Looney Tunes/Funny

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  • Racketeer Rabbit
    • "Some guys just can't take it, see? NAH! NAH! NAH! NAH!"
  • The classic Bugs Bunny short "High-Diving Hare" involves Bugs repeatedly tricking Yosemite Sam into falling off an incredibly tall high-diving board. Eventually the film shows Sam climbing back up out of frame, then falling back down a couple of times without bothering to show us what Bugs did.
  • The "pronoun trouble" scene from "Rabbit Seasoning" that culminates in Daffy screaming "He does so have to shoot me now! I demand that you shoot me now!" at Elmer Fudd is very possibly the funniest thing ever to happen in the history of animation. And if you don't think so, there is something seriously wrong with you. The fact that Elmer glanced at the audience as though to say, "You heard that too, right?" before shooting him ties it all together.
    • "Ah-HA! That's it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble. It's not "He doesn't have to shoot you now", it's "He doesn't have to shoot me now." Well, I say he does have to shoot me now!"
    • When Daffy discovers that he has been tricked and he looks at the audience saying in a small voice, "Not again..." this troper was on the floor.
    • After a few unsuccessful gambits, he raises a finger to Bugs, opens his mouth to speak...and freezes. Bugs: "...eeeyesss?"
    • At the end, they revisit the original question, but Bugs changes it to "Would you like to shoot him here, or wait 'till you get home?" Daffy finally finds the problem: "Oh no you don't. Not this time, wait 'till you get home". 20 seconds of going home, BAM!, 20 seconds of Daffy walking back to Bugs..."You're dethpicable!"
  • "WABBIT SEASON." "DUCK SEASON." "WABBIT SEASON!" "DUCK SEASON!" "WABBIT SEASON!!" "DUCK SEASON!!' "WABBIT SEASON!" "WABBIT SEASON!" "I say it's DUCK SEASON, and I say FIRE!"

Elmer: Oh oh.

  • And to cap off the trilogy, the Running Gag from "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!":

Daffy: If he's dead, then I'm a mongoose!
(Bugs holds up a sign reading MONGOOSE SEASON OPEN, Daffy gets shot)

    • And just to clinch that scene, the rest of it is just shot from the waist down as Daffy takes Elmer away:

Elmer: More bweefing?
Daffy: More briefing.

    • Eventually climaxing in Daffy having a nervous breakdown after getting shot in the face one time too many:

Daffy: Shoot me again! I enjoy it! I love the smell of burnt feathers, and gunpowder, and cordite! I'm an elk! Shoot me, go on! It's elk season! I'm a fiddler crab! Why don't you shoot me?! It's fiddler crab season!!!

    • Daffy sees Bugs putting on a duck disguise, and shouts "Shoot the duck! Shoot the duck!" without realizing Elmer is standing right next to him. And that's what led to his nervous breakdown above.
    • And finally:

Elmer: Oh, Mister Game Warden, I hope you can help me. I've been told I can shoot wabbits and goats and pigeons and mongooses and dirty skunks and fiddler crabs and ducks. Could you tell me what season it weawwy is?
Bugs: Well certainly my boy! It's Baseball season!

      • Subtly funnier in that the cartoon clearly takes place in winter
  • Would you believe Daffy was the first one to do the Duck Season! Rabbit Season! gag? "Duck Soup To Nuts" comes a couple years before the "Daffy, Bugs and Elmer" trilogy and "Baseball Bugs," and it's still just as hilarious when Daffy does it to Porky.

Porky: I'm an eagle, and I'll prove it!
[After trying to fly from a tree branch and fell]
Porky: I... I told you I was a pig.

  • The hilariously fixed Daffy-Elmer boxing match in "To Duck... or not to Duck."

(Duck) Referee: "Onethreeninetenyou'reout! Thewinnerandnewchampion Daffy Duck!"

    • Also:

Duck Referee: "In this corner. The challenger. Elmer (spits on the ground) Fudd."
Entirely Duck Filled Audience: "BOO!"
Elmer's Dog Laramore: "HOORAY!" * gets pelted with garbage*
Duck Referee: "And in this corner, a person who needs no introduction. That paragon of fine sportsmanship, that champion of champions, our own, our beloved, (cradles up to Daffy) Daffy "good to his mother" Duck.
Duck Audience: "HOORAY"
Elmer's Dog Laramore: "BOO!" * gets pelted with garbage*

    • The rules

Duck Referee: "None of this... or this... or like so..."

  • Robin Hood Daffy. "Yoiks, and away!" Like "High-Diving Hare" above, they couldn't even show the whole thing to us, because it would have been TOO funny.
    • From the same episode: "HO! HA HA! GUARD! TURN! PARRY! DODGE! SPIN! HA! THRUST!"
    • And Friar Porky beats the spin with a twig.
    • When Daffy got out of the river, he pulled his pants up and all the water went into his shoes. This troper calls them "sausage feet".
    • "Actually, it's a Buck-and-a-Quarter quarterstaff, but I'm not tellin' HIM that!"
    • "I don't know how I could have ever doubted you. Shall we spend the gold all in one place?"
  • Robot Rabbit. Bugs, singing and dancing with Elmer after Elmer thought he did away with him via robot exterminator: "The wab-bit kicked the buuu-cket! The wab-bit kicked the buuu-cket! The buuu-cket kicked the buuu-cket! The wab-bit kicked the wab-bit! The buc-ket kicked the buuuucket!"
    • The look on Elmer's face halfway through the song, and he stopped dancing.
  • Daffy Duck and Egghead. Daffy's first solo(ish) cartoon, which created the Screwy Squirrel genre. The whole thing is one crowning moment, but, a couple that are particularly funny are Egghead shooting an audience member (in the vein of a theatre short) who keeps interrupting the show, Daffy sticking a "Blind" sign on Egghead, and the entire ending.
    • "My name is Daffy Duck, I worked on the merry-go-round, The job was swell I ate my fill 'till the merry-go-round broke down!"
  • Daffy Dilly: "And stay on the straight and narrow!"
  • There were a lot of great moment in the "The Stupor Salesman," particularly the part where Daffy sells the bad guy a tommy gun. When the crook discovers there's no bullets, Daffy gladly gives him some free of charge. At first it looks like Daffy's just stupidly screwed himself over, until the bandit starts shooting and Daffy reveals he's wearing a limited time offer bulletproof vest. "Guaranteed to get your money back if it fails to work!" Also, the ending.

(Giant Explosion) (to the audience) "I got him now! I got him now!" (yelling up at the sky) HEY, BUB! YOU NEED A HOUSE TO GO WITH THIS DOORKNOB!"

    • Similar to the tommy gun, Daffy sells the crook some brass knuckles, cheerfully saying "Boy, I'd sure hate to get socked with these babies!" just before getting grabbed by the neck.
  • Also, from The Ducksters, where Daffy is a villainous game show host.

Daffy: Don't be a sucker chum, the next question's a snap!"
Audience Member: "You'll be soooooorrrry!!!!!
(Daffy shoots the audience member with a shotgun and gets on with the show.)

    • Also:

Porky (having just answered a question right, winning the Jackpot): Pardon me, but can I have my jackpot?
Daffy: ...Oh well, fair is fair. Here's your pot, jack.
Porky: But, my name's not Jack.
Daffy: It's not? Ohhh I'm sorry, this pot was made for Jack. Jack. Pot. Get it? Your name isn't Jack, so, you must pay the penalty.

      • "AND THE GENTLEMAN WINS THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR!"
      • And when Porky finally gets some prize money, he promptly uses it to buy the radio station and get even with Daffy. "Hello... boss!"
  • Duck Amuck. That entire episode is one big hilarity after another.
    • Holy... do you think they'll ever find all the pieces of that poor Fourth Wall?

Daffy: Alright, let's get this picture started!
[Black iris closes. "The End"]
Daffy: NOOO!! NOOOOO! [pushes the "The End" card away]

    • "Now how about some color, stupid?!"
    • "This is a closeup? A CLOSEUP YA JERK! A CLOSEUP!"
    • Daffy's expression the first time he tries to speak when the sound is being messed with (when he opens his mouth but we hear a rooster crow).
      • And then Daffy getting angry with his eyes turning red before he screams and jumps around, before yelling, "AND I'VE NEVER BEEN SO HUMILIATED IN ALL MY LIFE!"
  • More Robin Hood parodies:

Bugs Bunny (disguised as king): Sheriff of Nottingham, in gratitude for your faithful service, I shall knight thee.
Sheriff of Nottingham: You're most gracious, Majesty.
Bugs Bunny: In the name of My Most Royal Majesty, I knight thee. <clobbers the sheriff on the head with the scepter> Arise, Sir Loin of Beef. <clobber> Arise, Earl of Cloves. <clobber> Arise, Duke of Brittingham. <clobber> Arise, Baron of Münchhausen. <clobber> Arise, Essence of Myrrh, <clobber> Milk of Magnesia, <clobber> Quarter of Ten.
Sheriff of Nottingham: You are too kind, Your Majesty.
Bugs Bunny: Got lots of stamina.
Sheriff of Nottingham: London Bridge is falling down...
<Bugs runs off to get a stove and baking materials, makes a cake>

Sheriff of Nottingham: ...falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down... falling down, falling down... London Bridge is falling down... <falls forward onto the cake that Bugs moved into place at the last moment>

    • "Don't you worry, never fear, Robin Hood will soon be here."
    • Bugs tricks the Sheriff into buying the King's royal garden. Later he starts building his dream house, he's nearly half done when he realizes what happened. He gets angry, crushing the nails between his teeth. He starts banging his head with a hammer.

Sheriff of Nottingham: Oooohhhhh, I hate myself! I do! *bang* I do! *bang* I do! *bang* I do...

  • Bugs' Bonnets is full of these. The sheer premise is bizarre enough as is.
  • Here, Porky Pig somehow rolls three tropes into one, and adds a subversion at the end.
    • As Ralph Wolf, he's in a great extended scene where he obscures Sam Sheepdog's vision with hair-growth tonic. Spending a very long time checking if the dog can see him, going from super cautious to super confident, he heads down to the meadow, slowly reaches out for a sheep while hiding behind a shrub, and the dog streaks down from the bluff and pummels him like a speed bag! Then the 5:00 whistle blows, and they peaceably clock out and go home.
  • Carrotblanca. The scene where Bugs and Daffy takes shots of carrot juice never fails to crack me up. Especially when Daffy takes three shots at once.
  • "Hillbilly Hare." The goddamned square dance.
  • "What's Opera, Doc?" Kill the Wabbit! Kill the WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT!
    • Kill da wabbit?
      • "Whaddya expect from an opera? A happy ending?"
    • "The Rabbit of Seville":

Yes...you're nice and clean,
Although your face looks like it may have gone through a machine.

    • And as well, when Bugs makes the fruit salad on Elmer's head. Arguably the funniest visual non-sequitur ever.
  • this scene
    • That's from 1949's "For Scent-imental Reasons," the only Pepe cartoon to win an Oscar. Unfortunately, that scene has been edited on TV (on ABC, some British channel called ITV, and Cartoon Network [which aired that cartoon uncut until 2003] due to the part where Pepe fakes his suicide).
      • "Wild Over You" (1953; Jones) is one of those cartoons that becomes funnier when you're older and learn what sadomasochism is.
  • Two wartime cartoons—the entirety of "Falling Hare" and the climax of "Draftee Daffy":

So long, Dracula! If I never see you again, it'll be too soon!

    • In "Draftee Daffy", he locks the "little man from the draft board" inside a safe and laughs evilly, turning into a devil.
  • "Plane Daffy". "I'll do the job! I'm a woman-hater! She won't get to first base, this Hatta Mari tomater!" (Delivered by Daffy, with his chest puffed out, his head in the air and his eyebrows going up and down repeatedly.)
  • The recent "Blooper Bunny" has some funny moments:

Bugs(sarcastically as record gets stuck during the filming of a dance scene): "What's UP, doc?(walks off stage, record's still stuck) Monotonous, isn't it?"

    • Daffy also gets in a Take That against Disney at one point.

Daffy: The next thing you know, they'll stick with me with three snot-nosed little nephews. I wouldn't put it past them.

"A runabout! I'LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVERR KNOOOW!"

    • Or when he selectively turns it off,

"Dear rich Dora Standpipe, HOW I LOVE HER... *beat* ... Father's money!"

  • "Long Haired Hare." Full. Effing. Stop.
  • In "Beanstalk Bunny" Bugs and Daffy end up in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Daffy is Jack, and Elmer is the Giant. Daffy tries to deny being Jack. "His name is Jack! JACK RABBIT!" But Bugs just keeps denying it until the Giant decides "I guess I'll just open with a pair of Jacks."

Daffy: It's a lie! It's a lie! My name is, uh... Aloysius!

  • "Ballot Box Bunny" concerns Bugs and Yosemite Sam as rivals running for mayor. At one point, Sam decides to drum up public support by kissing babies. The first baby he kisses spits and gags in disgust after Sam kisses him, but the real laughs come from when Bugs disguises himself as a baby to cause Sam trouble.

Bugs "Waaah! He bit my widdle nose! He bit my widdle nose! That bad man bit my widdle nose!"
(Cue Sam being beat up by a crowd of angry mothers.)

      • Its funnier when you realize Bugs kissed him.
    • Also, when Sam tries the piano gag on Bugs, and it explodes on him so that he just tips over backwards in shock, with only a shred of his mustache left, and his whole face black.
    • My favorite part is this exchange:

Bugs: *Imitating Theodore Roosevelt* I speak softly, but I carry a biiiiiig stick!
Yosemite Sam: WELL I SPEAK LOUUUUUUUUUUD AND I CARRY A BIIIIIIIIIGGER STICK! And I use it, too! *Hits Bugs on the head*

  • "One Froggy Evening," by critical and fan consensus one of the greatest Looney Tunes ever, if not one of the greatest cartoon shorts, period. The whole cartoon is a Crowning Moment of Funny, but this troper's favourite bit is where the frog's hapless manager experiments with different signs to draw patrons to the act, without success. The clincher? "FREE BEER," which produces an instant stampede of patrons, trampling the manager.
    • And you can guess the reaction of said audience lured in by that sign when, besides the frog not performing, there's no free beer...
  • "Easter Yeggs", where Bugs takes over for the Easter Bunny and tries to deliver Easter Eggs to the world's brattiest kid. After the first visit to the kid's house results in Bugs being beaten up by the kid, and then fleeing under a hail of gunfire the following ensues:

Easter Bunny: But you can't quit now, you'll give the Easter Bunny a bad name!
Bugs: I already have a bad name for the Easter Bunny!

    • The way Bugs sings "I'm the Easter Rabbit, horray!" in a grumpy tone, hopping along with his arm holding the basket in a death-grip that just oozes sarcasm before fading to the next scene.
    • Said bratty kid also is a bit of a Brick Joke. Later in the cartoon, Bugs is on the run from Elmer and looking for refuge. He opens the door to a random house only to find the bratty kid inside, demanding an Easter Egg, to which Bugs can only shove the door shut in his face while yelling "Oh Nooooooo!". However, Bugs is able to rid himself of both of them by painting Elmer's head like an easter egg, attracting the attention (and hammer) of the kid.
  • Porky in Wackyland has an example listed on its page.
  • The Wartime Cartoon classic Russian Rhapsody from Bob Clampett has one early on, specifically, Hitler's opening speech. And it has another one at the climax, where Hitler has the crap scared out of him by the mere sight of a mask of Stalin.
  • The overly long fall from the Bugs Bunny short "The Heckling Hare".
    • Also the scene where Bugs tricks the dog into squeezing a tomato in his paw, making the dog think he's crushed Bugs. He then has a My God, What Have I Done? moment, and leaves flowers at Bugs' rabbit hole. Bugs comes out, takes the flowers and gives him a "Take That!" Kiss.
  • Porky the Wrestler: Porky is hitchhiking. A car stops.

Man in car: Where are you headed, son?
Porky: W-w-why I'm g-g-goin' to the wr-wr-wrestling match.
Man in car: So am I! (drives off without him)

  • The joke makes a return in Thumb Fun, where Daffy tries to hitchhike south for the winter. He sticks out his thumb and an old man in a jalopy promptly stops:

Old Man in car: Hey, lemme tell ya' sometin' Sonny, I NEVER PICK UP HITCHHIKERS! NOPE! NOPE! I NEVER DOOOO! Whelp, Goodbye! (drives off)

  • Hair-Raising Hare is chock full of them, the Mad Scientist lab, complete with flashing neon sign. A monster so hideous, it scares its own reflection, Bugs packing several suitcases of towels before making his escape, all to the tune of “California Here I Come”, disguising himself as a lamp and then breaking into a soft shoe routine when the monster actually falls for it, the manicurist scene and probably the best Is There a Doctor In the House? gag you’ll ever see.

Bugs: - “Is there a doctor in the house?"
Audience Silhouette: - “I’m a Doctor!”

Bugs: - “Eh, what’s up Doc?”

    • You just know the writers had been itching for an excuse to use that gag.
      • Along the same lines, once or twice Bugs greeted Daffy with "Ehh, what's up, Duck?"
    • Also, Bugs playing manicurist to escape the monster (he pulled a similar gag as a hair-dresser in Water Water Every Hare): "My stars, I bet you monsters lead interesting lives. I was just saying to my girlfriend the other day, Gee, I'll bet monsters are interesting, the places you go and the things you must see, my stars..."
  • Pick any cartoon that has Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam in it and it's sure to be funny. Among the best examples,
    • "Rabbit Every Monday", which climaxes with Bugs convincing Sam there's a party going on in a pot-bellied stove, only for there to actually be a party going on.

Bugs: I don't ask questions, I just have fun!

    • "Hare Trimmed," where it ends with them almost getting married and leaving Granny locked in her room.
    • "From Hare to Heir", Sam, in a suit of armor, falls down a long flight of stairs, cussing loudly the entire way...
      • Don't get this troper started on how hard she was laughing during that scene including the two times that Sam fell down into the moat, screaming and cussing all the way.
  • Bugs Bunny Rides Again has many of the quintessential Bugs/Sam gags.

Sam: This town ain't big enough for the two of us.
Bugs: It ain't? Pardon me, Mac. [Runs offscreen and builds a city] Now is it big enough?

    • The "number-shooter" guns.
      • "Pea shooter"
    • Sam making Bugs dance and then vice-versa.

Bugs: Poor little moroon. So trusting. So naive.

    • "I dare you to step over this line."
      • "I'm a-steppin'!"
    • Sam chases after Bugs on horseback - Bugs races through a tunnel, Sam heads through, Bugs bricks up the tunnel's end...WHAP.
  • The (now-banned) 1959 short "China Jones" has Daffy as the title character looking for a case. He runs afoul of a Dragon Lady.

Dragon Lady: Me Dragon Lady.
Daffy: Indeed now? And why would they be calling you the Dragon Lady?

(Dragon Lady exhales a wall of fire, burning Daffy from head to toe)

Dragon Lady: Is answer question?

Daffy: (slurring) Yep...is answer question.

  • From Hare Do: Elmer walks up to these theater doors when suddenly the sign above flashes "Intermission" and the audience comes out and tramples him. Just as Elmer gets up, the sign flashes "Curtain" and the audience runs back inside, trampling him again. This repeats a few more times as we see Bugs is pulling the switch that's triggering the sign.
  • The Rabbit Of Seville: Bugs making a fruit salad on Elmer's head is arguably the funniest visual non-sequitur ever.
    • The lyrics Bugs added to "The Barber of Seville" were hilariously ingenious as well.
  • In "8-Ball Bunny" (the name has nothing to do with the toon, besides the title card), Bugs agrees to take a penguin back to his natural habitat. When he sees that this natural habitat is the South Pole, he looks at the screen, shocked, and says in a funny pose and black preacher voice:

Bugs Bunny: Oooooh, I'm dyyyyyyyyyyyin'!

    • Then, upon reaching the South Pole, the penguin reveals he was raised in captivity, and his "home" is really Hoboken, New Jersey.

Bugs bunny: Oooooh, I'm dyyyyyyyyyyyin' again!

  • "Bugs and Thugs": all of it, but specifically this scene.
    • "Shut up shuttin' up!"
  • Anytime the Mynah bird makes an appearance (you know, the hopping, teleporting bird always accompanied by his leitmotif), much to the confusion of the others.
  • Hot Cross Bunny - Bugs mistakes a surgical amphitheater full of doctors for a vaudeville stage and tries out a number of acts. When nobody laughs, Bugs remarks "tough crowd", unaware that said doctors are only there to see Bugs get his brain implanted into a chicken. Once he figures it out, Hilarity Ensues.
    • "I don't wanna be noooo chicken!" "Yes you do!"
    • Later, when Bugs tries his hand at chemistry:

Bugs: HALT! One more step and I'll blow ya up! This contains manganese, nitrate, phosphorous, lactic acid and dextrose!
Scientist: Ha, ha, ha, ha, that is the formula for a chocolate malted!
Bugs (looks at the beaker, takes a sip): Yum yum! I'm a better scientist than I thought!

  • "Porky Pig's Feat" when Daffy shoves his head straight into the hotel manager's face.

Daffy: Hey look, a Dick Tracy character. Prune Face.

    • Especially the scene where Daffy yanks the rug out from the hotel manager's feet, sending him falling down the stairs all the way to the bottom floor. This troper can't even begin to describe how hard she was laughing during that scene.
    • At the end, Porky and Daffy get placed in the hotel prison chamber and call Bugs Bunny for help. Turns out he's in the next cell.
  • Anything featuring this troper's favorite Looney Tunes character, Charlie Dog.
    • From "Often An Orphan":

Charlie: But mostly I'm all Labrador Retriever!
Porky Pig: Oh, you are not a Labrador Retriever.
Charlie: I'm not?
Porky Pig: No!
Charlie: Look, if you doubt my word, get me a Labrador, and I'll retrieve it for you. That's fair, isn't it?
Porky Uh, a Labrador? Why, sure, I uh...
Charlie Have you got a Labrador?
Porky: No.
Charlie: Know where you can get a Labrador?
Porky: No.
Charlie: Then shaddup!

Bugs: Gee, I don't get it, Doc. Why'd you lock me outside?
Sam: Outside? Why, you're inside!
Bugs (laughing): Oh no I'm not, I'm outside. YOU'RE inside.
Sam: I am? (opens the door) Well then get in there!

Bugs (shrugs and walks out with the key as Sam gets in and closes the door): Boo-hoo. Now I'll never see my wife and kiddles again. Boo-hoo-hoo.

"We was in the house and everything was flying! The furniture was goin' in the door and out the window! What a time! One guy was swingin' from the chandelier! You'd 'a thought he was a monkey! Come to think of it, he WAS a monkey!"

  • In "The Daffy Doc", Daffy is an assistant to one "Dr. Quack". After kicking Daffy out of the operating room for acting too crazy, Dr. Quack is seen with a needle and thread, stitching and muttering, "That crazy duck! He does not realize the seriousness of this situation." It's then revealed that he's been stitching up a football, and he kicks it around, laughing maniacally. The rest of the animals gathered to watch the operation look at each other, then pull out pennants and start cheering.
  • "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" is one of his best early shorts, climaxing with a frankly amazing film he puts together by adding a new soundtrack to goofily-edited live-action Warner Bros. stock footage. For example, not only is there a new lion at the Central Park Zoo, it informs us in clumsily-dubbed speech that "Motion pictures...are...your best...entertainment!"
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