As Bugs Bunny reminisces about the origins of man, he explains that comedy was invented to alleviate man’s boredom. One of comedy’s main components is the chase scene, and Bugs pays tribute to the animators who created the chases that made his career possible. Bugs awakens from a hangover and accidentally crawls into a rocket ship parked over the entrance of his rabbit hole. The ship carries Bugs into space where he prevents Marvin the Martian from blowing up Earth. Other Martians chase Bugs, but he outsmarts them and flies back to Earth in one of their flying saucers. Dr. I.Q. Hi, secretary of the stratosphere, sends Duck Dodgers of the twenty-fourth-and-a-half-century, a.k.a. Daffy Duck, into space to Planet X to find more of the scarce shaving ion “Alluvium Phosdex.” When Duck Dodgers stakes his claim to the Planet X, he has competition from Marvin the Martian. Duck and Marvin fight for control, but the planet is blown up when they turn their “Acme Destructo” machines on each other. In the end, Duck claims the planet. Bugs remembers when Daffy Duck roamed the forest pretending to be Robin Hood. Porky Pig as Friar Tuck becomes friends with Daffy, although he doesn’t believe Daffy is Robin Hood. Daffy plans to prove it by robbing a rich traveler and giving the money to the poor. However, after Daffy makes several failed robbery attempts, he abandons his plan of being Robin Hood and becomes a friar instead. In Duck Amuck, Daffy is a Musketeer, and animators have fun at his expense, changing the cartoon backgrounds several times. An animator wipes Daffy out of the frame, redrawing him as a singing cowboy. Then, animators make Daffy sound like a squawking bird, and a rooster, and redraw him to be a multicolored flower. When he protests, the animator changes him into a sailor on a deserted tropical island. More protests lead to Daffy flying a plane and parachuting to Earth. When he demands to know what is going on, the animator draws a door and shuts Daffy behind it. At a bullfight, Bugs, who is lost, asks for directions from a bullfighter being chased. He wants directions to the Carrot Festival in Coachella Valley, but the matador disappears over a fence. The bull tosses Bugs out of the arena, but the rabbit returns dressed as a bullfighter and he engages the bull in a battle of wits. Finally, the bull is defeated in a "Rube Goldberg" set up in which he slips on oil, lights a match with sandpaper that has become glued to his belly and dies in the explosion. Hassan guards a treasure-filled desert cave when Bugs and Daffy Duck accidentally burrow inside, instead of their planned Pismo Beach destination. Hassan chases them, but Bugs pretends he is a bottled genie and grants Hassan ownership of the treasure. However, temptation strikes and Daffy steals a huge diamond. Later, Daffy rubs a brass pot and out pops a genie ready to grant his wish, but Daffy demands the genie leave. The angry genie shrinks Daffy, while Bugs finds an oyster containing a shiny pearl at Pismo Beach. Tiny Daffy wraps himself around the pearl and Bugs snaps the oyster shut with Daffy inside. In Rabbit Fire, Elmer Fudd follows a trail of fake rabbit tracks created by Daffy to Bugs’ rabbit hole, and Bugs informs the hunter that it is actually duck hunting season. Many times, Bugs and Daffy argue about what season it really is with Daffy ending up getting shot. Later, Bugs disguises himself as a lady hunter while Daffy acts as his hunting dog. When Elmer sees through their disguises, Bugs and Daffy tear off more duck and rabbit signs posted on a tree until the last sign says “Elmer Season.” Now that the tables are turned, Bugs and Daffy hunt Elmer. When a perfume shop owner wants to remove skunk Pepé Le Pew, he throws a black female cat inside the shop, and the animal receives a white stripe when bottle of white hair dye spills on her. Pepé seduces the cat/skunk, but the cat/skunk escapes and they chase each other out the window. The cat lands in vat of water that washes away the stripe, while Pepé is covered in blue paint after landing in an open paint can. Once Pepé sees he has been pursuing a cat, he is no longer interested, but now the cat pursues Pepé. Bugs plays the banjo while an opera singer, Giovanni Jones, practices his music. Giovanni breaks the banjo when Bugs’ music drowns out his singing. Next, Bugs plays a harp and Giovanni destroys the harp. After Giovanni destroys Bugs’ tuba, Bugs seeks revenge. He disguises himself as the famous conductor Leopold at Giovanni’s concert and causes the singer to hold a note until he is blue in the face and the ceiling crashes down. Now that Giovanni can barely sing, Bugs’ final act of revenge is to play his banjo on the concert stage. In What’s Opera, Doc?, Elmer and Bugs recreate a Wagnerian opera around the theme of rabbit hunting and capturing Brunhilde’s love amidst lush scenery. Wile E. Coyote announces he will eat Bugs for dinner. When Bugs disappears, Wile throws spices down the rabbit hole in order to cook rabbit stew. However, Bugs traps Wile in a cooker, forcing him to come up with a new plan, but a train crashes into his workshop while he is making nitro glycerin-filled carrots. After the workshop and everything in it blows up, Wile admits defeat. Bugs explains that when things don’t work out for Wile, he switches to chasing roadrunners. Out comes his fork and knife, but the Road Runner creates a dust cloud that blinds Wile, causing him to fall off a cliff. Afterward, Road Runner thwarts Wile several times. When Wile turns to trapping Road Runner, his numerous attempts fail. Finally, Wile builds a rocket sled that explodes in space, which turns him into a constellation in the sky. Thus, Bugs concludes if man hadn’t invented the chase maybe laughter wouldn’t have been invented either.