The Road Runner Show

In their first appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon, the Coyote (Carnivorous vulgaris) and The Road Runner (Accelerati incredibulis) launch their neverending series of chases through the desert, and The Coyote begins his relationship with the Acme Corporation in his quest for the perfect Road Runner-catching device. This one has the Coyote chasing the Roadrunner using a rather ingenious invention combining a fridge, a meat grinder, ice cubes, and skis

The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mineshafts, with their positions made visible only by the lamps on their helmets.

In his attempt to catch the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote tries the old cartoon trick of putting up a painting of a continuing road where a bridge has in fact gone out. It doesn't work, nor does dressing in drag or dropping an anvil from a balloon.

Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of moustraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.

A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catch the Road Runner (Hot Rodicus supersonicus)

CAPTIONS -Road Runner (Speedipus Rex) -Coyote (Famishus-Famishus) OFFICIAL ACME PRODUCTS -Acme Glue -Acme Glue, used a second time, results in coyote getting blown up just before falling to safety in a body of water that would have put out the fuse -One Acme Outboard Motor -Acme Jim-Dandy Wagon -One Acme Female Road-Runner Costume ENDING Road Runner sign - ""The End""

While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by- the Road Runner. But making himself into a giant arrow doesn't catch the bird, and the book, "How to Tar and Feather a Road Runner", isn't much help either.

Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor

CAPTIONS Coyote (famishius fantasticus) Road Runner (Dig-Outius Tid-Bittius) OFFICIAL ACME PRODUCTS This is one of the few episodes that contains no Acme products OTHER SCHEMES -Rope and Harpoon -Pistol hidden in road under latched door, spring-loaded -Rope and multiple spiked-balls -Faulty ladder bridge -Wheel filled with TNT sticks -Rocket -Bunch of rockets wedged in between 2 cliffs that are supposed to fall and crush road runner. ENDING Coyote sign (while trying to get rocks to fall) - ""In Heaven's Name - What am I DOING?""

Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner. He applies a drop of water to enlarge it from pebble-size to usual boulder dimensions, but it enlarges as Wile E. is lifting it over his head, coming down on top of him.

Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his usual unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner

Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field.

Wile E. actually corrals his ever-elusive prey beneath a cooking pan and after doing so, tosses a lighted dynamite stick beneath it. Other tricks which fail the Coyote, dumping birdseed at a railroad crossing; placing a roll of dynamite sticks beneath a bridge; and hoisting a large concert grand piano above the road to drop on the Road Runner.

CAPTIONS: Coyote - HardHeadipus Road Runner - BatOutAHelius - definately one of the more creative names given to Road Runner OFFICIAL ACME PRODUCTS: -One Acme Giant Acme Rubberband - ""Fantastically Elastic"" -Acme Shopping Center Invoice: =5 Miles of Railroad Track =1 Rocket Sled =8000 Railroad Ties =24,000,000 Spikes =90,000,000 Feet of Lumber =64,000,000,000 something, but cut off by TV screen -Acme Bird Seed -Acme Iron Pellets -Acme Indestructo Steel Ball - this item consumes almost half of the entire episode with coyote's adventures inside this steel ball. ENDING: Road Runner sign - ""Here We Go Again""

Now HERE is something truly special, Looney Tunes fans. While converting his Warner cartoon collection from aging VHS tapes to DVD, Jon found a collection of original linking segments created for the 1960's "Road Runner Show". This series of gags was created by Robert McKimson, presumably after he made the first two post-Chuck Jones cartoons with Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, "Rushing Roulette" and "Sugar and Spies". While 11 theatrical shorts (soon to be aired on this very show) were being directed at an outside studio by Rudy Larriva, McKimson was doing these Roadrunner Show interstitials, as well as most of the Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzales cartoons of the time. It's interesting to note that Bill Lava's musical score for "Rushing Roulette" was "canned" and reused over and over again in the Larriva shorts, and also these bumper segments. It seems the irresistibly catchy theme was the designated "theme song" for the Road Runner at the time, regardless of who was doing the animation. The canned music, along with a constantly reused shot of the Road Runner running down the road, are the only cheats you'll find in these hilarious lost segments, edited together by yours truly into a full 7-minute short! This footage has not been seen in the United States in at least 20 years. Enjoy!

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