Talk:Looney Tunes: Back in Action

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does anyone know where to see the animaniacs deleted scene?

Contents 1 Cultural riffs 2 Hallway dash art references 3 Mona Lisa 4 Three Bears 5 Movie summary 6 Plant Monster 7 Lola Bunny In Looney Tunes Back In Action 8 Cast list 9 Requested move 9.1 Voting 10 Nemo reference 11 Unreleased shorts 12 Dubious and unreferenced "alternate ending" moved from Trivia section 13 Rating

[edit] Cultural riffs

My main motivation for creating this page was to list the incredible number of hilarious cultural references that Larry Doyle and company sprinkle throughout the movie. I realize that rather overbalances the article, but it seemed silly to create an article about the movie with only a paragraph or two like most current movie articles, and then create a separate article many times its length to list the riffs. I invite others to elaborate on the movie itself as desired in order to provide more balance. -- Jeff Q 05:03, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Hallway dash art references

I mentioned that "in the frenetic scene where Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer dash in and out of various doors in a hallway, they appear in many characterizations of famous art works." Unfortunately, I am rather ignorant on this subject and could not identify 14 of the 15 quickie characterizations. (I only recognized number 3 — Bugs as "Whistler's Mother". I suspect that Bugs' rather wraith-like appearance in number 8 was an Edward Gorey riff.) I invite any serious art students to review the movie and provide a quick list of each characterization. — Jeff Q 22:12, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mona Lisa

I haven't seen this movie, and probably won't anytime soon. (Not to say I don't like Looney Tunes; I grew up on them!) Could someone who's seen the movie please update Mona Lisa#Role in popular culture, describing exactly what they did to her? :-) Thanks, • Benc • 10:03, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Done. — Jeff Q 02:14, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Many thanks, Jeff. • Benc • 06:16, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Three Bears

I think the Bears in the Eiffel Tower scene are actually the "Three Bears" characters created by Chuck Jones and seen in such Looney Tunes shorts as "A Bear for Punishment", etc. Jeff schiller 00:00, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to review LTBiA again to check out this and the Mona Lisa question above. I've been doing some research on classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and may have some additional info that would help verify this. I'll post what I find out and do appropriate updates (unless someone beats me to it). — Jeff Q 04:48, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I still haven't gotten my hands on any of the Three Bears cartoons, but I did see that Stan Freberg, who did the voice of Junyer Bear in most of them, was credited with the voice of Baby Bear in LTBiA. I've deleted my erroneous reference to the Hillbilly Bears. Someone might want to list the specific WB characters that appear in the movie, so links can be provided to Wikipedia pages on them. — Jeff Q 01:58, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'm your man! I kept the list while watching the first time.

[edit] Movie summary

There really needs to be more about the movie summary in this article; all the references are fine but they're ultimately dominating the article. -- Wack'd About Wiki 07:22, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

As the guy who created this article and added most of the cultural references, I heartily agree (see Cultural riffs above). The great thing about Wikipedia is that anyone can contribute whatever information they have, so nobody has to do the whole job themselves. It was my hope that folks would be sufficiently concerned about the imbalance to jump in and add the summary. I'm rather surprised that no one has done so in nearly a year! — Jeff Q (talk) 09:54, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Plant Monster

I belive that the Plant Monster in the Area 52 scene is a Triffid

[edit] Lola Bunny In Looney Tunes Back In Action

Although, she does not make any 'official' appearance in the movie, she can be seen in many background posters with either by herself, with Bugs Bunny, or with both Bugs and Daffy. (See screen-shots of the scenes in question from the movie.)

Here, we will quote what I believe is an indirect reference to the whole Lola Bunny controversy:

(--Looneyman 21:00, 12 July 2005 (UTC)is to be credited for this description of the scene)

In the restaurant, as Kates discusses with Bugs Bunny his to-be popularity without the assistance of Daffy Duck: ...Kate: "Answer, we team you up with a hot female co-star."( App. ref. to Lola Bunny, conveniently in the background poster.)

Bugs: "Usually, (spin changes into drag queen outfit and starts talking in high, female voice) I play the female love interest."

Michigan: (in backround) Hello, my baby, hello, my darling, hello my ragtime doll...

Kate: "About the cross-dressing thing. In the past, funny. Today, disturbing."

Bugs spin-changes back to normal attire except for lipstick as Michigan stops singing.

Bugs: (while wiping off lipstick) "Lady, if you don't find a rabbit with lipstick amusing, you and I have nothin' to say to each other."

--Looneyman 21:00, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Q: Was Kate suggesting that Honey Bunny was actually nothing more than Bugs Bunny cross-dressing? If so it would be a plausible explanation to her dissapearance, and to Lola Bunny replacing her as a way more contemporary version of a 'Bugs Bunny sweetheart'.

Besides, this little discussion DOES make up for the damage done to the character's personality in Space Jam since Bugs acted then, a little too 'boorish' and all 'head over heels' over Lola. It also gives us a little idea that says something among the lines "Bugs Bunny's character will not completely be changed for a non-needed greed of popularity, he will simply evolve with time as will his fans".

I like to think, and hope we will be seen more of Lola Bunny in future Looney Tunes movies, though it is sad to think that such characters can be so easily invented then discerned by WB for commercial purposes. I, once a Honey Bunny fan, have easily welcomed Lola Bunny's 'fresh and feminine' character but I doubt I will, in the same way, accept her suddenly dissapearing to be replaced yet again by a new one: It is about time that WB declared an official Bugs Bunny 'girlfriend and sweetheart'.

Females have been diregarded for years and years by Looney Tunes now. They have come and gone. Examples such as Melissa Duck, Petunia Pig and Tasmanian She Devil have all had maybe two appearances and then disappeared never to be heard from again. Lola is no different from them. Sure the way Bugs Bunny was portrayed in Space Jam was way off, but that is no need to get rid of what could have been a leading female Looney Tunes star. My opinion doesn't matter so I can only hope the current writers can listen to longtime fans and finally include a female lead instead of a one time appearance female supporter.

---Nilie DaStar-- for Wikipedia.Nilie 19:57, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Couldn't agree with you more.

WAVY 10 18:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I think the WB should let female characters(Lola Bunny, Melissa Duck,Petunia Pig and Tasmanian She Devil) appear in some cartoon shorts in the future. (If they plan to create more cartoon short)

User: Ken Seng1991

[edit] Cast list

Do the movie credits really list the characters as "George Washington 'Bugs' Bunny", "Porcine 'Porky' Pig", etc.? — Amcaja 21:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

No, George Washington Bunny is Bugs's real name according to a comic book, and Porcine Pig is Porky's real name according to the book Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and only one Gray Hare.--JFP 03:23, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

• Dated November 7, 2006

By "JC"

I would like to know why Warner Brothers is currently having second thoughts about the popularity of the Looney Toons! If so, why did they release the film on DVD? Also, why did they release the Looney Tunes: Golden Collections? Please give a citation, someone!

By Concerned Animation Historian

[edit] Nemo reference

I doubt that the Nemo thing's the exact thing. I saw that the fish was red (in the DVD anyway), and I don't think it had three stripes on it. So I highly doubt that it's a proper reference. --Addict 2006 22:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unreleased shorts

I hope Warner Bros. releases the shorts that were scrapped with the failure of this movie in the near future.

WAVY 10 18:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Posted by "JS" [I used to go as "JC", which explains why that's on this page just a few remarks above this one] on December 27, 2006, answering WAVY 10's question: Actually, I think they already have. I've seen this Duck Dodgers short called Attack of the Drones or something like that on the Internet, although I can't remember where. Also, they've just recently released, on video and television, a pleasant 45-minute long feature called [[Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas]] Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la! It was great, by the way. Also, I have spotted an error in the article for which this talk page has been supplied. In the CULTURAL REFERENCES--ART REFERENCES part of the article, it states that Elmer, Bugs, and Daffy dash in and out of doors in the hallway, appearing in various homages to works of art. Actually, I believe they jump out of actually paintings in the Louvre hallway, not doors. Am I correct?

Yeah, I saw "Bah-Humduck". It was okay, not (obviously) on par with the original or some of the special shorts from the early '90s, but it's a start.

WAVY 10 00:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Posted by JS on January 7, 2007: I agree with you, WAVY 10, that "Bah Humduck" is not on par with the classic shorts (Maybe when I said "great", I should have put "better than expected.") The designs of Gossamer, Hubie and Bertie, and Wile E. seem particularly off-center. But the one great thing about Bah Humduck is this: it gives Daffy a chance to be in the spotlight. You can go to the Daffy Duck article's talk page and look under "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAFFY!" to get a better understanding of what I mean.

[edit] Dubious and unreferenced "alternate ending" moved from Trivia section

• An alternate ending for the movie involves DJ in Africa who has turned his dad into a monkey so he can escape from Mr. Smith, which he does. Mr. Chairman complains, telling Mr. Smith to throw Daffy Duck into a vat of lava. DJ then throws the Blue Monkey at Mr. Smith's head, which doesn't work, while Kate picks up the diamond and accidentally turns Bugs into one of his very early characters, Happy Rabbit (Happy's first appearance since Elmer's Candid Camera). Mr. Smith approaches Kate, then she throws the diamond to DJ, only to be thrown to Mr. Chairman. Afterwards, Daffy manages to steal the diamond from Mr. Chairman, but then, Mr. Smith starts approaching him, to which he becomes frantic. He tries to zap him with the diamond, but only succeeds in turning Kate in a cavewoman, while turning Bugs from Happy Rabbit to Prehistoric Bugs. Then Daffy tries to fix the problem, only to turn himself into an egg with two feet. DJ then grabs the Monkey, but Mr. Smith grabs him by the neck, but his whistle-watch tells him to take a break. Mr. Chairman commands him to return, but Smith merely says "Take it up with the Teamsters." DJ now is about to zap Mr. Chairman, but he says by zapping him, he will only succeed in making him smarter. Then, he pulls out a bag containing the Tasmanian Devil, who threatens to kill Bugs, Daffy, and Kate. DJ has a choice of zapping the chairman or Taz. He decides to zap a nearby Tweety Bird into the lava, to which Mr. Chairman says "I've enjoyed many of your films!!", then he tells DJ to give him the diamond. DJ gives it to him. DJ now asks him where birds are descended from. Mr. Chairman brags that he was taught in the very finest schools in Europe. "Birds, my friend, are descended from..." Then a pterodactyl Tweety Bird arrives out of the lava. "...the dinosaurs," he finishes afraid. He then spots Tweety behind him, then he says in a Porky Pig manner, "That's all folks!!" Then Tweety eats him. Tasmanian Devil becomes scared, and turns into little pieces and goes away. Tweety spits out the diamond, DJ grabs it, and turns Tweety back into a little canary.

This seems a little "out there" to me. If someone can reference it, then clean it up and put it back in. Mdotley 03:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

That scene is actually real. It was included on the "Out of Action" deleted scene montage bonus feature on the film's DVD and a similar ending was used in the film's video game adaptation.--JFP 03:26, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rating

It says on the back of the DVD that this film is rated PG for mild language and inuenndo. There was inuendo, but I didn't here a single swear in this film. Could someone explain?

Actually I think there is a momentary use of profanity. Right when the film cuts to the scene where Steve Martin is reprimanding Wile E. Coyote, I can remember him saying "Goddamn, man, what am I going to do with you? ..." But I'll check the DVD to make sure. — Cinemaniac (talk • contribs) 02:58, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

No, I was wrong. The Chairman just says "My God, man! What am I going to do with you?" I didn't catch any other swear words either, so I'm curious about the rating, too. — Cinemaniac (talk • contribs) 14:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, according to this site, that use of "My God!" was good enough to give the film a PG rating for "mild language." Hmm. . . — Cinemaniac (talk • contribs) 23:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)