Recap / Bugs Bunny Builders S 1 E 19 Looneyburg Lights

The Looney Builders prepare to host a big holiday lights festival in Looneyburg Park when an unexpected snowstorm sadly prevents Looneyburgers from attending and enjoying themselves.

Tropes:

• Advanced Tech 2000: Wile E. uses his Freezy Blaster 10,000 to help the Looney Builders create their ice rink.
• Alliterative Title: Looneyburg Lights.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The Looneybergers offer to help the Looney Builders clear a snow bank to repay them for all the kind things they did for them.
• Braving the Blizzard: The Looney Builders, with Petunia’s help, convert their vehicles into snow mobiles so they can not only continue working during the snowstorm, but also pick up the Looneyberg residents who have all been Snowed-In.
• Chirping Crickets: The Builders wonder where all the Looneybergers are as they’re getting ready to start the Holiday Lights Festival, and all they get in response is the sound of the wind as a large snowball rolls past the empty venue.
• Christmas Episode: The Looney Builders work against a blizzard in order to celebrate the holidays with all the citizens of Looneyberg to show their appreciation for the community.
• Christmas Light Chaos: Somehow, Porky manages to get completely wrapped up in a string of Christmas lights.
• Extra-Long Episode: This is a two-part episode that runs for twenty-two minutes instead of the usual runtime of eleven minutes.
• Finger Framing: We see through this perspective as Bugs holds his fingers up to frame the Looney Builders’ vehicles while he has his "Eureka!" Moment.
• Furry Reminder: When the train finally stops after being separated and racing through the snowy landscape, Sylvester is shown to have dug all four sets of his claws into his seat in fear.
• Gone Horribly Right: Wile E.’s Freezy Blaster 10,000 works a little too well and ends up creating a huge snowstorm that starts destroying the build and preventing the Looney Builders from using their vehicles. It gets so bad that it keeps the Looneybergers from being able to attend the festival due to the poor road conditions.
• Good-Times Montage: Of the Looney Builders playing in the snow together.
• Human Snowman: Daffy pops out of the snowman that Lola and Tweety build at the festival.
• Let There Be Snow: In order to make it snow for their Holiday Lights Festival and to make it cold enough to create their ice rink, the Looney Builders enlist the help of Wile E. Coyote and his Freezy Blaster 10,000.
• Lock-and-Load Montage: The Looney Builders’ Once per Episode “Hard Hat Time” is changed to “Holiday Hard Hat Time” and features the builders suiting up with various holiday accessories like winter hats, Christmas sweaters, and candy canes. Daffy is even dressed as Santa Claus.
• "Pan Up to the Sky" Ending: The episode ends with the camera panning up to the night sky and a big shining star.
• Porky Pig Pronunciation: Two examples from the Trope Namer himself;
  • First, when the bolt holding the two coaches of the train comes undone:
    "Oh no! The train's dis... dis... dis... separated!"
  • Then, when Sniffles announces that he and the rest of the citizens of Looneyburg are going to help the Looney Builders dig through the snow bank to repay them for all the times they've helped them when they needed it:
    "Gee, I'm speech... (stutters) I have no words."
• Rail-Car Separation: While going too fast up an extremely tall hill, the passenger cars of the Looney Builders’ train separate with the bottom half of the train rolling back down the hill.
• Smelly Skunk: While singing his own version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", Daffy holds up "three French skunks" (in a Mythology Gag to Pepé le Pew) which all spray him.
• Snowball Fight: The Looney Builders have one when the snowfall starts getting heavier and Daffy throws a snowball directly at the camera.
• Special Edition Title: The title sequence has a festive twist, with a Christmas wreath in the show's logo and snow falling.
• Spinning Clock Hands: To show how long it takes Cecil to board the Looney Builders’ train, the hands on Bugs’ pocket watch spin rapidly. When the shot changes from the clock face back to Bugs, he’s grown a Time-Passage Beard.
• Take My Hand!: Gossamer, who’s in one passenger car, and Barnyard Dawg, who’s in the other, have to grab each other’s hands to reconnect the two cars.
  Lola: Attention, Looney passengers! The holidays are all about coming together, so reach out and grab your neighbor’s hand. We’ve gotta reconnect this train!
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Played with. Daffy thinks he was chosen to deliver the invitations for the Holiday Lights Festival because he’s the only one who can do the job, however he was just chosen to get him away from the gingerbread house supplies so he doesn’t eat them all.
• The Twelve Spoofs of Christmas: Daffy sings one when he’s describing how many passengers his dump truck can carry:
  Daffy: And Dumpy here can haul [Beat] five buzzard kiiiids, four hooting owls, three French skunks, and two mouse sisters, aaaaand one Cecil Turtle…but that’s it!
• Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: Wile E. Coyote’s Freezy Blaster 10,000. It’s much too powerful, and it’s later revealed that Wile E. even forgot to include an off button.
• Water Hose Rodeo: When trying to fill up the ice rink, Bugs loses control of the hose and it goes spraying everywhere.
• Wingding Eyes: Lola’s eyes turn into spirals after her bulldozer spins on the slippery ice.
• You Mean X Mas: Despite all the clear references to Christmas, the holiday being celebrated is only ever referred to as the “Looney Holiday”.

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