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* [[Pink Elephants]]: A drunk is terrorized by a trio of pink elephants in "Calling Dr. Porky".
** Also played with in "Punch Trunk"; a drunk stumbles out of a bar, notices the miniature elephant on the sidewalk, looks at his watch, and tells the elephant, "You're late!"
* [[Pin -Pulling Teeth]]: Just about any time someone uses a grenade.
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: Tweety when he was under Bob Clampett's direction. Not so much when he was under Friz Freleng's direction, but he still had his moments. Chester the dog in "Tree for Two" and "Dr. Jerkyl's Hyde."
* [[Plummet Perspective]]: When Wile E. Coyote falls.
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** With some assistance from Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester chalks up a win at the end of 1964's ''A Message To Gracias.''
** With some assistance from Bugs Bunny, the Big Bad Wolf (from the "Three Little Pigs" story) chalks up a win at the end of 1949's ''The Windblown Hare.''
** Shep, the egotistical canine from Chuck Jones' ''Fresh Airedale'', is more [[Took a Level Inin Jerkass]] than villain, although his goal -- to eliminate a Scottish terrier who was deemed the city's top dog -- would seem evil enough to qualify him as a villain. It goes awry as Shep nearly drowns and the terrier rescues him. But when the terrier collapses from exhaustion, everybody -- the press included -- fetes Shep as a hero that rescued the terrier.
* [[Telegraph Gag STOP]]:
** Used ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAEIW3rmvQ&t=6m00s I Love To Singa]''. A receptionist receives a telegram from a sleazy deliveryman. She reads it and the camera pans away.
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* [[Tree Cover]]: Used frequently.
* [[Turtle Island]]: In "The Ducktators," an Emperor Hirohito duck places a sign on a turtle, who gets mad and beats him up with said sign (despite that the duck briefly stops him to show a button that reads, "I am Chinese" -- a reference to Chinese-American immigrants who were mistaken for Japanese and were put in internment camps because of it).
* [[Un CancelledUncancelled]]: A few times. The first was in 1953 when WB temporarily closed the cartoon unit for a few months, due to a variety of factors like the 3-D fad; the unit opened a few months later. The next was in 1963 when WB, facing increasingly stiff competition from TV and less theaters running theatrical shorts before movies, shut the cartoon unit down again. From 1964 to 1967, cartoons were produced at [[De Patie]]-Freleng instead. In 1967, production resumed at Warner Bros. but only two years later, the cartoon division was shut down for good.
* [[Uncle Tomfoolery]]: The reason why there's a collection of cartoons called [http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/censored11/ The Censored Eleven], though there are some WB cartoons with extensive black stereotypes in them that ''aren't'' part of this collection, but have been banned from syndication all the same.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]:
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