Matthew Hunter
05-23-2001, 05:59 PM
This story is in progress at the Toon Zone Storyboard forum...at the momentt it's not a chain story, I'm just working with it as I go. However, you can read this to get you started. future updates to come on the Story Board..............
New Looney Tune story: "Erased To The Finish": updated 5/23!!
"Erased To The Finish"-by Matthew Hunter
PART I:
Open on Bugs Bunny’s rabbit hole, on a pleasant spring afternoon. Bugs is dusting off an old film projector.
Bugs Bunny: “Hmmm…I haven’t used this thing in a long time. It ain’t that I don’t like watchin’ myself in action, but What else have I got to do? Say, dat reminds me…I ain’t the only character to ever grace da silver screen in the Looney Tunes series. It’s been close to 30 years since the last regular production of them. Gosh, I’ll bet there’s quite a history.
-his telephone rings. Bugs answers, it’s Daffy Duck on the other end.
Daffy: “Hey, Bugsy neighbor. No, I don’t wanna borrow a cup of black strap molasses and there’s no gun-toting friend here to see you, it’s worse this time. I tell you, it’s truly dethpicable”.
Bugs: “Ehhhh, what’s up, duck?”
Daffy: “It’s Porky Pig…he’s….disappeared!”
Bugs: “Check the ice cream shop…he always liked those ice cream sodas.”
Daffy: “No, ya stupid rabbit! I was WITH him, and he just faded away, as if the very ink he was comprised of just vanished!”
Bugs: “What, ya mean he just faded out in front of your eyes?”
Daffy: “Yes! Yes! He did! Just as I was asking him to help me pull weeds in my cat-tail garden…”
Bugs: “Oh, I’d disappear too if I were asked to do somebody’s yard woik for them.”
Daffy: “Arghhh! You idiot! You thtupid rabbit! I tell ya he just faded away…and he wasn’t doing it all….just…the majority of it.”
Bugs: “ehhh…hmmmm…It couldn’t be that sneakin’ Pete Puma…I don’t think he likes ham. Same with dat Coyote….He has a pretty strict poultry diet. And I didn’t do it…only time I ever erased anybody it was you, and after I’d had my fun I drew you back to normal.”
Daffy: “Ho ho, ha ha. Yeah, that was REAL funny…That “screwball” flag you stuck on my tail still haunts me. Easy stomach….”
Bugs: “Look, doc, I’ll tell ya what I’ll do. If he doesn’t show up by morning, I know some cops from up in Brooklyn, they’re the best in da country. If anyone could find Porky they could. I’ll call Muldoon.”
Daffy: “No, don’t bother finding Pork- Breath…just get me FBI protection, okay? Secret Service! Bodyguards! The Armed Forces surrounding my house! Steel armor siding!”
Bugs: “Relax! They couldn’t get you too…”
Daffy: “Ahhhhh! Where’s the rest of me! My leg! My lower half! Ahhh! I’m loothing my featherth! I-I’m turning transparent…. I…woohoohoohoohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!”
Bugs: “Daffy! Pal! SPEAK to me!”
-dial tone sounds
Bugs: “Yipe! Either Daffy just gave me one heck of a prank phone call or there’s somethin’ screwy goin’ on around here! I think I know who to ask about this…assuming SHE hasn’t disappeared!”
Bugs climbs out of his hole and hikes down the road into town. He comes upon a quaint little suburban house, goes up to the door and rings the bell. A little old lady, Granny, answers.
Bugs: “Good afternoon, Granny! I’ll skip the small talk, We got a problem. I understand you’ve done some detective work in the past and….”
Granny: (interrupting): “No! Uh-uh! I don’t do that gumshoeing stuff anymore! Not since the WB Network gave me that detective show and then cancelled it! You’ll have to ask my cat and bird! They still do that sort of thing! I wish I could help you but I’m retired…I knit throw rugs now.”
Bugs: “Well, okay doctress. Just let me talk to ol’ Sly and Tweety, okay?”
Granny: “Go right ahead, little bunny!’
-Bugs enters the next room, where he finds Sylvester Cat asleep on the rug.
Bugs: “”Hey, Sylvester! Sylvester…wake up. SYLVESTER! Hey, doc! WAKE UP!”
Sylvester: “Wha-wha-huh? Bugs Bunny? What’re you doing here? When YOU come talk to me it’s usually something important like a toon council or thomthing.”
Bugs: “That’s not a bad idea. I like it…but I’ll need your help to assemble everybody.”
Sylvester: “But I didn’t think of it, I just thought that’s what you were going to talk to me about.”
Bugs: “Not exactly. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck disappeared today, and I need your help to try and find them. Being a cat and all, ya might just see some clue I can’t.”
Sylvester: “Did you try the ice cream shop? Porky likesth to go there thometimesth…and that duck…never can tell with him, but you know, here today, gone tomorrow…which desthcribes his mind adequately too! Hahaha!”
Bugs: “Here we go again….no, Daffy called me and said he had witnessed Porky actually DISAPPREARING, and then he did himself while he was talking to me!”
Sylvester: “Don’t be Thilly! It wasth probably one of histh cruel prank calls…like the time he imitated Speedy Gonzales and threatened to play that Guadelupe flute for me when I had a busthted tailbone!”
Bugs: “No, he was serious! And that’s two in one day, we could be next!”
Sylvester: “Hmmmm…maybe they got abducted by basthketball-playing aliens from the planet Moron…”
Bugs: “UH-UH! We don’t need to go there. Well, it did make lotsa moichandise and money, but still…that was an AIR-owing experience.”
Sylvester: “Yeah…and I think the secret stuff wore off.”
Bugs: “You didn’t hear the heavy handed moral about sportsmanship and believing in yourself, did ya? You know, you had da stuff in ya the whole time?”
Sylvester: “Nope.”
Bugs: “Neither did I! Hahaha! No, seriously…we got us a problem…we haven’t seen characters disappear like dis since dat time in the 80’s when some freak came up with a turpentine dip and tried to blot out another certain rabbit who will remain anonymous….”
Sylvester: “I get the point already…what cluesth do ya have?”
Bugs: "None yet, doc, except the obvious...we've got some disappearin' pork and poultry on or hands!"
-Tweety flies into the room.
Tweety: "Ooh, I tawt I taw a bunny wabbit!"
Bugs: "Yeah, and as I was tellin' Sylvester here, we got a problem. As we know, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig disappeared today. They presumably disappeared within an hour or so of each other, and the only possible cause is that they were erased somehow. We gotta find out how and who did it!"
Tweety: "What a wevolting devewopment! Da piddy and da duck disappeawed?"
Bugs: "Yep, and we have no clue....or at least, 2 of us don't!"
Sylvester: "Watch it carrot brain, or I won't help ya!"
Bugs: "Well, okay. But we still ain't got a clue what happened. I suppose we oughtta take inventory and make sure nobody else is missin'...You guys better help me call up a meetin' of everybody who's ever acted in a Looney Tunes cartoon, and let's find out!"
Sylvester: "But EVERYONE?! I don't even know EVERYONE....the whole thing sthtarted back in the 30's, I've only been around since 1945!"
Bugs: "Well, I would say ask Daffy or Porky...they're the only ones I know who've been around since the very beginning! Hey! Dat's it! Both the victims happen to be the most experienced cartoon characters in our series....that would mean that they have a common link, in fact they were costars in old black and white flicks long before I was around! Well, I guess 1940 is good enough, and I know some other guys from before then, so we'll get a pretty accurate count."
-open on a big auditorium, with Bugs and Sylvester at a table on the stage, and hundreds of LT characters from all over the place are crammed into the seats. In the first few rows are the major characters like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite sam, Wile E. Coyote, Tweety, Speedy, Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil, and others, and hordes of other lesser-known players , from the Dover Boys of old P.U. to Egghead, are seated everywhere in subsequent rows.
Bugs:"Listen up, docs! I've called you all here because two of our most popular pals have disapppeared today. They were erased from the scene, completely eliminated in thin air. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are missing...and if there is anyone who knows about their disappearance or has any information about who did it, SPIT IT OUT, STUPID!"
Elmer Fudd: "I don't have anything in my mouth, mister wabbit, besides, spitting in pubwic isn't sanitawwy!
Bugs: "No, I don't mean what's in your mouth...it's a figure of speech."
Elmer Fudd: "Oh."
Speedy Gonzales: "Senor Conejo, are not senor Daffy and senor Puerco the oldest of all of us? I am one of the youngest, but I know they are muy viejo!"
Wile E. Coyote: "Yes, it does not take a super genius like myself to see that the two in question are the most experienced in our troupe, as mister Pig first joined in 1935 and mister Duck two years later."
Sylvester: "Yes, we know that, but what doeth it mean? They can't be THE oldest. They're justht the oldest to us...the main pioneers...and I think there's a fellow here tonight who is the oldest here. His name is mr. Egg Head Fudd, and I believe he can tell you that there is not really much thignificance to the age thing."
Egghead: "hyuckhyuckhyuck!! It's amaaazing, but it's true. They are not the oldest of all, and even then it would not make much difference. I was the star of a bunch of Merrie Melodies in the late 1930's, in the same day as Porky, drawn by a guy named Tex Avery...then he created Bugs and Daffy and discovered my grandson, Elmer, and that was the end of me. Oh, woe is me. But I remember hearing some legends of other stars in the early 1930's when the series is believed to have started...apparently they were uncontrollably greedy for money and former musicians, so they were not incredibly talented actors, and did not last long. I think a few moved to other studios, and others just faded away, nobody knows for sure, and they're not part of our council anymore, never have been. Once the Warner Brothers studio found Porky Pig, they put him in a starring role as a straightman and worked from there, nobody's heard from those earlier folks since. Believe it or else! Hyuckhyuckhyuck!
Bugs: "Yeah, I hoid about them guys, but they were so close to the dawn of our time they would probably be dead by now...cartoons don't die, they just fade away, but that happens when they get dusty and forgotten, and I guess that's what happened to them. They were black and white, I think...Daffy used to tell me he remembered the black and white years, he was in some black and white cartoons, but heck, he's missin' so we can't ask him. Anyway, that's one clue, the common background thing...but WHO rubbed Daffy and Porky out? WHO would do such a thing?"
-----------------------to be continued......
New Looney Tune story: "Erased To The Finish": updated 5/23!!
"Erased To The Finish"-by Matthew Hunter
PART I:
Open on Bugs Bunny’s rabbit hole, on a pleasant spring afternoon. Bugs is dusting off an old film projector.
Bugs Bunny: “Hmmm…I haven’t used this thing in a long time. It ain’t that I don’t like watchin’ myself in action, but What else have I got to do? Say, dat reminds me…I ain’t the only character to ever grace da silver screen in the Looney Tunes series. It’s been close to 30 years since the last regular production of them. Gosh, I’ll bet there’s quite a history.
-his telephone rings. Bugs answers, it’s Daffy Duck on the other end.
Daffy: “Hey, Bugsy neighbor. No, I don’t wanna borrow a cup of black strap molasses and there’s no gun-toting friend here to see you, it’s worse this time. I tell you, it’s truly dethpicable”.
Bugs: “Ehhhh, what’s up, duck?”
Daffy: “It’s Porky Pig…he’s….disappeared!”
Bugs: “Check the ice cream shop…he always liked those ice cream sodas.”
Daffy: “No, ya stupid rabbit! I was WITH him, and he just faded away, as if the very ink he was comprised of just vanished!”
Bugs: “What, ya mean he just faded out in front of your eyes?”
Daffy: “Yes! Yes! He did! Just as I was asking him to help me pull weeds in my cat-tail garden…”
Bugs: “Oh, I’d disappear too if I were asked to do somebody’s yard woik for them.”
Daffy: “Arghhh! You idiot! You thtupid rabbit! I tell ya he just faded away…and he wasn’t doing it all….just…the majority of it.”
Bugs: “ehhh…hmmmm…It couldn’t be that sneakin’ Pete Puma…I don’t think he likes ham. Same with dat Coyote….He has a pretty strict poultry diet. And I didn’t do it…only time I ever erased anybody it was you, and after I’d had my fun I drew you back to normal.”
Daffy: “Ho ho, ha ha. Yeah, that was REAL funny…That “screwball” flag you stuck on my tail still haunts me. Easy stomach….”
Bugs: “Look, doc, I’ll tell ya what I’ll do. If he doesn’t show up by morning, I know some cops from up in Brooklyn, they’re the best in da country. If anyone could find Porky they could. I’ll call Muldoon.”
Daffy: “No, don’t bother finding Pork- Breath…just get me FBI protection, okay? Secret Service! Bodyguards! The Armed Forces surrounding my house! Steel armor siding!”
Bugs: “Relax! They couldn’t get you too…”
Daffy: “Ahhhhh! Where’s the rest of me! My leg! My lower half! Ahhh! I’m loothing my featherth! I-I’m turning transparent…. I…woohoohoohoohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!”
Bugs: “Daffy! Pal! SPEAK to me!”
-dial tone sounds
Bugs: “Yipe! Either Daffy just gave me one heck of a prank phone call or there’s somethin’ screwy goin’ on around here! I think I know who to ask about this…assuming SHE hasn’t disappeared!”
Bugs climbs out of his hole and hikes down the road into town. He comes upon a quaint little suburban house, goes up to the door and rings the bell. A little old lady, Granny, answers.
Bugs: “Good afternoon, Granny! I’ll skip the small talk, We got a problem. I understand you’ve done some detective work in the past and….”
Granny: (interrupting): “No! Uh-uh! I don’t do that gumshoeing stuff anymore! Not since the WB Network gave me that detective show and then cancelled it! You’ll have to ask my cat and bird! They still do that sort of thing! I wish I could help you but I’m retired…I knit throw rugs now.”
Bugs: “Well, okay doctress. Just let me talk to ol’ Sly and Tweety, okay?”
Granny: “Go right ahead, little bunny!’
-Bugs enters the next room, where he finds Sylvester Cat asleep on the rug.
Bugs: “”Hey, Sylvester! Sylvester…wake up. SYLVESTER! Hey, doc! WAKE UP!”
Sylvester: “Wha-wha-huh? Bugs Bunny? What’re you doing here? When YOU come talk to me it’s usually something important like a toon council or thomthing.”
Bugs: “That’s not a bad idea. I like it…but I’ll need your help to assemble everybody.”
Sylvester: “But I didn’t think of it, I just thought that’s what you were going to talk to me about.”
Bugs: “Not exactly. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck disappeared today, and I need your help to try and find them. Being a cat and all, ya might just see some clue I can’t.”
Sylvester: “Did you try the ice cream shop? Porky likesth to go there thometimesth…and that duck…never can tell with him, but you know, here today, gone tomorrow…which desthcribes his mind adequately too! Hahaha!”
Bugs: “Here we go again….no, Daffy called me and said he had witnessed Porky actually DISAPPREARING, and then he did himself while he was talking to me!”
Sylvester: “Don’t be Thilly! It wasth probably one of histh cruel prank calls…like the time he imitated Speedy Gonzales and threatened to play that Guadelupe flute for me when I had a busthted tailbone!”
Bugs: “No, he was serious! And that’s two in one day, we could be next!”
Sylvester: “Hmmmm…maybe they got abducted by basthketball-playing aliens from the planet Moron…”
Bugs: “UH-UH! We don’t need to go there. Well, it did make lotsa moichandise and money, but still…that was an AIR-owing experience.”
Sylvester: “Yeah…and I think the secret stuff wore off.”
Bugs: “You didn’t hear the heavy handed moral about sportsmanship and believing in yourself, did ya? You know, you had da stuff in ya the whole time?”
Sylvester: “Nope.”
Bugs: “Neither did I! Hahaha! No, seriously…we got us a problem…we haven’t seen characters disappear like dis since dat time in the 80’s when some freak came up with a turpentine dip and tried to blot out another certain rabbit who will remain anonymous….”
Sylvester: “I get the point already…what cluesth do ya have?”
Bugs: "None yet, doc, except the obvious...we've got some disappearin' pork and poultry on or hands!"
-Tweety flies into the room.
Tweety: "Ooh, I tawt I taw a bunny wabbit!"
Bugs: "Yeah, and as I was tellin' Sylvester here, we got a problem. As we know, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig disappeared today. They presumably disappeared within an hour or so of each other, and the only possible cause is that they were erased somehow. We gotta find out how and who did it!"
Tweety: "What a wevolting devewopment! Da piddy and da duck disappeawed?"
Bugs: "Yep, and we have no clue....or at least, 2 of us don't!"
Sylvester: "Watch it carrot brain, or I won't help ya!"
Bugs: "Well, okay. But we still ain't got a clue what happened. I suppose we oughtta take inventory and make sure nobody else is missin'...You guys better help me call up a meetin' of everybody who's ever acted in a Looney Tunes cartoon, and let's find out!"
Sylvester: "But EVERYONE?! I don't even know EVERYONE....the whole thing sthtarted back in the 30's, I've only been around since 1945!"
Bugs: "Well, I would say ask Daffy or Porky...they're the only ones I know who've been around since the very beginning! Hey! Dat's it! Both the victims happen to be the most experienced cartoon characters in our series....that would mean that they have a common link, in fact they were costars in old black and white flicks long before I was around! Well, I guess 1940 is good enough, and I know some other guys from before then, so we'll get a pretty accurate count."
-open on a big auditorium, with Bugs and Sylvester at a table on the stage, and hundreds of LT characters from all over the place are crammed into the seats. In the first few rows are the major characters like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite sam, Wile E. Coyote, Tweety, Speedy, Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil, and others, and hordes of other lesser-known players , from the Dover Boys of old P.U. to Egghead, are seated everywhere in subsequent rows.
Bugs:"Listen up, docs! I've called you all here because two of our most popular pals have disapppeared today. They were erased from the scene, completely eliminated in thin air. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are missing...and if there is anyone who knows about their disappearance or has any information about who did it, SPIT IT OUT, STUPID!"
Elmer Fudd: "I don't have anything in my mouth, mister wabbit, besides, spitting in pubwic isn't sanitawwy!
Bugs: "No, I don't mean what's in your mouth...it's a figure of speech."
Elmer Fudd: "Oh."
Speedy Gonzales: "Senor Conejo, are not senor Daffy and senor Puerco the oldest of all of us? I am one of the youngest, but I know they are muy viejo!"
Wile E. Coyote: "Yes, it does not take a super genius like myself to see that the two in question are the most experienced in our troupe, as mister Pig first joined in 1935 and mister Duck two years later."
Sylvester: "Yes, we know that, but what doeth it mean? They can't be THE oldest. They're justht the oldest to us...the main pioneers...and I think there's a fellow here tonight who is the oldest here. His name is mr. Egg Head Fudd, and I believe he can tell you that there is not really much thignificance to the age thing."
Egghead: "hyuckhyuckhyuck!! It's amaaazing, but it's true. They are not the oldest of all, and even then it would not make much difference. I was the star of a bunch of Merrie Melodies in the late 1930's, in the same day as Porky, drawn by a guy named Tex Avery...then he created Bugs and Daffy and discovered my grandson, Elmer, and that was the end of me. Oh, woe is me. But I remember hearing some legends of other stars in the early 1930's when the series is believed to have started...apparently they were uncontrollably greedy for money and former musicians, so they were not incredibly talented actors, and did not last long. I think a few moved to other studios, and others just faded away, nobody knows for sure, and they're not part of our council anymore, never have been. Once the Warner Brothers studio found Porky Pig, they put him in a starring role as a straightman and worked from there, nobody's heard from those earlier folks since. Believe it or else! Hyuckhyuckhyuck!
Bugs: "Yeah, I hoid about them guys, but they were so close to the dawn of our time they would probably be dead by now...cartoons don't die, they just fade away, but that happens when they get dusty and forgotten, and I guess that's what happened to them. They were black and white, I think...Daffy used to tell me he remembered the black and white years, he was in some black and white cartoons, but heck, he's missin' so we can't ask him. Anyway, that's one clue, the common background thing...but WHO rubbed Daffy and Porky out? WHO would do such a thing?"
-----------------------to be continued......