The cartoons in the first week of That's Warner Bros.! were "One
Froggy Evening", "Ballot Box Bunny", and "A Broken Leghorn" of Show 1;
"Backwoods Bunny", "Daffy Duck Hunt", and "Feed the Kitty" of Show 2;
"Curtain Razor", "No Barking", and "Bear Feat" of Show 3; "Beanstalk
Bunny", "Mixed Master", and "Lumber Jerks" of Show 4; and "Lovelorn
Leghorn", "Birds of a Father", and "What's Up, Doc?" of Show 5. A
beanstalk is a towering floral growth similar to a tree though not of
the same color and composition; the similarity is sufficient, however,
to connect "Beanstalk Bunny" with "Lumber Jerks". Circus feats are
performed, with mixed success, by
a high-diving dog in "Curtain Razor" and by the Three Bears in "Bear
Feat". "No Barking" and
"Mixed Master" have in common the element of the energetic canine, i.e.
Frisky Puppy and Robert(a). Miss Prissy is teased by her fellow hens in
both "A Broken Leghorn" and "Lovelorn Leghorn". Sylvester's encounter
with an irate badminton player in "Birds of a Father" foreshadows his
and Tweety's participation in the game of rackets and shuttlecocks in
Show 6's "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" in week 2. Bugs and Elmer perform on a
stage in "What's Up, Doc?" and in Show 6's "The Rabbit of Seville".
Entry into show business is difficult for both the construction worker
in "One Froggy Evening" and young Bugs in "What's Up, Doc?".
Week 2's constituent cartoons were "The Rabbit of Seville", "Bad Ol' Putty Tat", and "A Waggily Tale" of Show 6; "Boobs in the Woods", "The Egg-Cited Rooster", and "Much Ado About Nutting" of Show 7; "Yankee Doodle Bugs", "Martian Through Georgia", and "Fowl Weather" of Show 8; "Often an Orphan", "From A to Z-z-z-z", and "A Star is Bored" of Show 9; and "Bugs Bonnets", "Canary Row", and "The Mouse On 57th Street" of Show 10. "The Rabbit of Seville" and Show 1's "One Froggy Evening" exactly one week earlier contain opera music. Ralph Phillips imitates General Douglas MacArthur in "From A to Z-z-z-z", as too does Bugs in "Bugs Bonnets". A theme of American patriotism associates Bugs' history lesson to Clyde in "Yankee Doodle Bugs" with the flag-carrying toy soldier used by Sylvester in "Fowl Weather". Bugs becomes a policeman in "Bugs Bonnets", there are two men of the law-enforcement vocation in "The Mouse On 57th Street", and the friendly alien of "Martian Through Georgia" is apprehended by two constables for parking his spacecraft in a no-parking zone. The alien in "Martian Through Georgia" is jailed, and a prison motif is present in "A Waggily Tale" ("I wonder what's going on behind the green door."). Farms are a shared setting of "Fowl Weather" and "Often an Orphan". Native Americans are referenced in "The Egg-Cited Rooster" by Henery Hawk's "Injun" costume, in "From A to Z-z-z-z" in Ralph Phillips' fantasy about a Pony Express delivery, and in "Bugs Bonnets" when Bugs acts like a warring Mohican.
Week 3 contained Show 11's "Gift Wrapped", "Aqua Duck", and "Barbary
Coast Bunny"; Show 12's "Lighter Than Hare", "Chicken Jitters", and "Greedy
For Tweety"; Show 13's "Mississippi Hare", "Weasel Stop", and "The Stupor
Salesman"; Show 14's "The Wearing of the Grin", "Easy Peckins", and
"Home Tweet Home"; and Show 15's "Scaredy Cat", "Cat Feud", and "Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Bunny". Daffy and Bugs fortuitously discover gold in
"Aqua Duck" and "Barbary Coast Bunny" respectively. Daffy hallucinates an
old-fashioned telephone with which he tries to contract "room service"
while lost on a desert; the hotel desk clerk of Show 10's "Canary Row" answers
the same style of telephone. San Francisco is the city most often associated
with trolleys such as that in the closing scene of "Canary Row", and
Bugs visits San Francisco in "Barbary Coast Bunny". These two cartoons also
aired close to each other on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. Another
auric motif: the pot o' gold in "The Wearing of the Grin". The playing of
poker is common to "Barbary Coast Bunny", "Mississippi Hare", and Show 16's
"Wild and Woolly Hare" in week 4. Sylvester remembers his youth in a scene in
"Scaredy Cat", and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny" concerns
Bugs' memories of his own juvenile days. "Weasel Stop" and "Easy Peckins" are
alike in their story of a raid upon a chicken farm by an interloper, the
weasel and the fox.
The fourth week of That's Warner Bros.! was composed of "Wild and
Woolly Hare", "Hippety Hopper", and "I Gopher You" in Show 16; "Fool
Coverage", "Nelly's Folly", and "Prince Varmint" in Show 17; "Rabbit's
Feat", "Cheese Chasers", and "A Kiddie's Kitty" in Show 18; "Duck
Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century", "Feather Dusted", and "A Street Cat Named
Sylvester" in Show 19; and "From Hare to Heir", "Daffy's Inn Trouble",
and "Stooge For a Mouse" in Show 20. Captain Electronic in Outer Space
is watched on television by Suzanne and Sylvester in "A Kiddie's Kitty",
appropriately preceding "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century" of the
next That's Warner Bros.! installment. Acquisition of riches is the
objective for Duke Sam of Yosemite in "From Hare to Heir" and for Daffy
in "Daffy's Inn Trouble". Frontier hotels are an aspect of "Daffy's Inn
Trouble" and Show 21's "Claws For Alarm". Sylvester is fully bandaged by
Suzanne in "A Kiddie's Kitty" and is bedridden with his leg in a cast in
"A Street Cat Named Sylvester". A pesky mouse troubles Sylvester and a
bulldog in both "Hippety Hopper" and "Stooge For a Mouse". One of the
denizens of Nelly's jungle habitat in "Nelly's Folly" is an elephant,
thus corresponding this cartoon with "Prince Varmint", which involves
Viking (Yosemite) Sam's use of a pachyderm.
The cartoons included in week 5's episodes: "A Witch's Tangled Hare", "Mouse Mazurka", and "Claws For Alarm" of Show 21; "Robin Hood Daffy", "Bartholomew Versus the Wheel", and "Rabbit Every Monday" of Show 22; "Bedevilled Rabbit", "Muzzle Tough", and "Road to Andalay" of Show 23; "Bye, Bye, Bluebeard", "Fast Buck Duck", and "The Bee-Deviled Bruin" of Show 24; and "Hen House Henery", "Mouse-Placed Kitten", and "Big Top Bunny" of Show 25. "A Witch's Tangled Hare" and "Robin Hood Daffy" are both set in merry olde England. The east European locale of "Mouse Mazurka" is very close to "Big Top Bunny"'s Bruno the Bear's place of origin. Circus references are a connection between "Big Top Bunny", Show 27's "To Itch His Own", Show 28's "Bear Feat", and Show 30's "Gone Batty". Sylvester's disturbances of Porky's sleep in "Claws For Alarm" are reminiscent of the pajamaed Sam, Duke of Yosemite's frustration with Bugs as his disruptive houseguest in Show 20's "From Hare to Heir". "Fast Buck Duck" continues the trend of episodes of That's Warner Bros.! in these weeks to show a character seeking financial advancement and luxury.
Week 6 consisted of "Bill of Hare", "Cheese It- the Cat!", and "Snow
Business" of Show 26; "Paying the Piper", "Hoppy Go Lucky", and "To Itch
His
Own" of Show 27; "Hare-Way to the Stars", "Go Fly a Kit", and "Bear
Feat"
of Show 28; "Goldimouse and the Three Cats", "Thumb Fun", and "Southern
Fried Rabbit" of Show 29; and "Bully For Bugs", "Gone Batty", and
"Naughty Neighbors" of Show 30. Daffy and Bugs share the same southward
destination of travel in "Thumb Fun" and "Southern Fried Rabbit".
"Paying
the Piper" accords with "Too Hop to Handle" (Show 35 in week 7) in that
both
cartoons parody "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", which is a fairy tale of
the
same type as "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", which is itself spoofed
in
"Goldimouse and the Three Cats". Mice exit the coziness of their holes to seek food in "Cheese It- the
Cat!" and "Snow Business".
The seventh week of That's Warner Bros.! was composed of the
following cartoons: "One Froggy Evening", "It's Nice to Have a Mouse
Around
the House", and "Banty Raids" of Show 31; "Crockett-Doodle-Do", "The
Turn-Tale Wolf", and "Rabbit's Kin" of Show 32; "Putty Tat Trouble",
"Goo Goo Goliath", and "The Iceman Ducketh" of Show 33; "Wild and Woolly
Hare", "Ducking the Devil", and "The Pest That Came to Dinner" of Show
34; and "Hyde and Hare", "A Broken Leghorn", and "Too Hop to Handle" of
Show 35. Urban park or zoo attendees are frightened by an unwelcome
addition
to their surroundings in "Hyde and Hare" and "Ducking the Devil", and a
park
is shown briefly in "Too Hop to Handle", "Putty Tat Trouble", and "One
Froggy Evening". Tweety partakes in drinking a strange substance in
"Putty
Tat Trouble", as does Bugs in "Hyde and Hare". "Putty Tat Trouble" and
The
Iceman Ducketh" transpire in snowy surroundings. The little bunny relays
to
Bugs his impression of his voracious pursuer, Pete Puma, in "Rabbit's
Kin",
and Bugs similarly enacts the nature of Hyde for Jekyll in "Hyde and
Hare".
Zoos are shown in both "Goo Goo Goliath" and "Ducking the Devil"; white-plumed birds, storks and pigeons, are respective elements of "Goo Goo
Goliath" and "Hyde and Hare"; and science is a shared theme of
"Crockett-
Doodle-Do" (Egghead Jr's interest) and "Hyde and Hare".
Week 8's installments were as follows: Show 36 with "False Hare", "Porky's Prize Pony", and "The Lion's Busy"; Show 37 with "A-Haunting We Will Go", "Fox Terror", and "Knights Must Fall"; Show 38 with "Don't Axe Me", "Dog Tales", and "Satan's Waitin'"; Show 39 with "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", "Cats and Bruises", and "Porky's Romance"; and Show 40 with "Dough For the Do-Do", "There Auto Be a Law", and "Rabbit Romeo". "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" follows by four That's Warner Bros.! shows "Hyde and Hare" of Show 35. Halloween-type horror in "A-Haunting We Will Go" and "Satan's Waitin'" connects with "Hyde and Hare" and the allusions to the Robert Louis Stevenson classic "bogey tale" in "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"; these episodes were all shown close to Halloween. Again is a park a setting, this week in a scene in "Dog Tales". Sylvester's hot rod Speedy-pursuing vehicle in "Cats and Bruises" alludes to the fast cars of "There Auto Be a Law". In "False Hare", Bugs remarks that the Club Del Canejo "rabbits' club" will, "...set rabbits back a thousand years," a suggestion of reversed evolution that aptly follows Bugs' regressive transmutation in Show 35's "Hyde and Hare". Affection of undesirable quality is foisted upon Porky Pig by Petunia in "Porky's Romance" and upon Bugs by gun-toting Elmer's Slobovian guest bunny, Millicent, in "Rabbit Romeo".
The contents of Week 9 were "Bugsy and Mugsy", "The Stupor Salesman",
and "Catty Cornered" of Show 41; "Mother Was a Rooster", "The Unexpected
Pest", and "Hot Cross Bunny" of Show 42; "The Wearing of the Grin", "The
Dixie Fryer", and "Strife With Father" of Show 43; "The Slap-Hoppy
Mouse", "A Peck o' Trouble", and "A Star is Bored" of Show 44; and "The
Unmentionables", "Dough For the Do-Do", and "Ant Pasted" of Show 45. A
rubber band is utilized by the military ants in "Ant Pasted" as a
slingshot, and one of the denizens of Wackyland in "Dough For the Do-Do"
is a "rubber band", musical that is. Show 41 was essentially "Looney
Tunes fight crime", in that "Bugsy and Mugsy", "The Stupor Salesman",
and "Catty Cornered" all contain criminal adversaries for the lead
characters, Bugs, Daffy, and Tweety and Sylvester. Rocky and Mugsy were
in two cartoons in this week's installments, "Bugsy and Mugsy" and
"The Unmentionables". "Hot Cross Bunny" with its laboratory marks three
consecutive weeks with cartoons possessing such a setting or allusion
thereto, "Hyde and Hare" and "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" being the other
cartoons of this sort in the preceding two weeks. "The Dixie Fryer" and
"Strife With Father" feature carnivorous, bumbling birds: chicken hawks,
sparrows, and Beaky Buzzard.
Week ten's cartoons were "Rebel Rabbit", "High Note", and "Scaredy Cat" of Show 46; "Tree Cornered Tweety", "The Henpecked Duck", and "Rabbit's Feat" of Show 47; "Rabbit Every Monday", "Wild Wild World", and "Boobs in the Woods" of Show 48; "Good Noose", "Each Dawn I Crow", and "Mississippi Hare" of Show 49; and "Hot Cross Bunny", "The Jet Cage", and "It's Hummer Time" of Show 50. The events of "Good Noose" and "Mississippi Hare" are situated on boats on which stowaways are severely punished. Daffy's predicament in "Good Noose" is correspondent with that of John Rooster in "Each Dawn I Crow", by both birds doing all that they can do to prevent death by the neck. Scientific and technological advancement is the shared theme of two cartoons in Show 50: "Hot Cross Bunny" and "The Jet Cage". Cat and bulldog are cemented to form a water fountain in "It's Hummer Time", and feline Rudolph collides with a water fountain in "Puss N' Booty" in Show 53 in week 11.
In week 11 were these cartoons: "Raw! Raw! Rooster", "Kiddin' the Kitten", and "Now Hare This" of Show 51; "Lighthouse Mouse", "Plane Dippy", and "Crockett-Doodle-Do" of Show 52; "Bully For Bugs", "Puss N' Booty", and "Corn Plastered" of Show 53; "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century", "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe", and "The Bee-Deviled Bruin" of Show 54; and "Dog Pounded", "Corn On the Cop", and "Bedevilled Rabbit" of Show 55. Little Red Riding Hood is a connection between "Now Hare This" and "Little Red Rodent Hood" in Show 60 in week 12. Aerial hijinks are a commonality of "The Jet Cage" of Show 50 and "Plane Dippy". "The Jet Cage"'s futuristic technology motif is an apt connection with "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century".
Week 12's cartoons consisted of "Bunker Hill Bunny", "Greedy For
Tweety",
and and "Porky's Cafe" of Show 56; "Robin Hood Daffy", "Rocket-Bye
Baby",
and "Hare-Way to the Stars" of Show 57; "Tweet and Sour", "Don't Axe
Me",
and "Sleepy-Time Possum" of Show 58; "Knights Must Fall", "The Film
Fan",
and "Tease For Two" of Show 59; and "Little Red Rodent Hood", "The
Yolk's On
You", and "Cat Feud" of Show 60. Sylvester and Daffy strive respectively
to prevent their threatened demise in "Tweet and Sour" and "Don't Axe
Me",
both of which are set on a farm. "Rocket-Bye Baby" and "Hare-Way to the
Stars" are science fiction cartoons with outer space as a setting to
some
extent; Daffy meets a cosmonaut in orbit around Earth in "Tease For
Two".
Sylvester and Daffy are respectively threatened with doom in "Tweet and
Sour" (violin string factory) and "Don't Axe Me" (decapitation for the
Fudd
dinner table). "Robin Hood Daffy" and "Knights Must Fall" are
medieval-period
adventures for Daffy and Bugs, respectively. Gold is Daffy's desire in
both
"Tease For Two" and "The Yolk's On You". The bulldog in Show 63's "A Fox
in
a Fix" in week 13 uses the expression of, "The yolk's on you," in regard
to
an egg on the head of his fox foe, thus recalling the title of the
second
cartoon in installment 60.
The episodes of week thirteen: Show 61 with "Wideo Wabbit", "Tweety's S.O.S.", and "Strangled Eggs"; Show 62 with "Thumb Fun", "The Rebel Without Claws", and "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"; Show 63 with "Duck Amuck", "A Fox in a Fix", and "Claws For Alarm", Show 64 with "Spaced-Out Bunny", "Pop 'im Pop!", and "Suppressed Duck"; and Show 65 with "Southern Fried Rabbit", "A Bone For a Bone", and "Putty Tat Trouble". Yet again are "Thumb Fun" and "Southern Fried Rabbit" near each other, with Daffy trying to travel to the American South and Bugs walking due south to Dixie in hope of hefty harvest of his favorite foodstuff. "The Rebel Without Claws" and "Southern Fried Rabbit" pertain to or reference the American Civil War.
As Season 1 of the WB's The Bugs N' Daffy Show varied only from That's Warner Bros.! in replacing "The Bee-Deviled Bruin" in Shows 24 and 54 respectively with "Beanstalk Bunny" and "What's Up, Doc?", the same analysis of episodes is applicable, with these exception cartoons. The crow in "Corn Plastered" (Bugs N' Daffy Show 53) plays a piano with the same vim as does juvenile Bugs in "What's Up, Doc?" (Bugs N' Daffy Show 54).