The ninth episode of the first season of The Looney Tunes Show.
Daffy Duck is selected by Foghorn Leghorn to portray him in The Foghorn Leghorn Story, a movie based around his life story. Meanwhile, when Taz digs a hole in between Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam's backyards, Bugs finds a valuable vase, and Sam tries to trade it in for cash.
This episode features the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, "Silent But Deadly".
This episode provides examples of:
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, "Silent But Deadly" has Wile E. being cut to ribbons by the Roadrunner's talons in a ninja-style fight.
- Acting for Two: An In-Universe example; Daffy portrays both Foghorn and Sam in The Foghorn Leghorn Story.
- And Starring: In-universe. Daffy gets this credit for playing Doctor Butt (after already being credited for Foghorn and then Sam).
- Arc Words: In-universe in Foghorn's movie, The Foghorn Leghorn Story—the phrase "It's not about the treasure, it's about the quest" is repeated several times.
- Bad "Bad Acting": During the filming of The Foghorn Leghorn Story, when Miss Prissy, as Foghorn's mom, "dies", Foghorn tells Daffy to cry. Daffy gives us this line:Daffy: Boo-hoo-hoo, man! I'm cryin' so hard! I say, I say, look it how hard I cry!
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Sam shows the vase to Mac and Tosh, the Gophers' appraisal rate seems to be going in the direction of being oddly specific given their Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, but then they opt for the obvious answer.Tosh: Well, given today's marketplace...
Mac: The scarcity of Satsuma ceramics...
Tosh: And factoring in the current value of the Yen...
Mac: I'd say your vase is worth approximately...
Both: A MILLION dollars! - Box Office Bomb: An in-universe example with the final product of The Foghorn Leghorn Story. The only six people who saw the movie are Foghorn, Daffy, Bugs, Sam, Mac, and Tosh.Daffy: Looks like we only sold six tickets.
Foghorn: Six tickets we wouldn't have sold if we hadn't have made that movie! I call it my proudest achievement!
Daffy: Well, if we're being honest, I didn't pay for mine.
Foghorn: (laughs) That boy is one of a kind! - Cocky Rooster: Foghorn deems Daffy unfit to be a rooster for giving up because in his own words, "Roosters are loyal. Roosters never quit. Roosters, I say, roosters fight to the end". He takes it back after a lengthy brawl with Daffy.
- Dumbass Has a Point: When Foghorn casts Daffy to play him in The Foghorn Leghorn Story, Daffy accepts but still points out that it's odd to cast him since he's neither a rooster nor an actor.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Foghorn has a rough start with Daffy in this episode, but they make up at the end and remain good friends for the rest of the show.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Near the end of this episode, two fights break out; the first between Foghorn and Daffy when the latter tries to quit working for the former, and the second between Bugs and Sam when the latter tries to take credit for the vase Bugs found.
- I Resemble That Remark!: This exchange between Sam and Bugs when the former tries unsuccessfully to pay for an electric clothes dryer with a vase:Sam: Are you tryin' to make me look like a fool?!
Bugs: (opens one eye) You don't need me to make you look like a fool.
Sam: Yer duuurrrn right, I don't! - I Want My Mommy!: After Daffy gets thrown through the antique store's window, interrupting Bugs and Sam's fight.Bugs: Daffy?
Daffy: Bugs?
[Foghorn jumps through the broken window, screaming]
Daffy: Mommy... - Indy Escape: During the filming of The Foghorn Leghorn Story, one scene involves Daffy as Foghorn, having recovered the Burmese Turtle, escaping from a temple filled with booby traps as they go off. The director informs Daffy that they only have one shot at this take, as when he presses the button that starts an elaborate chain reaction that will destroy the entire set. Daffy pauses from his run to ask Foghorn when lunch is, resulting in the entire set being destroyed.
- Irony: Daffy is a duck, but he can't swim. When Bugs asks him when he's going to learn how to swim in the prologue, Daffy tells him that swimming is for losers who can't afford boats.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In the epilogue, Sam brings up some very good points in the questions he asks Mac and Tosh about The Foghorn Leghorn Story, namely why a duck is cast as a rooster, and why the same duck is also cast as him.
- Literally Shattered Lives: In an example not involving being frozen or turned to stone, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, "Silent But Deadly'' ends with Wile E. falling to pieces after being slashed by Road Runner's talons.
- Mythology Gag: Daffy is cast as Foghorn Leghorn, which may bring to mind when he posed as a rooster in "You Were Never Duckier".
- No Budget: An In-Universe example; the final product of The Foghorn Leghorn Story ends up becoming a very cheap-looking movie. It was supposed to be a more professional-looking one, but since Daffy made the entire staff quit, he and Foghorn had to construct new sets by themselves.
- The Pollyanna: Foghorn refuses to see the negative in any situation, no matter how obvious it might be. When Carol advises against casting Daffy to play him in The Foghorn Leghorn Story, reminding him that he was the one who destroyed his company, Foghorn tells her that the secret of his success is that he "only remembers the positive."
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: After Mac and Tosh peg the vase as being worth approximately $1 million, Sam immediately tries to take sole credit for finding it and insists he did everything that Bugs actually did.Bugs: That's all I needed to hear. [punches Sam in the face]
- Priceless Ming Vase: Bugs finds one in a hole Taz digs in his and Sam's backyards, and Sam tries to sell it to the antique store for cash to buy an electric clothes dryer. When he tries to turn it in to Mac and Tosh for cash at the antique store, Daffy accidentally breaks it, revealing the real Burmese Turtle inside.
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Sam when trying to fight Foghorn in the antique store.
- Real After All: During the production of The Foghorn Leghorn Story, Foghorn tells Daffy the story of the Burmese Turtle, and how anyone would who found it would burst with joy, making it his life's quest to find it. Near the end of the episode, Daffy breaks the vase, revealing the Burmese Turtle to be inside it.
- Self-Deprecation: The movie included a scene based on the brawl in the antique shop. In the last scene, Sam says all the violence was gratuitous.
- Shout-Out: The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, "Silent But Deadly" is one giant one to Mortal Kombat; both Road Runner and Wile E. are in a direct confrontation with each other. Wile E.'s costume is akin to Scorpion's outfit, there are destructive weapons, a dark moonlit night, and a fatality to frost the cake.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Sam bursts with joy upon finding the real Burmese Turtle. This being Looney Tunes, Sam shows up alive and well to see The Foghorn Leghorn Story, which includes (a very cheap version of) his own death in the following scene.
- Took a Level in Badass: The Road Runner, of all characters, temporarily takes a level in badass in the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, "Silent But Deadly", where he actually engages in a ninja battle with Wile E. Coyote. Even more so is that we even get to see his angry eyes.
- Trash the Set: Thanks to Daffy's botched escape during the temple scene, the set of The Foghorn Leghorn Story ends up falling apart.
