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{{quote|''"What am I talkin' to you for? All you gotta do is munch on a carrot and people love you."''|'''[[Daffy Duck]]''', to [[Bugs Bunny]]}}
The second feature film attempt at reviving the [[Looney Tunes]] franchise since the fall of the original [[Warner Bros]]. cartoons, after ''[[
Rumor has it that Dante made this revival in response to his deep hatred for the previous film incarnation, calling this the "anti-''Space Jam''". Ironically, its working title was ''Spy Jam'', and had an action-oriented, [[James Bond (
Financially, it performed even worse than ''Space Jam''... in fact, it's estimated that Warner Bros. lost between $60 million and $80 million on the film, making it one of the biggest box office flops ''ever'' -- [[Franchise Killer|theaters retracted the film out of embarrassment, and the series of brand new theatrical cartoon shorts were all canceled...]] some of which ''were already finished''. This film made the company realize there doesn't seem to be any clear future for the Tunes, except for the occasional television special, [[Duck Dodgers|a faithful new TV series]] and [[Loonatics Unleashed
Also worth noting that this is the last film to be scored by composer [[Jerry Goldsmith]] before he passed away after a long struggle with colon cancer (his illness kept him from completing the film, with the final reels scored by John Debney). It is also Peter Graves' final film appearance.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
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'''Daffy''': HA! You, a stunt boy!? Please!
'''D.J.''': I am! You seen those ''[[The Mummy Trilogy
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: A lot of Fraser's commentary for the first ''Mummy'' movie is him pointing out stunts he didn't do.
** Taken to extremes when D.J confronts 'Brendan Fraser' and punches him out for getting him fired.
** [[Timothy Dalton]] is D.J.'s father, who's [[James Bond|a British secret agent]].
* [[Adam Westing]]: Besides playing D.J. Drake, Brendan Fraser also plays...Brendan Fraser. Who ends up [[Self
* [[Advertised Extra]]: Tweety, who (not counting the scenes where he is really Taz in disguise) appears in just one scene. (It should be noted that, according to the [[Deleted Scene|Deleted Scenes]] featurette, Tweety originally was intended to actually take part in the film's original climax, in which DJ zaps him with a Blue Monkey, which turns him into a Pterodactyl, and he then eats the Chairman.) Even more so the Road Runner, who despite appearing for just a cameo that consists of running past the screen, is prominently shown on the DVD cover.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: The first car that Daffy and DJ get into when they leave DJ's house. It falls apart as soon as they try to start the engine the second time in Las Vegas.
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*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Didn't Warner Bros. use to make cartoon shorts in that style?
* [[Ash Face]]: Appears briefly in the opening remake of "Rabbit Fire".
* [[Aside Glance]]: Many characters do this when the ridiculousness of their situation is just too much to handle. Like when a Wal-Mart mirage shows up and they [[Lampshade]] [[Product Placement]]
* [[Basement Dweller]]: According to Warner Bros. executives, Daffy's entire fanbase is made up of these. [[Unpopular Popular Character|Never mind that he was the one who]] [[Duck Dodgers|got his own series later]], [[Hilarious in Hindsight|not Bugs]].
* [[Big Bad]]: Mr. Chairman.
* [[Bland
* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[Chew Toy]]: Daffy's status as this is what causes him to get fired.
* [[Cameo]]: Numerous, occasionally pitting celebrities playing themselves.
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: See Art Shift above. Also, as stated above: DJ Drake, played by Brendan Fraser, punches... Brendan Fraser.
** In an [[Animate Actors]] kind of way, this trope also applies to the Looney Tunes themselves. Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, Speedy and several others are depicted as actors who did star in their real-life shorts, but Tweety, Sylvester, Taz, Yosemite Sam, Marvin and several others are just depicted as people who hase seemingly no connection to the Warner Bros. studio.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Daffy's bill detaching from his face.}}
* [[Cool Car]]: The Spy-mobile
* [[Creator Backlash]]: Since the film came out, [[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Bugs, Daffy, and especially DJ.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Kate, with modern day sensibilities, very much doesn't appreciate Bugs' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] style of humor.
* [[Disaster Dominoes]]: On a smaller scale than most disasters, but Daffy still makes a big mess when he crashes the Batmobile into the Warner Water Tower.
* [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!]]: Both played straight at the beginning, and later [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] later on after Daffy's been fired from Warner Bros.
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'''Bugs Bunny''': Duck season!
'''Elmer''': Wabbit season!
'''Bugs''': Duck season!
'''Elmer''': Wabbit season!
'''Bugs''': Wabbit season!
'''Elmer''': Wait a minute... * looks at script*
'''Bugs''': See, I told you this wasn't gonna work without- * Elmer shoots him* }}
** One would think this evidently leads to [[The End of the World
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* [[Efficient Displacement]]: The cartoon characters, of course.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: While chasing the heroes with a stick of lit dynamite:
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'''Mook 1:''' But innocent people could be hurt...
'''Sam:''' THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW!
'''Mook 2:''' [[Think of the Children|It'll send the wrong message to children!]]
'''Sam:''' '''THROW IT OU-''' *explosion* '''OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!''' }}
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Reportedly, a ''lot''. Tons of scenes that were in the middle of animation were cut by the producers. Not to mention the lousy marketing.
** Also given several [[Take That]] moments in the movie.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Elmer revealing his employment with Acme is almost certainly an excuse for him describe himself as "secwetwy eviw".
* [[Face Palm]]: Daffy: "You know, I'm beginning to think that ''this'' one is the spy car!" * Bugs facepalms*
* [[Fake
** The deleted scenes had a ''very'' different opening for the film, which features Daffy as a superhero fighting an evil Elmer Fudd and his organ operated robot-thingy (a [[Crazy Awesome]] opening not so different from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'')--only to reveal that it's Daffy trying to pitch a film idea, with the Warner Bros. complaining that he killed Elmer in the end.
*** To be fair, Elmer wasn't too happy about it either.
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Mr. Chairman
** [[The Dragon]] / [[The Brute]]: Mr. Smith {{spoiler|aka She-Devil}}
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* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: When the flying car runs out of gas, it stays in the air until someone points out that laws of physics says they should be falling.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Ron Perlman as a wimpy Acme exec is about as far from [[Sons of Anarchy|Clay Morrow]] as you could possibly imagine.
* [[Human
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: While the gang wanders across the desert, Kate admits she never wanted to work in comedy, she wanted to work in movies about the human condition with social relevance.
* [[Idiosyncratic Wipes]]: Bugs gets the heroes from one location to the next by simply lifting the current shot to the next one.
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* [[Interface Spoiler]]: {{spoiler|The DVD's scene (chapter) selection menu reveals there is a [[The Stinger|Stinger]] at the end.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: [[Better Than a Bare Bulb|Lots of it.]] Mostly done by Kate, who will explain from a corporate standpoint, why they should allow this.
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** The crash-landing scene:
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'''Bugs''': "Well, whadaya know. Outta gas!"
'''Kate''': ''(As scene begins to fade out)'' "What? That's not how it works!"
''(fadeout disappears and car smashes into the ground)''
'''Bugs''': "[[Sarcasm Mode|...thanks, toots.]]" }}
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: The Area 52 scene, featuring [[The Day of the Triffids|a Triffid plant]], the eponymous ''[[Robot Monster]]'', the mutant from ''[[This Island Earth]]'' and even '''[[Doctor Who
** Forget Kevin McCarthy mumbling about how [[Invasion of the Body Snatchers|they're here]]?
*** Well, it is a Joe Dante movie; he had to make an appearance somewhere in there... along with [[Dick Miller]].
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*** Entirely by coincidence, this movie was released November 14, 2003, NINE DAYS before the fortieth anniversary of ''Doctor Who''.
* [[The Millennium Age of Animation]]
* [[Mythology Gag]]: [[Space Jam
** "Thith doesthn't make a ''lick'' a' sensth."
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Played straight then subverted when Mr. Chairman orders Marvin the Martian to destroy Daffy.
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* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: Parodied with the Chairman's deathtrap.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: Bugs: "Daffy learns never to stick his head in a jet engine!"
* [[Picture Pastiche]]: During the art museum chase; it's also revealed via x-ray glasses that the Mona Lisa has a bra and a skeleton.
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** ''"How nice of that Walmart to give us all these free Walmart merchandise and Walmart beverages in return for saying Walmart so many times"''
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: [[Parodied]] by Pepe Le Pew (big surprise there)
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'''Pepe:''' Ahh! It is spring. Is it not? }}
* [[Retcon]]: The whole reason this movie exists (see opening paragraph for an explanation). It managed to be truer to the characters and humor than ''[[
* [[Road Movie]]
* [[Robot Dog]]
* [[Rule of Funny]]: As opposed to ''[[
* [[Scooby
* [[Shout
** Bugs recreates the [["Psycho" Shower Murder Parody|iconic scene]] from ''[[
** There's a scene in the casino of every Looney Tunes dog character playing poker.
** There is also a couple of [[Doctor Who
* [[Shown Their Work]]: When Elmer confronts the heroes at gunpoint, Bugs asks, "What gives, Doc? We made 35 pictures together!" If you count ''only'' the theatrical shorts (not any made-for TV shorts such as "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers"), 35 is the amount of cartoons Bugs and Elmer appeared in together.
* [[Single
* [[Slapstick]]
* [[Split
* [[Starring Special Effects]]
* [[Stealth Pun]]: As DJ and Daffy go into the garage, the theme from Gremlins (which was also directed by Dante and whose score was also composed by [[Jerry Goldsmith]]) sneaks into the music. Guess what model of car they drive off in.
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: When Daffy enters DJ's home, he sees all of Damian's movie posters and thinks that DJ is the son of a famous spy. DJ explains to Daffy that Damian must be a spy who maintains the persona of a famous actor playing a spy as a cover. He's completely right, naturally.
* [[Take That]]: Two in one scene: First one, see [[Celebrity Paradox]] above. Meanwhile at a nearby table...
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'''Speedy Gonzales:''' You're telling me. }}
** Also, during Mr. Chairman's succession of unmaskings, one of the disguises is... [[Space Jam
** Ron Pearlman's character (the VP who gets devoured by Taz), is a not-too subtle caricature of Ted Turner.
* [[Take That, Audience!]]: Kate reports that Bugs Bunny is popular with both men and women of all ages and nationalities, whereas Daffy Duck is only popular with "fat, basement dwellers."
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Brendan Fraser playing three different characters, one of them even punching another near the end.
* [[Talking
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* [[Tempting Fate]]: The ACME VP tells Wile E. Coyote to watch out for various expensive and valuable things, each time Wile E. runs in to them.
* [[Throw It In]]: Brendan Fraser kept imitating the Tasmanian Devil, so the producers decided to let him voice Taz.
* [[Throw the Dog
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0nFSDObX0 This one] sure does! [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Bet you're headed over to Amazon already, though!]]
* [[Trailer Spoof]]: One trailer appeared to be for the next [[James Bond]] movie, showing 007 onscreen. Then it turned upside down and pulled back...
* [[Troubled Production]]
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]:
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'''CEO''': "That's not a billion." }}
* [[Viva Las Vegas]]: Though D.J. and Daffy never actually get to enjoy the sights, D.J. goes undercover as a dancing extra behind a correspondence, they get their first clue on their search from a dancer played by Heather Locklear, the Head of Acme hires Yosamite Sam to catch them, and it's where they meet up with Bugs and Kate!
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* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: Bugs feels this way about Daffy being fired, and eventually Kate sees the error of her ways too.
* [[Wrong Turn At Albuquerque]]: Lampshaded.
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* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Mr. Chairman has Taz eat one of the VPs for questioning him. Also, a [[Deleted Scene]] reveals the reason why the VPs had to press their buzzers before speaking up.
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'''Chairman:''' ''[grins evilly]'' Oh goody. You forgot to press your buzzer.
''[The VP gets covered in plastic wrap]'' }}
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