The title plays on Sergio Leone's classic "spaghetti western" The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.An almost black and white cover. At night, Pepe leans in a doorway as he nonchalantly freshens his breath. In the foreground Penelope poses seductively in a red dress. Above, the series title Looney Tunes is appended with "goes gumshoe!" and lower, the issue title is The GOOD, the BAD, and the STINKY!
The title plays on Sergio Leone's classic "spaghetti western" The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The painting Pussycat Descending a Staircase is stolen from a Paris art museum. Hearing of the theft, several people volunteer to take the case until they hear the thief left a clue that identifies him as Le Whiff. The chief inspector dresses Penelope as a detective and gives her the case, leaving her at the museum where an artist is painting on people, and that includes Penelope.
Le Whiff sees the new Penelope and instantly falls in love. He leaves very blatant clues for her to find, to lead her to him. One encounter with him, however, sends her scrambling away. Le Whiff is determined to be caught and has her fall into his trap. She wastes no time escaping, only to find him again.
Le Whiff tries yet again to be caught, in more than one way, by leaving clue that's too big to miss. Finally, desperate to be caught by her, Le Whiff gives Penelope the painting. The cat returns it and is glad to be taken away as the thief.
Page 1: The painting in the background is a screw and ball. Page 1: Pussycat Descending a Staircase plays on the fame of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2. It is probably easier to see Pussycat as it is not in the cubist style as the Duchamp work is. Page 3: The painting in the first panel must be the Cheshire cat. Page 3: That's a different definition of performance art. Page 5: The painting of the warped clock is reminiscent of Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory. Page 6: The painting Pepe is framed with is the Mona Lisa and the painting behind him has the Peanuts characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown, complete with kite. Not only that, but a snippet of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz's signature can be seen.
Page 1: That is an odd way to display a painting. This really is Looney Tunes... Page 8: Just where is the light atop the paddy wagon? It moves in the last few panels.Hubie and Bertie seem to be able to get away with almost anything when the lady of the house puts her foot down to the cat, Claude. Either he rids the house of mice or gets thrown out. The prospect of the great outdoors is terribly frightening so Claude begs the mice to let him catch them. At first the mice laugh at the idea. Then they get an idea of their own.
Hubie and Bertie add their own text to a book on hypnotism and make sure Claude discovers it. Claude finds it, reads it, and takes it to heart right away. The mice are soon "hypnotized" obeying the cat, but they obey his commands their own way. When told to fetch slippers, they do, but they add glue inside and out. When he tells them to brush him, they send a floor polisher at him. While the cat is dazed the mice make off with more cheese.
Claude examines the book more closely and finds he's been tricked. Then he really reads the book carefully. Hubie and Bertie are soon hypnotized for real and only emerge from their trance once in Claude's stomach.
Page 3: Claude uses Bertie's line. Page 5: Hubie expresses his opinion of Claude even as he plays along, as he doesn't quite call him King Midas. Hubie and Bertie's foot pads appear and disappear through the comic, and when they are there the coloring changes.A museum has just acquired the priceless Bing vase, and must guard it carefully. Though there are guards present, this is a job for Duck Twacy, or he thinks so anyway. He quickly demonstrates a most impressive system of securing the vase in place. It only lacks one item -- the vase. Once the vase is properly placed, Twacy tries to keep watch through the night.
Just after the duck nods off, Bugs, dressed Elvis-style, emerges from the floor only to find he didn't arrive at Graceland. Twacy rants at Bugs only to be asked why he's using a stage name. This results in more ranting and Bugs actually agrees to leave... with a certain souvenir. Thus starts a chase, with Daffy first sending several suits of armor crashing, followed by Bugs launching a missile, and a Daffy (as well as daffy) chariot ride.
Bugs escapes as the duck ruins a dinosaur display with a lasso, then takes out much more with a boomerang. Twacy panics when Bugs has the vase in the gift shop, a room full of similar vases. Soon many are no longer in great condition. Just as he recovers the vase the missile launched earlier comes crashing down, blowing the vase to bits. Daffy is kicked out and Bugs offers to help him find a new job, telling him the destroyed vase wasn't the Bing, and even hints at the location of the real Bing vase.
Page 1: The Bing vase puns Ming vases, from the Ming Dynasty of China, and singer Bing Crosby (whose likeness appears on the vase). The Hope Diamond, here, is shaped like the head of comedian Bob Hope. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby appeared together in several movies. Page 5: Bug's pun is also appropriate as Thanks for the Memories is Bob Hope's signature tune. Page 6: That line goes with that scene, in a very chilling way. Page 8: Bug's remark about television is true as ever. Page 1: The Bing vase is held rather carelessly for an object of its value. Page 7: Just how did Daffy get the lasso around that bone? The vase changes shape and style from each time the real Bing vase appears.* Issue Index * Tabular Issue Index * Story Index * Creative People * Disclaimer *
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Last updated 05 November 2001