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* SuicideAsComedy: Many times in this series, characters killing themselves is PlayedForLaughs. Most of these were censored on television but left uncut on home video.
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* SultryBellyDancer: In the 1935 short "Buddy of the Legion", a young boy named Buddy imagines himself leading a regiment of the French Legion. As they march through the Sahara Desert, a nearby village of Amazon women get a hold of the soldiers' presence, sending out a dancer to lure all the men into the village and make them into their personal working slaves.
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* ShoutOut / ReferenceOverdosed: The Looney Tunes are absolutely ''loaded'' with references to celebrities and pop culture of their time period, and to comprehensively list them all would practically require an entire wiki in itself, [[ShoutOut/LooneyTunes much less a page.]]

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* ShoutOut / ReferenceOverdosed: ShoutOut: The Looney Tunes are absolutely ''loaded'' ''[[ReferenceOverdosed loaded]]'' with references to celebrities and pop culture of their time period, and to comprehensively list them all would practically require an entire wiki in itself, [[ShoutOut/LooneyTunes much less a page.]]
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** "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy" spoofs the Marshall story, with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck taking the role of Sheriff but failing to subdue outlaw Nasty Canasta. It's actually HypercompetentSidekick WesternAnimation/PorkyPig who saves the day and is made sheriff, while Daffy (who promised to "clean up this one-horse town" is appointed the town streetsweeper.

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** "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy" spoofs the Marshall story, with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck taking the role of Sheriff but failing to subdue outlaw Nasty Canasta. It's actually HypercompetentSidekick WesternAnimation/PorkyPig who saves the day and is made sheriff, while Daffy (who promised to "clean up this one-horse town" town") is appointed the town streetsweeper.



** Both Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner used this gag in [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner their cartoons]].

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** Both Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner used use this gag in [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner their cartoons]].

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** "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy" spoofs the Marshall story, with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck taking the role of Sheriff but failing to subdue outlaw Nasty Canasta; it's actually HypercompetentSidekick WesternAnimation/PorkyPig who saves the day and is made sheriff.

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** "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy" spoofs the Marshall story, with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck taking the role of Sheriff but failing to subdue outlaw Nasty Canasta; it's Canasta. It's actually HypercompetentSidekick WesternAnimation/PorkyPig who saves the day and is made sheriff.sheriff, while Daffy (who promised to "clean up this one-horse town" is appointed the town streetsweeper.



* SpeechImpediment:
%%** Daffy, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd

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SpeechImpediment: Daffy, Sylvester, and Elmer FuddFudd all suffered from various versions.
** Elmer's rhotacism [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome became a trope in its own right]].



* StylisticSuck: "Porkys Funny Pictures", a self-parodying cartoon-within-a-cartoon written and drawn by Porky Pig himself in the short 'Porky's Preview'.

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* StylisticSuck: "Porkys StylisticSuck:
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Funny Pictures", a self-parodying cartoon-within-a-cartoon written and drawn by Porky Pig himself in the short 'Porky's Preview'.



* TalkingWithSigns: Seen a lot in the Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoons.

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* TalkingWithSigns: Seen a lot in the Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoons.



** Both Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner used this gag in [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner their cartoons]].



* TenPacesAndTurn: "Mississippi Hare," "WesternAnimation/WildAndWoollyHare" and "Hare Trimmed"

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* TenPacesAndTurn: TenPacesAndTurn:
** Used straight in several cartoons, such as
"Mississippi Hare," "WesternAnimation/WildAndWoollyHare" and "Hare Trimmed"Trimmed".
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* TitleReadingGag: At the beginning of "WesternAnimation/TortoiseBeatsHare", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny appears and reads the credits on the title card, mispronouncing the names. Then he gets to the title and reads it, and after a second realizes what it says and loses it.

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* SayYourPrayers: Happens frequently when a character is about to be on the receiving end of a huge blow.
** This is essentially a CatchPhrase for Yosemite Sam, when "varmint!" is added on at the end.

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* SayYourPrayers: SayYourPrayers:
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Happens frequently when a character is about to be on the receiving end of a huge blow.
** This is essentially a CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]] for Yosemite Sam, when "varmint!" is added on at the end.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The plot of every ''Private Snafu'' story.
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** Six cartoons from 1958 had pre-scored background music tracks (called "needle-drop" in the industry) selected by John Seely, employed during a musician's strike. Most of the tracks heard were also used in WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}} and, soon after, Hanna-Barbera's early TV shows and on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Those cartoons were ''Prehysterical Hare'' (Bugs Bunny), ''Bird In A Bonnett'' (Sylvester and Tweety), ''Weasel While You Work'' (Foghorn Leghorn), ''Hook, Line And Stinker'' (Road Runner), ''Hip Hip Hurry!'' (also Road Runner) and ''Gopher Broke'' (Goofy Gophers).

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** Six cartoons from 1958 had pre-scored background music tracks (called "needle-drop" in the industry) selected by John Seely, employed during a musician's strike. Most of the tracks heard were also used in WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}} and, soon after, Hanna-Barbera's early TV shows and on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Those cartoons were ''Prehysterical Hare'' ''WesternAnimation/PrehystericalHare'' (Bugs Bunny), ''Bird In A Bonnett'' (Sylvester and Tweety), ''Weasel While You Work'' (Foghorn Leghorn), ''Hook, Line And Stinker'' (Road Runner), ''Hip Hip Hurry!'' (also Road Runner) and ''Gopher Broke'' (Goofy Gophers).

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* TooDumbToLive: Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin The Martian, the Tasmanian Devil, Daffy Duck, in short, Bugs Bunny's enemies.
** Oh, and did we mention Wile E. Coyote?

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* TooDumbToLive: Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin The Martian, the Tasmanian Devil, Daffy Duck, in short, Bugs Bunny's enemies.
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enemies. Oh, and did we mention Wile E. Coyote?Coyote? A constant is that someone almost inevitably acts against all reasonable logic to drive the plot forwards, [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard even Bugs himself]]. From ignoring yet another PaperThinDisguise, to failing to realize that a [[FailedASpotCheck very obvious prank or trap]] is about to go off, to outright walking off of a cliff only to have a DelayedReaction to realizing that GravityIsAHarshMistress. Were it not for the sheer power of CartoonPhysics, almost every character in the shorts would be dead several times over, sometimes even ''within the same short'', and occasionally there's even an explicit gag that they ''did'' outright die, such as Daffy or Sam biting off more than they could chew.
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* ThanksgivingEpisode: "Tom Turk and Daffy", "Holiday for Drumsticks"

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* ThanksgivingEpisode: "Tom Turk and Daffy", "Holiday for Drumsticks""WesternAnimation/HolidayForDrumsticks"
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*** ''Lumber Jack Rabbit'' (Jones, 1954--all three title elements simply fade in as part of the 3-D effect in which the cartoon was made. At the opening, the W-B shield zooms so far in as if to leap into the audience.)

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*** ''Lumber Jack Rabbit'' (Jones, 1954--all three title elements simply fade in FadeIn as part of the 3-D effect in which the cartoon was made. At the opening, the W-B shield zooms so far in as if to leap into the audience.)



*** ''Two Crows From Tacos'' (Freleng, 1959--again a simple fade in)

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*** ''Two Crows From Tacos'' (Freleng, 1959--again a simple fade in)FadeIn)
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*** ''WesternAnimation/OldGlory'' (Jones, 1939--"The End" and the Merrie Melodies/Produced by Leon Schlesinger tags simply fade in over the waving American flag on the original print)

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*** ''WesternAnimation/OldGlory'' (Jones, 1939--"The End" and the Merrie Melodies/Produced by Leon Schlesinger tags simply fade in FadeIn over the waving American flag on the original print)
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* SirCameosALot: Late character Cool Cat only starred in six shorts from 1967 to 1969 (considered by many to be a DorkAge), but he made countless cameos since ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries''.

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* SirCameosALot: Late character Cool Cat only starred in six shorts from 1967 to 1969 (considered by many to be a DorkAge), an AudienceAlienatingEra), but he made countless cameos since ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries''.
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* SympatheticWince: "Ballot Box Bunny". Yosemite Sam sets up a cannon to blow Bugs Bunny to bits at his back door. Bugs tricks Sam into opening it, and winces as the cannon goes off offscreen.
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* TheyFightCrime: ''The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries'', also several original shorts pairing Daffy and Porky as crimefighters ("Rocket Squad," "Deduce, You Say", "Boston Quackie," Daffy solo in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery'', "The Super Snooper" and "Stupor Duck"). And good ol' Bugs in "Super Rabbit."
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* TongueOutInsult: On one occasion, The Dog sticks his tongue out at Foghorn Leghorn. It turns out to be a bad idea, as the rooster merely seizes the tongue, and says, "If you're, I say, if you're going to hang that thing out for all the world to say, you might as well give it some color!" and proceeds to paint the tongue green.
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