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* CharacterDevelopment: In the series' first episode, "Best Friends", Daffy knew absolutely nothing about Bugs, including his obvious {{Catchphrase}}, incorrectly guessing "[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} I don't do Mondays!]]" when the two appeared on ''Besties''. In this episode, when Daffy travels back in time, he is able to recognize the young rabbit as Bugs when he hears him say "Eh, what's up Doc?"
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* CharacterDevelopment: In the series' first episode, "Best Friends", Daffy knew absolutely nothing about Bugs, including his obvious {{Catchphrase}}, [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]], incorrectly guessing "[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} I don't do Mondays!]]" when the two appeared on ''Besties''. In this episode, when Daffy travels back in time, he is able to recognize the young rabbit as Bugs when he hears him say "Eh, what's up Doc?"
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* AnAesop: The "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video is a song about how important it is to eat healthy.
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* AnAesop: The "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video is AlternateTimeline: By going back in time to stop Bugs and Rodney from ever meeting, Daffy accidentally makes it so that he also never meets Bugs. Bugs meets Daffy while he's mailing a song letter to Rodney, so by stopping the two from ever meeting, Bugs doesn't have a reason to go to the post office, and, in turn, he never meets Daffy. So when Daffy greets Bugs in the new timeline, he has no idea who he is, and neither do their neighbors since they only knew about how important it him since he was friends with Bugs; from their perspective, Daffy is to eat healthy.a complete stranger who somehow knows who they are.
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* ForWantOfANail: It is revealed in this episode that Bugs becoming friends with Rodney played a huge factor in Daffy becoming friends with Bugs. Bugs and Daffy first met each other in a post office when Bugs was delivering a letter to Rodney. When Daffy went back in time to prevent Bugs and Rodney from becoming friends, he effectively RetGone himself from Bugs' memory, as Bugs never went to the post office to deliver Rodney's letter. In extension, Daffy RetGone himself from most of his friends and neighbors' memories as well, since they only knew about him since he was friends with Bugs.
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* PointOfDivergence: It is revealed in this episode that Bugs becoming friends with Rodney played a huge factor in Daffy becoming friends with Bugs. Bugs and Daffy first met each other in a post office when Bugs was delivering a letter to Rodney. When Daffy went back in time to prevent Bugs and Rodney from becoming friends, he effectively RetGone himself from Bugs' memory, as Bugs never went to the post office to deliver Rodney's letter. In extension, Daffy RetGone himself from most of his friends and neighbors' memories as well, since they only knew about him since he was friends with Bugs.
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* FoodPorn: Done with yogurt parfait in the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video.
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* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: In the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video, Black Bart refuses the titular character's yogurt parfait and calls it trash. After being pressured by the Drifter to give it a try, he finds out he really likes the yogurt parfait.
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The twenty-fifth episode of the second season of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', and the sequel episode to "[[Recap/TheLooneyTunesShowS1E1BestFriends Best Friends]]".
When Bugs meets up with Rodney Rabbit, his childhood friend, Daffy becomes jealous of Rodney, and tries to use Witch Lezah's time portal to go back in time to ensure that he is Bugs' oldest and best friend.
This episode features "Long-Eared Drifter", the final Merrie Melodies music video.
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!! This episode provides examples of:
* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Rodney wears a pair of glasses, and like Bugs, a pair of WhiteGloves.
* AlliterativeName:
** '''R'''odney '''R'''abbit.
** "The Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video features '''B'''lack '''B'''art.
* AnAesop: The "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video is a song about how important it is to eat healthy.
* BookEnds: A series-long example; the series began with "Best Friends", and ended with this episode in production order, as "[[Recap/TheLooneyTunesShowS2E26SuperRabbit Super Rabbit]]" was aired as the series finale instead.
* TheCameo:
** Nasty Canasta appears in the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video as the owner of a dirty taco stand
** Charlie Dog also appears in the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video as one of the citizens who watches the showdown between the Long-Eared Drifter (Bugs) and Black Bart (Daffy).
** In the epilogue, Egghead Junior appears as one of the campers in the Tadpole Cabin.
* CanonForeigner: Rodney is one of the rare characters on the show who isn't human but has no connections to the original cartoons (or any cartoons before this show) and he was invented solely for this one episode.
* ContinuityNod: When Daffy returns to the present after ensuring that Bugs and Rodney do meet after all, Rodney asks Bugs if the carrot peeler he invented really paid for all his possessions, referencing the events of a previous episode, "[[Recap/TheLooneyTunesShowS1E11PeelOfFortune Peel of Fortune]]".
* ForWantOfANail: It is revealed in this episode that Bugs becoming friends with Rodney played a huge factor in Daffy becoming friends with Bugs. Bugs and Daffy first met each other in a post office when Bugs was delivering a letter to Rodney. When Daffy went back in time to prevent Bugs and Rodney from becoming friends, he effectively RetGone himself from Bugs' memory, as Bugs never went to the post office to deliver Rodney's letter. In extension, Daffy RetGone himself from most of his friends and neighbors' memories as well, since they only knew about him since he was friends with Bugs.
* FunWithFlushing: Discussed; in this episode's prologue, Bugs tells Daffy that the next time he doesn't like a message someone leaves on his answering machine, he should just press the delete button instead of flushing the answering the machine down the toilet. Later, when Bugs gets a message from Rodney, Daffy decides to flush Bugs' answering machine down the toilet.
* FriendshipFavoritism: When Rodney comes to visit Bugs, Daffy begins to question who Bugs' best friend really is, though Bugs insists that adults can't really have best friends, but rather a whole bunch of friends. Daffy decides to travel back in time to ensure that he is Bugs' oldest and best friend. Also in this episode, Daffy has his own top nine best friends list, which, in order from nine to one, are [[ButtMonkey Porky]], Granny, a stranger who pardoned him in the restroom of Pizzarriba, Carl (A stranger he met in a Phoenix Airport), A tie between Pete Puma and Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, Big Fat Rooster (Foghorn Leghorn), Tina, and Bugs.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video, Black Bart turns to the titular character's side after trying a yogurt parfait, and starts to eat healthy like him.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: When Daffy travels back to the present after ensuring that Bugs and Rodney never meet, a young Porky follows him, and he meets his adult counterpart.
* NewFriendEnvy: Rodney comes to visit Bugs, which causes Daffy to become jealous. Daffy goes so far as to travel back in time to prevent Rodney from ever meeting Bugs. This in turn creates an alternate timeline where Bugs never sent a letter to Rodney, and thus never randomly met Daffy while sending said letter in the first place, forcing the duck to go back in time and fix his mistake.
* NutritionalNightmare: In the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video, Black Bart takes the Pretty Little Filly (Lola) to Nasty Canasta's Dirty Taco stand. Nasty cooks his tacos in lard and puts bullet shells in them.
* PetTheDog: In the epilogue, when Daffy travels back in time to return the younger Porky to his proper time, he has the younger Porky join the younger Bugs and Rodney in the Shark Cabin to make him cooler so the present-day Porky can truly be his second best friend.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: When Daffy travels back in time to prevent Bugs and Rodney from meeting each other, it causes Bugs to never have met him, and for all his friends and neighbors to never have met him as well. Thus, he has to go back in time again to make sure that Bugs and Rodney do meet each other after all.
* SequelEpisode: To "Best Friends", the series' first episode.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Allen Irwin's Underwater Team in a Submarine'', a show Daffy watches and how he recalls how he and Bugs first met.
* WingdingEyes: In the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video, pieces of candy form the pupils of Black Bart's eyes when the singer says that Bart had diabetes in his eyes.
When Bugs meets up with Rodney Rabbit, his childhood friend, Daffy becomes jealous of Rodney, and tries to use Witch Lezah's time portal to go back in time to ensure that he is Bugs' oldest and best friend.
This episode features "Long-Eared Drifter", the final Merrie Melodies music video.
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!! This episode provides examples of:
* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Rodney wears a pair of glasses, and like Bugs, a pair of WhiteGloves.
* AlliterativeName:
** '''R'''odney '''R'''abbit.
** "The Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video features '''B'''lack '''B'''art.
* AnAesop: The "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video is a song about how important it is to eat healthy.
* BookEnds: A series-long example; the series began with "Best Friends", and ended with this episode in production order, as "[[Recap/TheLooneyTunesShowS2E26SuperRabbit Super Rabbit]]" was aired as the series finale instead.
* TheCameo:
** Nasty Canasta appears in the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video as the owner of a dirty taco stand
** Charlie Dog also appears in the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video as one of the citizens who watches the showdown between the Long-Eared Drifter (Bugs) and Black Bart (Daffy).
** In the epilogue, Egghead Junior appears as one of the campers in the Tadpole Cabin.
* CanonForeigner: Rodney is one of the rare characters on the show who isn't human but has no connections to the original cartoons (or any cartoons before this show) and he was invented solely for this one episode.
* ContinuityNod: When Daffy returns to the present after ensuring that Bugs and Rodney do meet after all, Rodney asks Bugs if the carrot peeler he invented really paid for all his possessions, referencing the events of a previous episode, "[[Recap/TheLooneyTunesShowS1E11PeelOfFortune Peel of Fortune]]".
* ForWantOfANail: It is revealed in this episode that Bugs becoming friends with Rodney played a huge factor in Daffy becoming friends with Bugs. Bugs and Daffy first met each other in a post office when Bugs was delivering a letter to Rodney. When Daffy went back in time to prevent Bugs and Rodney from becoming friends, he effectively RetGone himself from Bugs' memory, as Bugs never went to the post office to deliver Rodney's letter. In extension, Daffy RetGone himself from most of his friends and neighbors' memories as well, since they only knew about him since he was friends with Bugs.
* FunWithFlushing: Discussed; in this episode's prologue, Bugs tells Daffy that the next time he doesn't like a message someone leaves on his answering machine, he should just press the delete button instead of flushing the answering the machine down the toilet. Later, when Bugs gets a message from Rodney, Daffy decides to flush Bugs' answering machine down the toilet.
* FriendshipFavoritism: When Rodney comes to visit Bugs, Daffy begins to question who Bugs' best friend really is, though Bugs insists that adults can't really have best friends, but rather a whole bunch of friends. Daffy decides to travel back in time to ensure that he is Bugs' oldest and best friend. Also in this episode, Daffy has his own top nine best friends list, which, in order from nine to one, are [[ButtMonkey Porky]], Granny, a stranger who pardoned him in the restroom of Pizzarriba, Carl (A stranger he met in a Phoenix Airport), A tie between Pete Puma and Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, Big Fat Rooster (Foghorn Leghorn), Tina, and Bugs.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video, Black Bart turns to the titular character's side after trying a yogurt parfait, and starts to eat healthy like him.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: When Daffy travels back to the present after ensuring that Bugs and Rodney never meet, a young Porky follows him, and he meets his adult counterpart.
* NewFriendEnvy: Rodney comes to visit Bugs, which causes Daffy to become jealous. Daffy goes so far as to travel back in time to prevent Rodney from ever meeting Bugs. This in turn creates an alternate timeline where Bugs never sent a letter to Rodney, and thus never randomly met Daffy while sending said letter in the first place, forcing the duck to go back in time and fix his mistake.
* NutritionalNightmare: In the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video, Black Bart takes the Pretty Little Filly (Lola) to Nasty Canasta's Dirty Taco stand. Nasty cooks his tacos in lard and puts bullet shells in them.
* PetTheDog: In the epilogue, when Daffy travels back in time to return the younger Porky to his proper time, he has the younger Porky join the younger Bugs and Rodney in the Shark Cabin to make him cooler so the present-day Porky can truly be his second best friend.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: When Daffy travels back in time to prevent Bugs and Rodney from meeting each other, it causes Bugs to never have met him, and for all his friends and neighbors to never have met him as well. Thus, he has to go back in time again to make sure that Bugs and Rodney do meet each other after all.
* SequelEpisode: To "Best Friends", the series' first episode.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Allen Irwin's Underwater Team in a Submarine'', a show Daffy watches and how he recalls how he and Bugs first met.
* WingdingEyes: In the "Long-Eared Drifter" Merrie Melodies music video, pieces of candy form the pupils of Black Bart's eyes when the singer says that Bart had diabetes in his eyes.
