Chapter Ten: Return of Ratatouille

DISCLAIMER: Bart Simpson and Stewie Griffin are all copyrighted by 20th Century Fox.

Daffy was at a big department store, muttering to himself. He then came across a big display for the DVD release of "Ratatouille." There were tons of discs of the film on sale. Daffy growled angrily and kicked over the display with a loud crash. "HEY!" an employee shouted, and then chased after Daffy.

At another shelf, Bugs was rummaging through DVDs. "Here dey are!" he said. "Now what kind of joik would put da Looney Tunes DVDs way in de back?"

Wile E. was carrying a load of food and supplies. Daffy followed him and angrily said, "I can't believe you wanted to come here. People already hate us."

"But I am shopping for our Looney Tune Thanksgiving meeting," the coyote explained. "We will discuss plans and ideas to rejuvenate our popularity."

"Pixar could try to crash it," Bugs added.

But Wile E. said, "The people at Pixar couldn't care less about us."

"WRONG!" Daffy shouted. "They hate us! They see us as the enemy! They treat us like Afghanistan, Iraq or Vietnam, while they see themselves as the USA! They want to drive us all into the streets. They are laughing evilly now that they stole our spotlight! They're worse than Dexter!"

Dexter, who was shopping with his family at the same store, glared at them. "You'd better not start our feud again, you crazy duck!"

Bart Simpson and Stewie Griffin were also doing some shopping on their own. "Why is Daffy acting like Homer? It seems unnatural for him these days," Bart asked.

Stewie said, "Perhaps he wants to make Pixar nervous. GET HIM!"

Then many of the people in the store began to chase Bugs, Wile E. and Daffy out of the store. The moment they reached the entrance, Daffy pulled a lever that caused the chain-link barrier to lower and block the doors. The Tunes got out safely, but the others got locked in. The threesome panted in the store's parking lot, with the only bright light being from the parking lot light poles, for the sun was setting by now and the sky was a dark orange.

"I can't believe you did that!" Wile E. shouted at Daffy.

The duck countered, "What else could I do? Come on, let's get back to your house. It's getting late. And Sylvester will be wondering what took so long."

…

That night, Wile E. Coyote was trying to sleep. The wind was blowing and pounding against the closed window. He was moaning and softly yelping in his sleep, for he was having a dream…

In his dream, Wile E. got up in the morning and looked at the unusually yellow sky, and then went down to the kitchen to make breakfast for him and his friends. But when he got down, he gasped in horror.

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck were walking around the house, rendered in pure CGI! They looked very unusual as if DreamWorks or Pixar animated them. "What happened to you guys?" the coyote asked.

"We're CGI now!" Daffy said. "We finally found a way to compete with Pixar and for sure, we can win back our audience!"

Bugs was admiring his new look. "Get a load of my nice, fluid, precise animation, unlike dat ugly, stilted 2-D design like YOU have, coyote!"

"Oh come on," Wile E. scolded them, "do you think they're really going to fall for that?"

Daffy laughed. "It's what the public wants!"

Sylvester walked out, also in CGI-form. "Sufferin' succotash! Maybe Pixar can hire us now!"

"And," Bugs told Wile E, "we unleashed our new CGI forms to de newspaper this morning. De fans will LOVE it!"

But outside, an angry mob began to form. They were all evilly shouting.

Daffy was shocked. "They… they HATE US? But we're CGI!" he whined.

"Turns out they now know you're trying to imitate Pixar and are fed up at it," the coyote explained.

A Pixar spokeswoman banged open the door and claimed, "How dare you Looney Tunes try to rip us off! Are you making us look bad?"

"WRONG!" Daffy laughed. "YOU'RE making us look bad. Now we're making ourselves look good!"

"And we need a fourth member to join our CGI clan," Bugs added, and got out some big box. He walked over to Wile E. and said, "Now get inside de magic box."

"No… no!" Wile E. shouted as Bugs was about to drop the box onto him.

…

Wile E. woke up in a cold sweat. He checked his clock. It was 3:01 in the morning. Sylvester ran in, asking, "What happened?"

"I had the craziest dream," the coyote started. "You and Daffy and Bugs became CGI in an attempt to become popular!"

Sylvester laughed. "We'd never do that! We despise the CGI techniques used in those new movies!"

…

The Looney Tune gang had just finished Thanksgiving dinner. They all had full stomachs from the veggie turkey Wile E. bought (since Bugs was a vegetarian). They had also discussed on how to deal with their struggling future. Some of them recommended nasty ideas, such as slipping a frame of a nude woman into one of Pixar's latest film, or exposing Spongebob Squarepants as a homosexual, but the coyote had to turn them down. Later…

"Gee," Tweety said in an annoyed tone, watching a recording of the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV, "there's nothing here but boring musical numbers. We need dose!"

"Why should we?" Daffy asked. "Most modern CGI films just have pop songs sprinkled into the soundtrack."

"Our last, I say, our last music project," Foghorn Leghorn said, "didn't go to well with our fans, that 'Tweety's High-Flying Adventure' movie."

"Right," Daffy said. "We'll need to find yet another way to appeal to our fans again…"