The double pun of the title is quite good. Bugs, as the shopkeeper, tells Sam to call him Ishmael, a line from the beginning of Moby Dick.Bugs leans on a tall stump and says, "Watch your step. It's a doozie." to Daffy. Daffy, hanging by one foot from a strap and his head pressed hard into the ground by an anvil, replies, "You're despicable!"
Bugs arrives at Loch Ness without realizing he wound up there rather than Palm Beach. The rabbit relaxes in the water with the help of an inflatable toy to help him float. Mistaking the toy for the Loch Ness monster, Sam attacks and deflates it. Bugs wants payment for a replacement and Sam isn't about to pay it.
Back on his boat, Sam sees what appears to be the neck and head of the Loch Ness monster and moves in closer. Misjudging distance in the fog, Sam wrecks his boat when he collides with a surfacing submarine. The Commodore General, Bugs, asks about the attack and Sam tries to explain it was hunting accident. Sam is told he needs to pay for a monster hunting license and for the replacement floater.
After Bugs has the submarine dive, Sam swims ashore and is welcomed into a shop that supplies monster hunters. The proprietor, Bugs again, warns Sam about the dangers by showing his wooden leg. He also suggests Sam use live bait that is so lively it ties itself around him. Bugs then uses that and Sam as bait.
When the Loch Ness monster appears, a frightened Sam squirms loose and shoots off into some mud, where he is photographed as a bigfoot. Bugs ends up making money by selling Loch Ness Bigfoot cards and figurines at a tourist shop, where Nessie works the cash register.
The double pun of the title is quite good. Bugs, as the shopkeeper, tells Sam to call him Ishmael, a line from the beginning of Moby Dick.
The submarine commander's mustache is not colored in final panel in which it appears. The Moby Dick references aren't quite right. It was Captain Ahab, not the narrator Ishmael, who had a peg leg. Also, Ahab's leg was not wood, but whale bone. (EC) How much did Bugs pay for the the floater? He says Sam owes him $3.95 the first time, and $3.98 two pages later. While it's natural for Bugs to refer to the cost of the floater in dollars, it's rather jarring to see the dollar used as currency in Scotland. Certainly the Loch Ness tourist shop would not be using U.S. currency.After yet another painful failure to catch the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote finds a parcel from Acme waiting for him. The parcel contains a computer and software that will let him simulate attacks and see how well they will work before he tries them for real.
The coyote simulates a plan, and after finding it had no chance of working, sets aside the equipment he would have used for it. Several simulations later the trash pile grows and grows as the simulator gets somewhat insulting about how unlikely success is. However, Wile E. doesn't give up, since at least he's not being clobbered by these failures. Even a very large bomb would not have worked and gets added to the trash.
Finally, after very many simulations, Wile E. finds a plan that gets a rating of 100% chance of success. As he jumps up in celebration at this news, the coyote trips a switch on the bomb and gets blown up along with the successful plan.
The CD box containing the simulation software proclaims "As seen in wars!" A dead Road Runner is a rather unusual sight, though it just in the simulation. Zip drives, which have removable disks somewhat like floppies, are capable of storing far more than floppies can. Zip drives were rather popular before CD writers became inexpensive standard equipment.Daffy asks if the reader likes his loincloth, which shows off his physique. He also explains he's the jungle protector and is always on call. Right now, he hears the calls of gorillas. The duck springs into action, only to get caught up in vines and so decide to take a taxi instead.
In the taxi, the duck explains that he started life as the son of Lord and Lady Grayfeather. The flashbacks show a spoiled duckling throwing his all his food, but Daffy claims he only had a sensitive palate. Lord Grayfeather chartered a ship where the duckling Daffy's tantrums were not appreciated by the crew. Th duck was lost (intentionally) at sea, to the relief of the crew and Lord and Lady Grayfeather.
Daffy, once ashore, was discovered by some gorillas and was just as popular with them as with the ship's crew and his parents. As he recalls a game of hide and seek, the taxi stops. Daffy pays, or tries to pay, in bananas. The duck also swings into action and find the gorillas. The gorillas aren't in need of rescue, they're just playing poker and Daffy has disrupted the game. Daffy ends up being chased by the angry gorillas, the taxi driver who is now driving Lord and Lady Grayfeather around, and the ship's crew.
The story and title are obviously taken from Edgar Rice Burroughs' work Tarzan of the Apes, in which a child of the Greystokes is raised by apes who he then protects. The taxi is very loosely modeled after a Checker cab, made by Checker Motors. This type of cab was retired some years ago, but is still the stereotypical image of the New York cab, owing to its heavy use in TV and films. Note the old fashioned flag meter in front, and equally stereotypical, irascible cabbie, wearing a flat hat.(EC) One sailor uses a pin to be sure that the duckling won't be rescued. Daffy's outfit is not a loincloth, but a pelt more typical of cartoon cavemen.Sylvester realizes he needs help to catch Tweety and notices a web site that is advice site, Dear Tabby, for cats. He sends in his question about how to catch a tweety bird. Tabby suggests Sylvester hide behind a door to have surprise on his side. Instead, Tweety surprises the cat when he enters the room and slams the door, and Sylvester, against the wall.
The cat asks more advice, and is told a net might be effective. When Sylvester tries a net, but instead of netting Tweety, he gets Hector. He asks Tabby what to do again and is told that he needs to distract the dog. Tabby's suggestion is to wear a giant steak and cover himself with steak sauce. Amazingly, Sylvester only realizes the problem with such a scheme as Hector is about to attack the steak.
Having figured out that Tabby's advice is useless, Sylvester sends one more message, suggest Tabby jump in a lake. Tabby is revealed to the reader as Tweety, who says the advice worked fine for him.
On the first page, the tiny text on the computer screen reads, "hey it's time to do some lettering everyone loves to type things on the internet hooray this is fun. Sylvester please do us all a favor and turn off the computer" The name of the site plays on the name of the long-running newspaper advice column, Dear Abby. Sylvester's hand and foot pads are not colored in. The ending of this story seems rather obvious even as soon as the second panel of the story where Tabby's face is hidden by a hat.Note: This is issue is the ten-year anniversary issue. The first issue of this series of Looney Tunes comics was dated April 1994. The comic was not always published monthly. Production issues made publication irregular in late 1995 and the comic went bi-monthly for 1996, only returning to a truly monthly schedule into 1997 - and later one issue was pulled together from stories already published in other countries. That month, the then-running Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain comics were not published at all. That might explain why this anniversary went by without being noted by the issue. Another reason might be that issue numbers seem to be considered more important than anniversaries. The effort put forth for the 100th issue, using many artists rather than just a few, makes this point quite well.
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