Western Animation / Looney Tunes Cartoons

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Looney Tunes Cartoons, from Warner Bros. Animation, is a Revisiting the Roots take on the Looney Tunes franchise.

It was announced on June 11, 2018 and consists of 1,000 minutes spread across one- to six-minute shorts. The style of the series is reminiscent of the classic Looney Tunes shorts made by Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, et al. Uncle Grandpa creator Peter Browngardt is producing these shorts and the cartoons are produced in a creator-driven/cartoonist-driven manner like the original shorts (also not unlike What A Cartoon! Show or Oh Yeah! Cartoons). It had its worldwide premiere at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 10, 2019, with a wider premiere on May 27, 2020 with the launch of HBO Max. The first season released in batches throughout the following months, with a Christmas Special in December and additional episodes in January and April 2021. The second season premiered on July 8, 2021, one week before the release of Space Jam: A New Legacy.

On HBO Max, the series is split into quarter-hour-length episodes, generally abiding by a Three Shorts format—two longer shorts (each roughly 5-6 minutes in length) sandwiching one of a couple of recurring shorter segments (roughly 1-2 minutes in length) that focus on a single gag.^note This obviously depends on the length of the shorts Warner Bros. opted to package together—of the ten episodes that launched with HBO Max, one consists of just two longer shorts, while another has two short segments instead of one.

A teaser short, Dynamite Dance, can be seen here and the official trailer here. Some shorts and episodes can also be seen here.

Browngardt and the team behind these shorts have also done two brand-new Tom and Jerry shorts (as a tie-in to their then-upcoming movie); these shorts are also HBO Max-exclusive and generally share the same production style and feel.

In September 2021, a TV movie starring Daffy and Porky from the show’s creators was announced. The film will be titled The Day the Earth Blew Up and will see the duo facing an alien invasion. In October 2023, it was announced that the film would be upgraded to a theatrical release. In July 2022, a short from the series, Sick as a Hare, was attached to the film DC League of Super-Pets in select theaters.

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Looney Tunes Cartoons provides examples of:

• Actor Allusion: In the Japanese dub, Rocky, a mafiosi, is voiced by Naoki Tatsuta, who previously voiced another mafia boss-like villain, Capone Bege, in One Piece.
• Adaptational Dumbass:
  • Well, he's more naïve than anything, but in some of the earlier episodes, Tweety isn't as savvy as he's usually written to be. He misinterprets situations quite badly and often fails to catch on to Sylvester's ill intent unless the cat is actively trying to eat him at the moment, and goes right back to being clueless the second he gets a break. Then again, since Tweety is shown to actually be aware of Sylvester's attempts on him later on, this could actually be Obfuscating Stupidity.
  • Petunia Pig is also hit with this treatment. She seems to lack basic common sense and ruins everything around her without thinking of the consequences of her actions.
• Adaptational Intelligence:
  • A Downplayed Trope for Elmer and Sam. The two aren't going to be mistaken for geniuses anytime soon but they are a bit sharper and more apt to see through Bugs' tricks.
  • Sylvester in his usual formula of trying to eat Tweety typically tries to sneak around and outwit any prospective guardians that would get in his way. Here he makes sure that any such guardians are well away so they can't interfere, either through engineering their departure or simply waiting for an opportune moment to strike. If he can't remove them from the picture then he's quick to arrange circumstances that will keep them from being able to stop him. Two shorts have him get Tweety dead to rights and in one of them he actually manages to eat the bird! (It didn't work because Tweety was Swallowed Whole and could mess around in Sylvester's body but it's still impressive that things reached that point.)
  • Beaky Buzzard is a lot quicker to catch on to Bugs' schemes than he is in the original shorts; sometimes even before he even falls for them. However, he's still stupid enough to fall for the next one almost straight afterwards.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Downplayed for Elmer in these shorts; While he's generally a decent guy, he has a Hair-Trigger Temper and can occasionally act like a spiteful jerk. Played straight in "Shoe Shine-Nanigans". Elmer deliberately refuses to pay, even after Daffy gave him the shoeshine he offered. Which makes it cathartic when he gets run over by a bus immediately after.
  • Sylvester is a lot more likely to slide into Cats Are Mean territory. While he was no saint in the classic cartoons, here he's more often found being haughty and rude to the world in general for no reason at all.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Daffy, who like in New Looney Tunes is much closer to his original 1930s "screwball" persona than in other modern appearances, but is also notably kinder and more helpful than he's ever been portrayed before in several shorts. While he's still a blustering pest with more than a hint of The Gadfly, surprisingly often he's portrayed as well-meaning and genuinely enthusiastic about helping people (and especially Porky) out without expecting anything in return. He's not good at it, and more often than not his "help" makes everything worse, but he tries.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: In "Grand Canyon Canary", Granny affectionately pats Tweety's head.
• Agony of the Feet: At one point in "Pool Bunny", Bugs tricks Elmer into removing his flip-flops and standing barefooted on the scorching hot poolside pavement. He then escalates Elmer's suffering by blinding him with a spray of sunscreen, directing him towards the diving board, and placing mousetraps, jumping jacks, thumbtacks, and lemon juice in his path. Elmer finally steps into a nest of rattlesnakes offscreen, and is understandably ticked off when he returns.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In "Brave New Home", Porky buys a new house equipped with an A.I. named Champ. Seems like a good deal until Champ makes too many mistakes, all of which nearly kill Porky.
• All Cloth Unravels: In "Nip and Duck", Elmer goes to tailor Daffy to get a button sewn back on his suit. Daffy starts with pulling out the loose thread where the button was, which casues the entire suit to come apart. After Daffy makes him a whole new suit, Elmer spots a thread on Daffy's collar and pulls on it... and Elmer's new suit falls apart.
• Ambiguously Gay: Played for laughs, which is on par with the zany humor of the '40s and '50s. In general, there's a lot of kissing and cross-dressing between the main characters (all of whom are male), but more specifically:
  • Daffy and Porky are able to get away from the Monkeybird by Daffy flirting with him. This turns into a whole impromptu wedding, with Daffy as the "bride".
  • When Daffy is continuously ruining Porky's cement laying, they start dancing the tango and Daffy kisses him, making Porky blush.
  • Bugs cross-dresses plenty of times to get away from Elmer and Yosemite Sam.
  • Sam laughing effeminately whenever Bugs tickles him in "Harm Wrestling", even sporting long eyelashes when he does.
  • Typically most of the pairings between Daffy and Porky can be interpreted as a Heterosexual Life-Partners situation. Especially the times when the two are living in the same house...
  • "Daffy Psychic: New Love" ends with Daffy and Porky getting married.
• Ambiguous Syntax: The classic "make me a sandwich" variant in "Brave New Home".
• And I Must Scream: Daffy suffers this fate at the end of "Wet Cement".
  Daffy: I am one stuck duck.
• Angry Fist-Shake: After kicking Daffy out of his house in "Fowl Ploy", Elmer angrily shakes a clenched fist at him.
• Animals Fear Neutering: Sylvester accidentally gets himself neutered at the end of "Fully Vetted", to the point where he then lays down on the road and lets himself get run over.
• Animation Bump: Unlike other more recent attempts at reviving the Looney Tunes brand, like The Looney Tunes Show or even Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production, the animation here more closely matches that of the classic shorts.
  • The ending of "Bugs Bunny's 24-Carrot Holiday Special", which has Bugs in a live-action living room, has much more fluid animation akin to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, most likely to seamlessly blend in with the live-action background.
• Animation Evolution:
  • Prior to the Christmas Special of the series, the animation of the show gets more fluid. Akin to the older shorts. This is especially noticeable in the shorts animated by Snipple Animation and Yearim Productions. This is most likely because of an increase in budget.
  • The Yowza shorts fit this trope. Since season 2, they've acquired more detailed shots and smoother Toon Boom animation. Along with more use of Traditional animation methods.
• Anvil on Head: Typical for Looney Tunes. For example, Tweety removes an anvil from his nest in one telephone pole gag and inadvertently (or not) drops it on Sylvester. And on "Vincent Van Fudd", Bugs tricks Elmer into pulling a rope that drops an anvil on top of his head.
• Art Initiates Life: In "Funny Book Bunny", Elmer draws his own comic book in which he finally defeats Bugs. Before he can draw the last panel, he has to answer a phone call, and while he's out, the characters in his comic come to life, where the usual antics occur within the pages. They also use Elmer's pencil to redraw themselves at various points.
• Art Shift:
  • The short "Hex Appeal" is animated in a pencil-y and simple style.
  • The short "Crumb And Get It" is animated in a similar fashion to the infamous Depatie Freleng and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts eras of the mid-to-late 60s. With constant Off-Model designs, Limited Animation, music that sounds similar to Bill Lava's music, and weirdly slow pacing and dialogue. This style is copied down to the intro and outro, which are near identical to those eras right down to Lava's atonal arrangement of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".
  • "Livin' the Dream" is animated in a similar style to Chuck Jones's more experimental and abstract UPA-influenced work of the mid to late 50s, as had been the Jones-directed Ralph Philips cartoons back in the day.
  • In "Daffy Magician: Vintage Porkys", Daffy puts his magician's cape over Porky and transforms him into his earlier designs throughout the years; with the style of said designs to match. From the mid-30s short; I Haven't Got A Hat, all the way to even Space Jam.
  • Elmer's comic book in "Funny Book Bunny" is drawn in an amateurish style.
• Ass in a Lion Skin: In "Kitty Krashers", Porky disguises himself as a cat to sneak into his own house after cats have taken it over. The cats see right through the disguise and procede to "test" him.
• Badass Biker: Wile E. Coyote attempts to be this in "Born To Be Wile. E" by chasing the Road Runner on a motorcycle. He even has "Baddius To The Bonius " written on the back of his leather jacket.
• Bank Robbery: Played for Laughs in "Mallard Practice" when Daffy robs a bank while "disguised" as Elmer.
• Baseball Episode: "Pitcher Porky", in which Porky is pitching against the Gashouse Gorillas (from Baseball Bugs), but hurts his pitching arm, so Daffy hides inside his uniform and pitches for him.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Beaky Buzzard in "Buzzard School".
• Big Eater: "Taziator" has not only the Tasmanian Devil (who actually eats live animals, albeit offscreen), but also the Roman Emperor, who is seen constantly eating ridiculous amounts of food. At one point he is pouring mustard over a live steer, and when we next see him he's spitting out its bell.
• Big "NO!":
  • During his Heroic BSoD caused by thinking his friend Porky died, Daffy exclaims "No!".
  • Elmer has an echoing "NO!" when he's dragged off to the electric chair offscreen due to Daffy's lack of attorney skills and Daffy framing him for other crimes but the thirty-dollar fee he was going to pay for.
• Big "WHY?!": During his Heroic BSoD, Daffy exclaims "WHY!?" twice when he thinks he killed Porky.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Played for Laughs, though just because it's Elmer's birthday in "Birthday Grifts" doesn't mean he's safe from Amusing Injuries.
• Binomium ridiculus: Featured occasionally in Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner shorts per usual, such as in "Climate Control".
  Road Runner: Speedius gonzalus
  Coyote: Fallus Flattus
• Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Elmer coats a burger in some as a trap for Daffy in "BBQ Bandit"; it’s even accompanied by a Deathly Dies Irae. It subsequently incinerates Daffy and the surrounding area, though Daffy quickly recovers.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Despite the initial lack of firearms, the violence of the series can be very vivid compared to the original cartoons, with characters getting severely bruised, deformed or even mutilated in ways that push into Family-Unfriendly Violence, such as Daffy's beak getting partially severed in "Postal Geist". Sylvester and Wile E. in particular can end up taking Itchy & Scratchy levels of punishment, especially in "Kitty Livin'", "Fully Vetted", and "Swoop De Doo". "Mummy Dummy" features a particularly gruesome scene of Bugs pulling human organs out of jars and stuffing them into a mummy's mouth, which said mummy proceeds to vomit up.
  • In "Taziator" after Bugs tricked Taz into going to the lion's den we see him tap on Bugs' shoulder with him turning around to see Taz beaten up, bruised, and his cheek slashed by the lions! His slashes are deep cut and blood is shown not dripping but looks like bloody deep cuts!
• A Bloody Mess:
  • In "Vincent Van Fudd", Bugs splatters himself in red paint to look like Elmer wounded him; he even smears it all over Elmer's face during his "death throes".
  • In "Nip and Duck", Elmer is strapped under a giant sewing machine operated by Daffy. As the machine is turned on, shots of Elmer screaming are intercut with shots of a red liquid spurting about... which turns out to be tomato soup that Daffy is eating.
• Blowing a Raspberry:
  • After building a bunk above him in "Battle of the Bunk", Porky blows a strawberry at Daffy to mock him. In a later short ("Put the Cat Out: Window"), however, Sylvester does the same thing to him.
  • Yosemite Sam, while disguised as a lion, shows derision to Bugs via blowing several raspberries at him in "Ring Master Disaster".
• Bomb Whistle: This is common when characters or objects fall from a great height, similar to the classic Looney Tunes shorts, except rather than Treg Brown's classic "airy" falling whistle sound, Hanna-Barbera's "shell screaming whine down" Stock Sound Effect is typically used (similar to the Warner Bros. - Seven Arts era of Looney Tunes).
• Booby Trap: The temple in "Curse of the Monkeybird" is full of them, and Daffy keeps thoughtlessly triggering each and every one, which then end up hurting Porky.
• Boring, but Practical: Sylvester's most successful strategies for getting at Tweety are pretty much just waiting for the bird to be defenseless and then pouncing. He also makes it a point of just sneaking up on Tweety as quietly as possible instead of being a bit of a Leeroy Jenkins about it. He came within a hairsbreadth of getting Tweety in "Boo! Appetweet" and only failed because he wasn't watching where he grabbed at. In Kitty Livin, he waits until Granny's left and Tweety's asleep and actually manages to eat the bird! (This didn't work out for Sylvester after the fact but he did still succeed at eating Tweety.)
• Bowdlerize:
  • Firearms, such as Yosemite Sam's Six-Shooters and Elmer Fudd's shotgun, are excluded from this incarnation's first season. Surprisingly, other weapons like scythes, axes, hooks and even various bombs/dynamite are fair game even then.
  • In "Rotund Rabbit", Elmer is shown with his shotgun throughout the cartoon, even shooting at Bugs at one point, only for Bugs to outrun the bullet, similar to the original Road Runner short "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z". Although, Yosemite Sam's Six-Shooters are still gone.
  • Played for Hypocritical Humor in "Duck Duck Boom", where Elmer claims using rifles to hunt is "barbaric" but sees no issue in feeding animals lit sticks of dynamite For the Evulz. This is done again in the "Duck Hunting Gag" shorts where Elmer states that it's duck season, but guns are frowned upon in today's era; which he then throws his rifle into the lake and uses other methods to go duck-hunting.
• Bowling for Ratings: In "Unlucky Strikes", Porky takes his nephew, Cicero, to the bowling alley, to teach him how to bowl, even though Cicero would much rather play his video game. When Porky gets flung into the ball return and comes out looking like a bowling ball, Cicero uses him to bowl and begins to enjoy it, getting continuous strikes and eventually winning a trophy for getting the perfect score.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Cicero, as a contrast to the Cheerful Child he was in the comics. Here, he thinks nothing of getting his uncle Porky into trouble or even lethal danger, just because he's bored.
• Brick Joke: At the start of "The Daffy Dentist", Daffy is shown wheeling a supposedly dead patient out of his office, terrifying Porky. Later on, after finally getting his tooth out, Porky is wheeled off the same way, having fainted from seeing his 5 Millon Dollar fee.
• Brotherhood of Funny Hats: In "Eyes Wide Fudd", Elmer is the leader of the Brotherhood of the Luminous Llamas. Daffy wants to join, so Elmer puts him through a rigorous initiation, which ends up hurting him more than Daffy.
• Bullying a Dragon: In "Rhino Ya Don't", Sylvester taunts a bunch of caged animals, including an enormous gorilla. Of course, he later ends up in the gorilla's cage and gets pummeled by the angry ape.
• Buried Alive:
  • How Porky deals with Daffy in "Wet Cement" after catching him. Porky pours cement over him, smooths it out and speeds up the drying process. In the end, Daffy's bill is the only part of him that is visible above the sidewalk.
  • Bugs tricks the Russian Dog into thinking his tushie was a bone; which makes the dog bury himself alive unintentionally. Bugs puts his gravestone on top of the buried spot for added insult.
  • Papa Bear; having enough of Mama Bear and Baby Bear's antics, buries himself under the sand in an attempt to get some rest "in peace". Baby Bear then builds a small sand castle and puts the words "Pa" on it.
• Burning with Anger: Sorta. After one of his attempts to feed more birds than Porky fails, Daffy gets so pissed a fire from his head burns his hat off.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • "Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!" features the return of Cool Cat from the 1967-69 Seven Arts era, who previously appeared in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and Tweety's High Flying Adventure.
  • Not just Cool Cat, but many obscure characters have been making a comeback, such as the gremlin from Falling Hare, the mad scientist from Water, Water Every Hare, the Gashouse Gorillas from Baseball Bugs, Beaky Buzzard and his mother, Pete Puma, Cecil Turtle, the weasel from the Foghorn Leghorn shorts, and Petunia Pig.
  • The Gremlin from Falling Hare appears in a cameo in the aforementioned short and plays a major role in the short "High Speed Hare", having been gone for so long due to legal issues.
  • Charlie Dog from a few Porky Pig cartoons returns as a main character in the short "Adopt Me" after not appearing as a major character since the '50s.
  • The Russian Dog from Hare Ribbin returns as an antagonist for Bugs once again in "Bonehead".
  • Porky's nephew Cicero, who appeared in a number of Looney Tunes comics throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s, is a recurring supporting character here — though his personality is less the Cheerful Child of the comics and more a Bratty Half-Pint in the vein of Pinky, another nephew of Porky's who appeared in the cartoon "Porky's Naughty Nephew."
  • The judge dog from Daffy Doodles returns in "Mallard Practice".
  • Mr. Meek from The Wise Quacking Duck appears briefly in "Daffy Psychic: New Love" to wed Daffy and Porky.
  • A blond recolor of Bugs' old foe The Sheriff of Nottingham tries to pull the legendary Sword from the Stone in "Sword Loser". Also, a caricature of longtime Chuck Jones animator Ken Harris— the model for such big-nosed baddies as Dan Backslide and Wile E. Coyote— can be seen in line directly behind him.
  • Gruesome Gorilla's wife from Gorilla My Dreams appears in "Bunny and the Beast" as a gigantic gorilla and an initial Abhorrent Admirer to Bugs. Gruesome himself, equally gigantic, appears at the end where he comes home and becomes enraged at his wife for cheating on him with Bugs.
  • Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot, Chuck Jones' Three Bears, Steve Brody from "Bowery Bugs" and the dog from "Chow Hound" also make a return.
• …But He Sounds Handsome:
  • During a call with Elmer, Daffy (who was pretending to be his mommy) calls himself "magnificent", "smart", etc.
  • A non-comedic example in "Ring Master Disaster". While disguised as a lion, Yosemite Sam tells Bugs he isn't half the lion tamer "Lion Tamer Sam" is, which is a Kick the Dog moment.
• Butt Sticker: In "Rhino Ya Don't!", Sylvester's second attempt to capture Tweety gets him launched by the rhino straight into an elephant's heinie. The elephant promptly sits down, squashing him under it.
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: For much of "Dummies in the Dark", only Porky and Daffy's eyes are visible as they walk around the house during a blackout. Things then get surreal as the eyes get tangled up with each other and change size due to some Perspective Magic.
• Cactus Cushion: Bugs lands on one after being ejected out of Elmer's pool in "Pool Bunny". One Pain-Powered Leap later, he takes it rather personally.
  • In "Cactus If You Can!", Wile E. tries to use a super-powered vacuum device to capture the Road Runner, but pain ensues for the poor coyote when it instead uproots a stand of cacti before sucking both him and said cacti inside.
• The Cameo: The opening shot of "Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny" features many obscure Looney Tunes characters such as Egghead, Hubie and Bertie, and Cool Cat as mentioned above.
• Car Radio Dispute: In "Battle Stations", Daffy and Porky fight over which station to listen to; Daffy wants to listen to upbeat jazz, Porky wants soft classical music. The fighting gets more and more violent, until they reach a station they both like, which plays polka music. And then the car goes over a cliff.
• Cartoon Creature: The dinosaurs and pterosaurs in "Cro Mag-Numbskulls" hardly look like real-life species.
• The Cat Came Back: In "Duck, Duck, Boom", Elmer feeds Daffy a whole loaf of bread with a time bomb hidden inside it. Daffy is so grateful that he follows Elmer around to make it up to him. Elmer tries to get away from the duck before he explodes, but no matter where he goes, Daffy is right there.
• Cats Have Nine Lives: At the end of "Boo! Appetweet", Sylvester gets crushed by falling furniture and eight of his lives leave his body when he finds out that Tweety is still alive. When he sees his eight ghosts, however, it scares the ninth ghost out of him, and the whole nonet chases after him.
• Chained Heat: Bugs is shackled to Rocky and Mugsy in "Chain Gangsters".
• Cheek Copy: Played for Laughs. While playing with a photocopier in "Duplicate Daffy", Daffy photocopies his butt. It fits, considering his goofy personality.
• Chekhov's Gun: In "Errabitcator", Bugs criticizes Elmer for still using a Box-and-Stick Trap, calling it the oldest trick in the book, right after "Your shoes are untied." Later, when faced with an unstoppable robot that is immune to all his tricks, Bugs uses the "shoes are untied" line out of sheer desperation. It actually works, causing the robot to malfunction and fall apart.
• Christmas Episode: "Bugs Bunny's 24-Carrot Holiday Special", which strings together multiple cartoons about the Christmas season, such as Daffy and Porky becoming elves in Santa's workshop.
• Circling Birdies: At the end of "Booby Trap", for example, three ducks (which all look exactly like Daffy) circle Elmer's head after B.W.A.A.A.'s president attacks him for breaking Daffy by talking.
• Cloning Gambit: In "Multiply and Conquer", Wile E. clones himself in order to catch the Road Runner. He succeeds, but now the clones want the Road Runner for themselves, and a fight ensues, while the Road Runner escapes.
• Coincidental Accidental Disguise: In "Boo! Appetweet", Sylvester eats a cupcake resembling Tweety while knocking the real Tweety in a bowl of flour. However, Sylvester thought he ate the real Tweety, so when the flour-covered Tweety appears, Sylvester thinks he's haunted by Tweety's ghost.
• Comically Missing the Point: Being the Cloudcuckoolander he is, Daffy has a couple of moments of misunderstanding things, though they're all played as gags. For instance, the flight attendant in "Emotional Support Duck" shows him and Porky a cartoon of them being thrown off a plane. While done to show them what would happen if he actually isn't a emotional support animal, he originally thought this meant they would get to be in a movie.
• Composite Character: Porky's nephew Cicero was a comics-exclusive character for decades, but here appears in animation for the first time. He takes his name and appearance from the Cicero of the comics, but his personality and attitude is much more like the one-shot character Pinky from the cartoon "Porky's Naughty Nephew."
• Cranial Eruption: A bump appears on Elmer's head in "Hole in Dumb" after Daffy hits him with his cart.
• Crush Blush: In "True Love", Porky blushes when Daffy (as a Fortune Teller) tells him he sees his future partner in his Crystal Ball.
• Crystal Ball: While acting as a Fortune Teller in "True Love", Daffy uses a crystal ball to find out who Porky's future lover is. Granted, the ending implies he never actually saw anything in it.
• Darker and Edgier: Of sorts. This show is made for streaming and has a TV-PG rating, like The Looney Tunes Show. However, rather than adding its sitcom-y sly digs or realistic guns, it makes the humor closer to its slapstick style from the 1930s-'50s. The settings and jokes it utilizes are slightly more adult and less censored compared to its Cartoon Network series, with many gags counting as Parental Bonus.
  • Bugs drinks beer in "Big League Beast", having Gossamer open the bottle as it's not a twist-off.
  • Yosemite Sam's sign in "Pest Coaster" includes "No Liberals".
  • Bars are featured once again, as it isn't aiming solely for a younger demographic.
  • "Fully Vetted" ends with Sylvester getting neutered and committing suicide afterward.
  • Daffy wanting sake in "A Pane to Wash".
• A Day in the Spotlight: Characters who normally didn't have solo shorts now star in them like Petunia Pig in "Pigture Perfect" and "Pardon the Garden" and Yosemite Sam in "Saddle Sore".
• Depending on the Artist: Just as with the original cartoons, the characters' appearances vary from short to short. For example, in cartoons directed by Pete Browngardt, Bugs looks like the version used by Bob Clampett, especially as drawn by Rod Scribner; whereas in those directed by Kenny Pittenger, he more strongly resembles the early forties Friz Freleng version.
• Depraved Dentist: Daffy in "The Daffy Dentist". He operates out of a dilapidated building in a vermin-infested office, and submits poor Porky to much slapstick violence in trying to fix his bad tooth.
• Disguised in Drag: Bugs does this in "Pest Coaster"... twice, with the second time utilizing Latex Perfection!
  • Bugs does this again in "Hare Restoration", where it turns out that he was Elmer's dinner date at the end.
• DIY Dentistry: In "The Daffy Dentist", Daffy ties Porky's tooth with a rope, but instead of tying the other end to a doorknob, he ties it to an airplane and takes off, dragging poor Porky along.
• Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project: In "Plumber's Quack", Daffy is a plumber trying to fix a leak in Elmer's sink. He ends up causing a dam to break, washing away Elmer's home in the process.
• Downer Ending: While they're all Played for Laughs, many shorts end with these:
  • "Curse of The Monkeybird" ends with Daffy and Porky's trek for the hidden treasure being rendered null and void as it merely brings about a drove of Daffy and the titular character's offspring.
  • "Fully Vetted" ends with Sylvester committing suicide by truck after getting neutered.
  • "Weaselin' In" ends with Foghorn about to be eaten by the weasel.
  • "Mallard Practice" ends with Elmer being sent to the electric chair.
  • "High Speed Hare" ends with Bugs and the gremlin being caught in a nuclear explosion.
• Drive-In Theater: In "Hog Wash", Porky takes his dirty car, with a sleeping Daffy inside, to the car wash. When Porky gets locked out of his car, Daffy awakens and thinks that Porky took him to the drive-in theater. He mistakes Porky getting attacked by the car wash's appliances for trailers for upcoming movies.
• Empty Swimming Pool Dive: In "Pool Bunny", Bugs gets even with Elmer for not letting him use his pool by going into the power and water station and draining the pool just as Elmer is in the middle of a dive.
• Era-Specific Personality: The creators are mostly using the earliest versions of the characters, particularly evident with Bugs, Daffy, and Tweety.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • In "Pest Coaster", Yosemite Sam attempts to get Bugs off his roller coaster by putting dynamite on the track... only to then begin trying desperately to put the lit dynamite out when he sees that there is a baby in the roller coaster train with Bugs. The baby is revealed in the end to have actually been a pull-string doll.
  Sam: I despise me some animals, but I would never hurt an innocent little baby. I'll even prove it to you!
  • In "Rotund Rabbit" Elmer has Bugs dead to rights after his latest plan effectively disables the rabbit (he got Bugs to eat so many carrots that he was too fattened up to even try running away and even fell asleep). Elmer pulls his gun out but finds it too unsporting to simply shoot Bugs while he can't fight back. He had no problem with cooking Bugs to eat while the rabbit was unconscious but shooting him dead under the same circumstances was too far for Elmer.
• Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: The ending of "Holiday Purrchase" has a blown-up Sylvester land in a pile of fruitcake for sale. The store customers are about to stampede over him to get to it in a final instance of the Running Gag of this happening, only for them to see what it is and walk away in disappointment.
  Tweety: Awww, nobody likes fwuitcake... or puddy tats!
• Evil Laugh:
  • When he thinks Tweety (who he wants to eat) is finally in his clutches in "Boo! AppeTweet", Sylvester makes an evil cackle.
  • Played for Laughs when Bugs makes an evil-sounding laugh during an attempt to cheat in "Shell Shocked".
• Exact Words: In "Mallard Practice", Daffy tells Elmer that not a single one of his clients has ever had to pay a fine... a promise kept after Elmer is instead sentenced to death for crimes that Daffy framed him for.
  Daffy: [to Elmer, while he's being dragged to the electric chair] But Mack, I made good on my promise; you don't have to pay any fines.
• Excalibur in the Stone: "Sword Loser" revolves around Yosemite, a knight in this short, trying to free the sword in the stone and become the king of England. Bugs is able to remove it with ease to use it as a butter knife, but everyone else is not. Sam eventually manages to retrieve the sword from Bugs, but the commoners state that they're fed up with Sam as the king oppressing them and form an angry mob to chase him away.
• Eye Poke: While trying to convince a judge that Elmer can't defend himself in "Mallard Practice", Daffy pokes his client's eyes. He also pokes Porky's eyes in "The Pain Event" when demonstrating how he should fight.
• Eye Scream: In "Cactus If You Can", as Wile E. gets sucked into his Super Suc vacuum cleaner, three cacti fly towards his face; one hits his nose and the other two hit his eyes, causing him to scream painfully.
• The Faceless:
  • The Proctor in "Test Pest" who looks over Porky and Daffy while taking a test. His face is only shown at the very end, revealing that he's a clown from Bobo's Clown College.
  • The movie star who takes in Porky disguised as a cat in "Kitty Krashers".
• Faint in Shock: Played for Laughs a couple times. For instance, in "Hole in Dumb", Elmer faints in surprise when Daffy (his caddy) is announced as the winner of the golf tournament.
• Finger Gun: While asking for salted peanuts in "Emotional Support Duck" when Daffy temporarily makes both of his hands resemble guns.
• Firehouse Dalmatian: In "Firehouse Frenzy", the last essential that Daffy is about to check down is a Dalmatian, but the fire station doesn't have one. So what does he do? He sneaks up on a man with his pet Dalmatian on a leash (which is sniffing a fire hydrant), attacks said man, gives him a collar with a license reading "Man", places him in the fire engine and paints him white with black spots.
• Flaming Sword: While trying to show up Bugs in "Ring Master Disaster", Yosemite Sam juggles swords, all of which are on fire.
• Flapping Cheeks: Exaggerated in "Pest Coaster", where Sam's entire skin is left hanging off his skeleton while holding on to the roller coaster car, until it falls off and lands on a scarecrow, where it gets pecked by crows.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: "Livin' The Daydream" takes a complete departure from the usual Looney Tunes formula. This short features exclusively human characters, with all the outlandish events depicted being the product of a young boy's imagination. It even features a Batman reference (specifically, Batman: The Animated Series) and is the first ever Looney Tunes Cartoons short to give a Shout-Out to another franchise by name. Though all this is very much in the formula of the previous Chuck Jones-directed Ralph Phillips cartoons from the original theatrical shorts.
• Frame-Up: Played for Laughs in "Mallard Practice"; Daffy frames Elmer for loitering, jaywalking, and a Bank Robbery via using footage of himself committing said crimes while poorly disguised as him.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In "Wet Cement", when Daffy is hiding under the wet cement, he pops out as a different statue in rapid succession; the Venus de Milo (with a Censor Bar over her chest), the Discus Thrower of Myron, the Statue of Liberty, and holding hands with a statue of Tex Avery (a parody of the statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse installed at the Disney parks).
• Full-Body Disguise: Unlike most new Looney Tunes material since the Turn of the Millennium, this series brings it back for some fun surprises (ala the original shorts)…
  • Bugs disguised as a human woman with a baby carriage during "Pest Coaster".
  • "Wolf in Cheap Clothing" is practically built on this trope; to steal sheep without Sam Sheepdog noticing, first Ralph Wolf disguises himself this way as a sheep - a Literal Wolf in Sheep's Clothing - and as a patch of grass, both of which fail. Then he disguises as another sheepdog from the management with a pink slip to tell Sam he's fired, but among preparing to grab a sheep, Sam disguises himself as another wolf from management telling Ralph it's time to punch out... and literally punches him in the face!
  • "Saddle Sore" ends with after Yosemite Sam confesses to a horse he had been trying to ride on throughout the short he's not really a female horse (after disguising as one earlier), the horse unzips his body suit to reveal a Cactus Person.
• Gainax Ending: "Kitty Livin" has Sylvester finally eating Tweety. The bird makes himself at home and invites several birds to party. Even the cat Sylvester brought in to take care of the issue is having fun. He and eventually Granny join the party. All in his stomach!
• Gasp!: When he learns Porky has seemingly died, Daffy gasps fairly loudly in horror.
• Genre Throwback: The cartoons are styled after the series' heyday of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
  • The short "Crumb and Get It" is a complete throwback to the W-7 Arts-era, complete with the unique opening and closing titles.
• Glove Slap: Parodied in "Eyes Wide Fudd". When he thinks Elmer called him a liar, an offended Daffy removes the feathers on his hand like it's a glove and smacks Elmer with it.
• Gone Horribly Right: At one point in "Rhino Ya Don't", Sylvester disguises himself as a zookeeper named Skip in order to escape the notice of the rhino protecting Tweety. He tries to grab Tweety under the pretense of cleaning the rhino pen, only to be apprehended by Skip's boss, who sends him into enclosures with more dangerous animals instead, believing him to be Skip himself.
  Sylvester, after an encounter with a shoal of Electric Jellyfish: I hate the zoo.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: Bugs teaches Elmer how to do it in "Grilled Rabbit"... which is just an excuse to slap Elmer around and give him a Pie in the Face.
• Gratuitous Japanese: "Yosemite Samurai," which takes place in Edo-period Japan, has Yosemite Sam call Bugs "usagi," which is Japanese for "rabbit."
• Gross-Up Close-Up:
  • We get a detailed and fairly zoomed-in shot of Daffy's flippers in "Bathy Daffy", and... he looks like he should see a veterinarian about them.
  • In "Plumber's Quack", we get a close-up of Elmer's bellybutton and the area around it, which has several moles and "a ton of hair". We also get a close-up of his face, and he looks like a Gonk, which disgusts even Daffy.
• Grossout Show: The new shorts go a bit further with the humor than even the original theatrical shorts, featuring some particularly nasty scenes. Fully Vetted is chock full of these, as poor Sylvester gets neutered and speaks like a castrate, which causes him to outright kill himself. Onscreen.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: While hanging onto Tweety's balloon in "Hot Air Buffoon", Sylvester ends up immersed in a Lava Pot Volcano. Only his upper half is lifted back out, with a Stock Femur Bone jutting out the bottom. His response is to cover himself up with an embarrassed chuckle at the audience as though he'd just got pantsed, causing him to plummet to the ground below.
• Hand Behind Head: When embarrassed due to audience members jeering him, Bugs puts one of his hands behind his head in "Ring Master Disaster".
• Handy Feet:
  • In "Tunnel Vision", Wile E. Coyote uses his foot to hold a magnify glass to help him give him better optical range on the Road Runner.
  • In "In the Road Again", while Wile E. Coyote is stuck in asphalt he uses his foot to hold and turn on the jackhammer when he was trying to get himself out of asphalt, before the Old Dreadful Geyser erupts, his foot hold a sign "Oh No!".
• Happy Dance:
  • After thinking he got rid of Daffy and now has the top bunk to himself, Porky dances happily and shakes the rump.
  • Elmer does a victory dance in "Booby Prize" after finally spotting a blue-footed booby.
• Hates Baths: Daffy in "Bathy Daffy" is The Pig-Pen, and Porky needs to wash him so they can win a duck beauty contest in order to pay rent. Daffy refuses, claiming that ducks hate water and that a bath once stole his lunch money.
• Haughty "Hmph": An irritated Daffy makes a "Hmph"-like sound to show contempt for Porky in "Crumb and Get It". Given he's closer to his more jerkish portrayals there, it fits.
• Heli-Critter: In "Duck Chocolate", Daffy uses his tail feathers as helicopter blades so he can fly above Porky and steal Porky's chocolates without being noticed by him.
• Here We Go Again!:
  • The ending of "Bubble Dum" has Daffy escaping his sticky situation by unzipping his skin and having his skeleton pop out, kicking it to reveal the gum he was trapped in before. Then, as soon as the skeleton Daffy leaves the screen, out comes Daffy from the left side, fully fine and minding his own business, discovering the gum on the sidewalk.
  • "In the Road Again!" ends with Wile E. Coyote being trapped in the pavement again after spending a good chunk of the short encased in dried cement from a failed scheme to catch the Road Runner.
• Heroic BSoD: Played for Laughs, at least originally. After thinking he killed Porky in "Practical Jerk", Daffy cries a lot and is later implied to have fallen into depression.
• "The Hero Sucks" Song: Sorta. In "Drum Schtick!", Daffy tricks Elmer to sing a rap mentioning on how he wants to relax, only for Daffy to keep annoying him with his drum music. He also insults the duck several times (e.g. calling him a "loon"), states he's "polluting mother nature", and tells him to quit drumming at several points. Being The Gadfly he is, Daffy doesn't mind it.
• Hilarity in Zoos: In "Rhino Ya Don't", Tweety lives in a zoo in a symbiotic relationship with a rhinoceros. As Sylvester tries to steal him, he ends up in the cages of various dangerous animals instead (including a Killer Gorilla, an elephant that sits on him, giant scorpions, constrictor snakes and Electric Jellyfish).
• Hollywood Prehistory: The setting of "Cro Mag-Numbskulls", wherein cavemen Porky and Daffy try to catch a dinosaur when the latter gets sick and tired of eating rocks.
• How Many Fingers?: After multiple bricks get thrown at Porky (including his head) in "The Pain Event", Daffy asks him how many fingers he's holding up while holding up three digits. He gets "Tuesday" as the answer.
• Humanizing Tears: Yes, Sylvester is a predatory Smug Snake, with his Adaptational Jerkassery not helping. Still, it is easy to pity him in "Holiday Purrchase" when he cries because no one ever gave him a present before. It's a bomb Tweety set up to blow up in his face, of course, but still...
• Idea Bulb: Played for Laughs. A bulb appears near Daffy's head in "Emotional Support Duck" when he gets an idea on how he can get on a flight without a broading pass. It soon falls to the floor, causing a "shattering" sound to play.
• In-Universe Factoid Failure: According to Daffy in "Bubble Dum", street gum is a fruit, although it's actually a candy. Granted, this is Daffy talking here...
• I Warned You: In "Bounty Bunny", Yosemite Sam is a bounty hunter trying to arrest Bugs, who points out the bunny on the "Wanted!" Poster has three whiskers on each side of his face instead of two but Sam doesn't take it seriously and keeps trying to arrest Bugs. Once they arrive at a police station, Sam learns that the bunny on the poster is shown to already be in jail. Bugs repeats the difference between the whiskers of the two, and refers to Sam's attempt to bring him in as kidnapping, which gets the latter imprisoned as well.
• I'm Taking Him Home with Me!: In "Fudds Bunny", Elmer dresses as a rabbit to fool Bugs, but is taken away by a little girl (who is actually Bugs in disguise), who takes him home and plays with him rather roughly.
• Impromptu Campfire Cookout: In "Chain Gangsters", Bugs is digging an escape tunnel for Rocky and Mugsy. As the two gangsters emerge to the surface, they find themselves under a rocket about to fire. As they get burned by the blast, Bugs takes the chance to roast a carrot. "The rocket fuel really brings out the flavor."
• Inflating Body Gag: In "Harm Wrestling", Bugs is forced to arm wrestle Yosemite Sam. Noting how muscular Sam is, Bugs blows into his arm to even the odds. Sam thinks that's cheating, so Bugs passes the air over to his arm. Sam tries to push it back, but it ends up on his nose. He finally seems to get himself back to normal, until Bugs points out that the air ended up on his buttocks.
• Ironic Echo Cut: In "Pool Bunny", Bugs is walking through the desert when he runs into Elmer's home, with a swimming pool.
  Bugs: I'm sure the owner of this home wouldn't mind sharing his pool with the local wildlife.
  Elmer: If there's anything I can't towerate, it's shawing my pool with the wocal wildwife!
• Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: In "Rhino Ya Don't!", Sylvester steals and wears a zookeeper's outfit to try and sneak past the rhino guarding Tweety. It works a little TOO well when he gets mistaken for an actual zookeeper and sent into various enclosures with even more dangerous animals.
• Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: In "Bounty Bunny", jaywalking will get a five-thousand-dollar bounty on you.
• Jerkass Ball: Elmer really grabs it in the Christmas special. While he's already a bit more of a hothead than he's usually shown to be he reaches downright psychotic levels here. Things start because Bugs politely asks Elmer to stop shoveling snow into Bugs' home. Elmer's response is to lose his temper and escalate his snow shoveling so it starts damaging Bugs' property, all because he hates someone trying to tell him what to do. Later in the short he openly goes on about how he was the one in the right in this whole mess to Bugs. Eventually Bugs' antics make Elmer reach his Rage Breaking Point and he chases down Bugs with a snow truck, dementedly describing the rabbit's impending death when it looks like he has Bugs cornered.
• Just Desserts: After attempting to go duck-hunting with a cross-bow, Elmer (one of the franchise's primary villains) gets eaten alive by a giant fish.
• Lampshade Hanging: To the funny names book authors have in the classic cartoons. In "Boo! Appetweet", Sylvester finds a book authored by Paranorma Funnylastname.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In "Shoe Shine-nanigans", for refusing to pay Daffy after he shoeshine his shoes for him, Elmer gets run over by a truck.
• Lethal Chef: Petunia in "Fake It 'Till You Bake It". Her attempt at baking a birthday cake for Porky includes mistaking "flowers" for "flour", using snake eggs (with the snake biting her several times) and finally, setting the oven temperature higher so that it bakes faster. After it blows up her kitchen, the resulting confection somehow looks edible on the outside, with foam from the fire extinguisher she used to put it out being the literal icing on the cake. Porky takes one bite... and we cut to Petunia grieving over a gravestone. Then Porky arrives and mentions how it was a good thing they buried the cake.
• Library Episode: In "Overdue Duck", a large, muscular man goes to Porky's library to read some poetry in a quiet place, and threatens to beat up Porky if he is disturbed. Unfortunately for Porky, Daffy keeps causing disturbances.
• Lightning Reveal: Happens repeatedly on "Dummies in the Dark" as Porky and Daffy walk in their house during a blackout. First Daffy sees what he thinks is a monster, but lightning reveals that it's his French horn for band practice. Then he sees a giant claw going after Porky and pushes him out of the way, and into what turned out to be a potted plant. Then Daffy sees Porky just standing there saying nothing and freaks out when his head falls off, but he was just holding a piggy bank atop a pile of books.
• Losing Your Head: It's revealed in "Birthday Grifts" that Elmer decapitated several animals. However, at least one of them (i.e. a moose) survived it and begs Bugs for help.
• Mirthless Laughter: Type III. Bugs giggles nervously a couple times in "Birthday Grifts" when he thinks he's going to have to face Elmer's wrath. He makes nervous smiles both times too.
• Mime and Music-Only Cartoon:
  • "Dynamite Dance" is just Elmer chasing Bugs (while getting dynamite blown up in his face) to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours (as in, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh").
  • "Wet Cement" is entirely in pantomime, save for Daffy's one line at the end.
  • Keeping true to its roots, all of the Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner shorts are played with this as usual.
  • "Skyscraper Scrap" is another pantomime short, this time with Sylvester chasing Tweety through several high-rise buildings to the tune of part of Gioachino Rossini's La Gazza Ladra ("The Thieving Magpie").
• Mix And Match Creature:
  • The titular Monkeybird of "The Curse of The Monkeybird".
  • At the end of "Lead Foot", Daffy marries Porky and the two have babies that are half-duck and half-pig.
• Monster Is a Mommy: In "Siberian Sam", Bugs gives Sam a rare Siberian tiger hat and takes him to the Russian Ballet to show it off. Of course, the "ballet" is really a cave where a Siberian tiger lives, and the hat turns out to be its cub. Cue mauling.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Sam in "Siberian Sam" claims to be the "toughest Ruskie Mother Russia has ever produced!", though he doesn't even bother putting on a Russian accent. Subverted in that as usual, he's still no match for Bugs when he makes the mistake of trying to capture him to make a rabbit-skin hat, the ensuing chain of events leading to him getting attacked by a tiger.
• Mouse Hole: While running from Porky in "Bathy Daffy", Daffy enters a mouse hole, with it soon being revealed that a mouse resides there.
• Movie-Theater Episode: In "Moody at the Movies", the Three Bears go to a theater to see Weekend at Daffy's. Pa tries to enjoy the movie, but Ma and Junyer keep making noises and asking him for things. Eventually, Pa has had enough and has an outburst, at which point the other movie patrons shush him and the usher kicks him out.
• My Card: When introducing himself as his lawyer in "Mallard Practice", Daffy shows Elmer his card.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Bugs' yellow gloves are a nod to his prototype design and very first cartoons.
  • Photographs of Looney Tunes' & WBA's days of yore can be seen above the fireplace in "Bugs Bunny's 24-Carrot Holiday Special," including ones featuring Mel Blanc, June Foray, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, and a background painting from What's Opera, Doc?.
    • Also in the special, Tweety makes a mischievous smile similar to the one he makes during the Clampett-era Tweety shorts.
  • In "Lead Foot", Daffy gets pulled over by Officer Porky for speeding. Daffy uses his lead foot (as in a foot that resembles a pencil) to erase Porky's face and draw his own on it. Afterwards, the two get married and have half-duck, half-pig babies, a reference to the ending of Baby Bottleneck, where Daffy and Porky are accidentally stuffed into a single diaper when they work at a stork factory, with Daffy resembling the upper part and Porky resembling the legs.
  • In "Boating License", Daffy's boating license lists his address as Termite Terrace. In addition, his date of birth is revealed to be 04/17/1937, the release date of his debut cartoon, Porky's Duck Hunt.
  • In "Feather of the Bride", Foghorn Leghorn takes Miss Prissy’s father to the McKimson Hiking Trail, named after the director of the original Leghorn shorts, Robert McKimson.
  • In "Funny Book Bunny", Elmer keeps a "wall of failures" next to his desk, where he's got pinned screenshots of some of his most humiliating moments from the classic shorts.
  • "Kitty Krashers" has the cats from "Kitty Kornered" taking over Porky's house. At the end, they are in turn kicked out of the house by mice, which include Sniffles, Hubie and Bertie, and Mouseman.
• Never Trust a Hair Tonic: In "Hare Restoration", Bugs offers to give Elmer his treatment for growing hair. It at first seems just an excuse for Bugs to abuse Elmer, but amazingly enough, Elmer starts growing a head of beautiful blond hair. Unfortunately, it keeps growing until it fills up the frame of his front door, causing Elmer's date (a disguised Bugs) to reject him, after which it all falls off.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • For some reason, Fred Tatasciore's voice for Sam Sheepdog sounds akin to Peter Cullen.
  • The Pilgrim chief in "Pilgwim's Pwogwess" looks and talks like John Wayne.
• Noir Episode: "The Case of Porky's Pants", where Daffy is a detective (again) looking for Porky's lost pants.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Cool Cat when he returns in "Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!". He retains his original design which looks nothing like the style of the other Tunes.
• No More for Me: In "Happy Birdy to You", Sylvester tries to sneak into Granny's home disguised as a present for Tweety. Granny's bulldog (here named Leroy), sees a box walking by, then looks at his can of organic dog food and wonders out loud, "What do they put in this stuff?"
• Not Me This Time: In "Bounty Bugs", Sam finds a "Wanted!" Poster of a jaywalking rabbit who happens to look like Bugs, and sets off to capture him. Bugs tries to convince Sam that he isn't the wanted rabbit, pointing out that the criminal has three pairs of whiskers while Bugs himself has just two, but the latter won't have any of it and brings him in regardless. It turns out that Bugs was right - the actual jaywalker had turned himself in earlier that day.
• Ocular Gushers: In "Pardon the Garden", Petunia cries this way when Ms. Bear scolds her for destroying her garden in an attempt to pull a weed. Petunia's crying causes plants to grow from the fertilizer she spread.
• Oh, Crap!: There's a few instances of this.
  • In "Taziator", Bugs has this whenever the Tasmanian Devil kills the animals he used against him.
  • In "Little Martian", Marvin tries to bolt once he sees that the little alien is not-so-little anymore.
  • In "Erabbitator", Bugs comes close to total despair after all his usual tricks fail to stop Elmer's robot.
  • In "Born to Be Wile E.", the Road Runner sees Wile E. Coyote driving a motorcycle as he approaches him.
• "Oh, Crap!" Smile:
  • In "Bounty Bunny", Yosemite Sam spends most of the story trying to arrest Bugs to collect a five-thousand-dollar bounty only to learn Bugs isn't the bunny the bounty has been placed on. When Bugs points out it means Sam abducted him, Sam gives a smile and tries to walk away but ends up being arrested and sent to the wanted bunny's cell.
  • When Bugs learns in "Birthday Grifts" that he ate Elmer's birthday cake, he anxiously gives a wide smile. He does the same thing later in the episode when Elmer realizes he was intentionally giving him painful birthday activities.
• Oireland: "Lepre-Conned" not only has a leprechaun with a shillelagh, but also shoots potatoes at Bugs.
• The Oner: "Wet Cement", "Shower Shuffle", "Shoe Shine-nanigans" and "Relax" are staged in one static shot. "BBQ Bandit" and "The Pain Event" have a couple of camera moves, but otherwise stay within the same setup.
• Painted Tunnel, Real Train: In "Tunnel Vision", when Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel on the side of a rock, the Road Runner goes through it as per normal. When Wile E. tests out the painted tunnel by feeling it, he actually manages to go right in, but when he tries to get out, he hits the side of the rock, trapping himself inside. The Road Runner then sprays the rock with water, causing Wile E. to wash off like paint and drain through a nearby manhole.
• Pain to the Ass: Played for Laughs in three separate instances.
  • In "Duplicate Daffy", a laser burns Daffy's tail, sending him flying out of the copy machine he was in.
  • In "Hot Air Buffoon", Sylvester dangles from a rope attached to the hot-air balloon Tweety is riding, and ends up getting speared in the rump by a giant safety pin mounted upon a diaper service billboard. The resulting Pain-Powered Leap alerts Tweety to his presence, prompting him to fly the balloon over many more painful obstacles until the now thoroughly-mangled Sylvester is sent plummeting.
  • Petunia lands tush-first on the tines of a rake at one point in "Pigture Perfect", causing another Pain-Powered Leap.
• Parking Problems: "Parky Pig" is about Porky failing to find a good parking spot to go see a movie. And when he finally does, it's right next to his house, so he decides to stay at home. And a cop tickets him because there's a "no parking" sign next to his couch.
• Perpetual Smiler: "Cactus if You Can" featured a rare aversion from Road Runner: he visibly looks concerned and struggles to escape when Wile E. attempts to suck him in with a giant vacuum cleaner.
• Perp Sweating: "Grilled Rabbit" is about Elmer interrogating Bugs over stealing his carrots. Naturally, Bugs ends up turning the tables on him.
• Perspective Magic:
  • In "Mini Elmer", after Elmer chases Bugs into his burrow, Bugs emerges out from another hole in the distance and walks forward into the foreground. Elmer follows, but as he steps forward, instead of changing in size he stays small. Bugs then steps on him, and squashes him flat.
  • In "Dummies in the Dark", Porky and Daffy are in a blackout and only their eyes are visible. As Porky moves to the background and Daffy to the foreground, a Lightning Reveal shows that only their eyes have changed size. Later, as Porky's eyes are extremely close to the camera, Daffy finds himself appearing inside them. Then his small eyes bounce around Porky's large eyes until Porky tells him to stop and everything goes back to normal.
• Plumber's Crack: Invoked. While working on Elmer's leaking sink in "Plumber's Quack", Daffy (who's trying to be a plumber) intentionally does this to himself by biting his rear feathers and pulling them down.
• The Pollyanna: This incarnation of Petunia is always in good spirits, even when suffering multiple injuries.

  Petunia: (falls from a telephone wire and lands on a branch just above a sharp rake) It could have been worse! (gets catapulted straight back up into the sky) You'll never see a rainbow if you're looking down! (snaps the telephone wire and gets electrocuted and falls back down, hits the same branch, which now breaks and drops her onto the rake)

• Porky Pig Pronunciation: Courtesy of the Trope Namer, Porky himself. In "Brave New Home", this ends up working against him, due to C.H.A.M.P. misreading his commands thanks to Porky's stuttering.
• Portable Hole: In "Plunger", Elmer tries to get Bugs out of his hole with a toilet plunger but ends up sucking out the hole. As he looks through the plunger, Bugs fires a cannon through his back entrance and Elmer gets blasted in the face.
• Powder Gag: In "Boo! AppeTweet", Tweety smashes into flour while frantically escaping from Sylvester, who becomes convinced he's finally eaten the bird.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Parodied in two instances:
  • "Fleece And Desist" begins and ends with Ralph and Sam actually punching in and out, acting like fellow employees.
  • In "Fudds Bunny", Bugs is pestering Elmer when the lunch whistle sounds and he heads back inside, stating "union rules, solidarity and all that." At the end, as Elmer is being beaten up by a worker (a disguised Bugs), the five o'clock whistle sounds and the man leaves... only to immediately return and continue the beating because he just got overtime.
• The Remake: Some cartoons look back at the premise of a specific Looney Tunes classic short and rework it for the present day.
  • "Big League Beast" to Water, Water Every Hare.
  • "The Case of Porky's Pants" to The Great Piggy Bank Robbery.
  • "The Daffy Dentist" is one to one of the very first Porky and Daffy pairings, 1938s The Daffy Doc.
  • "Erabbitcator" to Robot Rabbit.
  • "Fowl Ploy" to The Wabbit Who Came to Supper. This however has Bugs replaced with Daffy.
  • "High Speed Hare" to Falling Hare.
  • "Kitty Krashers" to Kitty Kornered.
  • "Lepre-Conned" to The Wearing of the Grin, with Porky being replaced by Bugs.
  • "Overdue Duck" to A Pest in the House.
• Retraux: The animation resembles that of the early 1940s cartoons. Despite being animated digitally and in HD, it has some imperfections such as smudges and blurs, as if the characters were painted on cels.
• Revisiting the Roots: This trope is used for the series where it has the characters and the art style return to its 1940s/early-'50s roots.
• Ribcage Stomach: Present inside Sylvester in "Kitty Livin'". Tweety thinks it's his new cage, and then decides that the ribs might make great firewood.
• Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: Parodied in "Firehouse Frenzy", when firefighter Daffy Duck is sleeping one morning and the fire station's alarm starts ringing, he assumes it's his alarm clock and tries shutting off and then putting in the dresser before ultimately smashing the dresser with the alarm clock inside, but the ringing won't stop. Then it's finally played straight at the end, after the firehouse burns down but Porky and Daffy's beds remain intact; they leap back into bed, but the alarm clock starts ringing for real so they smash it with their fists.
• Rule of Three: In "Mt. Neverest", Daffy's bucket list has three items: make list; climb mountain; and pause cartoon to read gag. The second item is the only one left.
• Shaking the Rump: Played for Laughs examples.
  • Type III in "Battle of the Bunk". After thinking Daffy was defeated, Porky twerks at the audience during a victory dance.
  • Daffy tries to get Elmer to watch him in "Booby Trap" via twerking at him.
• Shockingly Expensive Bill: Porky's dentist bill in "The Daffy Dentist" is 5 billion dollars.
• Shout-Out:
  • The room in the haunted hotel Daffy and Porky are delivering to in "Postal Geist" is Room 237.
  • The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch appears in Key-Tastrophe.
  • The giant dinosaur that chases Porky and Daffy in "Cro Mag-Numbskulls" at one point utters Godzilla's iconic roar, and later bears down on the two while Running on All Fours like King K. Rool does in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (confirmed by one of the animators of the short).
  • In "Love Goat", after Goatie, Daffy's pet goat eats a sandwich with Porky inside it so Porky can extract the ring he was going to propose to Petuina with from inside his stomach (It Makes Sense in Context), Daffy says "That'll do, Goatie. That'll do."
  • In the Marvin the Martian flag gag "Little Martian", Marvin claims it's "Space Mutiny" when his flag sprouts legs and runs away in fear of the adorable little alien.
• Slasher Smile: Of all characters, Porky makes a couple wide and malevolent-looking smiles during a couple schemes to take the top bunk from Daffy in "Battle of the Bunk".
• Split Screen: "Shower Shuffle" is staged as a split screen; Porky's bathroom on one side, Daffy's on the other, and everything that happens on one side affects the other.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Porky and Daffy have more shorts released than any other character, including Bugs.
• Spring Coil: Wile E. gets a pair of spring shoes to try to catch the Road Runner in "Spring Forward, Fall Flat".
• Standard Snippet: Although the music is not as reliant on the Warner Bros. Music Library as Carl Stalling and Milt Frankyln's scores were, on occasion, Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" is heard in the score.
• Sticky Situation: "Bubble Dum" is about Daffy struggling with a piece of gum on the sidewalk. He even calls this trope by name.
• Still Sucks Thumb: Befitting of his childish personality, Daffy (who's a grown-up) briefly sucks his thumb while asleep in "Battle of the Bunk".
• Stock Scream:
  • The scream from, of all things, the "Relaxing Car Drive" jumpscare video is used in Cactus If You Can.
  • The Wilhelm Scream is heard in "Plumber's Quack".
• Stock Sound Effects:
  • Even though several classic Warner Bros. sound effects are used a lot, not all of them are featured (a notable absence is Treg Brown's classic "large junk crashes", replaced with newer realistic crashing sounds presumably created for the series).
  • There are also several Disney and Hanna-Barbera sounds and some additional sound effects that tend to make the series sound more like a 1990s Nicktoon than classic Looney Tunes (and the supervising sound editor has worked on such shows, like Rocko's Modern Life and The Angry Beavers, both of which also used WB's sounds quite a bit.)
  • However, the Hanna-Barbera sound effects do fit with "Crumb and Get It", given the Seven Arts era of Looney Tunes (that the short was parodying) also used them (especially the "shell screaming whine down" when someone or something falls from a great height).
• Stop Hitting Yourself: In "Buzzard School", Bugs makes Beaky Buzzard beat himself up by showing him a mirror and claiming that Beaky's reflection is a rabbit he caught. Beaky is too stupid to realize he's fighting himself.
• Stylistic Suck: "Crumb and Get It," a Porky and Daffy cartoon that is drawn in a much cruder, off-model style reminiscent of the shorts from the mid-to-late 1960s (even remaking the opening and closing sequences taken from Now Hear This), boarded by guest artist Aaron Springer.
• Subverted Catchphrase: In "Overdue Duck", Daffy breaks a drum over Porky's head. Cue theme music.
  Porky: Tha-th-th-tha-THAT'S IT!!!
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In "Bounty Bunny", Sam's relentless attempts to capture Bugs due to Mistaken Identity are considered kidnapping. Hence, the sheriff arrests and throws the bounty hunter into prison.
• Swallowed Whole:
  • Sylvester finally eats Tweety in "Kitty Livin'". Unfortunately, Tweety makes himself at home inside his stomach, causing the pussycat much discomfort.
  • "Cro-Mag Numbskulls" ends with Daffy and Porky being swallowed whole by the huge, carnivorous dinosaur that was chasing them for most of the short. They decide to make the most of the situation and make a new home out of its stomach.
• Sword In The Stone: In "Sword Loser", Sir Samuel of Yosemite wants to pull the Sword in the Rock to become king, but he cannot budge it. Bugs, however, can pull it easily to butter his toast.
• Take That!: "Siberian Sam" contains slams at Melania Trump (Sam's pet husky Melania) and Vladimir Putin ("Eat at Vlad's").
• "Take That!" Kiss: Bugs Bunny ends up on the receiving end of one at the end of "Lepreconned".
• Thermometer Gag: A veterinarian sticks a thermometer up Sylvester's keister in "Fully Vetted" (with other thermometers already having gone in the rest of his orifices besides).
• This Cannot Be!: A non-villainous example. In "Practial Jerk", Daffy exclaims "This can't be all folks!" and "It can't be!" when he thinks Porky died.
• This Means War!:
  • Played with in "Pool Bunny".
    Bugs: Of course you realize this means... you know.
  • And again in "Bonehead", after he's trown into a squirrel's nest.
    Bugs: [After spitting out a lot of nuts] Of course you know this means... [spits out a squirrel] ...squirrel?
• Three Shorts: As stated above, HBO Max generally divides the series up this way, with two longer shorts sandwiching one of a couple recurring skits:
  • Elmer chases Bugs, and then tries to flush him out of his hole.
  • Marvin claims another planet for Mars, only for something to keep his flag from staying planted.
  • The various attempts of Wile E. Coyote to catch the Road Runner.
  • Sylvester trying to catch Tweety at the top of a telephone pole.
  • Beaky Buzzard trying and failing to capture his prey.
  • Foghorn Leghorn picking on Barnyard Dawg, who gets his revenge at the end.
  • Daffy, as a psychic, sees Porky's future.
  • Daffy is caught speeding by officer Porky.
  • Porky throws Sylvester out of the house for bedtime, only for Sylvester to turn the tables on him.
  • Porky tries to buy a balloon from balloon vendor Daffy.
  • Stage magician Daffy recruits Porky for a performance.
  • Elmer uses different methods to try to go duck-hunting, with Daffy being his most frequent target.
• Throat-Slitting Gesture: A variant. In one season 4 episode, Elmer runs his baton alongside his neck while shooting daggers at Daffy. During this, a somewhat "Kccch!"-like sound plays. In "Hole in Dumb", he does the same thing to Daffy again, just with a pointer finger instead.
• Traitor Shot:
  • While telling Porky he can sleep on the top bunk in "Battle of the Bunks", Daffy makes a devious-looking smile. Moreover, while Played for Laughs, he makes the same expression when the pig isn't looking and accompanies it with him raising and lowering his eyebrows at the audience. He betrays Porky immediately afterwards.
  • While acting like a Graceful Loser to Bugs in "Ringmaster Disaster", Yosemite Sam makes him the new head of his circus and wishes him the best of luck. When he turns his back to the rabbit, however, he evilly smiles and giggles while preparing to betray him.
• Unstoppable Mailman: Daffy in "Postal Geist" will not stop his delivery to an abandoned hotel in the middle of a rainstorm, despite Porky's protests as he's attacked by the ghost haunting the place.
• Unwanted Assistance: Daffy is a lot more helpful and altruistic in these shorts than he's traditionally played as. Of course, it's still Daffy we're talking about, so he's fairly likely to fall into this trope.
• Villain Protagonist:
  • Foghorn Leghorn in "Feather of the Bride" who tries to kill Miss Prissy elderly father.
  • Hubby and Bertie in "Frame the Feline" who successfully make owner of the cheese shop kick out Claude Cat, resulting in them being able to steal cheese without suffering any consequences.
• Virtual Assistant Blunder: In "Brave New Home", Porky's attempts to have CHAMP make him a sandwich backfire badly. First his stutter makes CHAMP interpret "a quick sandwich" as creating quicksand under Porky's feet. Then he takes the command "Make me a sandwich" too literally. And just when Porky finally gets the hang of it, a boy outside is playing with his dog Champ...
• Waiting Skeleton: Parodied on "Daffuchino". Porky just opened a coffee shop and is waiting for his first customer. Six months later, he is a skeleton and the shop is covered with cobwebs. Then the real Porky comes and puts away the Halloween decorations.
• Wet Cement Gag: The central focus of the "Wet Cement" short, where Daffy constantly makes prints on some freshly-poured cement, forcing Porky Pig to constantly smooth it out.
• What a Drag: A variant in "Hot Air Buffoon": Sylvester tries to grab onto the basket of the hot-air balloon Tweety is riding in, and ends up dangling on one of the ropes attached to it. Tweety finds out and decides to fly the balloon over various landmarks, painfully dragging Sylvester over or through every single one of them.
  Tweety: The spiky fowest, the shooting wange, Squiwwelville... Ooh, it's Mount Saint Painful! Wet's take a closer wook!
• William Telling: In "Bullseye Bunny", Sam makes Bugs part of his knife-throwing act and makes him pose with an apple on his head. Bugs, however, sabotages the act by placing the apple anywhere except his head. Sam tries to show him how to do it right, but hasn’t noticed that Bugs replaced the apple with a Cartoon Bomb.
• Would Not Hurt A Child: This is where Yosemite Sam in "Pest Coaster" draws the line. He's okay with harming a rabbit, but when he sees a baby in danger (or what he thinks is a baby), he'll try and stop it.
• Wrong Parachute Gag: In "Falling For It", Daffy and Porky go skydiving. Porky pulls his ripcord, but it turns out to be a pullcord doll. Daffy has two, but one closes Granny's blinds miles away, and the second causes his beak to spin like an outboard motor. They try to open their parachutes manually, and discover that they're empty. Fortunately, they fall in a trampoline factory and bounce back into the plane. Right before it crashes into a mountain.
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque:
  • In "Pest Coaster", Bugs was headed for the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he ends up in the amusement park. "I shouldn't have taken that left turn at Luxembourg."
  • In "Taziator", Bugs is on his way to San Antonio, but somehow ends up in Ancient Rome.
  • In "Lepre-Conned", Bugs arrives in Ireland when he was going to Hawaii.
• Wrote the Book: On "Erabbitcator", Bugs is unable to stop Elmer's rabbit hunting robot, even though he's used "Every trick in the book. And I oughta know, I wrote it." and produces a copy of volume one. Later, he consults volume two.
• X-Ray Sparks: Sylvester's skeleton and a ball of bone inside his nose are visible when his zookeeper disguise Gone Horribly Right gets him zapped by Electric Jellyfish in "Rhino Ya Don't!"
• You Are Already Dead: Parodied on "Samurai Sam", where Bugs, as a warrior known as the Beast of the Mountains, says this to Sam after barely unsheathing his sword. He then makes Sam believe that he died for real and leads him to the Great Beyond... which turns out to be a painted backdrop in front of a cliff.

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