High up, amongst the tops of skyscrapers, an upside-down Sylvester uses all four paws to hold on to the I-beam from which he is hanging. Atop the beam, Tweetie looks out from a welder's mask as he weilds a blowtorch and says, "This little piggy..."
Tweety sits on the edge of the roof while Sylvester is on the ground. Sylvester gets a ladder and climbs it, only to have Tweety fly away. As the cat reaches for the bird, he realizes how high up he is and hugs the ladder in a panic. Tweety lowers Sylvester by kicking the ladder away from the wall. When the cat crashes to the ground under the ladder, he's taunted that cats are supposed to land on thier feet.
Tweety claims Sylvester needs practice. The chase resumes with Sylvester on the ground, but not for long. Tweety flies into a construction site and soon the cat takes a work elevator up several stories. Sylvester winds up hanging from a steel beam, at least until Tweety pushes his paws off of it. The cat lands on another beam, but his relief is short-lived as Tweety is operating the crane hoisting that beam. Sylvester falls again, hitting and bouncing from several beams on journey earthward. The cat does land feet first this time, but is still quite dazed by the fall.
Sylvester's hand and foot pads are not colored in throughout the story. The construction elevator and its controls seem rather odd. (EC) The story starts in the afternoon and continues into the evening, but the phase of the moon shown is a waning crescent which would be seen not in the evening but in the morning.Henery Hawk, thinking a mail carrier is a chicken, chases to his truck and is disappointed when the truck takes off with his supposed chicken. Henery realizes the hunt for a chicken has gotten him lost when he notices Tweety and asks about chickens. Tweety replies that Sylvester is the biggest chicken he knows. This is all Henery needs to hear, and soon Sylvester is pestered by the insistent chicken hawk.
The cat sees Henery not as a threat, but as food. Unfortunately for Sylvester, both birds now make things difficult for him. Between Henery and Tweety, the cat gets clobbered with a piece of statuary, his tail chomped by Henery and then pricked by a fireplace poker, much of his fur plucked off, and his feet fried. To quench Sylvester's feet Tweety brings a fire hose and turns it to the cat's mouth.
Despite all that, Sylvester manages to catch both birds. The birds' good luck holds as a step ladder snaps shut on the cat. Later, bandaged and recovering, Sylvester shows Henery what a chicken looks like by point out Foghorn Leghorn in a cartoon. Henery is disappointed to find that chickens are only cartoon characters.
The title plays on the title of Mark Bowden's book, adapted to film in 2001, Black Hawk Down. Tweety is wearing a sailor's hat, like he did on at least one occasion in a Freleng directed cartoon. (EC) Henery has gone after Sylvester before, in Crowing Pains (McKimson, 1947). (EC) Evidently Sylvester wears breifs. Sylvester's hand and foot pads are not colored in throughout the story.Porky Pig reads the poem about pickled peppers but gets tongue-tied. He tries again and again only to get more twisted up. The pig throws the book down in anger and leaves. From bed, Clyde relates that he's told Bugs to get a different sitter, but to no avail.
Yellow narration boxes start to tell the poem of Little Bo Peep as Bugs plays the part of Bo-Peep. Bugs looks for the sheep first with just his eyes, then binoculars, then a telescope, and finally with a fancy radar set. He discovers that not all of the sheep will come home - Taz has been eating.
Bugs and Daffy, dressed a bit like Robin Hood and Friar Tuck, are on the run from the Sheriff, Porky, after causing trouble for the King. Bugs notices an announcement of a tournament and Daffy notices the prize: the hand of the princess and the keys to the castle. As the sheriff's arrows catch up with them again, Bugs and Daffy take shelter in a single suit of armor and make their escape. Finding the dropped announcement, the sheriff makes his own plans.
Disagreeing on direction, Bugs and Daffy crash out of their armor before making their way to sign up for the tournament under assumed names. Daffy hears doubles and thinks tennis, but the opponents play rather rougher. Bugs turns a tennis ball launcher on them and manages to save himself and Daffy. More contests result in Bugs and Daffy doing very well, which amuses the Princess and annoys sheriff.
The sheriff is sure they can't beat him in the joust, as the pair cannot afford a horse. The joust goes on just the same. Daffy becomes Bugs' horse. Bugs uses his own lance like a vaulting pole to avoid the sheriff's lance. Daffy manages to stop the sheriff's horse and send him flying into a heap. Bug and Daffy aren't out of problems, even having won the tournament. To their horror they discover that the fair princess is Petunia Pig.
While dual writting credits aren't too unusual, dual artwork credits - in this case, pencillers - are rather unusual for Looney Tunes. Porky seems to be a surprisingly good shot with a bow, and what's more impressive is doing so well while not only riding, but riding bareback. "What's the hubbub, Bub?" is Titus Moody's gag from the Fred Allen Allen's Alley routines. (EC) In a very unusual portrayal, Daffy actually bleeds when struck with an arrow. This might very well be the first time that blood from a wound has been displayed in any Looney Tunes work. (EC) Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were the Washington Post reporters who covered the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up. This is an interesting anachronistic pairing. It's neither from the era of the classic Looney Tunes nor is it from events current at time of publication. (Is anyone still deluding themselves with the notion that this comic is written solely for kids? ...PN) Vermin, while generally a term for rodents, can mean any undesirable animal so ducks could be considered vermin by those troubled by them. The appearence of Petunia Pig, especially in a role other than just Porky Pig's love interest, is unusual. (EC) The horse that Porky rode bareback on the first page is shown with saddle on the third page. In the third panel of the fourth page, a knight is shown holding his sword by the blade, rather than the hilt, bare handed. On the fourth page, the names Murphy and Malone come out of nowhere and seem not to have any meaning after the Woodward and Bernstein gag in the previous panel. The names Woodward and Bernstein appear again a couple pages late. Was there a name selection gag that was incompletely cut from the comic? The story uses the imagery and rough plot from the tales of Robin Hood, and is thus set in England, well in the past, yet the rental fee for the horses are expressed in dollars?* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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