In one scene, Bugs masquerades as a waiter who orders first lemon meringue and then banana cream pie, only to hit Elmer in the face with them. RELATED: Batman: War of the Jokes' Inciting Incident Revealedīanana cream pie is probably a nod to the 1947 Merrie Melodies short Slick Hare, in which Elmer Fudd is the chef at an upscale nightclub whose efforts to serve fried rabbit are frustrated by Bugs Bunny. ('Cook! Cook! Where's my lunch? Where's my dinner?') Wanting something different, the king orders hasenpfeffer, which sends Sam in pursuit of Bugs Bunny. Hasenpfeffer is a stewed-rabbit dish drawn from the 1962 short Shishkabugs, in which Yosemite Sam is the chef for a demanding king who's dissatisfied both by the variety and the speed of his meals. More specifically, they're 'realistic,' human renditions of well-known, even iconic, cartoon characters.Īs an aside: It surely can't be an accident that the bar is called Porky's (and not, say, Daffy's or Tweety's), the title of the 1981 sex comedy that revolves around a backwoods nightclub with a racy animated neon sign depicting Porky and Petunia Pig. It's worth pointing out the anthropomorphized animal in a trench coat entering Porky's, as are nearly all of the other characters in this story are human. RELATED: Batman Rebirth, Year One: A Look Back At Tom King's Bat-Epic, So Far Although the human version of Porky serves drinks inside, here we see his more traditional cartoon depiction on the sign, with a bull's-eye background that mimics the 'That's All Folks!' title card at the end of Looney Tunes shorts.

The Gotham City dive bar is, of course, named after Porky Pig, the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes character introduced in 1935, predating Bugs Bunny by five years.

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