Looney Tunes: Difference between revisions

For tropes about Looney Tunes in comics, go [[Looney Tunes (Comic Book)|here]]. See also [[Noteworthy Looney Tunes Staff]] for info on the many people who contributed to this franchise.

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* [[Acme Products]] (indirectly) - the Coyote's quest to catch the Roadrunner with gadgets inevitably purchased from the Acme Corporation

* [[And Call Him George]] - the Abominable Snowman

* [[Wrong Turn At Albuquerque]]

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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Pepé Le Pew in most (if not all) of the cartoons he was in (though there were times when the roles were reversed and Pepe became the hunted; and the only cartoon where he wasn't an [[Abhorrent Admirer]] was Arthur Davis's "Odor of the Day"); Daffy Duck in Frank Tashlin's "The Stupid Cupid"; the Mama Bear in "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears"; and the [[Brawn Hilda|portly Slavic-accented female]] bunny Millicent from "Rabbit Romeo."

** Pepe and the cat are special cases; the cat freaks out at his interest mainly because he's a skunk, with all the attendant odor problems. When the tables are turned (often from Pepe either having his stench covered or removed), her attitude flips around as well and she becomes even more aggressive than Pepe was, {{Irony intimidating the hell out of him}}.

* [[Cut a Slice Take The Rest]]: frequently, with various characters, and often with cake.

 

 

* [[Dastardly Whiplash]]: Dan Backslide -- a very deliberate parody of this type -- in "[[The Dover Boys]]"

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Porky was often very verbal about the wacky cast around him, especially when paired with Daffy (particularly the pompous Daffy who was trying to be a star, not the wacky one who always got Porky in trouble); Bugs Bunny…pretty much all the time.

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, and, to a lesser extent, Foghorn Leghorn (with his Southern accent) and Bugs Bunny (with his New York accent), for those who aren't originally from America.

 

 

* [[Genre Killer]]: For a time, there were many Looney Tunes cartoons which consisted of inanimate objects coming to life when a store (usually a bookstore or a 1930s-style grocery store/pharmacy) closed up shop for the night ("Goofy Groceries", "Have You Got Any Castles", "Speaking of the Weather", etc.) The subgenre of cartoons, at least when it came to Looney Tunes, officially came to an end with 1946's "Book Revue" which, coincidentally, was also the last cartoon Bob Clampett got credit for. Though in a subversion, "Book Revue" is actually the best of this subgenre.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Petunia Pig in her later appearences.

* [[Iron Butt Monkey]]: Where to start? Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, [[Bread Eggs Milk Squick|Adolf]] [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]... and that's just the villains! [[Trope Codifier]].

 

 

* [[Jaw Drop]]

* [[Jerkass]]: Michigan J. Frog, Daffy Duck (post-[[Flanderization]]), Foghorn Leghorn ([[Depending On the Writer]]), Yosemite Sam, Tweety (pre-[[Badass Decay]]), Bugs Bunny's prototype Happy Rabbit, Hubie and Bertie.

* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Charlie Dog (the dog who always harasses someone -- usually Porky Pig -- to be his master). Daffy sometimes played this role as well (especially under Robert McKimson's direction).

 

 

* [[Made of Iron]]: Everyone.

* [[Mad Love]]: Pepé Le Pew, though there are some examples of this from the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

* [[Overly Polite Pals]]: Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers.

 

 

* [[Packed Hero]]: In "I Gopher You", featuring the Goofy Gophers, one of the gophers gets canned on a tomato packing line, and the other opens every can, until he finds him in the last can. The first gopher tells his friend that he was in the first can and he started at the wrong end.

* [[Pain Powered Leap]]: A common source of humor; ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' is likely the [[Trope Codifier]].

** Cartoon Network screened the cartoon ''in its entirety'' on 9/26/11.

 

 

* [[Satan]]: Appears in "Sunday Go To Meetin' Time," "Clean Pastures," "The Hole Idea," the Bugs Bunny short "Devil's Feud Cake", (a semi-remake of the Sylvester Cat short "Satan's Waitin'" only with Yosemite Sam) and "Now Hear This."

* [[Saw a Woman In Half|Saw A Duck In Half]]: "It's a good thing I have Blue Cross," from "Showbiz Bugs."

 

 

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Fog- ah say, Foghorn Leghorn. Leghorn, that is.

* [[Victory By Endurance]]: In "Gorilla My Dreams", Bugs Bunny is being chased by a gorilla. Just when things seem hopeless for Bugs, he finds that by the time the gorilla has caught him he was too tired to beat him up and falls over exhausted.

 

 

 

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