The eleventh episode of the first season of The Looney Tunes Show.
When Daffy finds out that Bugs is incredibly rich from inventing the carrot peeler, he steals Bugs' plans for an automatic carrot peeler so he can become rich as well. His plan works, and when Bugs goes broke, Daffy becomes mean and selfish to him when he lets him live at their house, eventually resulting in Bugs leaving. When Daffy's automatic carrot peeler backfires, he must beg Bugs to come back and help him fix his mistake.
This episode features the "We Are in Love" Merrie Melodies Music video and the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, "Heavy Metal".
This episode provides examples of:
- All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: The cavemen Daffy encounters, who he even refers to as Neanderthals, are of the grunting, gorilla-like depiction.
- Asshole Victim: Daffy steals Bugs' plans for an automatic carrot peeler and becomes a total jerk towards his friend with his newfound wealth. Not only does he lose his wealth due to his automatic carrot peelers being flammable, but he gets left behind by Bugs as the latter goes back in time with his time machine right when their house is being demolished, leading to the duck getting hit and presumably killed by a wrecking ball.
- Bad Job, Worse Uniform: When people stop buying regular carrot peelers, Bugs has to take a job at an ice cream parlor called The Inside Scoop where the uniform includes an ice cream cone hat.
- Bait-and-Switch: Daffy tries his hand at inventing. His speech indicates he's invented a time machine... but he's invented a suitcase.
- Broke Episode: In this episode, Bugs becomes broke when people stop buying his regular carrot peelers in favor of Daffy's automatic ones. He first tries to live with Daffy, but Daffy's mean and selfish behavior prompts him to move back into his old rabbit hole.
- Building Is Welding: Played for Laughs; there are flashes of arc welding from the garage and Daffy is shown wearing a welding mask just before he unveils his latest invention... sliced bread!
- Comically Missing the Point: Downplayed. After Bugs tells him why people aren't likely to buy the Automatic Carrot Peeler, Daffy says "He's right. Nobody eats carrots.".
- Death Is Cheap: Daffy presumably dies in the first timeline, as the last we see of him is missing out on Bugs going back in time and not being able to escape from the wrecking ball demolishing their house. Of course, this is undone by Bugs so Daffy is spared from his fate.
- Deus ex Machina: Bugs builds a time machine in a matter of seconds and goes back in time to undo the events of this episode.
- Eat the Camera: Done with Daffy as he gets hit by a wrecking ball.
- Evil Laugh: Daffy does one when he steals Bug's blueprints for the automatic carrot peeler, when he asks what's so funny in there, he quiets down a little.
- Expy: The employee at The Inside Scoop bears a slight resemblance to Little John from the short "Rabbit Hood", except he has curly brown hair that sticks out like Larry Fine from The Three Stooges.
- Fiction 500: It is revealed in this episode that Bugs has invented the carrot peeler and lives off the very hefty royalties. He's able to buy extravagant things and never seems to be out of cash, especially when having Daffy mooch off him.
- "Friends" Rent Control: Addressed in this episode; Daffy asks where Bugs gets all his money and Bugs explains he invented the carrot peeler. We see him get a check for it in the mail during the episode, making it quickly obvious how Bugs can afford to not work and still buy whatever he wants when he wants. The same episode implies if he needs to, he could invent other things to cash in on.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: This episode begins with Daffy (who is normally an Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal, if the white stripe on his neck being a pearl necklace that belonged to his grandmother is to be believed) deciding to wear a pair of "Mall Pants" as a sign of respect for the mall. When Bugs sees him wearing them, Bugs asks him why he doesn't wear a shirt with them. Daffy tells him that wearing a shirt would give the mall too much respect, as it isn't church. Also, he can't afford a shirt. Daffy's mall pants get caught in the escalator and sucked off just before the opening credits run.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: Daffy covers his lower regions with his hands and blushes in embarrassment after the escalator sucks off his mall pants.Bugs: No mall underwear, huh?
- I Was Young and Needed the Money: This is Daffy's excuse for stealing Bugs' plans for the automatic carrot peeler.
- Inventor of the Mundane: Bugs' wealth comes from his invention of the carrot peeler, apparently a variation of the vegetable peeler that specializes in carrots.
- It's Been Done: Daffy tries to come up with an invention that will make him rich. His first three inventions are sliced bread, toilet paper and a suitcase, which Bugs notes have already been invented by other people.
- Jerkass Ball: While it's no secret how unpleasant a person Daffy is in general to everyone, this is one of the episodes where he takes it up a notch and extends such antisocial behavior to his best friend Bugs. He stole his idea for the automatic carrot peeler purely for greed, without even giving him credit (as he would then have to give him some of the profits from the royalty check as law would demand), even though he gave him a room in his own house rent free, buys food for him, and basically takes care of him in general since he clearly couldn't do it himself.
- "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop: In the "We Are in Love" Merrie Melodies music video, Lola does it to break into Bugs' house.
- Money Fetish: After becoming rich, Daffy is shown rolling around in a pile of cash on his bed.
- Mythology Gag: After going broke, Bugs is forced to move back into his old rabbit hole from the original Looney Tunes theatrical shorts.
- Obsession Song: The "We Are in Love" Merrie Melodies music video has Lola sing about how madly in love with Bugs she is.
- One-Hour Work Week: Averted in a pretty amusing way; Bugs invented the carrot peeler and gets enough checks delivered every week to buy whatever he wants. (Daffy doesn't work because he keeps getting fired from jobs, so if the plot requires him to purchase anything, he steals from Bugs or Porky.) On occasion, Bugs will buy him things, if just to shut him up. He does this with Daffy's banana split at the end of this episode to prevent Daffy from stealing his plans for the automatic carrot peeler.
- Overcomplicated Menu Order: Daffy does this with a banana split at the The Inside Scoop ice cream parlor.Daffy: I'll take a banana split. (cashier begins scooping) Uhp! One scoop vanilla. One scoop chocolate, one scoop strawberry. (cashier scoops again) Uhp! Put the strawberry in the middle! (cashier scoops one last time) And now hot fudge. Uhp! Only on the vanilla and chocolate! Put regular fudge on the strawberry. Now some whipped cream. (cashier begins spraying) Hey-Hey-Hey-He-ey, easy! Little more... Little more... Little more only on the vanilla! Kinda fill in that space right there. Stop! (cashier and sundae are both coated in whipped cream) Now some nuts! (cashier scoops nuts) Uhp. No nut dust. (cashier brushes away all the nuts) Now, this is the complicated part. No green sprinkles on the chocolate. Yes, green sprinkles on the strawberry. But both no red sprinkles. Except on the vanilla, which should receive exclusively red sprinkles!
Cashier: (pours sprinkles indiscriminately) That'll be $5.85...
Daffy: I've only got 16 cents. (drops coins; cashier looks confused) Get the rest from your tip jar! (cashier hits Daffy in the face with the banana split) - Pet the Dog: Yosemite Sam is genuinely sympathetic towards Bugs' plight after Daffy forces him to sell the house to him and starts treating him like dirt, encouraging him to be in charge of his own "castle", which ends up giving Bugs the idea to go to his old rabbit hole.
- Plagiarism in Fiction: When Daffy learns Bugs lives off royalties from having invented the carrot peeler, he steals Bugs' plans for an automatic carrot peeler. At first, Bugs isn't worried because nobody other than him eats carrots often enough to need the automatic peeler (which was the reason Bugs never marketed it before) but it soon changed and Daffy was living the good life until a mechanical flaw caused the people who bought the automatic carrot peelers to demand a refund. Daffy could have avoided this trouble by following the project's seventh step but he was too lazy to read beyond step three. A Reset Button Ending saves the day and Bugs, who remembers the whole mess, decides not to tell Daffy about the carrot peeler.
- Reset Button Ending: This episode ends with Bugs using his time machine to go back in time and prevent this episode's events from happening.
- Rule of Three: Daffy tries to invent three different things, only for Bugs to tell him that they've already been invented by other people; they are sliced bread, toilet paper, and a suitcase.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Bugs builds a time machine and goes back in time to prevent the episode's events from ever happening.
- Stalker with a Crush: The "We Are in Love" Merrie Melodies music video can best be described as "Stalker With a Crush: The Song". Among other tendencies of this trope, Lola stands outside Bugs' house in the rain while sporting a Slasher Smile.
- Shout-Out:
- This episode's title is a reference to Wheel of Fortune.
- The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, "Heavy Metal" features Wile E. building a suit from a box of scraps deep inside a cave.
- Stolen Credit Backfire: Daffy at first becomes rich and famous after stealing Bugs' Automatic Carrot Peeler to market as his own invention. However, because Daffy never added safety features to the device such as a cooling system to keep it from overheating and becoming flammable, Daffy gets in big trouble with all the buyers. Since he can't give customers a refund because he spent all the money on his greedy wishes, construction workers decide to destroy Daffy's house.
- Stripping Snag: In this episode's prologue, Bugs and Daffy are at the mall, where Daffy wears a pair of "Mall Pants". Daffy's mall pants get caught in the escalator and sucked off just before the opening credits run.
- Tempting Fate: Bugs doesn't believe Daffy will get anywhere with the Automatic Carrot Peeler since nobody but him would eat so many carrots. The next scene then shows the invention becoming more popular than the original carrot peeler, cutting off Bugs' funding and making Daffy rich.
- This Is My Boomstick: In The Stinger, Daffy attempts to impress a group of cavemen with the miracle of toilet paper. It doesn't work (Throwing the roll at their heads probably didn't help).
- Time Machine: Bugs invents one near the end of the episode to go back in time and undo the episode's events. Daffy uses it in The Stinger to go back to prehistoric times and show cavemen the miracle of toilet paper.
- Underestimating Badassery: A rare example where someone underestimates the potential of their own invention. Bugs at first isn't worried about Daffy marketing his Automatic Carrot Peeler, since nobody else would eat so many carrots to justify the cost of the machine. Then it soon becomes more famous than his original carrot peeler, leaving Bugs broke. If Daffy had bothered to properly finish the carrot peeler, then he would have maintained his ill-gotten fame and fortune.
- We Are Not Going Through That Again: Once Bugs goes back in time to pay for Daffy's ice cream sundae, Daffy asks where Bugs gets his money from, but to prevent the whole disaster from happening again, Bugs simply tells him not to worry about such a thing.
