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Recap / The Looney Tunes Show S 2 E 14 Spread Those Wings And Fly

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The fourteenth episode of the second season of The Looney Tunes Show.

When Daffy attends a self-help seminar with Porky, he is inspired to want to learn how to fly an airplane, having misunderstood the metaphor "Spread your wings and fly". When that doesn't work, he settles on becoming an airline stewardess. Meanwhile, when Bugs finds his Nobel Prize missing, he accuses Yosemite Sam of stealing it.


This episode provides examples of:

  • Analogy Backfire: When Sam tells Bugs that he has trust issues, Bugs tells him that he trusts him about as far as he can throw him. Bugs then realizes that he probably could throw Sam pretty far, so he decides to just say he doesn't trust Sam and leave it at that.
  • Bait-and-Switch: In the epilogue, a helicopter is shown flying as Daffy says "Whoo-hoo! Now this is the kind of flying I was meant to do! I wish I discovered this sooner! What a thrill!", and then Porky says "C-c-careful! You're g-g-going too high!", implying that Daffy and Porky are in a real helicopter. It is then revealed that Daffy is really playing with a remote control helicopter.
  • Clip Its Wings: When Daffy tries to fly a real plane after failing the flight simulator for the ninteenth time, he is unable to get it off the ground, so he drives through the narrow doorway of a hangar, causing its wings to break off.
  • Comically Missing the Point:
    • When Bugs finds his Nobel Prize missing, he exclaims "That hillbilly leprechaun stole my Nobel Prize!" Upon hearing this, Daffy asks him "You know a hillbilly leprechaun?", to which Bugs tells him "Yosemite!" Upon hearing this, Daffy then asks "Yosemite knows a hillbilly leprechaun?"
    • When Daffy trains on the flight simulator, the instructor tells him "Your nose is too far down, bring it up.", and Daffy raises his beak. The instructor then tells him "The nose of the plane!"
  • Continuity Nod:
    • Bugs' Nobel Prize for inventing the Carrot Peeler in "The Shelf" re-appears in this episode.
    • While talking about a book called Walking Through Fire to Daffy, Porky mentions having lost his accounting Job in "Bugs and Daffy Get a Job" and taking up catering in "Bobcats on Three!".
    • When Daffy decides to apply for a pilot's license, he tells Porky that he has his driver's license and his cosmetology license, referencing the events of two previous episodes, "The DMV" and "Beauty School".
    • A poster for "The Foghorn Leghorn Story" can be seen in Daffy's bedroom.
  • Disguised in Drag: When Daffy is unable to get his pilot's license due to being expelled from flight school, he decides to become a flight attendant instead, and dresses like a stewardess, complete with a blonde wig and high-heel shoes. The pilot then tells Daffy "You know there are male flight attendants.", to which Daffy tells him "I like the height that the heels give me." After Daffy quits, Bugs notices he's still wearing the high-heel shoes, to which Daffy says he likes the height they give him.
  • Door Slam of Rage: When Bugs accuses Sam of stealing his Nobel Prize, Sam assures him he didn't steal it before telling him to get off of his property before he calls the cops on him for tresspassing, and slamming the door in anger. He then opens the door and says that doing so is also on his criminal record before slamming the door in anger a second time.
  • Feud Episode: Bugs and Sam have a feud in this episode when they accuse each other of stealing each other's property (Bugs' Nobel Prize and TV, and Sam's cowboy boots). They reconcile when Bugs finds out that Daffy was the one stealing other people's property while sleepwalking.
  • Four-Fingered Hands: When Daffy decides to apply for his pilot's license, he tells Porky that the big five licenses are a driver's license, a cosmetology license, a pilot's license, a fishing license, and a license to kill (the last of which is he looking forward to getting). For the last one, he holds up his right index finger, having used every finger on his left hand.
  • Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty: In this episode's B-plot, Bugs accuses Yosemite Sam of stealing his TV and calls the cops, which Sam denies. Once Bugs sees Daffy Duck stealing stuff while sleepwalking, and discovers all the other things Daffy stole, Bugs realizes that Sam is innocent. Bugs apologizes to Sam by giving Sam his replacement Nobel Prize.
  • Hidden Depths: Near the end of the episode, Porky takes up opera singing and his shown to be really good at it, earning the applause of his friends, except for Daffy.
  • Hypocritical Humor: When Daffy and Porky arrive at the motivational seminar's parking lot, Daffy calls Porky weak for relying on someone to motivate him. Immediately afterwards, Daffy panics when he doesn't think he can make it to the seminar, and Porky has to motivate him to the entrance.
  • Literal-Minded: Daffy decides to take up flying lessons after reading a book called Spread Your Wings and Fly, having misunderstood the metaphor. Porky tries to tell Daffy otherwise, but to no avail.
  • Sleep Learning: As part of his desire to earn his pilot's license, Daffy decides to listen to motivational self-help tapes while he sleeps. However, this also causes him to sleepwalk and steal other people's property, having misunderstood the phrase "You deserve to have everything you've ever wanted. Just get up right now and go take it!"
  • Sleepwalking: Near the end of the episode, Bugs finds out that Daffy was sleepwalking as a result of listening to his motivational self-help tapes, and that he was the one stealing other people's property while doing it.
  • That Was Not a Dream: When Daffy tells Bugs that he had a strange dream where he stole other people's property (Sam's cowboy boots and record player, and Tweety and his birdcage), Bugs tells him that it wasn't a dream, and that he really did steal all those things.
  • That's All, Folks!: Subverted; this episode's end tag has the Motivational Speaker say "Don't let anybody tell you 'That's all, folks!', there's always more, you just gotta ask for it! Now, spread those wings and fly!"
  • Two Decades Behind: This episode's prologue has Sam attempt to borrow Bugs' TV for movie night with his date. When Bugs asks Sam why he can't just use his own TV, Sam tells him that his TV is a 1952 black and white set with no surround sound or high definition. Sam is also shown to own a record player, which Daffy steals from him.
  • Your Other Left: When Daffy is training on a flight simulator, his instructor tells him to bear west by five degrees. When Daffy asks which way is west, the instructor says "your left", followed immediately by a panicked "Your other left!". Needless to say, Daffy crashes.

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