Western Animation / Bugs Bunny Builders

"It's Hard Hat Time!"

Bugs Bunny Builders is a 2022 Preschool Show starring the Looney Tunes cast of characters. It airs on Cartoon Network's Cartoonito block and streams on Max.

Bugs Bunny leads the Looney Builders, a construction team consisting of himself, Daffy Duck, Lola Bunny, Porky Pig, and Tweety, along with various Sixth Rangers. The team works on various sorts of construction projects in Looneyburg for the other Looney Tunes characters, using teamwork and creative thinking to solve the various problems that come up.

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Bugs Bunny Builders provides examples of:

• Absurd Phobia: In "Dino Fright", when Tweety reveals to the other Looney Builders that he is afraid of dinosaurs^note despite him and Daffy being avian dinosaurs themselves during the task of assembling a dinosaur skeleton, they try to help him overcome his fear by revealing their fears. Porky reveals that he's afraid of jack-in-the-boxes, being sung to on his birthday, and flushing toilets. He also reveals that Daffy is afraid of kites, to which Daffy tells him that was supposed to be kept a secret.
• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal:
  • Sylvester, once he puts on his hardhat.
  • As usual, Gossamer wears shoes and little or nothing else.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • The Builders, especially the main five. In other works, these characters often have fractious relationships. This being an Edutainment Show where the themes include cooperation and getting along, we never see them arguing or becoming angry with each other or anyone else.
  • Probably most noticeable in "Stories", which has Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird meeting for the first time in the series. Usually, their relationship is defined by Sylvester wanting to eat Tweety. Here, they get along just fine, with Tweety helping Sylvester deal with his fear of heights. In "Cheddar Days", Sylvester even willingly spits out Tweety when he accidentally sucks him into his mouth during a yawn. That said, this isn't the first time the two have been portrayed as friends.
  • Also from "Cheddar Days", Ruthie and Gerdie are shown to be fans of Sylvester and his artwork, in contrast to the original shorts where Sylvester would try to eat Hubie and Bertie, the mouse sisters' original male counterparts.
  • Similarly, Sylvester is one of the customers of Hector's fast food stand (later upgraded into a restaurant by the Builders). In other works particularly Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries, their relationship is defined by Hector beating up Sylvester either for attempting to eat Tweety, annoying him, or just because.
  • Zig-Zagged Trope in "Looney Science". Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner have something approaching a hostile relationship (at least on Wile E.'s part) because Road Runner's beeps continually distract Wile E. as he and the Builders try to construct a science museum in the desert, leading to a series of minor disasters. However, the problem is solved with a pair of noise-suppressing headphones; once Wile E. puts them on, he's no longer aware of Road Runner's presence (or anything else around him).
• Adaptational Badass: Surprisingly, Wile E. Coyote. In most Looney Tunes media, he is defined by being an Iron Butt Monkey whose own inventions blow up in his face (often literally). Here, while still having moments of being at the end of a joke, he is very competent as a Builder and scientist, with the rest of the Builders having to call him to get them out of jams.
• Adaptational Friendship: The show does this with many of the characters from Looney Tunes, who often have fractious relationships in the original series and many of its spin-offs. Because Builders is an Edutainment Show with themes such as cooperation and getting along, they never argue or become angry with each other or anyone else:
  • Similar to their infant counterparts in Baby Looney Tunes, Sylvester and Tweety get along fine, with the latter helping the former overcome his fear of heights in "Stories", and the former willingly spitting out the latter when he accidentally sucks him into his mouth while yawning in "Cheddar Days".
  • In most Looney Tunes media, Wile E. Coyote is portrayed as an Insufferable Genius villain, especially in the shorts where he's paired with Bugs. Here, he uses his inventions to help the Looney Builders with their construction projects, and while he still has an ego, he keeps it under control.
  • Instead of trying to take over the Earth or destroy it, Marvin the Martian is a space traveler who crash lands on it due to an accident. He is initially wary about the Earth, but gets over it after the Looney Builders help him fix his spaceship.
  • While Taz the Tasmanian devil is still ravenous and has destructive tendencies, he is much less of a Volatile Tasmanian Devil and never tries to eat anyone. When he throws a fit in "Taz Recycle", it is quite tame.
  • Cecil Turtle, who is usually depicted as Bugs' rival, is a friendly client of the Looney Builders.
  • In other works, such as The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Hector's relationship with Sylvester is defined by the former beating up the latter for attempting to eat Tweety, annoying him, or just because. In "Game Time", Sylvester is one of the customers of Hector's fast-food stand, which later gets upgraded to a restaurant by the Looney Builders.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Most Looney Tunes media portrays Wile E. Coyote as an Insufferable Genius villain, especially when paired with Bugs. Here, Bugs calls him up for help with the construction projects, and he's overall friends with the rest of the Builders. He still has an ego, but he keeps it under control.
  • Taz, while still ravenous and having destructive tendencies, is a lot less of a Volatile Tasmanian Devil and never tries to eat anyone. When we first see him throw a fit in "Taz Recycle", it is actually quite tame.
  • Gossamer in this series may as well as be essentially an older version of his Gentle Giant incarnation in The Looney Tunes Show.
  • Marvin the Martian no longer tries to destroy or take over the Earth, his first appearance having him as a space traveler who crash-lands on Earth due to an accident. He was initially wary about the Earth, but gets over it after the Builders help him fix his spaceship.
  • Toro the Bull from Bully for Bugs appears in "Speedy" as a soccer player. When he charges towards Porky, who is on the other team, he does it out of excitement rather than malice.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • All of the main characters are made nicer than in their usual portrayals (aside from Lola and Porky who have always been nice to begin with). Daffy in particular is characterized as a happy-go-lucky Cloudcuckoolander much like his original 1930's incarnation, though he is also kinder and enthusiastic about helping people like in Looney Tunes Cartoons.
  • Similarly, Cecil Turtle (who is usually depicted as Bugs' rival) and Hector the Bulldog (who is usually depicted as a Bully Bulldog) are friendly clients of the Builders in this series.
  • Foghorn Leghorn's personality in this series is a lot closer to his incarnation in The Looney Tunes Show where he was an optimistic and eccentric businessman.
  • In the Looney Tunes shorts, Pa Bear would beat up Junior for doing something wrong. Since that obviously can't be shown in a show aimed at preschoolers, he is much more mellow and merely gets annoyed when Junior runs into him.
• Adaptational Personality Change:
  • In the original Looney Tunes shorts, Chester the Terrier was a jumpy Hero-Worshipper for Spike the Bulldog. In this series, he is quiet and works as a rollerskating waiter for Hector.
  • In original Looney Tunes shorts, Penelope Pussycat is shy and meek. In this series, she's a flamboyant and confident fashionista.
• Agony of the Feet: In "Taz Recycle", the wrecking ball that Daffy shows Taz for the new vehicle they make him lands on Daffy's foot. Daffy wearily says he's okay as this happens.
• Alliterative Title: Bugs Bunny Builders.
• Anti-Sneeze Finger: In "Batty Kathy", the Looney Builders use duck tape to keep Kathy's upside-down radio station from falling from the ceiling. When the station is about to fall, Tweety is about to sneeze, but Bugs, Lola, and Porky all use their fingers to keep him from sneezing. The radio station still falls nonetheless.
• Anthropomorphic Shift:
  • Pouncy (originally Pussyfoot from "Feed the Kitty") is shown standing on two feet in her cameos in this show, as opposed to all fours like in her appearances in the shorts.
  • Same can be said for most of the Looney Tunes characters that were originally treated as animals as they are now civilized people, with the occasional Furry Reminder. This would explain why the characters originally established as predators (Wile E. Coyote, the Tasmanian Devil, Sylvester, etc.) are able to get along with those who are usually portrayed as their prey.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In "Underwater Star", Lola keeps getting distracted by the golden star which serves as the prize for an underwater obstacle course she and the other Looney Builders are hired to build, which leads to complications when the Looney Builders try to build said course.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Bugs, Lola and Petunia wear jumpsuits, but no shoes. Daffy wears a shirt and short overalls, while Wile E.'s outfit is a pair of larger overalls and no shirt; they don't wear shoes either.
• Bat People: Kathy Bat from "Batty Kathy", who hires the Builders to install a radio studio on the ceiling of her cave.
• Beach Bury: In "Party Boat", Tosh buries Mac in the sand, designing the sand over his body to look like the body of a mermaid.
• Beary Friendly: In "Honey Bunny", the Three Bears are depicted as friendly clients of the Looney Builders. Even Pa, who's usually short-tempered in other works.
• Big Eater: Taz, as always. At the end of "Ice Creamed", he manages to eat the entire giant sundae that the Looney Builders made for him as they sing him his birthday song.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: "Big Feet" is named after a legendary monster that supposedly roams the forests near Looneyburg. Porky sees and hears several "clues" that make him think the creature is stalking the Builders, but it turns out to be Gossamer, who had been hiking in the area.
• Birthday Episode:
  • In "Ice Creamed", it's Taz's birthday, and Porky gets the idea to create a giant sundae as a present.
  • In "Castle Hassle", it's the birthday of Prince Lionel, who wants the Looney Builders to build a party room for his castle.
• Bowdlerization: A little cat girl who's based on the classic character Pussyfoot was originally called "Looney Cat Kid", then officially renamed Pouncy. The reason for this... well, let's just say it's not too hard to figure out.
• Busy Beaver: Ron and Jon Beaver from "Goofballs" are inversions, being more inclined to goofing off than working. While they are still capable of chopping down trees, they would rather use the wood to build something fun.
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: In "Sea School", when a floatilla of sea turtles swim over Sandy Shells Preschool, blocking out the sun and making everything dark, all that can be seen of the Looney Builders and Moxie Manatee are their eyes.
• The Cameo: Several episodes have Looney Tunes characters who aren't a part of the plot appear briefly.
• Canon Foreigner: While almost everyone in the series is an existing Looney Tunes character (or at least based on one), the show has introduced some new additions to the franchise, such as Tibs Squirrel from "Squirreled Away" and Kathy Bat from "Batty Kathy".
• Carnivore Confusion: Almost everyone in the show seems to be vegetarian and meat products never appear, instead replaced with vegetarian substitutes. Even carnivorous animals like Sylvester are perfectly fine with eating veggie burgers and sandwiches containing only lettuce and cheese. However, fishing is still practiced and Pauleen Penguin outright mentions she eats fish like any penguin would, which raises some questions given fish are shown to be just as cartoony as the other animals (assuming if non-sentient fish do not exist in this world).
• Cartoon Cheese: The Mouse Sisters own a cheese factory that's shaped like this trope in wheel form. Zig-zagged in "Cheddar Days" when the Builders come up with several designs for the sisters' cheese café based on more specific cheese kinds, before settling with cheddar.
• Cartoon Whale: The blue whales that appear in "Sea School" and "Underwater Star" have square-shaped heads. Winston Whale from "Mail Whale" looks like a blue sperm whale with his eyes too close to his mouth (which is drawn as a regular mouth rather than the thin jaws of sperm whales).
• Cartoonland Time: Common throughout the series, but the best example is "Race Track Race". Cecil Turtle hires the Builders to construct a race track so he can hold a big race that very night. Not only do they accept the job without batting an eye, they almost make the deadline, but Daffy's deviating from the plan forces them to modify the track during the race.
• The Cat Came Back: In "Looney Science", Wile E. Coyote tries to send Road Runner far away due to the latter's beeping constantly disturbing the former as he works on his science museum, to the point of luring him into a rocket ship that blasts off into space. As expected, Road Runner keeps coming back.
• Cheerful Child: Bizzy the Buzzard, who eagerly wants to help Builders when they redecorate her family's nest.
• Cheesy Moon: At the beginning of "K-9: Space Puppy", Daffy asks Petunia if either the sun or the moon is made out of cheese. Petunia tells him that neither one is, to which Daffy tells her that he'd like to know for sure by going out into space.
• Christmas Episode: In "Looneyburg Lights", the Looney Builders decide to light festival in the park for the citizens of Looneyburg for Christmas, which includes having Wile E. Coyote build a Freezy Blaster 10,000 to make it snow. Unfortunately, since he forgot to install an off switch, it keeps snowing, which freezes the roads and prevents the citizens of Looneyburg from attending the festival, so the Looney Builders have to gather the citizens of Looneyburg and bring them to the park themselves.
• City of Adventure: The show is set in and around a town called Looneyburg.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Daffy Duck, as to be expected, is definitely the wackiest member of the team. A Running Gag has him show up wearing a different outfit after the rest of the team gets ready to get to work, he turns himself around to go headfirst on the slide to the vehicles and can be seen bouncing around inside the tube part afterwards. He's also the least concerned when things go wrong with the project, and instead enjoys it.
• Clamshells as Mouths: Subverted by the mussels in "Sea School" whose soft bodies act as arms. Played straight with the clams in "Underwater Star" which have their shells act as mouths, complete with having teeth underneath.
• Composite Character: In this series, Hector the Bulldog is essentially a renamed Spike the Bulldog as he is more talkative, wearing a red shirt and paired with Chester the Terrier in "Game Time". The name change is clearly to avoid confusion with Tom and Jerry's own bulldog character with the same name.
• Continuity Nod:
  • In "Stories", Tweety mentions his fear of dinosaurs from "Dino Fright" while he's trying to get Sylvester to admit that he's afraid of heights.
  • In "Taz Recycle", the Looney Builders decide to make Taz's new vehicle out of Taztanium, a Taz-proof substance invented by Wile E. Coyote in "Smash House".
  • In "Honey Bunny", when Lola, Tweety, and Porky tell Bugs that they're building a kite, Daffy brings up his fear of kites from "Dino Fright". The same episode also has Wile E. use his shrink ray from "Looney Science" to shrink the Looney Builders down to the size of bees, and they bring up the time he shrunk Daffy with it.
• Couch Gag: Daffy's outfit in the Hard Hat Time song.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Underwater Star", while Bugs, Porky, and Tweety's concerns about the condition of the obstacle course they are constructing are mundane (the sand being too soft to support the course and several passing sea creatures getting in the way), Daffy's concern is that putting the golden star in a treasure chest will attract pirates. Lola doesn't listen to her friends, and sure enough, all of their concerns come true. Including a pirate crab taking the star away, prompting an I Warned You from Daffy.
• Denser and Wackier: The show is this compared to its predecessor, Baby Looney Tunes, as it brings the Looney Tunes characters back to their slapstick comedy antics.
• Dinosaur Doggie Bone: Barnyard Dawg, or George P. Mandrake as he is called, is a paleontologist in this series, invoking this trope.
• Disturbed Doves: In "Big Feet", a flock of crows fly away startled by what sounds like a loud roar, which later turns out to be Gossamer sneezing due to his seasonal allergies.
• Double-Meaning Title:
  • "Stories" plays on the Double Meaning of the word. The Builders are hired to expand the Looneyburg Library, and since there's no room around the building, they have to make it taller by adding extra stories. And what do the books in the library contain? Stories (the other kind).
  • Similarly, "Sea School" refers to both a group of fish and the building where teachers work and students learn, as the Looney Builders are hired to build Sandy Shells Preschool, an undersea school for Moxie Manatee.
  • "Catwalk" involves the Builders being hired by Penelope Pussycat to build a runway, also known as a catwalk.
• Episode Title Card: Each story has a different one.
• Expy: Hoots Talons from "Stories" appears to be designed after Fritz Owl from I Love to Singa.
• Extra-Long Episode: "Looneyburg Lights", the series' Christmas Episode, is a two-part episode that runs for twenty-two minutes instead of the usual runtime of eleven minutes.
• Fear Is Normal: In "Dino Fright", the Builders are tasked into constructing a dinosaur's skeleton, and Tweety admits that he's scared of dinosaurs. The others say they can relate since they have some fears of their own, with Porky revealing that Daffy has an Absurd Phobia of kites as an example (much to Daffy's annoyance, as he told him that in confidence).
• Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Several friendly dolphins appear in the undersea episodes, including a calf attending Moxie Manatee's preschool.
• Furry Reminder:
  • In "Snow Cap", Pauleen requests for a fishing hole in her house because as a penguin, she eats fish.
  • When Wile E. Coyote gets his science museum accidentally shrunk in "Looney Science", he lets out a Big "NO!" which trails off into a coyote's howl. Earlier in the same episode, he also lets out a howl as he's sent flying through the air by a catapult after an unsuccessful attempt to fling the Road Runner away on it.
  • In "Stories", Hoots, an owl, is tired when the Looney Builders come to see him. He explains to them that as an owl, he is nocturnal, meaning he sleeps during the day and is awake at night.
  • When Daffy gets launched into the air in "Cousin Billy", he remembers that as a duck, he can fly.
  • Sylvester curls up in a cat-like position whenever he takes a nap.
  • In "Party Boat", when the yacht the Builders built for Mac and Tosh begins to sink, Daffy briefly takes the form of a regular duck, floating on the water and flying off.
  • As a bat, Kathy Bat from "Batty Kathy" hangs upside down from the ceiling, which is why she wants the Looney Builders to build an upside-down radio station for her. She also does her broadcasts at nighttime and takes naps at daytime, due to bats being nocturnal.
• Gender-Blender Name: Daffy's cousin, Billy Featherbottom (as seen in "Cousin Billy"), is actually a girl.
• Gender Flip:
  • Pauleen Penguin from "Snow Cap" is the show's equivalent to Playboy Penguin from the original shorts "Frigid Hare" and "8 Ball Bunny".
  • Ruthie and Gerdie, the mouse sisters from "Cheesy Peasy", are female versions of Hubie and Bertie from the classic shorts.
  • Bizzy Buzzard from "Buzz In" appears to be a female version of Beaky Buzzard, albeit much more energetic.
• Giant Food: Oversized food seems to be a recurring theme in the show, with the second episode "Ice Creamed" having the Looney Builders making a giant ice cream sundae for Taz's birthday. One short has them trying to pick an oversized lemon.
• Grandma's Recipe: Or Grandpa's Recipe. The plot of "Soup Up" is kickstarted by Petunia attempting to try out her Grandpa Oink's soup recipe.
• Green Aesop: "Taz Recycle" is an episode centered around recycling. Taz is revealed to have a job at the Looneyburg Recycling center, where he breaks down recyclable materials so they can be recycled into other things. This job tires him out, so the Looney Builders decide to make Taz his own vehicle to make the job easier for him. They make it out of Taztanium 2.0, a Taz-proof substance made from recylable materials.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Porky wears a shirt and vest, but no pants, as usual. The same with Tweety, who is usually naked in other works.
• Halloween Episode: The short "Haunted Garage!", which was posted to Cartoonito's YouTube page before playing on cable. The Builders wear costumes, decorate their headquarters, and put on a show for Looneyburg's trick-or-treaters.
• Height Angst: After Tweety's crane breaks down in "Tweety-Go-Round", he goes through this, as his small size makes it hard to help without it.
• Hold Up Your Score: In "Buzz In", The Looney Builders paint using a giant canvas. Lola performs a twirl on the canvas, and an impressed Bugs and Porky respectively rate her with a star and a thumbs-up. When Daffy performs a dive on the canvas, Lola, Bugs, and Porky are unimpressed, and respectively rate him with a thumbs-down, a cross-out, and an X.
• Human Snowman:
  • In "Looney Science", Lola tests out the snow display in the museum's weather exhibit, and when the controls malfunction, she gets buried in snow and comes out in the shape of a snowman.
  • In "Looneyburg Lights", Daffy hides in the snowman that Lola and Tweety build at the light festival.
• Hypocritical Humor: Near the beginning of "Dino Fright", Bugs builds a statue of Daffy out of mud, which poses with its hands on its hips and its head held up to the sky. Daffy says "I don't pose like that!" while posing in the exact same position as the statue.
• Impact Silhouette:
  • In "Splash Zone", Bugs leaves one in the snack bar when he takes the water slide that he and the other Looney Builders built for Mayor Foghorn Leghorn based on the latter's vision.
  • Taz frequently leaves these behind whenever he spins through a wall.
• Impossibly Delicious Food: In "Honey Bunny", the honey produced by Queen Beatrice's colony is treated as this, whoever tasting it becoming instantly addicted to it. Thus, the Queen advises not to eat any of it at work.
• Jerkass Realization: "Play Day" features a variation. The Builders start working on a playground that will have sections for each of them, but Daffy gets so excited over his egg-shaped tower that he takes most of the others' supplies to add to it, ruining their projects. Daffy's teammates make the best of things by using what they've got left to create an improvised see saw; when Daffy sees this, he realizes that being with his friends is more important to him than hanging out alone in his fancy tower, so he apologizes to them and helps them build their parts of the playground.
• King of Beasts: Prince Lionel from "Castle Hassle" is a lion who is the Prince of England. He hires the Looney Builders to build him an inflatable party room for his birthday party, but his bossing them around causes a delay.
• Library Episode: In "Stories", the Looney Builders are hired by Hoots Talon to expand and paint the old library. They enlist the help of master painter Sylvester, who with the help of Tweety as his build buddy, faces his fear of heights.
• Literal Metaphor: In "Snow Cap", Lola gets a request from Pauleen Penguin for "a really cool house", which she and the other Builders initially take for a house with an awesome design. She is embarrassed when Pauleen clarifies she meant "really cool" temperature-wise, since penguins live in polar climates.
• Lighter and Softer: Compared to most Looney Tunes media, given that it's aimed at preschoolers.
• Mini-Golf Episode: "Mini-Golf" inovolves the Looney Builders building a new and more challenging final hole for the ACME Acres mini-golf course.
• Mixed Animal Species Team:
  • The main five Builders consist of two rabbits, a duck, a pig and a canary. The Sixth Rangers include another pig, a coyote and a cat.
  • In episode "Speedy", Speedy Gonzales's team consists of himself (a mouse), Toro the bull, a quetzal bird, an ocelot and an axolotl.
• Mythology Gag:
  • At the beginning of "Splash Zone", while bouncing on an air matress, one of the stunts that Daffy performs while he is airborne is playing an ivory piano, which he did during the "Dueling Ducks" scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
  • One episode is about a merry-go-round breaking down, a reference to the Looney Tunes theme song from 1937 to 1969, "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".
  • Speaking of which, the theme song, most noticeably at the beginning and end, incorporates the Merrie Melodies theme, "Merrily We Roll Along".
  • In "Rock On", Daffy's costume is Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century from the 1953 animated short of the same name, as well as the 2003 spin-off. When the other Looney Builders glare at him, he asks "Wrong galaxy?"
  • In "Stories", Daffy's costume is Robin Hood from the 1958 animated short, Robin Hood Daffy.
  • Barnyard Dawg is known as George P. Mandrake in this series. Mandrake is the name he was given in the cartoon "One Meat Brawl".
  • In "Cousin Billy", Billy's artwork features such characters as Yosemite Sam, Granny, Rocky, and Elmer Fudd.
  • In "Taz Recycle", when Daffy is asked by Wile E. to get a sample of Taz's hair for his Taztanium 2.0, he is revealed to have a Beauty School license.
  • In the short "Haunted Garage!", Count Bloodcount's bat form appears as a Halloween decoration.
  • In "Looneyburg Lights", Daffy holds up three French skunks which are clearly references to Pepé Le Pew.
  • In "Soup Up", Daffy's costume is a chicken, which brings to mind when he posed as a rooster in "You Were Never Duckier".
  • In "Party Boat", the Builders are assigned to build a yacht for Mac and Tosh, the two gophers having owned one in Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run.
  • The golf course that the Looney Builders build a new and more challenging final hole for in "Mini-Golf" is called ACME Acres.
  • In "Goofballs", the river where the Looney Builders design a new log cabin for the Beaver Brothers is called Merrie Melodies.
• National Animal Stereotypes:
  • In "Catwalk" (which takes place in France), a poodle mime appears.
  • "Dim Sim" takes place in China, with the Builders' client being Chef Puyong the giant panda and the residents including a snub-nosed monkey, a pangolin, a brown bear, and a tiger.
  • "Crane Game", taking place in Japan, has the Builders building a new claw machine for Chibi Critter, a Japanese flying squirrel. Chibi's arcade customers are a young Akita, raccoon dog, and hare.
  • In the episode "Speedy" which takes place in Mexico, Speedy Gonzales's team consists of Toro the bull, a quetzal bird, an ocelot and an axolotl.
• No Antagonist: Due to this being a show that teaches teamwork and friendship, all the Looney Tunes characters are normally shown being friendly and getting along with each other, even the ones who are usually cast as villains.
• No OSHA Compliance: In "Splash Zone", Mayor Foghorn Leghorn's idea of his dream water slide for the Looneyburg Water Park is one that includes a vertical loop, a splitter so that one end can lead to the bathrooms, and a snack bar in the middle of the slide. This results in some complications when the Looney Builders take it for a test run.
• Ocular Gushers: In "Taz Recycle", when Taz accidentally destroys the Looneyburg Recycling Center, he cries so hard that his tears flood the cab of his vehicle.
• Once per Episode: The "Hard Hat Time" song and its associated Couch Gag.
• The Owl-Knowing One: Hoots Talon from "Stories". He runs the Looneyburg Library and hires the Builders to add room for an influx of new books.
• Painful Pointy Pufferfish: In the Dance Party Ending of "Sea School", Daffy gets between a pair of pufferfish that swell up, prompting him to dance without moving one spot.
• Penny-Pinching Crab: In "Underwater Star", a pirate crab steals the golden star that was meant to be the award for the winner of the obstacle course, prompting Daffy to chase after him.
• Perpetual Smiler: Surprisingly, this series has a couple instances where Road Runner averts this. In "Looney Science", he has a rather surprised frown when Wile E. Coyote blasts him with a shrink ray after his beeping causes a chain reaction resulting in Wile E.'s science museum also getting hit by said shrink ray, and in "Game Time", he looks confused when he comes across a hamburger bun-shaped roof out in the desert.
• Polar Penguins: In "Snow Cap", the Looney Builders have to make newcomer Pauleen Penguin a house, one that has to be made of ice and snow because "penguins need to live in a cold environment".
• Porky Pig Pronunciation: This is inevitable if the Trope Namer himself is one of the main characters.
  • In "Smash House", when Porky and the other Looney Builders try unsuccessfully to build a smash-proof house for Taz:
    "This looks more difficu... difficu... harder than I thought."
  • From "Buzz In", when Bizzy asks Porky if she can help the Looney Builders build Mama Buzzard's new nest:
    "I don't know, Bizzy. You have a lot to learn about buil... buil... construction."
  • "Looneyburg Lights" has two examples:
    • First, when the bolt holding the two coaches of the train comes undone:
      "Oh no! The train's dis... dis... dis... separated!"
    • Then, when Sniffles announces that he and the rest of the citizens of Looneyburg are going to help the Looney Builders dig through the snow bank to repay them for all the times they've helped them when they needed it:
      "Gee, I'm speech... (stutters) I have no words."
  • From "Underwater Star", when Porky finds some firm ground for the underwater obstacle course:
    "This ground is hard as a r-r-r-r... it's really solid!"
  • From "Bright Lights", when the Looney Builders call Wile E. to fix Lola's tablet after she accidentally runs over it with her bulldozer:
    "The tablet's in pretty ba... ba... ba... it's in terrible shape."
• Pulled from Your Day Off: In "Blast Off", the control panel on Marvin's spaceship is broken, and Bugs decides to call Wile E. to help fix it, wishing it didn't have to come to this, as it's Wile E.'s day off. Sure enough, when Bugs calls Wile E., Wile E. is relaxing on the beach, telling them he won't take work calls. When Bugs mentions that they're working on a spaceship, Wile E. rushes over, unable to resist the chance to do so.
• Pungeon Master: All the cast are capable of making puns, but Lola is the most prominent pun-maker.
• Rail-Car Separation: In "Looneyburg Lights", the Looney Builders turn their vehicles into a train to gather the citizens of Looneyburg and take them to the park for the light festival. After gathering most of the citizens, the train goes over a mountain, where the bolt holding the two coaches together comes undone, causing the train to split off in separate directions. When the front half meets up with the rear, Gossamer holds onto the Barnyard Dawg to connect the coaches since the bolt got lost.
• Quarter Hour Short: Each episode is only eleven minutes.
• Quicksand Sucks: In "Underwater Star", Porky's steamroller begins to sink in some quicksand, prompting the other Looney Builders to find a different location for their obstacle course. When they find another location, it also has quicksand that begins to sink both Bugs and the obstacle course. They eventually find a third spot where the ground is solid.
• Running Gag:
  • In a similar vein to the Marshall's wipeout gags from PAW Patrol, Daffy will show up wearing something besides his construction outfit when the rest of the crew gets their gear and is about to head to their vehicles.
  • Several episodes have an earthworm getting disturbed by the Looney Builders' work.
• Sheet of Glass: A variation occurs in "Tweety-Go-Round" where Sam Sheepdog and Pete Puma are crossing the street while carrying a large fish in a tank when Porky's runaway steamroller comes straight for them. There is no crashing sound or shards of glass flying, but a torrent of water with the fish swimming past outside the window.
• Sexy Cat Person: In a kid-friendly variation, Penelope Pussycat is depicted in this show as a flamboyant and confident fashionista who speaks with a French accent.
• Shout-Out:
  • In "Snow Cap", Daffy's costume is Fonzie, complete with his Character Catchphrase, "Aaay!"
  • In "Tweety-Go-Round", during Tweety's montage of trying to be stronger, one of the weights he lifts is a twig with a marshmallow on each end.
  • Taz seems to be neighboring Phineas and Ferb in "Smash House".
  • In "Buzz In", when the Looney Builders arrive at Mama Buzzard's tree, Mama Buzzard's children shout, "It's a bird! It's a plane!"
  • Daffy wears a Batman costume in "Haunted Garage!" and "Batty Kathy".
  • In "Game Time", when Bugs goes over the instructions on how to build the Looney Burgers restaurant, Daffy imagines Bugs saying "womp" over and over again, sounding like the adults in the Peanuts animated specials.
  • Cecil Turtle being a car racer in contrast to his slowness brings to mind a certain sloth.
  • In "Underwater Star", Daffy's costume is Aquaman.
  • In "Party Boat", Daffy's costume is a sailor suit, which may bring to mind another famous cartoon duck.
  • In "Cheddar Days", a tired Sylvester holds a cup of coffee similar to how another famous cartoon cat does during his usual mornings.
  • In "Looney Lunch Break", Porky makes a sandwich that looks similar to the one Princess Bubblegum made in the Adventure Time episode "Five Short Graybles".
  • Ron and Jon from "Goofballs" are beaver brothers who would rather goof off than be busy, kind of like Daggett and Norbert.
  • Chef Poyung from "Dim Sum" is a panda who works in a Chinese restaurant.
  • In a similar vein to the Marshall's wipeout gags from PAW Patrol, Daffy will show up wearing something besides his construction outfit when the rest of the crew gets their gear and is about to head to their vehicles.
• Shown Their Work:
  • In "Smash House", one of the Builders' rebuilds for Taz's house is based on an Egyptian pyramid. The house actually looks like what the pyramids originally looked when they were finished in Ancient Egypt, being smooth and with a shiny top (though it's sandy-yellow with a glass top rather than white with a gold top).
  • Also from "Smash House", Wile E. makes a slab of diamond that gets smashed by Taz. The diamond crumbles into dust rather than shattering into pieces like glass.
• Sixth Ranger:
  • Petunia Pig is the Builders' mechanic, but she doesn't go on builds and only appears when she has a role in a particular episode.
  • Wile E. Coyote works with the Looney Crew on a case-by-case basis.
  • Sylvester is treated like a new member of the team in "Stories".
• Sleep Aesop: In "Cheddar Days", Sylvester is tired and cranky when he is asked by the Looney Builders to paint a mural for a cheese-themed cafe for Ruthie and Gerdie. As a result, he finds it hard to concentrate on his mural, he accidentally paints Lola and Tweety when he tries to paint the tables, and he berates Bugs and Daffy for making too much noise when they test the cheese foam dispenser. It is revealed that Sylvester spent all of the night before working on a puzzle, and finished in the morning, barely getting any sleep before the Looney Builders asked for his assistance. Upon finding out about this, the Looney Builders decide to let Sylvester take a cat nap in his lift so that he will feel refreshed and can concentrate on his mural when he wakes up, knowing that it's important for everyone to get enough sleep.
• Smelly Skunk: In "Looneyburg Lights", while singing his own version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", Daffy holds up "three French skunks" which spray him.
• Special Edition Title: The title sequence for "Looneyburg Lights" has a festive version of the show's title sequence, with a Christmas wreath in the show's logo, and snow falling.
• Standard Snippet: The melody for "Hard Hat Time" is "Powerhouse (B strain)", which is the piece's first use in a Warner Bros. animated property in almost 30 years.
• Sticky Situation:
  • In "Cheesy Peasy", Porky ends up using too much glue while building his section of the bridge for Ruthie and Gerdie's cheese factory and getting stuck in it. Fortunately for him, Lola is able to save him with ACME Glue remover.
  • Also happens in "Honey Bunny" when Bugs and Daffy get stuck together in honey while sneaking a taste of it.
• Stock Beehive: In "Honey Bunny", Queen Beatrice and her honeybee colony are shown living in a hive that looks like a wasp's nest.
• Stop Drowning and Stand Up: In "Party Boat", when the boat the Looney Builders build for Mac and Tosh begins to sink, Daffy, Lola and Porky jump into the water with life preservers. Bugs then walks up to them and assures them that they're still in shallow water.
• Sturdy and Steady Turtles: Cecil. He not only moves slowly, but takes pauses while speaking. Once he gets behind the wheel, however, he's a speed demon.
• Suddenly Speaking:
  • Wile E. Coyote is once again in his "Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius" persona from the cartoons where he's paired with Bugs, where he speaks with a British accent.
  • Hippity Hopper, Pouncy/Pussyfoot, Egghead Jr., and Penelope Pussycat were all silent characters in the original cartoons, but are fully talkative in this series.
• Sugar Bowl: The show seems to be set in a universe of one. Everyone is easy to get along with, the setting is overall bright, and every problem is solved in the end. It even extends to other planets like Mars.
• Tagalong Kid: Bizzy Buzzard from "Buzz In". Her mother hires the Builders to construct new nests for her family, then takes her other children out; however, Bizzy stays behind because she's a fan of the Looney Crew and wants to be one of them. She unintentionally causes problems for the team with her well-meaning interference, but they figure out a way to let her contribute to the build without making any more trouble, leading to a So Proud of You reaction from her mom.
• Tailfin Walking: Winston Whale from "Mail Whale" moves around on land with his tailfins acting as legs.
• Take a Third Option: In "Smash House", the Looney Builders try to build a house for Taz that he can't smash using every building material they have, but every one they try is insufficiently strong to handle Taz's destructive nature. They soon call in Wile E. Coyote, who invents a smash-proof substance called Taztanium. The Taztanium is strong enough not to be smashed, but Taz ends up feeling sad because he loves smashing things. In the end, the Looney Builders decide to build a house that's collapsible; that way Taz can smash it but not destroy it.
• Tanuki: In "Crane Game", one of Chibi Critter's customers at his arcade is a young tanuki.
• Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Parodied in "Dino Fright", where the Builders are assigned to assemble the fossilized skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus, with Tweety being scared of the dinosaur. The issue is resolved by having Tweety assemble the T. rex skeleton in a silly pose.
• That's All, Folks!: The Trope Namer himself, Porky Pig, uses this line to close out "Batty Kathy" after his idea of using claws succeeds in keeping Kathy's upside-down radio station from falling from the ceiling.
• Time-Passage Beard: Bugs grows one in "Looneyburg Lights" as he waits impatiently for Cecil to board the train before putting him on it himself.
• Toilet Humor: Only one example so far. In "Cheesy Peasy", Ruthie and Gerdie Mouse are trapped inside their cheese factory by a mac and cheese explosion. They hire the Builders to clear it up, leading to this line.
  Ruthie: Okay, Gerdie, let's cut the cheese!
• Trash of the Titans: In "Squirreled Away", Tibs Squirrel hires the Builders to help him clean his tree, which is messy because his possessions are strewn everywhere. This proves difficult because he's a hoarder who's reluctant to part with anything, but with the crew's help, he learns to organize the items he's keeping while donating things he no longer uses.
• Twin Theme Naming: The Beaver Brothers in "Goofballs" are named Ron and Jon.
• Two Girls to a Team: Lola is a regular character, while Petunia is a Recurring Character.
• Upside-Down Blueprints:
  • In "Goofballs", the Beaver Brothers play with Lola's tablet, messing up the plans for the log cabin that the Looney Builders were building for them. As a result, the directions get flipped over, and the Looney Builders end up building the log cabin upside down.
  • Invoked Trope in "Batty Kathy"; the Looney Builders intentionally build an upside-down radio station for Kathy Bat, and need to find a way to keep it from falling from the ceiling.
• Vague Age: The Builders are old enough to run a construction company — but young enough to build a playground for their own use.
• Virtuous Bees: "Honey Bunny" introduces Queen Beatrice, the Queen of Looneyburg's bees. She and her workers create honey for the Three Bears' party, and the Looney Builders are assigned to build a workshop for her and her workers.
• Wingding Eyes: Daffy has heart-shaped pupils upon seeing Cecil Turtle's car in "Race Track Race".
• World of Funny Animals: So far, none of the human Looney Tunes have appeared outside of artworks.
• World Tour: From Episode 35 onwards, the Looney Builders travel around the world for their latest assignments; their destinations include England ("Castle Hassle"), France ("Catwalk"), China ("Dim Sum"), Japan ("Crane Game"), and Mexico ("Speedy").
• Worthless Yellow Rocks: In "Dino Fright", Daffy (of all characters) digs through a pile of dirt picking out the Tyrannosaurus bones they are supposed to find, while throwing away "junk" like jewels, gold coins, a crown, a sarcophagus, a painting, and a unicycle. Porky points out they could be priceless.
• Wrench Wench: Both of the female Builders. Lola comes up with many of the plans and helps implement them in the field, while Recurring Character Petunia Pig serves as the team's expert mechanic.

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