The title and subtitle play off of the 1995 film Get Shorty which had "Attitude plays a part" in its promotion.A searchlight illuminates three cats, including Sylvester, wearing sunglasses and jackets, and a surprised and worried Tweety. Above, the title "Looney Tunes" is all in white, and in the light are dark letters, "presents Get Tweety" while below the picture is the subtitle, "Appetite plays a part."
The title and subtitle play off of the 1995 film Get Shorty which had "Attitude plays a part" in its promotion.
Granny, with the help of Tweety pointing out obvious clues, has just solved a mystery and found Sylvester to be the culprit. But it's not real, they're all acting for the "Murder, She Wrought" television show. Off camera Tweety is treated well but Sylvester is not and complains to his cat agent.
His agent has an associate, another cat who is looking for a star for his new cooking show for cats. All he needs is Sylvester and a great recipe for the first airing. Sylvester has just the idea: Tweety fricassee. The three felines set off to catch Tweety. Sylvester's first try only catches an autographed photo. He suggests they split up and they do, wandering around various sets.
The new director stumbles into a gangster show and gets taken for a ride. Then he faces Tweety who is armed with a water Tommy gun, and finally ends up with cement shoes. The agent winds up on a Chinese set where he faces a gang of martial artists. Tweety, like a good martial artist, uses the cat's strength against him quite effectively. Sylvester ends up on a set for horror, where Tweety scares him so much he backs into a fire, igniting his tail. Tweety does put out Sylvester's tail, though he uses more water than was probably needed.
Their attempts all ending in painful failure, the cats regroup and reconsider. The agent and director promise Sylvester he'll have a great movie. As they leave and as a studio representative reads a disclaimer saying no cats were hurt, Tweety cuts a rope that holds a safe above the cats. After the safe crashes down, the representative backpedals.
Page 1: Sylvester is reading "101 Ways to Cook a Dead Fish." Sure it sounds unappetizing, but when was the last time you cooked or ate a live fish? Page 1: The show title "Murder She Wrought" plays off of the TV show Murder, She Wrote which featured an elderly lady writer solving crimes. The "Shocking, isn't it?" comment about another murder echoes a common comment about the show, which originally took place in a very small town yet had a murder every week. Page 1: The bit about union rules isn't much exaggerated, if at all. Page 2: Robert Graff is having some fun here, with having the agent say "Hip, Fab, Fun." This was the style of the original cover for this series of Looney Tunes comics, which he changed as fast he could. Page 3: Tweety was in "Seedless in Seattle" and "Dances with Cats" which would be the Looney counterparts to the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle and the 1990 film Dances with Wolves. Page 5: Sometimes a water spray is used to discourage cats. Page 5: Everything has a sequel nowadays, even wet cement. Page 6: The fortune cookie (and fortune) was made by the Peeking (Peking) Noodle Company. Page 7: Being hungry again shortly after a Chinese meal is a common concept. (I don't know why. I tend to be satisfied for several hours, myself. ...PN) Page 7: Note the spicy sound effects. Page 8: The various graffiti refer to Kilroy of World War II fame, Jason of the Friday the Thirteenth films those films themselves, and Freddie Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street films. Page 10: Bob Saget hosts America's Funniest Home Videos. Page 10: After activists raised concerns about treatment of animals during filmmaking it has become common for a disclaimer such as attempted to be placed in the end credits of films. Typically there is some representative from an animal welfare organization present when the animals are filmed to validate that claim.
Sylvester's foot pads aren't colored in. Page 3: Tweety is actually canary, not a parakeet. Page 4: The car has rear 'suicide' doors in the fourth panel, yet in the fifth panel the rear door opens hinged at the front rather than the back. Page 10: How did the director get his feet free of the set cement between panels two and three?Bugs relaxes in the desert sun, his only concern being to avoid sunburn, when Yosemite Sam arrives to build his town. Naturally Sam just happens to want to build his town exactly where Bugs doesn't want it. Sam insists Bugs help him, threatening violence. Bugs obliges, in his own special way.
First Bugs seems to confuse directions for backing up a dumptruck, resulting in Sam getting dumped on. Then Bugs learns to use a jackhammer, taking down whatever Sam has managed to build in the process. Next Bugs actually does build, at Sam's insistence. However, he builds around Sam, trapping him in a sealed room. When Yosemite demands to be freed, Bugs obliges with a wrecking ball.
There's a ready-made town hall, by Acme, but Bugs tricks Sam into triggering the setup himself. Sam ends up hanging from a statue on the hall. A chase ensues and the rabbit tries a door to nowhere trick but this time Yosemite spots it for what it is. His rage is too much for him and Bugs does trick him through it using the 'I dare you to cross this line' bit, but true to cartoon physics, Sam hangs in the air as he hasn't looked down. Seeing this, the rabbit draws another, dotted, line for Sam to cross, in mid air. Now Sam looks down but manages to hang on to the line. Bugs 'accidentally' drops the chalk as he's handing it to Sam, and has similar luck with an eraser. Sam plummets.
Bugs dons a doctor's outfit and rescues Sam from the hole he made with his fall. After a not recommended test of reflexes, Bugs gets Sam up on a flagpole to juggle as a test of balance. Adding one more, heavy, item to the mix of things to juggle sends Yosemite crashing down into a mixer full of cement. Bugs then uses the cemented, motionless, and silent Sam as a statue and resumes his relaxing.
Page 12: Bugs' version of home on the range reveals the area to be the desert southwest, where Road Runners are found. Page 12: Bugs' comment about a little rush hour on the prairie refers to Little House on the Prairie which was a TV series based on a book of the same title. Page 15: The pedal normally in that spot, to the left of two others, would be the clutch pedal, not the accelerator. The registration is off on page 15 and more noticeably on page 20.There are two one-page fillers.
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