Talk:Road Runner cartoon

"Wile E Coyote" and "Road Runner" and "Acme" were formerly pages in their own right. They were stubs and they duplicated information -- they each had 1-2 paragraphs in common explaining the cartoons. Plus they forced the reader wishing to learn about Road Runner to zip around pages like a lunatic.

IMO a single article with some substance to it is preferable to 3-4 stubs. Don't create links or pages for the characters unless this article threatens to become unreadably huge. -- Tarquin 16:27 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)

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Wile E. Coyote almost certainly the major influence on Hanna-Barbera's Dick Dastardly. In "Wacky Races", Dastardly's schemes to stop the other Wacky Racers often look suspiciously similar - if not suspiciously identical! - to Coyote's Acme devices, while in "Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines" Dastardly and his dim-witted companions are out to catch a bird (albeit a flying bird) using ridiculously elaborate contraptions, which of course never succeed. Talk about imitation being the sincerest form of plagiarism!

This needs to be rewritten to be encyclopedic - all it is now is just an aside. --mav

BTW, I just found out that Mike Maltese, who wrote many of Jone's Road Runner cartoons is also listed as a writer on Wacky Races, although I'm not sure whether he actually wrote original material for the show or was just credited for the use of old Road Runner gags. (Example: Coyote/Dastardly lays a fake railroad track across the road and rings the crossing bell to stop the Road Runner/other Wacky Racers - but the moment he steps onto the track a real train appears and flattens him. I'm sure the diligent researcher can find lots of other examples, especially by watching Boomerang UK, which sneakily shows Wacky Races and Road Runner back to back!)) Lee M

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There's no reason you can't climb up rocks that began falling after you. That's perfectly consistent with the laws of physics. Graft

So who the hell said a cartoon needs to be consistent with the laws of physics? Remember the Road Runner cartoon where a rubber band refused to snap back until the minute Coyote stuck his neck in it?? Lee M

No-one said that a cartoon needs to be consistent with the laws of physics. Graft was just mentioning one thing that happened to be consistent with the laws of physics. I don't know what it was in reply to, however; I can't find any other mention of climbing up rocks in the article or in this talk page. And I don't suppose you could sign your comments, could you? Type "~~~" or "~~~~" after them. It makes it easier to see what's going on when people are talking to each other... -- Oliver P. 13:35 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I'm reminded of a couple of things not mentioned here, but I'm not sure whether they are that important, or where to put them. Anyway, if I remember rightly, most of Wile E. Coyote's schemes would be introduced with him holding a blueprint diagram of what it supposed to happen, and his failure, if it results in a plummet, usually ends in a bird's eye view, and him hitting the ground, with a small white cloud of dust appearing. Silverfish 23:58, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Anyone know who's faster: Road Runner or Speedy Gonzales? Timrollpickering 13:08, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

--- My impression is that Wile E. Coyote made his debut in a face-off with Bugs Bunny, "Operation Rabbit", set in the Southwest, and spoke, with very careful diction, a bit like Marvin the Martian... no? Wetman 23:32, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC).

Operation: Rabbit was made in 1952; the first Road Runner short, Fast and Furry-ous, was made in 1948. --b. Touch 15:23, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

--- I recently acted upon a childhood memory and obtained a copy of a DePatie-Freleng Road Runner short, "The Solid Tin Coyote" [1966?]. I had the distinct recollection that not only did the Coyote catch the Road Runner [albeit briefly], the Road Runner distinctly looked alarmed -- something I didn't remember from any other Road Runner/Coyote encounter. I was right -- the Road Runner does look frightened -- twice! First, when he sees the Coyote uncrate the giant robot Coyote, and, second, just before the robot makes a successful grab, having effortlessly chased the Road Runner down. Of course, the Coyote's triumphs are VERY short-lived, but I found myself wondering if there were any *other* instances in the cartoons where the Road Runner actually was portrayed as being concerned that the Coyote might actually succeed for once. User:Richard Sanders