Looney Tunes/Headscratchers

Looney Tunes

• Why does Elmer Fudd hunt? Ignore his lack of success against Bugs for the moment and consider three of the all-time classic cartoons, in which Bugs and Daffy argue about which of them is to be hunted. (It's the Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Trope Namer, after all.) Every time Daffy loses such an argument, he gets shot, yet recovers nicely with nothing more than some bill readjustment. Clearly Elmer's not out for game. Perhaps sport, then? (In contrast, Yosemite Sam has also hunted Bugs on at least one occasion, but he explicitly intends to cook him, as proven when the second half is devoted to putting Bugs in the oven.)
  • Somewhere in the hunting trilogy (forget which one) this is explicitly covered when Bugs and Daffy take turns reading duck and rabbit recipes in an effort to get Elmer excited. The little guy just shrugs. "Sowwy fellas, but I'm a vegetawian. I just hunt for the sport of it!"
  • He's very devoted to his hobby.
    • It's the first one; Rabbit Fire.
  • Not to mention the fact that he cries whenever he's fooled into thinking he's finally killed Bugs Bunny.
    • There's another where a mountain lion hides out in his home to escape hunting season. There's other animal trophies. And they all run away when hunting season's over. Elmer's comment: How long it took. For the Lulz indeed.
  • In one short, it's for sport, in another, it's for stew. Of course...
  • Elmer's Candid Camera is considered the first appearance of Elmer. In the cartoon, he's trying to take pictures of wildlife, but a mischievous rabbit (which is a Bugs Bunny prototype) keeps interrupting him and ruining his day. He eventually got tired of it and wanted to trap him to slow him down, but the rabbit pretended to die, thus making him upset he killed him. Well, this being Looney Tunes, he flipped the net over him and left. Then immediately afterward, Elmer goes insane and keeps chanting "Wabbits, wabbits!" as he destroys his camera. Since then, and this is just Wild Mass Guessing, Elmer has been hellbent on hunting down Bugs Bunny for ruining his sanity.
• If Road Runners can't read, how does the Road Runner always know to stop for free bird seeds?
  • The pile of birdseed in the middle of the road? Even if it does have lead pellets or gunpowder in, lead supposedly tastes good, and he might have thought the black powder was just weird dust.
  • One also has to remember during every Coyote/Road Runner confrontation that the RR really, really enjoys messing with Wile E.'s mind. He may be telling the truth about being illiterate, but more likely isn't.
  • You do realize that he was holding up a sign that claimed he couldn't read, right? Unless someone made it for him and explained its purpose to him in beeps, I think this was an intentional joke.
  • The Road Runner is a Reality Warper; he can do or know whatever he wants.
• Because no one has yet listed it here: In "Rabbit Fire", we clearly see Daffy getting the How to Cook Rabbits book out of Bugs' rabbit hole. Why does Bugs own a copy of a book about cooking his own species? This is so bewildering that John Madden pointed it out while commentating on Cartoon Network's Big Game between Bugs and Daffy in 2001.
  • Perhaps Bugs is a (pardon the pun) voracious reader.
  • It's a horror book to him.
    • Bugs' hole is a TARDIS.
• Shouldn't Pepe Le Pew be able to tell that the cat isn't a skunk by the fact that she doesn't smell?
  • Since Pepe's entire schtick is based around the fact that he doesn't realise he smells -- or at least, smells bad -- no, not really.
    • In one of the shorts he makes a comment implying that he does know he smells ("When you are a skunk, you learn to hold your breath for a long, long time")
  • He's A Man, He Can't Help It
• What is with all those trucks that sometimes run over Wile E. Coyote? How is it the drivers don't see a coyote in the middle of the road?
  • Who says they don't? It's a wild coyote vs. a truck. There's no danger that a coyote's going to damage the truck, so you just keep on going. That's kinda how roadkill works.

• How is this one not in here? Foghorn Leghorn is in a box but the kid digs him up and goes to check the box but says "I just might be in there" Is he?

• Why don't we just say Rule of Funny for everything? It IS Looney Tunes after all.
• Why is Feed the Kitty considered sad? I've watched it several times and I never found it sad at all, I always laugh during the part where the dog believes the cat has been baked into a cookie, because we know damn well that the cat is okay. And this is coming from someone who normally cries in most sad scenes in media.