Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) is a feature-length Looney Tunes adventure combining live action and animation about a hapless stuntman, aided (and confounded) by his animated Hollywood friends Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and a studio executive, who stumble across a plot to possess a mysterious blue diamond in the course of rescuing his famous actor father.

Directed by Joe Dante. Written by Larry Doyle.

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Dialogue

[first lines]

[in the opening cartoon sequence, we see a series of "Rabbit Season" signs all over the forest, as Elmer Fudd sneaks towards Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole]

Elmer Fudd: [to the audience] Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. Ba ha ha ha!

[the camera zooms over to Daffy Duck putting a "Rabbit Season" sign on a tree, as Bugs Bunny helps him out]

Daffy Duck: I am a duck bent on self-preservationum.

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Daffy Duck: Hold everything. [looking over the script] "Daffy gets blasted." Mm-hmm. Page 7: "Daffy gets blasted." Uh-huh. Page 8: "Daffy gets blasted again!" [to the boardroom members, Kate Houghton, and the Warner Bros.] What's the matter with you people? We can't do this kind of stuff anymore. [to the Warner Bros.] The Brothers Warner, show biz legends like me shouldn't have to play stooge… to that long-eared, carrot-chomping, overbite-challenged—

Bugs Bunny: Eh, what's up, doc? [to the boardroom members] Hi, Bobby. How's your wife? Great nose job, Chuck. Thanks, goils. Good rug, Mel. Never wouldv'e guessed it. [to Daffy] Eh, pardon me.

Daffy Duck: The pleasure is mine.

Bugs Bunny: [to the Warner Bros.] Warner Brothers, I think Daff's right. Maybe I'll take a vacation. [shows the boardroom members his wallet full of photos of his many relatives] Go visit my five hundred and foity-two nieces and nephews.

Kate Houghton: [to Daffy] Mr. Duck, excuse me, I'm sorry. I don't see how we can have a Bugs Bunny movie without Bugs Bunny.

Daffy Duck: Oh, my. Heavens, no. You can't have a Bugs Bunny movie without Bugs Bunny. And if you don't mind me asking, who's glorified personal assistant are you?

Kate Houghton: Kate Houghton, Vice President Comedy.

Daffy Duck: Oh. Right. [Looks down to see his hands on ice]

Mr. Warner: [to his brother about Kate] Kate did Lethal Weapon Babies.

Mr. Warner's Brother: Finally. A Lethal Weapon that I can take my grandchildren to see.

Kate Houghton: [to the boardroom members] Gentlemen, check your phones. [shows Daffy a green bar graph chart accompanied by Bugs' picture next to it on each boardroom member's phone] Our current research shows that Bugs Bunny is a core asset that appeals to male and female audiences both young and old alike throughout the universe, [the graph chart switches to a red bar graph chart accompanied by a 2D sprite of Daffy on it, which crashes in the ground as the graph goes down] while your fanbase is limited down to angry fat guys in basements.

Daffy Duck: Yeah, but... but... [to the boardroom members] Aw, come on, fellas! I'm thrice the entertainer the rabbit is!

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Daffy Duck: So, it has come to this. I'm afraid that Brothers Warner must choose between a handsome matinee idol, or this miscreant perpetrator of LOW burlesque. [points at Bugs, who is wearing Groucho glasses and a spinning bowtie; everyone laughs]

Mr. Warner's Brother: Whichever one's not the duck.

[Daffy gasps, then, a boardroom member places a box labeled "Property of Mr. Duck", which has all of Daffy’s belongings, including a Bugs plush with needles on it, a big Daffy plush, a book called "Learn to draw Bugs Bunny and Friends", with Daffy replacing Bugs’ name with his own, and a picture of Daffy with the Warner Bros.]

Daffy Duck: Say, that's the stuff from my office.

Mr. Warner: You don't have an office.

Mr. Warner's Brother: Not any more.

Daffy Duck: Symbolically, this is bad. [begs at the Warner Bros.] Please, Brother! Uh, other Brother? [jumps on Kate] Icy she-wolf? Help me, please! I'm too young and tender to retire. Hoo-Hoo?

Kate Houghton: Let me escort you out.

Daffy Duck: WAIT! [Kate drags Daffy out of the boardroom] I haven't tried toadying, kowtowing and butt-kissing yet! I'm still begging here!

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Daffy Duck: [to Kate] Some grip, lady.

Kate Houghton: [to D.J.] I need you to eject this duck immediately.

D.J. Drake: Lady, this is Daffy Duck.

Kate Houghton: Exactly. Not anymore. We already owned the name.

Daffy Duck: [to Kate] Oh, yeah?! Well, you can't stop me from calling myself D... [gasps] D... [gasps again] Well, what do you know?

D.J. Drake: [to Kate] You fired Daffy Duck?

Kate Houghton: No, I didn't. I did... I mean... They did.

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D.J. Drake: [indicating Daffy in hand] Miss Houghton!

[as a result of the Batmobile crashing into the Warner Bros. studio water tower, it starts to overturn in front of D.J., Kate, Bugs, and Daffy]

Camera crew: Get out of the way! Watch out!

[the water tower overturns, dousing Kate and Bugs and their car in water]

Bugs Bunny: Well, what do you know? I've found Nemo.

Daffy: [to DJ, about Kate] I think she likes you.

Kate Houghton: [turns around, and looks at D.J. and Daffy with an angry look on her face]

D.J. Drake: Oops!

[cut to a close-up view of D.J.'s right arm, as a security guard's hand rips the Warner Bros. Studios badge off of D.J.'s right sleeve]

Security Guard: [to D.J.] Your father would be so ashamed of you.

D.J. Drake: But I was... it was...

[the main gate shuts tight behind D.J. as he walks away]

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[Porky Pig and Speedy Gonzales chat and have lunch in the cafeteria]

Porky Pig: [to Speedy] Eh, at first they tell me to lose the stutter. Now they tell me I'm not funny! [sighs] It's a pain in the butt, being p-p-p-politically correct.

Speedy Gonzales: You're telling me.

[pan over to Shaggy and Scooby-Doo sitting across a table from Matthew Lillard, who portrayed Shaggy in the live-action adaptation; Shaggy is chastizing Lillard for his performance]

Shaggy: What kind of performance do you call that?! You made me sound like a total space cadet, man!

Matthew Lillard: I'm sorry you feel that way. I was just trying to be real to your character.

Shaggy: If you, like, goof on me in the sequel, I'm coming after you!

Scooby-Doo: Yeah! And I'll give you a Scooby Sna-AAAAAARRRRLLL!

[Lillard flinches as Scooby snarls; pan over to Kate and Bugs discussing an upcoming Bugs Bunny film]

Kate Houghton: [to Bugs] There are a few areas of the script I think we need to address. There's no heart, no cooperation, nobody learns anything...

Bugs Bunny: [as Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf both enter the cafeteria, and then sit down at a nearby table] Daffy learns not to stick his head in a jet engine.

Kate Houghton: He's gone.

Bugs Bunny: No, Daffy always comes back. I just tell him how much I need him. We hug, we cry, I drop somethin' heavy on him, I laugh.

Kate Houghton: The duck is history, okay? [calms down, as Ralph attempts to eat a sheep with a fork, but Sam stops him] So, the question is, how can we help you reposition your brand identity? Answer, we'll team you up with a hot female co-star.

Bugs Bunny: Usually, [spins around and dresses up in a woman's dress, wig, and makeup, and then speaks in a falsetto voice] I play the female love interest.

[at a nearby table, Michigan J. Frog sees Bugs in drag, and then attracts her with his singing and dancing]

Michigan J. Frog: [to Bugs, singing] Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello, my ragtime gal.

Kate Houghton: [to Bugs, as Michigan continues singing] Okay, about the cross-dressing thing. In the past, funny. Today, disturbing.

Bugs Bunny: [as he takes off the dress, and the wig] Listen, lady, if you don't find a rabbit wearing lipstick amusing, you and I have nothin' to say to each other.

Kate Houghton: [gets serious] Look, I'm trying to be nice, but I was brought in to leverage your synergy! And I'm not going to let you, or some wacky duck...

Bugs Bunny: [wipes the makeup off his face] Daffy.

Kate Houghton: Wacky, daffy, nutty, fruit cake, crispy over rice, it doesn't matter!

Bugs Bunny: Well, these matter. [gets out his eight Award statuettes from underneath the table, and then puts them on the top of the table] And this. [gets out his Hollywood Walk of Fame tile with his name on it from underneath the table, and then puts it on the top of the table next to the Award statuettes] And they say we get Daffy back. [to his Award statuettes] Right, boys?

Bugs's Award statuettes: [in unison] We want Daffy! We want Daffy! Bring him Back! We love Daffy!

[a very disappointed Kate receives a smile from Bugs]

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D.J. Drake: Hello?

Damian Drake: Son?

D.J. Drake: Dad? What are you doing in the painting?

Damian Drake: I wanted you to keep out of this, but there's nobody I can trust. Can you hold on a second?

[in the background, Damian Drake is fighting a group of thugs]

D.J. Drake: Are you shooting a movie or something?

Daffy Duck: [hops in sofa with popcorn and soda in hand] A new Damian Drake movie? Cool!

Damian Drake: Come to Las Vegas. [more fighting in background] Ask Dusty Tails for the Blue Monkey.

D.J. Drake: The Blue Monkey? What's a blue monkey?

Damian Drake: A diamond. A very special diamond. Find Dusty Tails.

D.J. Drake: [as the fighting continues yet still] Hey! Dad, do you need me to call the police or something?

Damian Drake: [uses his mouth to pull the pin out of a hand grenade, lobbing it behind him; the grenade explodes on a thug] No. No police.

D.J. Drake: Dad, are you all right?

Damian Drake: I'm sorry I never told you this before, but I— [thugs finally manage to catch him in a hold, Damian struggles visibly. The video call cuts off]

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Bugs Bunny: See, I told you this wouldn’t work without— [Elmer shoots Bugs]

[Cut to Kate, Bugs, and the Warner Bros. in the screening room, where Bugs is all bandaged up from Elmer's gunshot]

Bugs Bunny: [coughing and groaning] Oh! Oh pain! Oh agony!

[Kate sighs with an embarrassed smile as the Warner Bros. look at her calming but in disgust]

Mr. Warner's Brother: You're fired.

[Kate in disbelief and horror while trying to explain]

Mr. Warner: You got rid of our best duck.

Kate Houghton: What?! [Kate stands up from her seat and looks at the Warner Bros., with Bugs (no longer hurt or all bandaged up) pretending to be the third Warner Brother] You can't fire me. My films have made 950 million dollars!

Mr. Warner: That's not a billion.

Mr. Warner's Brother: Nope. Not a billion.

Kate Houghton: Okay, I think we can all agree that the decision of firing the duck was a bad one. But it's time to move on. And by move on, I mean reverse course and get Daffy back.

Warner Brothers: By Monday.

Kate Houghton: I'll have Daffy back by Monday.

[the Warner Brothers exit the room]

Bugs Bunny: Eh, that went well. Listen, dollface, if I know Daffy, he's already hit the road by now.

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[en-route to Las Vegas, after repeated attempts of throwing Daffy out of DJ's car, DJ eventually gives up]

Daffy Duck: [stretches] It's good to stretch.

D.J. Drake: You know, I'm getting really tired of throwing you out of the car.

Daffy Duck: That's my plan in a nutshell. Now listen. If we run into anything that requires super-spy skills, like cracking wise, smooching dames, you better leave that to me. However, if we have any security guarding needs...

D.J. Drake: Very funny, duck! I'm not a security guard! For your information, it's just a job. It's what I do for money.

Daffy Duck: Mm-hmm.

D.J. Drake: What I really do is...I'm...I'm a... I'm a stuntman.

Daffy Duck: Hah! You, a stuntman? Please!

D.J. Drake: I am! Did you see those Mummy movies? I'm in them more than Brendan Fraser is. [Daffy rolls his eyes, complete with cartoon sound effect] Oh, no, he couldn't stand that! One day, he decides to say, "No-no-no! The Bren-Master does all his own stunts"!

Daffy Duck: Listen, muscles. If this heap ever makes it to Vegas, I'll do all the stunts. Capische?

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[we see the first view of the ACME boardroom and its members]

ACME Chairman: This is unacceptable! We cannot have nine-year-olds working in sweatshops making ACME sneakers, not when three-year-olds work for so much less! [the VPs jump for their buzzers; VP Child Labor hits his first; The Chairman points to him] Yes?

VP Child Labor: But, sir, they require naps.

ACME Chairman: Put double espresso in their sippy cups!

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Bugs Bunny: [while playing dead]: Doesn’t anyone knock anymore?

Kate Houghton: [aggravated]: Why are you torturing me? What have I ever done that... [before she can say anything, she sees posters of Damien Drake and a picture of both him and his son, D.J., in front of the Warner Bros. Studio and she quickly gets her answer] Great. I just fired the son of our biggest star. This has been a career making day, Kate. First you get rid of the Duck everybody hates, but then, of course, they all want him back. [Bugs appears in a knight’s armor with a sly, arrogant and narrow look and smiles upon her confession of her wrongdoings and saying that he was right from the start about the bad decision she made and should’ve kept Daffy before she begins to tears up] And worst of all, you get into a big fight with Bugs Bunny… [these words soon cause Bugs to turn surprised and wonders with thought] who you revere, and who you've tried to model your life after.

[her words were finally enough to make Bugs' eyes turn all puppy like and begins to tear up as he rises out of the armor as one of his tears roll down one of his whiskers]

Bugs: [finally unable to bear it any longer] Oh, I hate to see a grown man cry! [acts sarcastic to audience] Especially when it's a girl. Listen, toots. Would it stop the waterworks if I told you Daffy was going to Las Vegas with that guy DJ?

Kate Houghton: It might.

Bugs: Well, then. How's about we travel in style in this?

[cut to garage doors opening as the two get seated in the spy car Tuscan]

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Bugs Bunny: You’ve got no music in your soul, sister.

Kate Houghton: I am aware of that, yes.

Bugs Bunny: He sure went for all the extras. What a maroon.

Kate Houghton: Don't touch anything. This is Damien Drake's car—

[before she could finish, Bugs presses a button with a bomb, causing a missile to launch out of the rear and blows up around a valley area]

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D.J. Drake: So what about this Blue Monkey?

Dusty Tails: Your father's assignment was to track it down before the chairman could. The diamond has supernatural powers. It would be a disaster if it fell into the wrong hands. I was supposed to give him this. [shows DJ a Queen of Diamonds playing card with the Mona Lisa's face superimposed on it; Daffy takes the card briefly]

Daffy Duck: This is not a king-sized diamond. This is a Queen of Diamonds! What kind of sick joke is this?!

[Dusty chops Daffy in the gullet]

D.J. Drake: Can I have that?

Dusty Tails: That is so sweet! You, trying to take over for your father. These evil forces, they're bad people!

Daffy Duck: Relax, sister! I don't know the meaning of the word "fear"! [opens the door and finds himself facing a lit cannon with Yosemite Sam and his henchmen]

Yosemite Sam: Say your prayers, Duck!

Daffy Duck: "Fear: Noun. A state of terror".

[everyone scatters as the cannon prepares to fire]

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[Yosemite Sam chases D.J. and Daffy through the Wooden Nickel casino, guns a-blazin']

Yosemite Sam: Come back here, ya card-carryin' cuy-ote! [and slips on a banana peel, which he then shoots repeatedly] Yikes! Ooooh! Dad-burned slapstick cliché!

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Foghorn Leghorn: [to D.J.] Card, sir?

D.J. Drake: Hit me.

Foghorn Leghorn: Don't-I say, don't 'cha wanna look at your cards first, son? Boy's 'bout as sharp as a bowlin' ball.

D.J. Drake: Hit me!

[a low value card is dealt out, and DJ continues playing, to the ire of Yosemite Sam]

Yosemite Sam: Hit me!

[DJ continues nonetheless, receiving more low value cards]

Yosemite Sam: No, no, no! HIT ME, FRAGNABBIT!

Foghorn Leghorn: [actually hitting Sam with a paddle, who is reduced to incoherent angry babbling] He's the boss. Card, sir?

D.J. Drake: [nervous, believing he'd get the same treatment] Hit me?

[The Mona Lisa card is dealt]

Foghorn Leghorn: Twenty-one, a winner! [DJ quickly snatches the card and runs off, Daffy in tow]

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[Daffy and D.J. finally escape the Wooden Nickel]

Daffy Duck: I say we do Cirque de Soleil and call it a night. [D.J. makes a mad dash for his car] How 'bout the Liberace Museum? All right. Let's see what this baby can really do. [suddenly the car sputters and turns to pieces from all the long driving] Now that's an interesting feature.

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Yosemite Sam: [to Jeff Gordon, who is dressed up in his racecar driver uniform] Outta my way, fancy boy! I'm-a commandeerin' this here clown car!

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[driving alongside the good guys, Nasty Canasta lights a stick of dynamite to throw into their car]

Kate Houghton: Dynamite?! Who has dynamite?

Daffy Duck: [scoffs] Welcome to my world.

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[the good guys take off, leaving the bad guys with the lit dynamite]

Yosemite Sam: Throw it out the window! Throw it out! Throw it out!

Nasty Canasta: But innocent people could get hurt.

Yosemite Sam: Throw it out the window!

Cottontail Smith: But it'll send the wrong message to children!

Yosemite Sam: I said, "Throw it out the— [dynamite explodes in front of them] Ooh!

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[D.J., Kate, Bugs, and Daffy approach a dead end]

Bugs Bunny: Eh, just a suggestion, but all those in favor of not hittin' that wall, say "aye".

D.J. and Kate: [in unison] Aye!

Daffy Duck: MOTHER.

Spy car computer: Taking you to Mother!

[the car takes to the sky before it can hit the wall]

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[just before the heroes' flying car crashes, it stops a few feet above the desert ground]

Bugs Bunny: Ha! Outta gas!

[fade to black]

Kate Houghton: What? It doesn't work like that.

[cut back to car, which smashes into the ground]

Bugs Bunny: Thanks, Toots.

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Bugs Bunny: I'm telling ya, Daffy, I heard the Warner brothers say you were their best duck.

Daffy Duck: Flattered though I may be, flattened I will not, in order for you to get all the laughs. It's all, "hoo-hoo, yuk-yuk," and then, "bam, wham, BLAM!"

Bugs Bunny: And your tail is on fire.

Daffy Duck: Exactly my point. The—

Bugs Bunny: No, really. Your tail's on fire.

[Daffy finally realizes that his tail is indeed on fire, running around trying to extinguish it]

Bugs Bunny: Daff, you're accident-prone.

Daffy Duck: [sadly, as he extinguishes his tail] What am I talking to you for? All you have to do is munch on a carrot, and people love you.

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[in the desert, D.J. spots a Wal-Mart store, rippling in the heat]

D.J. Drake: Hey, look at that!

Bugs Bunny: Is it a mirage, or just product placement?

Daffy Duck: Who cares? With shopping convenience at such low prices! [runs toward the image] Water! Fresca! Mountain Dew! Your product name here! Woo-hoo-hoo!

D.J. Drake: [to Kate] Is this your idea?

Kate Houghton: [opens her mouth to object, then gets defensive] The audience expects it. They don't even notice this kind of thing anymore.

[D.J. shares his disappointed look with the audience; later, the intrepid adventurers depart the desert Wal-Mart with beverages and new clothes]

Bugs Bunny: Nice of Wal-Mart to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in retoin for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times.

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[Wile E. Coyote observes the heroes trudging through the desert]

Bugs Bunny: I told ya we shoulda made that left toin at Albuqwirky.

Daffy Duck: Don't start that again!

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ACME Chairman: [to a miserable Wile E. Coyote] Oh, my God! Young man, what am I going to do with you?! You've done nothing but screw up! You've walked off mesas! You've been smashed by boulders! You've been run over by diesel trucks! And don't blame the equipment! The equipment is good; it's ACME equipment. You're a coyote! Be wile! [calms down] All right, now... buck up and let's see a little smile. [Wile E. smiles, briefly and unenthusiastically] Little bigger. [Wile E. gives a bigger one, this time holding it] Little bigger. [Wile E.'s smile spreads to a disproportionate size] Oh, that's nice. Now, just go take a shower, and don't come back until you smell better! [Wile E., now cheered up, heads upstairs] But be careful! There's some men moving a safe up there, and I don't want you to— [a cartoonish jet-engine, followed by a "crash" sound, is heard] And be careful of the box of fireworks, because— [released fireworks are heard] I suppose I should mention the plate-glass window— [shattering glass is heard] Oh, It's tough being the boss.

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[inside the Area 52 lab, chief spy-scientist Mother talks to the good guys, including D.J., et al.]

Mother: This isn't about the giant ants, is it?

Kate Houghton: Giant... ants?

Mother: 'Cause they're not really ants... anymore. [drinks from a flask of blue liquid]

D.J. Drake: Tell me about the Blue Monkey.

Mother: [spews her beverage on D.J.] How do you know about that thing that I've never heard of in my entire life?

D.J. Drake: My dad told me.

Mother: [pauses] What is the point of making them pinky-swear?!

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[Marvin the Martian releases aliens from various classic films and TV shows in Area 52]

Daffy Duck: Yikes! Illegal aliens!

Dalek: Exterminate them!

Mother: Darn! I knew this day would come...

[she goes to an alarm labelled "PUSH ONLY IN CASE THIS DAY COMES" and triggers it]

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[at the Louvre, as Daffy grabs the playing-card lens, Elmer Fudd jams his shotgun into the back of Daffy's head]

Elmer Fudd: I'll take that!

Bugs Bunny: Eh, what gives, Doc? We made thoity-five pictures together.

Elmer Fudd: Well, as it tuwns out, I'm secwetwy evil.

Daffy Duck: [snorts] That's showbiz for ya.

Elmer Fudd: Now, make with the card, so I can pwease my dark masters!

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[Bugs and Daffy enter the Persistence of Memory painting to evade Elmer Fudd; Elmer follows, enters the picture, and takes aim, until his gun melts, remaining true to the theme of the painting. Bugs and Daffy laugh at them, and run off, but, they, too, start melting; their voices are slow and toned to a low key]

Daffy Duck: Well, this is surreal.

Elmer Fudd: [producing icons that represent each word he says] Stop, or I'll fire! [attempts to take aim again]

Bugs and Daffy: [in unison] Yipe!

[Elmer fires, but the bullets are only propelled a few inches away by Elmer's side; Elmer starts to melt completely out of shape; Bugs and Daffy make their way to the next painting through the wallpaper]

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D.J. Drake: There's a man there! He's got a woman! She's tied up in a burlap sack and he's taking her to the Eiffel Tower!

Pepe Le Pew: Ah, eet eez Spring, eez eet not?

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[after Daffy and Bugs jump out of the painting, Elmer Fudd leaps out of La Grande Jatte (by pointillist Georges Seurat) at last, but he remains in painting form; Bugs reads from a museum guide]

Bugs Bunny: Pointillism. A technique using individual dots of pigment, which, taken together... [whips out a pocket electric fan] ...make an image. [turns on the fan]

Elmer and Ralph: [in unison] Aw, crud! [Elmer's dots start to disperse, until only his shoes are left]

Bugs Bunny: [to the audience] I think, when you go to the movies, you should learn somethin'.

[Daffy is busy redrawing himself]

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[as Granny's elephant progresses through the jungle, a flock of multicolored Tweety birds fly around]

Tweety: I've discovered my woots!

Sylvester: I've discovered my lunch!

[the birds attack Sylvester]

Tweety: [in his African garb] Cry freedom!

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[from behind, we see the elephant come upon a picturesque lost city in the jungle]

Daffy Duck: What a fantastic view!

Bugs Bunny: Unless you're in the audience, in which case you've been staring at an elephant's behind for thoity seconds.

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ACME Chairman: Now, this, my friend, is the ACME Train of Death, which is not good news for your father.

Damian Drake: Don't worry about me, son. I've gotten out of worse scrapes than this one.

[Wile E. Coyote lights several sticks of dynamite around Damian]

ACME Chairman: You see, if the Train of Death doesn't kill him, then those crates of TNT will. Not to mention the 2-ton anvil hanging over his head. And— [sees a giant bladed pendulum swinging over Damian] Oh, look. There's the Pendulum of Doom. What's the Pendulum of Doom doing there?! I did not order the Pendulum of Doom! It's overkill! Get rid of it!

[Wile E. sheepishly pulls up the Pendulum of Doom]

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[outside the ACME satellite, Marvin the Martian (who Bugs and Daffy previously almost got rid of) holds an ACME Bubble Gun on Bugs]

Marvin the Martian: You tricked me!

Bugs Bunny: Eh, what's up, Darth?

Marvin the Martian: Now I must incapacitate you with my bubble gun. [shoots once]

Bugs Bunny: Aww, ain't that cu— [touches bubble, which bursts, sending him flying back] Yikes! [he lands on the satellite] Of course, you realize this means war. [draws a plasma sword akin to a lightsaber from Star Wars to fight Marvin]

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[while Bugs fights Marvin outside a spaceship, Daffy cowers inside, sucking his thumb]

Daffy Duck: What am I gonna do? What would Damian Drake do? What would Duck Dodgers do? [pause in realization] Wait a minute, I am Duck Dodgers! [spins and changes into his Duck Dodgers outfit] Yes! I'm going to be the hero of this picture! [straps on a rocket] Duck Dodgers to the rescue! [the rocket explodes; he straps on a second rocket; dazed] Duck Dodgers to the— [another explosion; he straps on a third; dazed] Duck Dodgers— [yet another explosion; angrily glares at a fourth rocket] Duck. [yet another explosion; straps on the last rocket and appears undamaged] A-ha! It's You-Know-Who to the rescue! [to the camera] It helps if ya don't say the name.

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Marvin the Martin: Thwarting evil makes me so angry.

[Marvin aims at Bugs again until the bubbles holding him pops; he tries to shoot Bugs again, but the rabbit sticks his index finger inside his gum gun, clogging it, and seals the Martian in his own bubble, and then flicks it away, causing the Martin to float away]

Bugs Bunny: Well, that takes care of that. [quickly on cue after he said it, he is grabbed by the claw] Yipe!

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ACME Chairman: [coming out] Are you all monkeys yet? [sees one of the laser beams that shot out of Daffy's nose coming right at him] Uh-oh! [the beam heads straight towards him, and then suddenly disappears in a flash of the beam]

[D.J., Kate, and Damian arrive to see a monkey with glasses, revealing to be the ACME Chairman in monkey form, next to Mary, who is sobbing]

Damian Drake: Checkmate, Mr. Chairman. [holding up tiny handcuffs the size of monkey hands] You're going down. [crouches down in front of monkey Chairman and starts putting the handcuffs on his wrists]

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[Bugs and Daffy walk out from ACME headquarters]

Bugs Bunny: [to Daffy] Well Daffy, you achieved your goal of being a hero.

Daffy Duck: [to Bugs] Yup. But you didn’t achieve your goal of getting me back in your stupid movie! Ah-HA!

Director: [offscreen, revealing all along that the entire events of the movie were staged] Cut. Print. That's a wrap.

[the voice makes Daffy pause in surprise as stagehands begin to dismantle the set]

Daffy Duck: Remind me to get a new agent, will you?

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[last lines before the End Credits]

[Bugs walks to the car]

Bugs's Butler: Bugs is here. Gotta go.

Bugs Bunny: [to Daffy] Daffy, you're right.

Ryan: [to Bugs] The usual place, Mr. Bunny?

Bugs Bunny: Very good, Ryan.

Bugs Bunny: [to Daffy, as Gruesome Gorilla, Egghead, the Squirrel (from Much Ado About Nutting), and the other Looney Tunes characters and Merrie Melodies characters give him some carrots] From now on, you and I are going to be equal partners in this thing. No more second banana for you.

Daffy Duck: Well, thanks, pal. I really appreciate this. [the car drives away from him] At last, my star is rising. All my hopes and aspirations... [a giant light appears falling into the floor] Well, what do you know? My luck is changing already.

[a giant metal circle landed on Daffy; finally, Porky pops out]

Director: Goodnight, Porky. See you tomorrow.

Porky Pig: [to the audience] Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th... Go home, folks.

[the lights went out]

Taglines

• Real life has never been so animated.
• How do they solve a mystery when they don't have a clue?
• The biggest animated adventure ever to hit real life.
• That sounds really boring.

Cast

Live-Action Characters

• Brendan Fraser — Damian Drake Jr. (D.J.), Himself
• Jenna Elfman — Kate Houghton
• Steve Martin — ACME Chairman
• Timothy Dalton — Damian Drake Sr.
• Joan Cusack — Mother
• Bill Goldberg — Bob Smith
• Heather Locklear — Dusty Tails
• Don Stanton — Mr. Warner
• Dan Stanton — Mr. Warner's Brother
• Matthew Lillard — Himself
• Jeff Gordon — Himself
• Kevin McCarthy — Dr. Miles Bennell
• Michael Jordan — Himself
• Mark Lawrence — Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
• Ron Perlman — Acme VP, Never Learning

Character Voices

• Joe Alaskey — Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Beaky Buzzard and Mama Bear
• Jeff Glen Bennett — Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam and Nasty Canasta
• Billy West — Elmer Fudd and Dr. Lorre
• Eric Goldberg — Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales and Marvin the Martian
• Bruce Lanoil — Pepé le Pew
• June Foray — Granny
• Bob Bergen — Porky Pig
• Casey Kasem — Shaggy
• Frank Welker — Scooby-Doo
• Brendan Fraser — Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian She-Devil
• Danny Mann — Robo Dog, Spy Car
• Mel Blanc (archival recordings) — Gremlin Car
• Paul Julian (archival recordings) — The Road Runner (uncredited)
• Bill Roberts (archival recordings) — Michigan J. Frog (uncredited)

External Links

• Media related to Looney Tunes: Back in Action on Wikimedia Commons
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action quotes at the Internet Movie Database