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** One particular example is in "The Whizzard of Ow", wherein during the climax, Wile E. Coyote's mode of transportation turns into a crocodile, which proceeds to bite the Coyote's nose off.
* [[Born in the Theatre]]: Most Looney Tunes, classic or modern, aired in theaters before they aired on television, and they often have gags messing with the [[Fourth Wall]] of [[Film]].
* [[Bowdlerization]]: When aired on television (and sometimes, home video—usually gray-market, public domain videos; the official release videos and DVDs try to make it as uncut as possible. If there are any missing scenes, it's because some of those scenes were lost long ago), a lot of the violent and politically-incorrect scenes and gags will be altered or cut. There's a website dedicated to tracking down what cartoons were edited and what channel edited them: [https://web.archive.org/web/20170314074040/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The damage done to it ranges from large cracks to pulverizing it to a fine powder. On more than one occasion, near the end of a cartoon, the film suddenly breaks, leaving the screen white. A character from the cartoon then steps out onto the white screen and says, "Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to continue with this picture."
* [[Breakout Character]]: THE WHOLE SERIES has lived and breathed this trope. It all started with Friz's [[Batman Gambit]] in 1935 to jump start Leon's ailing cartoon studio with several new cartoon characters in the short "I Haven't Got A Hat"-two pups named Ham and Ex, Kitty, Oliver Owl, Beans the Cat and Porky Pig. Porky was an instant hit with audiences, even though the studio thought for some reason that [[Flat Character|Beans]] would be the studio's next bankable star-but he too quickly faded into obscurity while Porky became the studio's star--'''THEN''', two more stars broke out from Porky's cartoons-a little [[Daffy Duck]] from "Porky's Duck Hunt" and the [[Bugs Bunny]] prototype "Happy Hare/Bugs' Bunny" from "Porky's Hare Hunt", "Hare-Um Scare-Um" and "Presto-Change-O." Oh, and Bugs Bunny himself obviously.
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