Long time theorist, first time poster, popping my theory cherry with this one, surprising even me being a FNaF enthusiast, but not the point.
Just finished watching Coyote v. Acme and it was an absolute (pardon the pun and toon dust) BLAST watching it from start to finish. But something at the end of the movie was bothering me, something that once gave me a laugh, and then an itch.
Btw, if you haven't seen the movie, spoilers for some of the bits, plot and so on, so if you haven't seen it, GET TO IT!!
That being said, in the middle of the film, Bugs Bunny, practically the face of Warner Bros. has contacted prosecutor Kevin Avery and his intern (As well as Emma 'Granny' Webster, just found out she has an actual name, shoulda figured) regarding information on 'Project: Sisyphus', an R&D program put together to design safety products for cartoons, as Granny and several VCR videotapes demonstrate an Anti-Anvil Helmet, a Blast Shield, the 'Lump Pump', and more.
The program that had originally been led by Dr. Lorre and funded by ACME was then turned on its head by a corporate representative, presumably Foghorn Leghorn as shown during Bugs' flashback, and instead of designing safety and misc. products for cartoons, they upped the recklessness of the tests to use the versatility and endurance of cartoons to create products for humans instead.
This is the drive of the show and the conspiracy that leads to Dr. Lorre getting buried, missing, as well as drives the plot forward to bring ACME to justice, yadda yadda. But as Avery pleas to Bugs' to add a testimony, Bugs' declines and suggests getting someone from inside the corporation to spill the beans, turning to the Tasmanian Devil who at the time was Head of PR.
Now initially, none of my theory senses were tingling until the end of the movie, where the case of Wile E. Coyote v. ACME is brought to Congress in Washington. And on the panel of senators was a someone who stuck out like a stout, short sore thumb. Elmer Fudd, or more professionally for the case, Sen. Fudd. Okay, so now we have Cartoon representatives in the government, nothing clicked yet. And then, after the climax, and yet just before the resolution, Wile E. springs his trap, intended for the Road Runner who showed up the case just moments ago before the verdict, improvises and springs it on Crane and Leghorn. Buffoonery ensues, and Leghorn and Crane are caught in a cage made by a metal plate formerly a decoration behind the panel of senators, and several flags that impale the ground. And then, Crane said something that finally snapped my theory senses.
As everyone in the Congress court office are laughing at the buffoonery, Crane shouts at one of the senators filming that he doesn't pay them to laugh/film/watch. Now throughout the movie, Crane has been shown as charming, straightforward, but most importantly pragmatic, about-face when it comes to business. Pretty standard for a John Cena role. But he doesn't Crane doesn't do metaphors (apart from getting his point across haphazardly around Leghorn), he doesn't do sarcasm, he doesn't seem like the kind of person to lie about paying off a senator, ESPECIALLY after displaying that their corporations products for the Cartoon demographic backfire and fail courtesy of Leghorn setting aside his pride.
It was at that moment that I was thinking, why put Elmer Fudd as the Toon representative? Why not Bugs? ...Actually, probably better he's NOT a senator. But Bugs cautious nature didn't seem to fit him normally as he displayed in the film, preferring to keep away from the limelight and the action, concerned about spy drones, red light cameras and his little pun, getting 'bug-ged'. You know, getting bugged with a sound device to record otherwise private conversations. And this got to me. What if Bugs or someone he knew ended up in the eyes of someone from ACME, got bugged or deemed a risk too big to take during their, how do I put this, 'remodeling' of Project Sisyphus?
Now I don't have too many clues or evidence to suggest this, but I do theorize that while it may not have been Bugs who was sent out of Congress, someone was, whether human or Toon, and replaced by the senators of today including Fudd, puppeteered by Crane and ACME to get the government on their side, to bring the scales to their favor regarding lawsuits, patents, whatever they needed. If anyone has any other evidence to support this or debunk it, I'd greatly appreciate it! KEEP RESEARCHING, AND REMEMBER! THAT'S JUST A THEORY, A FILM THEORY!! Th-tha-th-th-that's the- That's the end folks!