin is very sweet.
• The ending of the Road Runner cartoon, "Lickety-Splat". Wile E. Coyote, trapped by a piece of the cliff he was standing on earlier in the last gag, sees the last two dart bombs sticking on each end and is about to accept his demise by covering his eyes with his ears... but instead of exploding, they unfurl to read "THE END". Once the Coyote notices this, he realizes that he is okay and laughs in relief. He might have failed to catch the Road Runner as usual, but it's nice to see him have a happy ending for once.
• The 1979 Road Runner cartoon, "Freeze Frame", has an oddly sweet ending. After getting hit by a giant snowball intended to hit the Road Runner, Wile E. emerges from it, looking like Santa Claus, and, in sign form, wishes the audience a merry Christmas and a happy New Year while ringing a bell.
• A lot of the cartoons with Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf count. They're locked in a perpetual fight for the sheep, but at the end of the day, they punch their clocks and leave together as the best of friends.
  • At the end of 1963's "Woolen Under Where", Ralph is all set to blast Sam to kingdom come, but the clock whistles to indicate the end of their shifts. Sam and Ralph head home for the day, with Sam good-naturedly telling Ralph, "Better luck next time." As the two walk into the sunset, Ralph comments "Nice day, huh Sam?" Sam responds, "Yep. Good to be alive." Awww. Especially when you realize this was their final theatrical short. Interestingly, this ending also counts as a Heartwarming in Hindsight if you realize that Mel Blanc, who voiced both of these characters and many, many others, almost died in a car accident in 1961. So the ending line could almost be seen as a Reality Subtext of Blanc pulling through and continuing to voice these famous characters. Good to be alive, indeed.
• "Scaredy Cat" is mostly just nightmarish, but it does have one very sweet moment when Sylvester flees from the mouse-haunted house, leaving his owner Porky to be executed by the creepy mice. Sylvester's conscience appears to him and accuses him of being a coward, showing Sylvester a poster of him as a kitten being fed milk by Porky with the word "REMEMBER" over it. This memory stirs Sylvester to charge back into the house and rout out the mice in a rare victory for the Puddy Tat.
  • Really just the fact that despite how terrified he is, Sylvester still does everything in his power to protect his owner from harm in these shorts.
• While the Depatie-Freleng short "Fiesta Fiasco" is hardly among the gems of the series, it must mean something that Speedy went out of his way to organize a surprise birthday party for Daffy Duck. Extra points for actually being made during 1967; Daffy's 30th birthday.
• Another case in the similarly questionable Crossover Porky And Daffy Meet The Groovie Ghoulies. Daffy's iconically unpopular in the showbiz front. Frank however, loves him to bits.
• At the end of Bah Humduck!, when Daffy almost reconsiders his newly-changed attitude.... Only for Porky's daughter to offer him a cookie, making Daffy decide to continue being generous.
• A real-life example, which can also double as a Tearjerker: In his later years, Mel Blanc would often volunteer at children's hospitals, talking to ill kids in the voices of their favorite Looney Tunes characters.
• The ending of "Nelly's Folly" - Nelly has lost her fame and fortune due to having an affair with a married giraffe, and her lover wants nothing to do with her. Back in Africa, she's sadly singing to her animal friends (every single one of whom is in tears), when another male giraffe starts singing along with her, leading to Love at First Sight.
• The ending of "Go Fly a Kit", where the flying cat and the female cat he saved reunite every spring. As the two sweetly stare into each others' eyes, their kittens come into view.
• This AT&T Valentine's Day commercial which features Pepe and Penelope having a romantic conversation using modern cell phones; especially since it's one of the times where they're shown mutually in love with each other. Look closely at the beginning as well, and you'll see Penelope deliberately dying a white stripe along her back as a sign of affection, instead of being chased for it by accident.
  • Heck, any time Pepe le Pew and Penelope Pussycat are shown to have mutual affection for each other is touching. Sadly, such scenes usually didn't last very long, at least in the early days; but they've become much more prevalent in recent years. Adorably, it's pretty much to the point of them being an Official Couple nowadays, in contrast to the Stalker with a Crush relationships the two would previously have.
• The opening and closing credits for the 1960s The Porky Pig Show, where we see Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Tweety, Daffy, Sam Sheepdog, Granny, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam are all gathered at Porky's barn to celebrate Porky. (The closing even has the first four singing sadly (at first) about the show ending!) Porky's also carried around on Daffy and Sylvester's shoulders in a few scenes. Given Porky's occasional Butt-Monkey / Demoted to Extra treatment, it's nice to see him get some respect.
• "A Witch's Tangled Hare" shows the running gag background character turning out to be the long lost beau of Witch Hazel. He had just given up on his dreams of being a writer and broken into depression before accidentally reuniting with her. What really makes the scene sweet is that he's just a regular decent guy, and the only reason he didn't meet her parents back then was not due to second thoughts, but that he simply went to the wrong address. It ends with them debating back and forth on who made the mistake all the while walking off arm in arm.
• During his guest appearance on "The Pat Paulsen Half-a-Comedy Hour", Daffy, as usual in Animated Actor mode per guest role, not only gets standing ovation upon entering, but is later asked what kind of guy Porky Pig is like to work with:
  Daffy: Oh he's one of my best friends. He's just a terrific p-p-p-pig!
• In "Devil May Hare", after Bugs tricks Taz again, a Bambi-like fawn appears and licks Bugs's hand. Bugs tries to get it to leave, warning it about Taz. When he realize he's behind him, Bugs protects the fawn by telling Taz it's just another fake.
• The whole of "From Hare To Eternity", a Gilbert and Sullivan parody short starring Yosemite Sam which was made by Chuck Jones as a tribute to the recently departed Friz Freleng.
• "Skyscraper Caper" is possibly most well-known for its portrayal of Daffy and Speedy as best friends.
• "Mouse-Taken Identity": The ending, where Hippety Hopper hops into Sylvester's arms and heart symbols appear. Notably, this is one of the very few Sylvester cartoons with a somewhat happy ending for the character.
• "Zoom and Bored" After his latest trap backfired and dragged him painfully across the desert for several minutes, Wile E. Coyote is finally knocked up into the air by a train and deposited at the foot of a tall cliff, hysterically sobbing with relief that he managed to survive the ordeal. The Road Runner zips up behind him, but rather than scaring the coyote off the ledge with a "MEEP! MEEP!", Road Runner apparently takes pity on his nemesis and decides he's had enough for one short, turning to the audience to hold up a sign saying "I just don't have the heart. Bye!" Awful sporting of him to give Wile E. Coyote a much-needed break for a change.
• On Paper, Bugs and Penelope as a couple feels more like a Crack Pairing. But in execution, Carrotblanca really makes it work and brings out this parody's sweetest moments.
  • Their past relationship is shown through a flashback as we see many romantic moments between the two from a drive together to a dinner date.
  • When Sylvester (Lazlo) is captured, Penelope asks Bugs to save him. Bugs refuses until Penelope suckers him into it with Puppy-Dog Eyes. Even if he wants to forget her, he still loves her.
  • During the famous ending scene of Casablanca, the film they are spoofing, Penelope doesn't want to leave Bugs again but Bugs tell her if she doesn't get on the plane she will regret it as he quotes the line that Humphrey Bogart said in the original. Though Sylvester interrupts him before he can finish.
  • Due to it being a parody, the ending is changed to a happy one. Thanks to a certain romantic skunk, Penelope leaves Sylvester and skydives from the airplane right to where Bugs is as the two lovers reunite.
  Bugs Bunny: Here's looking at you, Kit.
• "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears": It's nice to see the titular three all holding hands and singing cheerfully while skipping through their mock "walk in the woods", reminding the viewers that they are family after all in spite of the comical mayhem that always ensues.
• "Another Froggy Evening": After all the centuries of attempted exploitations and unfair condemnations the misunderstood Michigan J. Frog went through, Marvin the Martian finding him ensures he finally has a permanent home and a happy ending with someone who can truly understand and appreciate him doing what he loves most.
  Michigan J. Frog: (singing) We'll find perfect peace, where joys never cease...
  Marvin/Michigan: (together) And let the rest of the world go byyy!
• "Dog Collared": After trying to get rid of a clingy dog for the entire short, Porky learns that the dog is worth $5,000 if returned. He then finds that the dog is about to jump off a bridge, but saves him before it's too late. The sight of Porky hugging the dog is pretty sweet, and when Porky leads the dog to the house offering the reward for his return, it's accompanied by a cheery arrangement of "My Buddy" for good measure.