The bird 'Road Runner' always managed to avoid the murderous attempts of which other cartoon character?
"Acme"" as a Wile E. Coyote movie with ""The Lego Batman Movie"" director Chris McKay on board to produce. Jon and Josh Silberman are set on writing the screenplay. Several Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner-themed video games have been produced: The arcade game was originally to have been a laserdisc-based title incorporating footage from the actual Road Runner cartoons. Atari eventually decided that the format was too unreliable (laserdisc-based games required a great deal of maintenance) and switched it to more conventional raster-based hardware. Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner have been frequently referenced in popular culture. Wile E."
"Road Runner, and once Wile E. realizes the gaffe, KA-BOOM!. 2. Wile E. now inspects the roads from a high overlook and peers out to see that the Road Runner has disappeared temporarily. That ends when the bird pops up ""behind"" Wile E. and beeps, then dashes away, leaving a lifesize cloud of dust behind that also beeps at the coyote. He reclines on the rail, miffed at the turn of events. 3. As the cartoon returns to the regular desert scenery, Wile E. gingerly drops a bunch of mousetraps onto the road, but when the Road Runner zooms past,"
"Road Runner, a famed Looney Tunes character. Quick Brown Fox, another pantomime character, is a fox who wants to eat the fast-running rabbit, but consistently fails to catch him despite using a variety of traps and devices. The fox's name is derived from the popular pangram, ""The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."" He is inspired by Wile E. Coyote, another Looney Tunes character. ""Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!"" is a 1969 theatrically-released cartoon, one of the last few cartoons of the ""Looney Tunes"" series (which, at that time, was owned by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts). It was a"
"off a string of ingenious heists, but the mob's leader and the ""be-monocled bird"" eventually fell out, leading Cobblepot to kill him with his umbrella gun. The Penguin became leader of the mob and attempted to neutralize Batman by framing him for theft. The Penguin's plans were eventually prevented, but the bandit himself escaped. The Penguin was a persistent nemesis for Batman and Robin throughout the Golden and Silver Ages, pulling off ploy after ploy, such as teaming up with the Joker, attempting to extort money from a shipping company by pretending to flash-freeze a member of its board of"
"gravity as usual. Bugs then tells the audience ""The moral is, never get cut off in the middle of a long-distance fall"" and he laughs. Hare-Breadth Hurry Hare-Breadth Hurry is a 1963 ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon starring Bugs Bunny in his fifth and final pairing with Wile E. Coyote. Unlike the previous four pairings, this cartoon follows the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner formula (substituting Bugs for the Road Runner). As such, Wile E. Coyote is silent, although Bugs does speak to the audience. ""Hare-Breadth Hurry"" is also one of the few cartoons where Bugs does not eat a"
"For most of the rest of the cartoon, Tweety frequently switches between his usual, innocent self (which Sylvester chases) and the evil bird-monster (from which Sylvester runs away). After several back-and-forth chases (which includes Sylvester being tricked by the normal Tweety into running into an out of order chute for an elevator, as well as jumping out a window to escape the bird-monster form), Sylvester nabs a normal-sized Tweety. Unaware of the fact that the monster bird and his potential meal are one and the same, the cat locks himself in a small kitchen, throws the key out the window"
"approaches once again, and after Wile E. misses him for a second time, the Road Runner holds up a sign that says HERE WE GO AGAIN, beeps, and then dashes off into the distance as the cartoon irises out. The title is based on the song title ""I'm Just Wild About Harry"". The bird seed with iron pellets gag was reused in ""The Wild Chase"". Wild About Hurry Wild About Hurry is a Warner Bros. cartoon in the ""Merrie Melodies"" series featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner animated by the quintet and laid out by Philip DeGuard released"
"this film is focused on one: the construction and use of the titular solid tin coyote. Furthermore, this is the only film in the series in which the Road Runner shows any form of alarm at Wile E. Coyote's schemes. It also is unique in that Wile E. Coyote successfully, if only temporarily, captures the Road Runner; however, in keeping with the spirit of the series, he does not succeed in eating him, and the Road Runner escapes unharmed. This cartoon is available on the """" DVD. The Solid Tin Coyote The Solid Tin Coyote is an animated cartoon in"
"is running, it freezes and words pop up saying: ROAD RUNNER (Morselus babyfatus tastius), and the camera moves back left to Wile E. with more words saying: COYOTE (Poor schnookius). The bird then speeds off, causing the Coyote's jaw to drop, and his eyes to fall out of his sockets. A light bulb appears over his head, signaling a new idea. PLAN 1: Wile E. uses some keys to open a door to a room that has dangerous explosive items and ends up getting blown up. PLAN 2: Wile E. uses a badger trap to catch the Road Runner, but"
"greater roadrunner is the state bird of the US state of New Mexico and is a common symbol of the American Southwest in general. ""Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner"" was a long running series of cartoons by Warner Brothers Studios that has had enduring popularity from the time the characters were created in 1949 through the present and helps define the image of the bird in popular culture. Cuckoo The cuckoos are a family of birds, Cuculidae, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes. The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals"
"Holland), who is a black belt in karate. Both characters spun off from ""Tijuana Toads"" in ""Hop and Chop"" (the Japanese beetle) and ""Snake in the Gracias"" (the Blue Racer). The goofy bird from the Tijuana Toads (Crazylegs Crane, who also repeatedly failed to collar the Racer and the Toads himself) also later appeared in the series as well. 17 cartoons were produced. ""All cartoons written by John W. Dunn."" The Blue Racer (or a snake looking just like him) appeared in the 1978 ""Pink Panther"" cartoon ""Pinktails for Two"" where he mistook the Panther's pink tail for a lady"
"Road Runner in his Road Runner cartoons. Sylvester (often called """"El Gringo Pussygato"""" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the Mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of Tabasco hot sauce. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the ""slowest Mouse in all Mexico."" Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him—but one cat in ""Mexicali Shmoes"" says that as if to compensate for his slowness, ""he pack a gun!"" In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main"
"a bird. Martier, however, was killed while testing it, and Davy inherited both the plane and a uniform, which had apparently been in Martier's family since the French Revolution. Davy soon christened himself ""Airboy"", and in his seemingly sentient new plane, ""Birdie"", helped the Allies during World War II. Airboy confronted such weird antagonists as intelligent rats, the mysterious Misery – whose Airtomb imprisoned the souls of dead pilots – and his cleavage-baring Nazi nemesis, Valkyrie, a German aviator who later became his ally. After the conclusion of World War II, David Nelson II continued to work as a freelance"
"Hare-Breadth Hurry Hare-Breadth Hurry is a 1963 ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon starring Bugs Bunny in his fifth and final pairing with Wile E. Coyote. Unlike the previous four pairings, this cartoon follows the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner formula (substituting Bugs for the Road Runner). As such, Wile E. Coyote is silent, although Bugs does speak to the audience. ""Hare-Breadth Hurry"" is also one of the few cartoons where Bugs does not eat a carrot. ""Introduction:"" The cartoon opens as a typical Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner cartoon. After the credits are shown, a high-speed object zooms"
"into a bow - leads to a simple denouement: running into the wood instead of going towards the bird. 2. Rather than face the Road Runner directly, Wile E. uses a grenade mounted on top of a model airplane to take out the Road Runner from above. However, when he sets the propeller in motion, only the propeller flies into the air. The Coyote soon figures out the situation and throws the entire model airplane into the air, but the grenade ""still"" remains in the air, spinning behind the surprised Coyote before exploding. 3. Returning to simplicity, Wile E. uses"
"Sugar and Spies Sugar and Spies is a 1966 Road Runner cartoon. It is the second of two Road Runner shorts directed by Robert McKimson and the only one to feature music by Walter Greene. It is also the final appearance of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote during the Golden age of American animation. The title of the cartoon is a play on the term ""sugar and spice"". During one of his many chases with the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote is hit with a briefcase, thrown from a crook's car that is evading the police. The briefcase"
"through the desert until it stops. It is revealed to be Bugs Bunny, who explains why he is in the cartoon instead of the Road Runner - the Road Runner had sprained a giblet. As the coyote approaches, Bugs stops and, with the help of ""Acme Super Speed Pills"", is able to imitate the Road Runner. When the pills wear off and Bugs is forced to use wits to outwit the Coyote, he stops again, and holds up his hand as if to say ""HOLD IT"". Bugs then draws a line in the road, and then a second. As Wile"
"endlessly enjoys practical jokes. With few exceptions he is tolerated because his job of waking up everyone and 'tending' to the chickens is important, but he does his best to avoid labor whenever possible. In the cartoon, he is more well-liked by the others and is often the one to defeat the series antagonists such as Orson's brothers. In spite of his lazy nature, Roy has proven to be a very capable protector of the chickens, coolly outsmarting and defeating the predators, such as the Weasel and the Fox, that try to kidnap them with a series of practical jokes"
"from the original negatives and in the original ratio. Tijuana Toads The Tijuana Toads are the main characters in a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng and released through United Artists. The series was about two toads, Toro and Pancho, who live in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Throughout the cartoon they try to eat their prey, but always get outsmarted. They would sometimes themselves be targeted by a bird, Crazylegs Crane, and would in turn always outsmart him. The series introduced two characters who later got their own series. ""The Blue Racer"" first appeared in ""Snake in"
"Stop! Look! And Hasten! Stop! Look! And Hasten! is a 1954 Warner Bros. cartoon in the ""Merrie Melodies"" series, directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The title is a play on the railroad crossing safety phrase ""stop, look, and listen"". A famished Wile E. Coyote (""Eatibus Anythingus"") trudges across the desert floor, catching and eating anything that he finds to satisfy himself, ranging from a fly to an empty tin can, before being flattened by the Road Runner (""Hot-roddicus Supersonicus""). Wile E., after recovering, blinks his eyes and visualizes a wonderful Road Runner"
"At this point, the string keeping it blown up unfurls, sending it flying through the air until it runs out of air. Coyote falls through the ground (passing the deflated balloon and the anvil), followed by the anvil falling on his head and the Road Runner passing over him just to embarrass him even further. 9. Finally, at the end of the cartoon, the Coyote, listening out for the Road Runner's beeping, drops from a high log and lunges towards the bird with a javelin, only to realise that the beeping came from a nearby truck, which the Coyote dives"
"luck. However, there are also several instances within the cartoons where they display genuine friendship and concern for each other's well-being. At other times, the pair set aside their rivalry in order to pursue a common goal, such as when a baby escaped the watch of a negligent babysitter, causing Tom and Jerry to pursue the baby and keep it away from danger. And despite their endless attacks on one another, they’ve saved each other’s lives every time they were truly in danger. The cartoons are known for some of the most violent cartoon gags ever devised in theatrical animation"
"who each character is. Almost all of the footage was originally made as part of a television pilot named ""Adventures of the Road Runner"". The pilot was never sold, and several gags from the short were rearranged into this cartoon in a cost-cutting measure (a similar practice was used in the ""Three Stooges"" two-reelers of the mid-to-late 1950s). A whole new soundtrack was crafted by musician Bill Lava and editor Treg Brown. ""Introduction"": The opening scene shows Wile E. Coyote reading a ""Western Cookery"" recipe book in total peace. Completely unaware that his prey has zoomed up behind him to"
"E. chases the Road Runner down the tracks, which run through mountains. The two pass by opposite lanes and the Road Runner signals the coyote, who stops cold after a few seconds and turns back, and after again running past the bird, he reverses only to find the Road Runner has escaped to a lower track. When he finally pursues the bird across the correct track, Wile is stopped by a train, and dashes in and out of a rockface; he sees the train proceed across an inferior track, and sighs with relief until a second train approaches from inside"
"at the top of his lungs. Tommy had a particular aversion to ""wet bread"", occasionally brought a thinly veiled Christian attitude to his reactions to the other characters, and would often walk away from his football coach wearing his helmet backwards, as apparently the coach did not think much of Tommy's suggestions. Toward the end of the run, a baby brother to Arnold, named Sid, was born. Sid frequently grabbed hold of others by holding on with his mouth. In the last strip, a giant bird grabbed Arnold and flew off with him. Kevin McCormick wrote to the fans of"
"Road Runner extends his neck all the way around the screen and beeps in the back of the coyote. To explain this, he displays a sign that says ""Road Runners are extremely flexible"" and leaves the scene, while Wile E. falls back onto the cliff and is left looking like an accordion. 2. In a similar scheme to one used in the previous cartoon, Wile now locks and loads an ACME Giant Mouse Trap and leaves it in the road for the Road Runner to trip. When the trap snaps, the coyote jumps out to capture his opponent, but meets"
"only for the bullet he fired to exit when he finishes and hit him. 4. Wile E. Coyote then tries to stop Bugs by placing a carrot on a trap (similar to where bird seed would be planted for the Road Runner). Wile E. then drops the anvil upon sight of Bugs, but Bugs then places the target on him. Upon hitting Wile E., the edge of the cliff on which Wile E. was standing dislodges and falls to the ground below, and then the anvil is dropped as the target is pulled. The anvil misses Wile E. Coyote, but"
"compact platforms of thorny branches lined with grasses, feathers, snakeskin, roots, and other fine material. Some Pueblo Native American tribes, including the Hopi, believed the roadrunner provided protection against evil spirits. In Mexico, some said it brought babies, as the white stork was said to in Europe. Some Anglo frontier people believed roadrunners led lost people to trails. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner are the two protagonists of a long-running (since 1949) Warner Bros. cartoon series. The roadrunner appeared in a 1982 sheet of 20-cent United States stamps showing 50 state birds and flowers, being the state bird"
"Tijuana Toads The Tijuana Toads are the main characters in a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng and released through United Artists. The series was about two toads, Toro and Pancho, who live in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Throughout the cartoon they try to eat their prey, but always get outsmarted. They would sometimes themselves be targeted by a bird, Crazylegs Crane, and would in turn always outsmart him. The series introduced two characters who later got their own series. ""The Blue Racer"" first appeared in ""Snake in the Gracias"" before getting his own series in 1972."
"the small puppy decides to splatter it on the faces of the two friends, thus leading to a friendly food fight. Unusual to most shorts of the series, the person who directed the cartoon is not credited, although some believe it was Fred ""Tex"" Avery. The reason to this remains undisclosed. In the original version of the fairy tale, the ginger bread boy ends up eaten by the animal chasing him, namely a fox. In this adaptation, he subdues his predator and remains alive. Also in the original story, the ginger bread would always try to run away from anyone"
"emerge in a greatly shrunken state. Upon discovering their situation, they agree to re-enter the pipeline and be transformed back into full size. The Road Runner emerges at normal size, but Wile E. is still in small size when he comes out. Upon discovering this turn of events, the Road Runner stops and allows his rival to ""catch"" him. The Coyote does not notice anything until he steps over his opponent's feet and rushes back to finally catch the Road Runner. The Coyote is ecstatic, until he stares more closely at the bird's huge legs, and looks up to see"
"rocket (gets turned around) returns toward its owner. Wile E. recovers from the jar and climbs down, but soon returns upwards when he sees the rocket coming at him. He sighs with relief and dismounts the arch, but, ironically, is hit by an ACME truck. Wile E. is pacing around a mountaintop when he runs directly into the Road Runner, who beeps and causes Wile E.'s head to retract after being scared into a rock ceiling. The Coyote chases after the bird through a cloud of dust, but only manages to throw himself into thin air. The Road Runner alerts"
"stump) and ""Freddie the Flying Fetus"" (self-explanatory). While Stumpy's appearance and demeanour epitomise existential ""ennui"", Freddie – as befits his tender years – is a vital and innocent spirit, insuppressibly enthusiastic and trusting; the pair provide two different counterpoints to the single-minded irascibility of the protagonist. Other recurring minor characters include robots (and their natural enemies, bears), ninjas, Daleks (from ""Doctor Who"") and various evil masterminds. Dick Cheney, Kofi Annan, and other world leaders have also appeared as characters on occasion. ""Bob the Angry Flower"" is the creation of Canadian cartoonist Stephen Notley, a native of Edmonton, who has been"