Looney Tunes/Awesome

• Bugs is a walking fountain of this. Take for example, being able to defy gravity for comedy in the Friz Freleng short "High Diving Hare".
• "A Wild Hare", Bug's first official short, may well have been the CMOA for the entire series. As soon as Bugs walks off into the distance, playing his carrot like a flute, you just know things are never going to be the same in the Looney Tunes world again.
• Carrotblanca can be considered one for the guys back in Warner Bros., for being able to insert so many of the Looney Tunes regulars (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, etc.) in a single short.
• The very first Duck Season! Rabbit Season! bit in the Looney Tunes episode Rabbit Fire. After the part quoted, Bugs pulls it off on Daffy two more times, but each time doesn't make the switch until just before Daffy calls on Elmer to fire. He's got Daffy figured just that quickly.
• While Bugs Bunny's entire filmography is pretty much wall-to-wall Awesome, the second half of Chuck Jones' Long-Haired Hare stands out in particular to this Troper.
  • Honorable mention: The square dance at the end of Hillbilly Hare makes up the entire second half of the short and is made of utterly hilarious win. Arguably a Crowning Moment of Awesome for voice artist Mel Blanc as well, but don't take our word for it.
• Old Glory, in terms of art and its dramatic depiction of American history and teaching Porky the reason why the Pledge of Allegiance is important.
• Bugs and Elmer harmonizing in "The Wacky Wabbit".
• As awesome as many of the protagonist's victories were, it was even more awesome when one of the shorts' recurring Butt Monkeys finally got a victory over them (granted they were usually villains, but their sheer harmlessness and likable qualities made you desire at least one moment of triumph over their smug foes). Elmer Fudd (eg. Rabbit Rampage, Hare Brush) and Daffy Duck, even post-Flanderization (eg. Ducking The Devil, Mucho Locos) perhaps scored the most frequent and most satisfying victories.
  • To elaborate, Ducking The Devil involves Daffy luring the escaped Tasmanian Devil back to his zoo for a cash reward of "five hundred Gs"; Daffy succeeds, and when Taz snatches up a dropped dollar, Daffy charges into the Devil's cage, attacks him and WINS.

"I'm a coward, but I'm a greeedy little coward!"

• • Mucho Locos exists as perhaps the only cartoon where a foe actually defeats Speedy Gonzales, with Daffy whacking him with a mallet after hearing him tell one to many stories about "El Stupid Duck".
  • Rabbit Rampage basically involves Elmer beating Bugs at his own game he used on Daffy in Duck Amuck, taking the animator's chair and using his brush to morph Bugs and the cartoon to all manners of innovative torture.
  • My personal favorite is To Duck...or Not to Duck, with Elmer Fudd facing Daffy in a boxing match with another duck as the referee. Naturally, things are pretty skewed against him, starting from when the referee demonstrates all the illegal moves on him. Except at the end of the fight, Elmer points out that Daffy had done a few of those moves, and demonstrates the whole routine again against Daffy and the referee at the same time.
  • And of course Elmer seemingly killing the wabbit in the most dramatic and atmospheric manner possible in What's Opera Doc, avoiding crossing Moral Event Horizon by breaking into remorseful tears straight afterwards.

Elmer: "Typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes....SMOOOOOGGGGGGGG!!!!!"

• "The Ducktators" has to be the best anti-Nazi propaganda cartoon rom Warner Bros..
• Sylvester gets a Crowning Moment in the Chuck Jones cartoon Scaredy Cat. Porky Pig and his pet Sylvester find themselves in a haunted house, where the mice terrorize Sylvester by throwing knives, bowling balls and other weapons at him and Porky. Porky, of course, is oblivious to the threat, until, fed up with Sylvester's seeming cowardice, heads into the kitchen to confront the source of Sylvester's fears. The mice end up leading him to the executioner's block, and Porky, tied up under a mass of ropes, can only hold a sign saying, "You were right, Sylvester." Sylvester runs to the hills, only to be confronted by his conscience(a pale blue Sylvester standing next to a reader-board). His conscience points out that Porky raised him from a kitten, and then shows a comparative size chart of Sylvester and a mouse, and finally produces a sign reading, "Now get in there and fight! Fight! FIGHT!!!". This starts Sylvester getting riled up, to the point where he runs up to a tree, rips off a limb with his bare hands and brandishes it like a club--before discarding the limb and uprooting the whole tree and charging back to the haunted house to kick mouse butt!
• A small one from the special Bug's and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals: while playing separate pianos, Bugs and Daffy alternately recite lines of the poem that accompanies the section. They begin to lean progressively further back against each other, until they can't possibly be able to touch the keyboards, but the piano music inexplicably continues. Pan out to reveal that they're now playing with their feet. While looking absolutely chill about it.
• At the ending to "Chow Hound", the dog who has been abusing a poor cat brings him to his many owners in exchange for several big cash rewards which he blows on meat...and winds up at the hospital for eating too much. The cat then returns with his similarly abused mouse friend, and this time, he didn't forget the gravy (the very reason for the dog's abuse of him).
• "Scrap Happy Daffy" AMERICANS DON'T GIVE UP
  • The ending of "Daffy the Commando", where Daffy actually knocks Adolf Hitler in the head with a large mallet.