History LooneyTunes / TropesGToI

* GravityIsOnlyAtheory:
** In "High Diving Hare", Sam finally has WesternAnimation/BugsBunny tied and standing on the edge of the platform, with Sam sawing away at the board, gloating: "Now ya smarty-pants, let's see ya get out-in this one! This time, you're a-diving!" However, as soon as Sam cuts through the board, it is the ladder and platform that falls, leaving the cut plank suspended in midair. Bugs turns to the camera and cracks: "I know this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never "studied" law!"

* HalfWittedHillbilly: Curt and Pun'kinhead Martin from the short "Hillbilly Hare" found themselves matching wits with Bugs Bunny... but find that they were unarmed the whole time.
** DependingOnTheWriter, Yosemite Sam also qualifies at times.

* TheHatMakesTheMan: In "Bugs' Bonnets", random hats fly by and land on Bugs' and Elmer Fudd's heads, altering their behavior to match each time.

* UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation: The original shorts were a product of this. Since then the characters have been successively (if not always successfully) deployed in the medium's [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation Dark]], [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation Renaissance]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation Millennium]] ages.

*** Daffy Duck also has feet rather like those of a cat or a rabbit in the UsefulNotes/LooneyTunesInTheSixties.

* InSpace

** Parodied in the short "What Makes Daffy Duck?" where a fox has human like hands. At one point it's revealed they're gloves when they fly off revealing fox paws underneath.

* IconicSequelCharacter: ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' and ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck'' didn't appear until almost a decade into the Looney Tunes series run. Several other main stars were also BreakoutCharacters from later shorts.

* InconvenientSummons: "A lad in his lamp".
* IndestructibilityMontage: In ''Much Ado About Nutting'', a squirrel spends the entire cartoon trying to break open a coconut. Nothing it tries works, culminating in him dropping it from a tall skyscraper and only succeeding in ''pounding in the pavement below''. Once it finally ''does'' crack (with only minimum effort), the shell opens to reveal ''another'' shell.

* HypocriticalHumor: In ''The Heckling Hare'', after Willoughby falls off the cliff:

* HurricaneOfPuns: The Merrie Melodies classic "Have You Got Any Castles?" I mean, the climax of the film's final chase scene ends with Rip Van Winkle opening up a book literally labelled ''Hurricane'' which blows everybody away...and then after everyones gone, down falls the book '''Film/GoneWithTheWind'''.

* InflatingBodyGag: In the early short "Hold Anything", a goat bites into a radiator, causing the hot air to inflate it and send it flying like a balloon. Bosko then uses it as an improvised set of bagpipes.

* HydeAndSeek:
** In "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", [[TheFool Sylvester]] hides in Dr. Jerkyl's laboratory while running away from the dogs Alfie and Chester. There, he mistakes a beaker full of a red, fizzy liquid with soda, so he drinks it to quench his thirst. A few seconds later and he's transformed into a strong, bigger monster cat. When Alfie, the largest dog, Sylvester makes quick work of him twice. Meanwhile, Chester only gets to see Sylvester when he reverts back, so he never understands why his boss is afraid of a cat. Later, Alfie causes the liquid to fall on a fly, who also kicks his ass.
** "Hyde and Hare": Bugs Bunny convinces the man who always feeds him at the park to adopt him. The man, Dr. Jekyll, is already rather creepy with his too-big head and small hands. However, when he drinks the red concoction he's prepared at his laboratory and that he's addicted to, he becomes a green, red-eyed monster with hairy limbs. Bugs Bunny doesn't realize Mr. Hyde's real identity until he transforms in front of him while trapped in a closet. Then Bugs goes to the lab and off-screen drinks the red concoction -- when he returns to the park, he slowly changes into a monster and scares the elderly without understanding why. In this case, TheFool that turns into Mr. Hyde is also the partner now knowing the other can transform into a monster.

** "Hyde and Hare": Bugs Bunny convinces the man who always feeds him at the park to adopt him. The man, Dr. Jekyll, already verges on UncannyValley territory with his too-big head and small hands. However, when he drinks the red concoction he's prepared at his laboratory and that he's addicted to, he becomes a green, red-eyed monster with hairy limbs. Bugs Bunny doesn't realize Mr. Hyde's real identity until he transforms in front of him while trapped in a closet. Then Bugs goes to the lab and off-screen drinks the red concoction -- when he returns to the park, he slowly changes into a monster and scares the elderly without understanding why. In this case, TheFool that turns into Mr. Hyde is also the partner now knowing the other can transform into a monster.

* HydeAndSeek: In "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", [[TheFool Sylvester]] hides in Dr. Jerkyl's laboratory while running away from the dogs Alfie and Chester. There, he mistakes a beaker full of a red, fizzy liquid with soda, so he drinks it to quench his thirst. A few seconds later and he's transformed into a strong, bigger monster cat. When Alfie, the largest dog, Sylvester makes quick work of him twice. Meanwhile, Chester only gets to see Sylvester when he reverts back, so he never understands why his boss is afraid of a cat. Later, Alfie causes the liquid to fall on a fly, who also kicks his ass.

* HydeAndSeek: In "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", [[TheFool Sylvester]] hides in Dr. Jerkyl's laboratory while running away from the dogs Alfie and Chester. There, he mistakes a beaker full of a red, fizzy liquid with soda, so he drinks it to quench his thirst. A few seconds later and he's transformed into a strong, bigger monster cat. When Alfie, the largest dog, Silvester makes quick work of him twice. Meanwhile, Chester only gets to see Sylvester when he reverts back, so he never understands why his boss is afraid of a cat. Later, Alfie causes the liquid to fall on a fly, who also kicks his ass.

* HydeAndSeek: "Hyde and Go Tweet", "Hyde and Hare", "Dr. Jerkyl's Hyde", "The Impatient Patient" and "WesternAnimation/TheCaseOfTheStutteringPig". Also implied in "The Prize Pest".

* GagDub: "WesternAnimation/WildAndWoollyHare" was given one by ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', using audio from ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' over the cartoon footage.

** Bugs is assumed to have a hangover at the beginning of "WesternAnimation/{{Hare-way to the Stars}}":
---> '''Bugs''': What a night! I'll never mix radish juice and carrot juice again...

** The short "Go Fly a Kit" is about a kitten who was raised by an eagle and learns to fly by spinning its tail.

* GenreKiller: For a time, starting off with the Disney WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies who introduced this trope, there were many Looney Tunes cartoons which consisted of inanimate objects coming to life when a store (usually a bookstore or a 1930s-style grocery store/pharmacy) closed up shop for the night ("Goofy Groceries", "Have You Got Any Castles", "A Coy Decoy", "Speaking of the Weather", etc.) The subgenre of cartoons, at least when it came to Looney Tunes, officially came to an end with 1946's "WesternAnimation/BookRevue" which, coincidentally, was also the last cartoon Bob Clampett got credit for. In a subversion, "Book Revue" is actually the best of this subgenre.
* GirlishPigtails: Petunia Pig in her later appearences.

** Another case is Bugs' reference to Elmer as "a poor little Nimrod." It was originally a sarcastic reference to a king mentioned in Literature/TheBible as a mighty hunter. However, between the king's relative obscurity (some interpretations place Nimrod at the center of prominent events like the building of the Tower of Babel, but there is dispute on those) and the fact that Bugs is being obviously insulting, most people think that "nimrod" is generally used to mean "stupid" rather than "capable hunter," and, just like above, most people aren't even aware that calling Elmer "Nimrod" is supposed to be a joke.

** Foxy doesn’t look like a fox, although this is changed in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsAdventures''.
** It's really hard to blame Sylvester for mistaking Hippety Hopper for a giant mouse, since Hippety DOES look much more like a giant mouse than a kangaroo.