The tenth episode of the second season of The Looney Tunes Show, as well as the series' Christmas Episode.
When a heat wave is in effect as Christmas approaches, Lola tries to renew the town's holiday spirit by putting on a play of A Christmas Carol that is completely different from the source material. Meanwhile, Foghorn enlists Daffy's assistance with going to the North Pole to install a giant fan to make it snow.
While not introduced as an official Merrie Melodies music video, this episode does feature the "Christmas Rules" music video.
This episode provides examples of:
- Acme Products:
- At the beginning of the episode, Bugs is reading the Acme Times.
- Later, Daffy and Foghorn are flying towards North Pole in plane labelled "Acme Air".
- Acting for Two: An In-Universe example; near the end of the episode, Bugs ends up having to play all the roles in Lola's play due to everyone else being trapped in Lola's trap door.
- Adaptation Decay: Parodied with the titular story. Lola's play of the story is so far removed from the original that it's unrecognizable, as it is about a woman named Carol who is Santa Claus' daughter, rather than the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, as she doesn't think a story about a mean old man who hates Christmas will get anybody in the holiday spirit.
- An Aesop: As said by Santa himself, “Yes, I know that Christmas isn’t easy, but nothing worth doing ever is.”
- Bad "Bad Acting": During rehearsals, Bugs (who has the entire play memorized, much to his disdain) says his lines in an uninterested tone.Bugs: I must have lost track of time. I guess I know what I should give myself for Christmas; a watch.
- Big Finale Crowd Song: The episode ends with the song “Christmas Rules” which is performed by all of the characters from The Looney Tunes Show, even characters who didn’t appear in the rest of the episode.
- Brick Joke: In the "Christmas Rules" music video, Porky buys a vase for Daffy's Christmas present. In a later scene, Daffy is seen returning it as he sings "Taking back gifts that we hate!"
- Cartoon Cheese: During “Christmas Rules”, Speedy is shown to have a nativity scene made out of this.
- Christmas Elves:
- Played by Mac and Tosh in Lola’s play.
- The real ones appear when Daffy hallucinates that he’s meeting Santa in his workshop.
- Christmas Episode: It’s Christmas time, but no one is in the holiday spirit because of the intense heat wave.
- Comically Missing the Point: Unsurprisingly, Lola completely misinterprets the meaning of A Christmas Carol - to the point that she thinks the title is referring to a woman named Carol.Bugs: Poor Charles Dickens.
- Danger — Thin Ice: In the "Christmas Rules" music video, as Bugs and Lola skate on a frozen lake, the latter falls into a hole in the ice.
- Death Glare: Lola gives Yosemite Sam one when he says he just joined her play to get paid.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- After Foghorn and Daffy successfully build the giant fan in the North Pole, Foghorn asks Daffy where they're going to plug it in. Daffy asks Foghorn why he didn't think of it before they left. Foghorn soon gets the idea to find Santa's workshop so he can plug it in there. When they return to Bugs' neighborhood after finding out that they failed in their mission, Foghorn decides that next year, he'll make his fan battery-operated. Fortunately for Foghorn and Daffy, Santa plugged in their giant fan.
- Lola installs a trap door in the theater to make everyone's entrances and exits more dramatic, but it only results in it trapping everyone, since she focused more on the trap part than the door part.
- Disguised in Drag: One of the roles Bugs ends up having to play is Carol, the daughter of Santa Claus, a role Lola would have played had she not gotten herself trapped in the trap door.
- Furry Confusion: Lola casts Porky, an anthropomorphic pig, as Hambone, a non-anthropomorphic pig who only oinks.
- Hallucinations: The cold makes Daffy hallucinate that he’s meeting Santa in his workshop and that he helps him plug in the giant fan. However, the workshop was actually a cave and Santa was a giant polar bear.Daffy: I sat on the lap of a polar bear?
- Heat Wave: With temperatures in the triple digits, everyone thinks it’s “too hot for Christmas”.
- In Name Only: When Lola directs her own version of A Christmas Carol, this trope inevitably happens.
- Insistent Terminology: One of Daffy’s lines in the song at the end of the episode is “What a lovely Christmas wraith”. Bugs corrects him, thinking he means “wreath”, but then Daffy points out the skeletal wraith flying on a dragon through the sky above them.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When Mac and Tosh argue over which role they should play in Lola's play (Weevil and Beevil, the elf twins), Sam points out that it doesn't matter which role they pick since nobody can tell them apart anyway. He then casts Mac as Weevil and Tosh as Beevil, but the two gophers switch roles later on.
- Just Here for Godzilla: In-Universe. Everyone comes to the theater not to see Lola's play, but because it has ice-cold air conditioning. Sam even whispers this to Porky as the play is about to begin.
- Leaving Food for Santa: In the "Christmas Rules" music video, Porky leaves cookies and milk out for Santa, but Daffy starts eating the cookies, much to Porky's disapproval. In a later scene, Porky decides to join Daffy in eating the cookies.
- Let There Be Snow: It becomes 104 degrees in Bugs and Daffy's neighborhood, so this episode's B-plot has Foghorn build a giant fan in the North Pole so it can spread snow to the rest of the world, and have Daffy assist him. When they get to the North Pole, they are unable to find a place to plug the fan in, but fortunately for them, Santa Claus was able to help them out.
- Mall Santa: Sam is seen sitting on the lap of one in the "Christmas Rules" music video. Given his diminutive size, he has plenty of room to sit there.
- Mrs. Claus: Even though she doesn't appear in person, her portrait appears above the fireplace in Santa's workshop during Daffy's hallucination.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Foghorn Leghorn can’t even get the box with the giant fan in it to budge until he gets Daffy’s help.
- No Ending: As a result of everyone else being trapped in Lola's trapdoor, Bugs has to do all the roles in the play by himself. However, due to Bugs also falling through the trapdoor midway through the play, the audience never gets to see the ending.
- A Pig Named "Porkchop": Porky's regular name already qualifies for this trope, but Lola casts him as a non-anthropomorphic pig named Hambone in her play.
- Running Gag: Characters trying to determine what “the most pleasant way to go” is - the general consensus seems to be suffocation.
- Santa Claus: Santa himself shows up to not only save Christmas, but Lola’s play as well.
- Saving Christmas: This episode uses this trope for both its A-plot and its B-plot; Lola attempts to restore the town's Christmas spirit after a heat wave hits town by staging a production of A Christmas Carol, while Foghorn Leghorn attempts to save Christmas by installing a giant fan at the North Pole in order to make it snow.
- Shout-Out: In Lola’s play, Speedy’s role is basketball player Manu Ginobili, a shooting guard for the San Antonio Spurs.
- Squeaky Eyes: Lola audibly blinks at Bugs when he tries to reference 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: After Daffy empties Bugs' refrigerator so he can go inside it to keep cool, Bugs warns him that he's gonna suffocate. Daffy is fine with this, and says that he heard suffocating is the most pleasant way to go. Later in the episode, when everyone is trapped inside Lola's trap door, Porky says they're going to suffocate. Tosh says he heard that it's the most pleasant way to go, as does Lola.
- Temporary Bulk Change: In the "Christmas Rules" music video, Porky is seen with a plump stomach as he sings "15 pounds of winter weight!". He's back to his normal weight in a later scene.
- Tongue on the Flagpole: A variant in the "Christmas Rules" music video; Daffy gets his butt frozen to a park bench.
- Trap Door: Lola installs one to make everyone's entrances and exits much more dramatic. Unfortunately, it only results in them getting trapped inside it.
- Under the Mistletoe: During “Christmas Rules”, Pepe Le Pew holds up some mistletoe and kisses Penelope Pussycat on the cheek.
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: When Foghorn gets the idea to find Santa's workshop so he can plug in his giant fan, Daffy objects to the idea. Foghorn asks him "What's the worst that could happen?". The Answer Cut then shows them covered in icicles and Braving the Blizzard.
- Yet Another Christmas Carol: A variant; Lola tries to put on a play of A Christmas Carol, but being the Cloud Cuckoolander that she is, she completely ignores the original story and instead makes it about a woman named Carol who in reality, is Santa Claus' daughter. Everyone involved in the play agrees that it stinks.
