Looney Tunes.
Many TV prints edit or even censor altogether the climax of the short involving Daffy's fatal stunt mixture, though they don't always edit this scene the same way.
Pre-2003 airings of this short on Cartoon Network retained the scene of the gag, but edited it by substituting a shot of Bugs holding his straw hat (from his juggling act moments earlier) and observing Daffy's act in awe for the duck's swallowing of the gasoline, the nitroglycerin and the gun powder. The only thing one actually saw of Daffy was his swallowing the uranium-238, shaking well and lighting and swallowing the match before blowing up.
On CBS (1970s and '80s), a few local television stations, the BBC, the now-defunct WB, and post-2003 Cartoon Network, this scene is omitted altogether; the cartoon would end right after Daffy is the victim of his own booby-trapped xylophone with which to do Bugs in (not unlike Yosemite Sam's booby-trapped piano in "Ballot Box Bunny").
When the cartoon aired on the syndicated "Merrie Melodies Show", a few other local television stations and ABC (as part of "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show"), the ending was always retained, but they carefully cut Daffy drinking the gasoline so that it seemed like he drank the nitroglycerin first instead.
On Nickelodeon, the ending was shown, but removed how Daffy originally blows up: by lighting the match, confiding to the females in the audience to "hold onto [their] boyfriends" and swallowing the match. This scene was edited so that it looked like Daffy detonated from shaking well following his ingestion of the uranium-238.
When "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" (which features this cartoon as the movie's ultimate climax) aired on The Disney Channel, Daffy's death-defying act was so severely edited that the only scenes shown were Daffy holding up the bottle of nitroglycerin and exploding from the match's swallowing, which made it seem like he detonated simply by displaying the nitroglycerin.
Pre-2003 airings of this short on Cartoon Network retained the scene of the gag, but edited it by substituting a shot of Bugs holding his straw hat (from his juggling act moments earlier) and observing Daffy's act in awe for the duck's swallowing of the gasoline, the nitroglycerin and the gun powder. The only thing one actually saw of Daffy was his swallowing the uranium-238, shaking well and lighting and swallowing the match before blowing up.
On CBS (1970s and '80s), a few local television stations, the BBC, the now-defunct WB, and post-2003 Cartoon Network, this scene is omitted altogether; the cartoon would end right after Daffy is the victim of his own booby-trapped xylophone with which to do Bugs in (not unlike Yosemite Sam's booby-trapped piano in "Ballot Box Bunny").
When the cartoon aired on the syndicated "Merrie Melodies Show", a few other local television stations and ABC (as part of "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show"), the ending was always retained, but they carefully cut Daffy drinking the gasoline so that it seemed like he drank the nitroglycerin first instead.
On Nickelodeon, the ending was shown, but removed how Daffy originally blows up: by lighting the match, confiding to the females in the audience to "hold onto [their] boyfriends" and swallowing the match. This scene was edited so that it looked like Daffy detonated from shaking well following his ingestion of the uranium-238.
When "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" (which features this cartoon as the movie's ultimate climax) aired on The Disney Channel, Daffy's death-defying act was so severely edited that the only scenes shown were Daffy holding up the bottle of nitroglycerin and exploding from the match's swallowing, which made it seem like he detonated simply by displaying the nitroglycerin.
"Blue Cross" (fully named "Blue Cross Blue Shield Association") is a health insurance organization founded in 1929. The organization is still around today. Daffy proclaims that he is covered by Blue Cross after he finds out that his body is literally cut in half when he tries to prove the famous "saw-in-half" routine is a sham.
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