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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })An iconic series of Looney Tunes short subjects made by Chuck Jones during The Golden Age of Animation.Basically, this is what happens if Tom and Jerry was set in the desert, and replaced with a Coyote and a Road Runner... and much less successful for the chaser.The Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts are centered on the titular desert-dwelling duo, as the smart but destructively obsessive coyote does everything within his power (and uses everything within the ACME product catalog) to capture the elusive Road Runner for dinner. Every attempt backfires on him. The elastic launcher to fling him at the ground cuckoo? Comes unanchored and flings him into a jumping cholla cactus. The dart bombs? Go after him and thwart subsequent attempts on Beep Beep. The metal plate to block the road? Doesn't pop up until several tries later, when the Coyote is running. A springy block of pavement serving as an ejector? Comes loose when the bird stops by it and squashes the Coyote. Jones explicitly modelled the Coyote's seemingly inexplicable persistence on philosopher George Santayana's definition of a fanatic: someone who "redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim." And it doesn't help one bit that the Road Runner is apparently aware of this and more than happy to exploit it to his own, cheerfully sadistic ends.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Despite their surreally minimalist production design — very unlike the traditional Looney Tunes style — and penchant for formula gags, the shorts have remained hugely popular to this day. 40 shorts were produced in the classic era, and newer ones are still occasionally being created for theatres. Wile. E even went up against Bugs Bunny himself in a few shorts, and proved to be just as unsuccessful as trying to get the better of him as he was with Road Runner.They have made a comeback via CGI in The Looney Tunes Show.Their character sheets can be found here.See also the video games Road Runner, Road Runner's Death Valley Rally, and Desert Demolition.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_10886580	comment	Dub Species Change: Early Italian dubs referred to the Roadrunner as either a fictional "Beep beep bird" or an ostrich. Later redubs rectified this and changed "Beep Beep" into the Roadrunner's given name.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_10e8d2d4	comment	Wrong Parachute Gag: Wile E. tries to be Crazy-Prepared by wearing a parachute in case he falls off a cliff. He opens it and out comes... canning samples.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_149ff4b0	comment	If a real coyote tops out at 38 mph versus 20 mph for the Greater Roadrunner, the chase scenes shown at the start of most episodes are a sign of this. Of course, Hilarity Ensues with the little burst of speed the Roadrunner puts on for his getaway (one exception being "Sugar and Spies," when the Coyote was knocked down by a thrown briefcase). In "Fastest with the Mostest," it goes Up to Eleven, since the Coyote actually outruns the Roadrunner when the Roadrunner normally puts on the extra burst - running right past him and off the edge of a cliff.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The Road Runner can be considered the hero of this short, being hunted after by a hungry predator. However his character is kept deliberately flat and Out of Focus in each short so that the intended audience sympathy is instead with Wile E Coyote. In fact, according to the laws of Roadrunner cartoons, the only harm the bird can do to the coyote is give him a Jump Scare. Most viewers, which don't read the lores anyway, root for the Roadrunner as a Vanilla Protagonist instead, making the "antagonist" part a misnomer anyway.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: The Road Runner has his rare moments, like in "Fast and Furry-ous", where he holds out a metal lid for the Coyote to slam into in one scene, and tosses a boomerang at him in the other.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: Well, if Sylvester counts as a villain, then the aforementioned Crossover counts.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_16fef97b	comment	Binomium ridiculus: This series is pretty much the Trope Codifier for the use of fake species names as parody; in the opening scenes of several of them, the action suddenly pauses as a freeze frame showing either the Roadrunner or Wile E. Coyote in a pose reminiscent of a museum diorama, with the Roadrunner given names such as Speedius birdius or Speedometrus Rapidus, and the Coyote ones like Ravenus catchineatum or Famishus Famishus. One cartoon even gave the Roadrunner's "beep, beep" a scientific name ("beepus-beepus"). Subverted in 2003's "Whizzard of Ow" in which the actual binomial names were used: Canis latrans for the Coyote (barking dog — ironic when you realize Wile E. almost never speaks) and Geococcyx californianus for the Road-runner (Californian cuckoo that runs on land). And in "Stop! Look! And Hasten!" Wile E.'s Burmese Tiger Trap catches a Burmese Tiger, Surprisibus! Surprisibus! Even Wile E. Coyote gets in on the action when he refers to the common western rabbit (e.g. Bugs Bunny) as Rabbitus idioticus delicious in "Rabbit's Feat". This even extends beyond the animated shorts themselves: in a commercial for Energizer batteries featuring Wile E. Coyote, he is introduced as "Pursuis Rabbitus Energizus", and the Energizer battery that powers the Energizer Bunny is introduced as "Powerus Never Stopus".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: In "The Solid Tin Coyote" Wile manages to create an elaborate Giant Mecha that is formidable enough to actually garner the Road Runner's fear. It even catches him multiple times, though always loses him due to a malfunction or command error.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_17521f7f	type	Clothes Make the Superman
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_17521f7f	comment	Clothes Make the Superman: Coyote buys a superhero costume and tries to fly off a cliff. He doesn't. Another costume does work for flight, but it's specifically designed with rigid "wings" that fold out from under the arms. It's not much of a spoiler to note that Wile E. still ends up managing to plummet to the ground. The Batman outfit also works (even though Superman can fly and Batman can't), but Wile E. does a smug Aside Glance while flying and rams into the side of a cliff. And another set of wings gets destroyed in an explosion, resulting in no flight but in another date with gravity.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_179ca2e5	comment	Throw the Pin: Wile E. does this in "Zipping Along", leaving him with a grenade in his teeth.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: As noted, in Stop! Look! and Hasten! Wile E.'s Burmese Tiger Trap proves to be a little too effective.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_17d9043d	type	Read the Fine Print
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_17d9043d	comment	Read the Fine Print: In "Hopalong Casualty," Wile E. attempts to trap the Road Runner by getting him to eat some Acme Earthquake Pills disguised as birdseed. They don't work, and it isn't until Wile E. contemptuously swallows the entire bottle of pills that he reads the fine print on the pill bottle and discovers that they're "not effective on Road Runners." Cue Oh, Crap!.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Coyotes are nearly twice as fast as roadrunners and actually prey on them in reality. The roadrunner's best line of defense is camouflage and stealth, as he wouldn't be able to outrun Wile E. on open ground. Then again, he always chooses to run upright rather than on all fours, which leads to increased wind resistance - of course, this could be due to him being more vertically-centered than horizontally, like an actual coyote.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The Coyote disguised himself as a female roadrunner to attract the Road Runner. The disguise actually did a good job ... at deceiving other coyotes, a horde of which chase him to eat. Unsurprisingly, these coyotes never appeared again. Typically, whenever one of the Acme Products does work as advertised, their success manages to work against Wile E. For example, a Dehydrated Boulder, upon hydration, becomes so large that it squashes him, the Burmese tiger trap catches an actual Burmese tiger, or he finds out that the Earthquake Pills bottle label's fine print states that the pills aren’t effective on road runners... right after he swallows the whole bottle thinking they don't work.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: In the cartoons where he speaks, Wile E. Coyote comes across as this. The episode "Compressed Hare" even shows that he owns a huge assortment of wines in his home.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: How did he not starve to death? Oh yeah, he's functionally immortal. Averted at the end of one or two episodes, though. Flipped in the arcade game where you play the Roadrunner, and being eaten is the only way to end the game. Some later shorts show a possible method of survival, opening with the Coyote trying to eat a rock or a cactus, failing, then going in pursuit of the Roadrunner. One episode even opened with the Coyote successfully eating an insect (on screen: "Coyote (Eatibus anythingus)"). The Roadrunner is probably the only thing around with any real meat on it, so he's willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get just one filling meal. Jones himself noted in his memoir "Chuck Amuck" that one of the rules that he and the other writers laid down was that Wile E. can never succeed in catching the Roadrunner, invoking this trope as a whole for the shorts.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_2b6c866	type	Saved by the Platform Below
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_2b6c866	comment	Saved by the Platform Below: Happens in one cartoon, in which Wile E. falls off a cliff and lands on a ledge just below. He's at first relieved, until the ledge gives way.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_2eeb91b2	type	The Runt at the End
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_2eeb91b2	comment	The Runt at the End: When Wile disguised himself as a female roadrunner to attract his prey but instead attracted other coyotes, the last coyote was a runt.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_32821ceb	comment	If you were to count the Road Runner's "BEEP BEEP" as a voice, he would fall under The Unintelligible.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Wile E. and the Road Runner have been going at it for more than 60 years!
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3494519b	type	Stock Desert Interstate
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3494519b	comment	Stock Desert Interstate: The cartoons take place entirely along highways on the American Southwest with lots of images of the rocky red-tinged deserts.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_354077f9	type	Plummet Perspective
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_354077f9	comment	Plummet Perspective: Almost every time Wile E. Coyote falls off a cliff and to the canyon floor below. Most often, he'll end up as an Accordion Man, be burnt to a crisp, or suffer a combination of these.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3cd71723	type	Acme Products
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3cd71723	comment	Typically, whenever one of the Acme Products does work as advertised, their success manages to work against Wile E. For example, a Dehydrated Boulder, upon hydration, becomes so large that it squashes him, the Burmese tiger trap catches an actual Burmese tiger, or he finds out that the Earthquake Pills bottle label's fine print states that the pills aren’t effective on road runners... right after he swallows the whole bottle thinking they don't work.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: The Road Runner is deliberately this, to focus our attention on the Villain Protagonist. He rarely does anything except run, eat, and say "beep beep!", and even his facial expression never changes.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3dbbfd6a	type	Camera Tricks
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3dbbfd6a	comment	Camera Tricks: In one of the Coyote's few speaking appearances in the Road Runner shorts, he mentions these when talking about how he keeps a "record of [his] 'activities'".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Most of the shorts have a pun in their title.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: Popular as the shorts are, they're best watched in small doses, as they tend to feel really, really samey if you watch all of them back to back.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: Wile usually realizes very late that he's walking on thin air. Once he does he falls down.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: The Roadrunner originally was depicted as somewhat a Karmic Trickster in 'Fast and Furry-ous (1949) being clearly aware of Coyote's hunting the whole time, a trait that would be mostly dropped in later Chuck Jones shorts since the Coyote gets Hoist By His Own Petards anyways. The Road Runner's characterisation would slip back in and out with efforts from other directors however.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Wile E. himself; in fact he never gets to be anything but (not even in his appearances with Bugs Bunny). Iron Butt Monkey: Even for a Warner Brothers cartoon, it's amazing what the Coyote goes through - and then gets up and goes right back in.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_48a166eb	type	Stopped Reading Too Soon
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_48a166eb	comment	Stopped Reading Too Soon: One ploy that Wile uses on the Road Runner is to leave a pile of bird seed laced with Acme Earthquake Pills. The target ingests the entire bait, then departs unaffected. The coyote disgustedly eats the remaining pills, about half the bottle. A moment later, his eye catches the fine print at the bottom of the label: "Caution: Not effective on road runners." Cue the coyote's leg quivering ominously.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4c30f8f0	type	Twitchy Eye
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4c30f8f0	comment	Twitchy Eye: Wile E. gets one ever so often.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4eb5691c	type	Squashed Flat
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4eb5691c	comment	Squashed Flat: Another Running Gag. Wile E. will oftentimes end up being crushed by boulders, vehicles, and anvils, and emerge out as an Accordion Man. Occasionally, he'll be in a Humiliation Conga of being covered in soot by explosives or end up falling in an abyss. He even ends up being flattened several times by his own giant robot in "The Solid Tin Coyote."
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Wile E. thinks of himself as a "super-genius", but is actually the epitome of the villainous Butt-Monkey in Western animation. No matter how hard he tries, the Coyote's plans always backfire on him, including the devices he orders from ACME. Furthermore, if his traps do work as planned, the Coyote is the one taking the bait. He even provides the trope image.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4fdeca8c	type	Flip-Flop of God
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_4fdeca8c	comment	Which is odd, given most of the classic "Road Runner" shorts were written by Michael Maltese. However, there were jam sessions where all of the studios writers would come together to pitch gags and ideas for various shorts. This could explain the discrepancy.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: Early on, it seems that Wile E. wants to eat the Road Runner. Typical predator/prey relationship. But, some of the things Wile E. plans (poisoning, exploding, etc.) would make the Road Runner inedible had they worked. At some point, his motivation seems to go from eating the Road Runner to just wanting him dead. Chuck Jones would often quote George Santayana's definition of a fanatic - "someone who doubles his efforts while forgetting his aim" - in describing Wile E. and intentionally made most of the humor come from the fact that even though gravity is clearly against him at times, he never gets the message and gives up/chases some other animal. The Cheers gang debate the motives of Wile E. It's pointed out that Wile E. doesn't want to eat just any roadrunner — he wants to eat that roadrunner.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: Unlike most other recurring Looney Tunes heroes, who usually had at least the odd moment of defeat, the Road Runner never "lost", or was even remotely hurt or humiliated throughout any cartoon. Though he was hampered on more than one occasion. The only exceptions seemed to be Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, where he gets run over by a truck in one scene, and the Animaniacs segment, "Little Old Slappy from Pasadena", where Slappy outruns him in her car and runs over Wile E. Coyote, and as he holds up an "I quit" sign with his foot, Buttons (who had been launched into the air in an earlier gag) lands on top of him with Mindy unharmed as usual.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_54fb42f0	type	Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_54fb42f0	comment	Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: The Trope Codifier in the public mind, since about half the gags involved Wile E. falling off a cliff as the result of his latest failure. Wile E. is also the current Trope Image. Rule Number 8: "Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote's greatest enemy."
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5573c3a0	type	Shadow of Impending Doom
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5573c3a0	comment	Shadow of Impending Doom: Anything that Wile E. launches will produce one of these. Right over him. No matter where he is.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_55af5099	comment	Rube Goldberg Device: Used in the climax of "Hook, Line and Stinker".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5619ea34	type	Blowing a Raspberry
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5619ea34	comment	Blowing a Raspberry: The Road Runner does this to taunt the Coyote, and it sounds... rather peculiar to say the least, sounding like a series of cork bottles being opened in rapid succession.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5768d31	type	Super-Speed
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5768d31	comment	Super Speed: The Road Runner moves impossibly fast. One crossover between the Looney Tunes and DC Comics showed that he could outrun The Flash.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_57a70347	type	Homing Boulders
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_57a70347	comment	Homing Boulders: No matter how carefully the Coyote tries to avoid them, you have an Epic Fail.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_58019946	type	Anvil on Head
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_58019946	comment	Anvil on Head: A Looney Tunes staple, reproduced faithfully multiple times.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5a502557	type	Accordion Man
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5a502557	comment	Accordion Man: This is sometimes Wile E.'s fate after a long fall or being Squashed Flat.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5a67551c	type	Surprise Jump
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5a67551c	comment	Surprise Jump: The Road Runner frequently does this to the Coyote. Subverted at the end of "Zoom and Bored" where the Coyote had just endured a harrowing journey involving a harpoon gun and had landed safely on solid ground. The Road Runner runs up behind him as usual... but then "says" he doesn't have the heart this time, and leaves.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5dffa119	type	Those Wily Coyotes
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_5dffa119	comment	Those Wily Coyotes: He's never wily enough, though.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6319dea1	type	Ejection Seat
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6319dea1	comment	Ejection Seat: When Wile E. Coyote builds a Weaponized Car to catch the Roadrunner in "Sugar and Spies", it includes an ejection seat. You can probably guess how useful this proves to him.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6342241e	type	CartoonPhysics
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6342241e	comment	Cartoon Physics: But it's so side-splittingly funny in all cases that it doesn't matter.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Jones' take on Wile E. was heavily influenced by Mark Twain's Roughing It, in which the coyote of the desert is described in great, pitiful detail.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_687c78ff	comment	He again gets the Road Runner to eat iron pellets disguised as birdseed, sets up the bait with a "FREE LUNCH!" sign, skates over behind a rock, and straps on a big magnet. As the magnet follows potential prey, so does Wile E. as the skates provide transportation. Just as the Road Runner approaches a bridge, he suddenly runs off as Wile E. ends up onto the Railroad Tracks of Doom, where he's flattened by an oncoming train. Somehow, the magnet remains upright.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_68a171b6	type	Sadist Show
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_68a171b6	comment	Sadist Show: The whole point of the series is to laugh at how the universe contorts itself to torture Wile E.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_68ddad6b	type	Pedestrian Crushes Car
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_68ddad6b	comment	Pedestrian Crushes Car: In one cartoon, Wile E. is hit so hard by a truck that he leaves a hole through it.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: Stop! Look! And Hasten! opens with a famished Wile E. resorting to eating a fly, a bug, and an empty tin can... the latter of which he quickly discards once the Road Runner passes by and sets off his Meat-O-Vision.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_70518904	type	Human Cannonball
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_70518904	comment	Human Cannonball: Wile E. has attempted to fire himself out of a cannon multiple times in his never-ending quest to catch the Road Runner. What he has achieved is multiple new ways to injure himself.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_73331123	type	Comically Lopsided Rivalry
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_73331123	comment	Comically Lop Sided Rivalry: The entire rivalry between the Coyote and Road Runner, which always ends in the bird's favor.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_73ff2cc5	type	Just Eat Him
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_73ff2cc5	comment	Just Eat Him: Wile E. orders his aforementioned mecha to do this after capturing the Road Runner, which is strange considering that Wile E. himself should be the one trying to eat him.note Specifically, he tells the robot to "Eat, stupid"... but that results in the giant Coyote eating Wile E., not the Roadrunner!
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_74e60c37	type	Packed Hero
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_74e60c37	comment	Packed Hero: Wile E. ends up in a parcel that was meant for the Road Runner. Courtesy of an Acme parcel-making machine, naturally.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7580e1bb	type	Straw Loser
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7580e1bb	comment	Straw Loser: The former and titular Wile E. Coyote. In spite of being a genius, he's always screwing up his own plans and makes a continual fool of himself in every cartoon he's in. Such to the point that it's obvious that many characters such as the latter and titular Road Runner and Bugs Bunny are always presented as awesome and flawless.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7896ecc3	type	Perpetual Smiler
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7896ecc3	comment	Perpetual Smiler: The Road Runner—the only time he ever changes from this is when he sees the eponymous giant robot from "The Solid Tin Coyote". He also changes it into a thoughtful frown as he seemingly forgets his Catchphrase in "The Whizzard of Ow".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Coyote suffers a multitude in every short.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7a6e70b9	type	Born in the Theatre
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7a6e70b9	comment	Born in the Theatre: At the end of one short, Wile E. pulled a standing sign onto the set. "Wanted: One gullible coyote. Apply to manager of this theatre."
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7ae52fff	type	Hollywood Magnetism
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7ae52fff	comment	Hollywood Magnetism: Wile E. Coyote got bitten by this once. In his attempt to catch Bugs Bunny with an iron carrot, his super-magnet ended up attracting all sorts of metal junk instead, including the Eiffel Tower, an ocean liner and finally a ballistic missile, which blew him to kingdom come. He also got the Road Runner to eat some iron pellets disguised as birdseed, then tried to capture him with a giant magnet. The magnet attracted a giant barrel of TNT instead. He again gets the Road Runner to eat iron pellets disguised as birdseed, sets up the bait with a "FREE LUNCH!" sign, skates over behind a rock, and straps on a big magnet. As the magnet follows potential prey, so does Wile E. as the skates provide transportation. Just as the Road Runner approaches a bridge, he suddenly runs off as Wile E. ends up onto the Railroad Tracks of Doom, where he's flattened by an oncoming train. Somehow, the magnet remains upright.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later Installment Weirdness: The cartoons are generally considered the oddball of Chuck Jones's work. Soon after Warner Brothers closed their animation studio, they subcontracted new cartoons including Road Runner titles, mostly directed by Rudy Larriva, which were sluggish, ill-timed, unfunny hack jobs only vaguely resembling the originals. Most revival cartoons not directed by Jones, while varying in actual quality, have a similar irregularity to them. The shorts standard "rules" and formula were broken more regularly as well. Certain shorts had a running plot rather than interchangeable blackout gags, the Road Runner was sometimes more proactive and expressive, and some of Wile's traps became more surreal.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7b83b928	type	Xylophone Gag
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7b83b928	comment	Xylophone Gag: The "exploding piano" gag is used in "Rushing Roulette," as it was used in "Ballot Box Bunny" and "Show Biz Bugs." Wile E. uses a piano in an attempt to catch the Road Runner, but the trap backfires on him when he presses the rigged key.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7cca3964	type	Matchlight Danger Revelation
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7cca3964	comment	Matchlight Danger Revelation: In "Beep, Beep", Wile E. loses his way underground, lights a match and learns he's in a tunnel crammed full of high explosives.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7ebc29a2	type	Self-Damaging Attack Backfire
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_7ebc29a2	comment	Self-Damaging Attack Backfire: This is how Wile E. Coyote gets his comeuppance nine times out of ten. His traps for the Roadrunner always end up getting him instead, even if it goes against the laws of physics. The Roadrunner rarely does anything to counter the attack; it mostly doesn't have to.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Wile E. Coyote, especially when he goes after Bugs Bunny, where he introduces himself as, "Wile E. Coyote, SUUUUUPEEERRR GEEEENIUS!!"
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The book "How to Build a Burmese Tiger Trap" instructs you on how to construct a very effective trap... if you are trying to catch a Burmese Tiger. Similarly, the gigantic sheet of fly paper is labelled "ACME Giant Fly Paper," and works perfectly... at catching a giant fly. Said fly even gives a nasty Slasher Smile before wrapping the coyote in said fly paper. Another very similar scheme has Wile using a gigantic spring mousetrap labelled "ACME Giant Mouse Trap." It works fine... at catching a giant rat. Chronologically, the first time something like this happened was when Wile E. and Roadrunner were babies. The baby coyote uses a badger trap, on which he crossed out the word "badger" and wrote "roadrunner", which succeeds...at catching a badger.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_86288daf	type	Cactus Cushion
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_86288daf	comment	Cactus Cushion: A common hazard, given the setting take place in the southwestern US desert where saguaros are native. "To Beep or Not to Beep" had Wile E. fall off a cliff as usual, only for a cactus to also fall off after him, leading to him flying back UP the cliff while howling in pain. "Highway Runnery" has him standing behind a cactus as he prepares to dash off, only for the Road Runner's speed to bend the cactus so it hits his behind. Bonus: we get to hear a real coyote yowl as he does another Pain-Powered Leap. "Chariots of Fur" has Wile E. test out a cactus costume, feeling visibly uncomfortable as he puts it on. He mistimes his attempt to grab the Road Runner and ends up wrapping his arms around himself with painful results, and promptly decides that the costume isn't worth the trouble.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: In Just Plane Beep when Wile E. shoots the propeller of his biplane off trying to hit the road runner. That was a real problem in WWI before the interrupter gear was invented, and one solution (as was also shown) was to put armor plating on the propeller.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Frequently happens to the Coyote. More often than not, he'll suffer a combination of being burnt to a crisp from explosions, Squashed Flat, or fall into an abyss in his Sisyphean quest to catch the Road Runner.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Wile E. Coyote is trying to eat the Road Runner, and is therefore ostensibly the bad guy. But he's just so adorably persistent in how he goes about it that you can't help but root for him. Most interpretations however consider the Coyote an antagonist instead of a protagonist, and put more sympathy on Roadrunner. Chuck Jones in fact had it as written lore that all sympathy must be with the Coyote.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: According to Little Go Beep, the reason why Wile E. is The Voiceless is because it's a family honor that coyotes are not allowed to speak until they successfully catch a roadrunner.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: The Coyote.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8c4beb63	type	Three-Dimensional Episode
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8c4beb63	comment	Three-Dimensional Episode: "Coyote Falls", "Fur of Flying", "Rabid Rider" and "Flash in the Pain".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Wile E. becomes this in one cartoon where two kids watching the cartoon on television wonder why he wants to eat the Road Runner. He explains in detail - with visual aids - just why road runners are considered such a delicacy to coyotes.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Just two characters, Wile E. and Road Runner. That's it. No one else is even visible.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Both of them. Wile E. does speak during four of his five appearances with Bugs Bunny, and again when explaining to two young boys why he wants to eat the road runner. And in one cartoon, as he's walking off screen, mangled out of shape, he gives us a deadpan "ouch." If you were to count the Road Runner's "BEEP BEEP" as a voice, he would fall under The Unintelligible.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8edd1883	type	Colossus Climb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8edd1883	comment	Colossus Climb: Averted. In the cartoon Soup or Sonic, Wile E. finally catches the Road Runner. The episode's running gag involving size changing pipes leaves the Road Runner gigantic, but unfortunately for the Coyote he has become tiny, very tiny. He doesn't bother trying to scale the huge bird (even he can appreciate he's massively outgunned) and instead asks the audience what is he supposed to do now.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8ef99dbb	type	Pin-Pulling Teeth
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_8ef99dbb	comment	Pin-Pulling Teeth: "Zipping Along". When Wile E. tries to pull the pin from a grenade, the grenade stays in his teeth. "Hip Hip-Hurry!" Wile E. Coyote pulls the pin of a grenade with his teeth and drops the grenade on the Roadrunner from a great height. It bounces off power lines and back up to him. He tries to re-insert the pin, but the grenade blows up before he can.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: It's a cat and mouse cartoon AS A CANINE AND AN AVIAN IN THE DESERT! AND THE VILLAIN IS THE ONE WHO IS SUPPOSED TO EARN OUR SYMPATHY!
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_91262aaa	type	Racing the Train
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_91262aaa	comment	Racing the Train: In the cartoon "Zipping Along," the establishing scene features the bird zipping along a train, although he the road and never attempts to beat the train to the crossing. The Road Runner's observation of safety is reprised in a later Operation:Lifesaver commercial aimed at children. In it, the Road Runner, despite his ability to put some extra speed in his already fast run, is aware of safety rules concerning railroad crossings and stops to allow a train to pass. Of course, Wile E. Coyote arrogantly doesn't, and he (once again) is crushed beneath another oncoming train.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: Both parties receive a new genus/species name in this style before each short ("To Beep or Not to Beep" being the exception). In one short ("Soup or Sonic"), even the Roadrunner's beeps get a scientific name: "beepus-beepus". Though "The Whizzard of Ow" showed the actual scientific names, Geococcyx californianus (greater roadrunner) and Canis latrans (coyote). "Stop! Look! and Hasten!" also features a cameo by a Burmese Tiger (Surprisibus! Surprisibus!)
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Wile E. Coyote is ultimately the main antagonist of the shorts, serving as the only threat to Roadrunner.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: After a certain point, it becomes clear that Wile E. is really motivated more by this trope than by his ostensible motivations of desire for food. Many of his traps would kill the Road Runner in ways that would render the corpse totally inedible, but Wile E. has come to care more about finally defeating the Road Runner than feeding himself or not getting maimed. By Chuck Jones' own admission, Wile is a fanatic; ie. one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: The ending of "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" has the Coyote falling off another cliff and with pleading eyes, holds up a sign that reads "How about ending this cartoon before I hit?"; to which an Iris Out begins and he holds another sign that reads "Thank You" and then it cuts to the That's All, Folks! screen. In "Zoom and Bored" the Roadrunner repeatedly sneaks up behind the Coyote with his usual Beep-Beep and made him jump off cliffs in the beginning of the short. Later after Coyote gets sent flying via rope tied harpoon and sent skidding off the ground, flying in and out of a thin pipe, through a speeding truck, being hit by a train and finally landing safely on a cliff's edge sobbing and gasping in relief; the Roadrunner then sneaks up behind him, but this time holds a sign to the audience that reads "I just don't have the heart" before zooming away and leaving him be. In "Lickety-Splat", the Coyote is trapped by a piece of the cliff he was standing on earlier in the last gag, and the last of the dart bombs are sticking on either end! Thinking that he's going to die, Wile E. covers his eyes with his ears, ready to accept his fate... but instead of exploding, the dart bombs unfurl to read "THE END". Upon realizing this, he gives a big laugh of relief. In a Honey Nut Cheerios commercial from the 1990's, Wile E. corners the Road Runner at the edge of a cliff and is about to eat him, but Buzz the honeybee intervenes and offers to give the Coyote the aforementioned cereal. Not interested in the least bit, Wile E. tells Buzz to "Buzz off", but immediately changes his mind when the bee asks if he would rather have the taste of golden honey and crunchy nuts. Eventually, the Coyote decides to have the cereal instead and lets the Road Runner go for once.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9a11f9cf	type	Informed Species
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9a11f9cf	comment	Informed Species: Neither Wile E. nor the Roadrunner resemble their species. Wile E. Coyote's resemblance to an actual coyote is vague. He basically looks like Bugs Bunny with more canine-like features, a longer snout, brown fur, wider cheeks, a heftier body and a bushier tail. On the other hand, the Road Runner's resemblance to a greater roadrunner is completely nonexistent, and as such he looks more like a cross between a chicken and an ostrich or a cassowary (actual roadrunners are only two feet long and look like this).
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9aee92b4	type	Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9aee92b4	comment	Then again, he always chooses to run upright rather than on all fours, which leads to increased wind resistance - of course, this could be due to him being more vertically-centered than horizontally, like an actual coyote.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: If there's a way to get busted up, it's probably happened to Coyote, but he's always back the next scene, good as new.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Wile E. often did this voicelessly or via a little sign. If a gigantic boulder was going to crush him, he usually opened a tiny parasol in response.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Bugs Bunny in comparison to the Roadrunner as objects of hunger for Wile E. Coyote. “Hare-Breadth Hurry”, which follows the usual Road Runner vs. Coyote formula instead of Wile E. trying to catch Bugs with contraptions and Bugs foiling them, shows that Bugs can’t naturally run as fast as the Roadrunner without special vitamins. When Bugs runs out of those, he has to rely on his guile to evade Wile E. Coyote.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9eeb5455	type	Evil Virtues
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9eeb5455	comment	Evil Virtues: Wile E. Coyote has a Determination that puts Sisyphus to shame. Nothing can make him give up on catching that roadrunner.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Try listening to Dance of the Comedians without going "Beep Beep!".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a68d74b1	type	Pain-Powered Leap
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a68d74b1	comment	"Highway Runnery" has him standing behind a cactus as he prepares to dash off, only for the Road Runner's speed to bend the cactus so it hits his behind. Bonus: we get to hear a real coyote yowl as he does another Pain-Powered Leap.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a733374b	type	Bomb Whistle
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a733374b	comment	Bomb Whistle: Everything that falls, including boulders, anvils, and Wile E. himself, makes this sound.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a7faec8e	type	Written Sound Effect
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a7faec8e	comment	Written Sound Effect: "Chariots of Fur" (Chuck Jones's last Road Runner short) uses these quite a bit, but only once does it do something creative with them — when the Coyote disguises himself as a cactus and tries to grab the Road Runner, but the Road Runner avoids him, the Coyote accidentally wraps his arms around himself in the process, and the smoke trail the Road Runner left behind turns into a "!!YEE-OOWW!!"
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a8182b34	type	SeldomSeenSpecies
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_a8182b34	comment	Seldom-Seen Species: How many other fictional roadrunners can you name?
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_abfe3213	type	Seesaw Catapult
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_abfe3213	comment	Seesaw Catapult: Happens several times, with the teeter-totter being made of stone. The Coyote would either use the teeter-totter rock as part of his scheme or end up falling on it as a result of a scheme. He would be flung into the air when a large rock fell on the other end of the teeter-totter rock.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad1db87c	comment	The Roadrunner also gets an Oh, Crap! moment during a guest appearance in the Animaniacs segment ''The Little Old Slappy From Pasadena'' ... just before Slappy Squirrel bumps him with her car.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: Wile E. builds one in "Sugar and Spies". It includes machine guns, a cannon and an ejector seat.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Bird seed for the Road Runner. Wile E. has used this on occasion to try and catch him.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: And how! Lampshaded by Bugs Bunny in Hare-Breadth Hurry:
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_aec3d8b2	type	Expository Theme Tune
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_aec3d8b2	comment	Expository Theme Tune: The Road Runner Show has one.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Wile E. Coyote, especially on the occasions when he goes after Bugs Bunny.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: NOTHING ever goes wrong for Road Runner. Sometimes the laws of physics and even reality bend over for him, such as when Wile E. painted a cliff wall to look like a road, and Road Runner proceeds to run right into the painted road and disappears into the horizon. And no surprise, Wile E. tries to follow and crashes into the wall. The most extreme example of this is in Stop! Look! and Hasten! when Wile E. stops Road Runner on a bridge with birdseed and tries cutting a hole out from underneath him. The entire bridge and the rock formations the bridge is attached to collapse, leaving Road Runner standing on a floating wooden disc.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: Downplayed for the Road Runner. While he often makes fun of Wile E.'s failures and even scares him off of cliffs, he is in no way genuinely cruel and has even helped him out on a few rare occasions, like giving him a lit match in "Hip Hip-Hurry!" and saving him from a fall down a cliff with a spring coil in "Fastest with the Mostest"; the Coyote even shows gratitude with a "Thanks" sign in the latter case.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: But of course! Near the end of "Zoom and Bored", Wile E. takes a massive tumble, falling down several cliffs, sucked through pipes, over waterfalls, is hit by a truck, and then by a train, before finally coming to a stop at the top of a cliff, breathing hard and clutching his chest. The coyote is crying by this point. The Road Runner runs up behind him and has a chance to scare him off the cliff like he usually does, but at this point he's apparently as sympathetic as the viewers, holds a sign up that says "I just don't have the heart", and runs off again.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Cutting the branch hanging off a cliffside that the Roadrunner's on — and the cliff collapses. 'Nuff said. Anything involving catapults will end in misfires that break physics. Pretty much everything Coyote does ends in this. Hilarity Ensues.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b5496c0c	type	Inflating Body Gag
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b5496c0c	comment	Inflating Body Gag: In "Fastest with the Mostest", Wile E. Coyote tries to blow into a balloon for his latest plan, only for the air to shoot back and inflate him. He desperately grabs the nearest object—a bomb—to stop himself from drifting away, but just winds up carrying the bomb as he floats up. Then he deflates and finds himself high in the air, still holding a bomb. Whoops.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b54a0952	type	Mock Meal
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_b54a0952	comment	Mock Meal: One cartoon opens with Wile E. making a roast chicken out of clay. When he finds it too hard to eat, he makes a garbage can out of clay in which to throw it away.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_bb30961	type	Born Unlucky
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_bb30961	comment	Born Unlucky: No matter how hard the Coyote tries, his plans to catch that Roadrunner end up backfiring on him spectacularly, including the devices he orders from ACME. He is also the epitome of the Butt-Monkey in Western animation. One of the laws of the cartoons is that "the audience's sympathy must remain with the Coyote." For a coyote to want to eat a roadrunner is perfectly natural in the order of things and to top it all off, he is regularly portrayed as skinny and starving. Furthermore, if a device does work as advertised, Wile E. ends up taking the bait. That said, one of the rules that Chuck Jones created said that the coyote’s ineptitude could hurt him even in the Road Runner cartoons, so he’s a downplayed example of this.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_bd4264a3	comment	Similarly, the gigantic sheet of fly paper is labelled "ACME Giant Fly Paper," and works perfectly... at catching a giant fly. Said fly even gives a nasty Slasher Smile before wrapping the coyote in said fly paper.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_bda88535	type	Life Isn't Fair
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_bda88535	comment	The most extreme example of this is in Stop! Look! and Hasten! when Wile E. stops Road Runner on a bridge with birdseed and tries cutting a hole out from underneath him. The entire bridge and the rock formations the bridge is attached to collapse, leaving Road Runner standing on a floating wooden disc.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: "The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote, except by going 'Beep, beep!'"
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: The Roadrunner's speed, obviously played for laughs. In real life, a Coyote can run almost twice as fast as a Roadrunner (38 mph vs. 20 mph), and in a straight line, Wile E. would have little difficulty catching his prey.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Villainous example with "The Solid Tin Coyote", which the Road Runner shows visible fear towards and is captured by Coyote's Humongous Mecha. It doesn't work out.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c4db6423	comment	And AGAIN in the CGI short "Heartbreak Bridge", where The Road Runner willingly and happily jumps into the Coyote's arms, but this unbalances the bridge they are both standing on, and to save himself the Coyote has to throw the Road Runner to the other side. The rest of the short is the Coyote attempting to keep the bridge balanced while the Road Runner tries to tip it up. Doesn't work out.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: The ever peppy Road Runner bears no ill will against Wile E. for chasing him, and seems to appreciate that's just nature's way. In fact, Rule #1 prohibits the Road Runner from ever causing the coyote any direct harm, except by Jump Scare with his happy "Beep Beep!" call.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c97314e3	type	Eat the Camera
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_c97314e3	comment	Eat the Camera: "To Beep or Not to Beep."
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ca72702e	type	Hammered into the Ground
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ca72702e	comment	Hammered into the Ground: Happens to Wile E. more than once, even as a result of his own inventions backfiring.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_cc5c18b6	type	Iris Out
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_cc5c18b6	comment	The ending of "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" has the Coyote falling off another cliff and with pleading eyes, holds up a sign that reads "How about ending this cartoon before I hit?"; to which an Iris Out begins and he holds another sign that reads "Thank You" and then it cuts to the That's All, Folks! screen.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Wile E. Coyote is one basically just because he wants a meal. Too bad he's so bad at it.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d06305ff	comment	Talking with Signs: How both characters (mostly) communicate. One classic example occurs in "Stop! Look! and Hasten!" when Wile realizes he's about to get clobbered by a speeding train: STOP IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d075a135	type	Now What?
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d075a135	comment	Now What?: At the end of 1980's "Soup or Sonic", the Coyote finally catches the Road Runner. Just one problem: it's at the end of a pipe gag that ended with Road Runner regular size, and Wile E. ultra tiny. The moment is actually the Trope Image.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Seriously, the Trope could practically be called "Wile E. Coyote Syndrome" it happens to him so often. Rule #2: No outside force can harm the coyote. Only his own ineptitude or the failure of ACME products.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d4f281a3	type	Villainous Underdog
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d4f281a3	comment	Villainous Underdog: The cartoons are built around this concept, with the smart, but horribly unlucky coyote being thoroughly overmatched by the super fast, equally smart, and and ungodly fortunate Road Runner. Physics itself was always on the Road Runner's side, meaning Wile E's schemes were doomed from the start.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d72b162f	type	Technicolor Eyes
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d72b162f	comment	Technicolor Eyes: In the shorts by Matthew O'Callaghan, Wile E.'s are red, and the Road Runner's are turquoise.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Aside from ocassionally sneaking up from behind and startling him with a loud "Beep beep!", the Roadrunner does nothing to Wile E. He just runs off or stands back and lets Wile E. get Hoist by His Own Petard.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e034faef	comment	Limited Animation: The Rudy Larriva shorts, and to a lesser extent, the two Robert McKimson shorts.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e38c48c5	comment	Road Runner vs. Coyote: Trope Namer, and that trope is the plot of these cartoons in a nutshell.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e3ab8602	comment	Exorcist Head: At the beginning of "Ready, Set, Zoom!", the Road Runner is seen rotating his head a full 360 degrees as he looks around his surroundings.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: The designs of the two characters did change a bit over the years, but this trope was more evident in the background designs. The first three cartoons had scenic, but fairly bland-looking backgrounds, which gave way to more abstract designs starting with Maurice Noble's arrival. They gradually got more and more unusual, eventually leading to some flat-out weird scenery in "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" before settling down into a more consistent style from 1957 onwards. Interestingly, the eras can also be split by the sky color, of all things. The first two shorts had a usual blue sky, the late 1952 through 1955 shorts had an overcast/gray sky, the 1956 through 1959 shorts had a yellow sky, and 1960 to the end reverted back to a blue sky.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The noise Road Runner makes is always transcribed as "beep beep", even though it sounds like "meep meep".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: The Coyote, of course. Rule Number 3: "The Coyote could stop any time — IF he were not a fanatic." Halfway through the cartoon, one realizes that the Coyote doesn't want to eat the Road Runner at that point—he just wants his contraptions to work properly.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e6b5d22f	comment	He also changes it into a thoughtful frown as he seemingly forgets his Catchphrase in "The Whizzard of Ow".
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e6f18344	comment	Perhaps the only time the Roadrunner has shown it is in "The Giant Tin Coyote" when he sees the giant mechanical coyote that Wile E. has built.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_e8e3807	comment	The Batman outfit also works (even though Superman can fly and Batman can't), but Wile E. does a smug Aside Glance while flying and rams into the side of a cliff.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Two, on a technicality. "Hare-breadth Hurry" has Bugs Bunny filling in for a sidelined Road Runner, while "The Wild Chase" has a cannonball race between the Road Runner and Speedy Gonzales, with the Coyote and Sylvester in pursuit. Wile E. also crossed into a few Bugs Bunny cartoons as well. These are where the "Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius" persona comes from.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ecedfef7	comment	Conspicuous Trenchcoat: When Wile E. gets hold off a Spy Kit in "Sugar and Spies", he starts wearing a black trenchcoat and hat. In the middle of the desert.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_f1e6402d	comment	Suddenly Speaking: At those rare occasions Wile E. does talk, he speaks in a very refined voice, as well as revealing the fact that he's an Insufferable Genius. However, he always speaks when he's up against Bugs (except for one short which doesn't really count, as Bugs is taking over for the Roadrunner in that one). Wile guested once on Family Guy where Peter Griffin was the customer service rep for ACME. Wile complains about the the product backfires such as slamming him into a mountain. When Peter says he can't refund money because the products were used, Wile complains that he's been a loyal customer for years so Peter offers Wile store credit. There's a few instances in the Road Runner cartoons where the Coyote will let out a yell or "OUCH!" For example in "To Beep or Not to Beep" when a cactus lands on him, or "Tired and Feathered" where he chops his tail with a propellor.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_f2877d9e	comment	Beep Me Up, Scotty: We all know it's "BEEP BEEP!" Yet for some strange reason, it still sounds like "MEEP MEEP!"
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_f3d38c6d	type	Team Rocket Wins
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_f3d38c6d	comment	Team Rocket Wins: Yes, the Coyote catches the Roadrunner at one point... but the gag makes it impossible for him to actually eat the bird. He even lampshades it by asking the audience what he should do now. He also catches Roadrunner in "The Solid Tin Coyote", Doesn't work out. He catches the Roadrunner in "Tired and Feathered" but only for a brief second and only by the tail - when he tries to pull the Roadrunner in, he only manages to yank out two tail feathers - which also throws himself backwards off the edge of a cliff. And again in the CGI short "Shut Your Trap". Doesn't work out. And AGAIN in the CGI short "Heartbreak Bridge", where The Road Runner willingly and happily jumps into the Coyote's arms, but this unbalances the bridge they are both standing on, and to save himself the Coyote has to throw the Road Runner to the other side. The rest of the short is the Coyote attempting to keep the bridge balanced while the Road Runner tries to tip it up. Doesn't work out. In one "Acme Hour" commercial on Cartoon Network, the Coyote catches and cooks the Roadrunner using Generic Brand rocket-rollerblades instead of ACME (it's non-canon, though). In another Cartoon Network bumper, Dexter of all characters took a crack at catching the Road Runner using a self-made rocket, and won. Most of the Road Runner shorts made by parody comedians have the Coyote finally catching the Road Runner. A Seth MacFarlane short called "Die Sweet Roadrunner, Die", has the coyote finally catching and eating the bird. But with his purpose in life lost he gets horribly bored and depressed and attempts suicide (hysterically enough, he does so with an ACME product). Then he does find a purpose in life and becomes a Born-Again Christian. In his later years, Chuck Jones created a piece of artwork◊ depicting the Road Runner in the Coyote's clutches. Note the glasses the Coyote is wearing.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_f8fe0279	comment	Impossibly Delicious Food: As Wile E. explains to two viewers in one episode, this is why he "devotes his valuable time chasing this ridiculous road runner", claiming that "the Roadrunner is to the taste buds of a coyote, what caviar, champagne, filet mignon and chocolate fudge are to the taste buds of a man." He then pulls out a chart explaining that every part of the Roadrunner comes "In a dazzling array of flavors." From banana to sponge cake to candied yam to pistachio.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: In some Looney Tunes comic books from the 80's where both characters talk, the Road Runner does this.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: Wile E. Coyote. Not that his gadgets ever always work the way they should.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: While Wile E. is consistently unable to catch Road Runner, exactly how fast he is depends heavily on the short. In some, he is only barely slower than him, to the point he ends up frustratingly running a few feet behind his prey without actually reaching it, but in others, he is much less athletic and gets gassed out with relatively small efforts. The Road Runner is variably either a wild creature going simply about its life and avoiding getting caught, or a more standard cartoon trickster who deliberately sabotages the Coyote's plans and heckles his failures. Which is odd, given most of the classic "Road Runner" shorts were written by Michael Maltese. However, there were jam sessions where all of the studios writers would come together to pitch gags and ideas for various shorts. This could explain the discrepancy.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In "The Whizzard of Ow", the freeze frames that show Wile E. and the Road Runner's scientific names show their actual scientific names. If a real coyote tops out at 38 mph versus 20 mph for the Greater Roadrunner, the chase scenes shown at the start of most episodes are a sign of this. Of course, Hilarity Ensues with the little burst of speed the Roadrunner puts on for his getaway (one exception being "Sugar and Spies," when the Coyote was knocked down by a thrown briefcase). In "Fastest with the Mostest," it goes Up to Eleven, since the Coyote actually outruns the Roadrunner when the Roadrunner normally puts on the extra burst - running right past him and off the edge of a cliff.
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Jaw Drop / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Just Keep Driving / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Just Train Wrong / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Kitchen Sink Included / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Kite Riding / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Ladder Tipping / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Later-Installment Weirdness / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Recoil / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Long Neck / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Look Both Ways / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Loser Protagonist / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Ludicrous Speed / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Meaningless Villain Victory / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Meat-O-Vision / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Mime and Music-Only Cartoon / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Minimalist Cast / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Misplaced Wildlife / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Mouse Trap / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Narcissist / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Non Sequitur, Thud / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Now You Tell Me / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Out Sick / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Packed Hero / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Pedestrian Crushes Car / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Pin-Pulling Teeth / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Pit Trap / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Plummet Perspective / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Plunger Detonator / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	PokÃ©mon Speak / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Portable Hole / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Portal Slam / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Precision-Guided Boomerang / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Public Domain Soundtrack / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Pun-Based Creature / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Racing the Train / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Rain Dance / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Read the Fine Print / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Revenge Before Reason / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Road Runner vs. Coyote / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Road-Sign Reversal / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Rocket Ride / int_b6079e8b
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Rodents of Unusual Size / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Rollerblade Good / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Rope Bridge / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Royal Harem / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Rube Goldberg Device / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Sapient Eat Sapient / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Saved by the Platform Below / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Selective Magnetism / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Self-Damaging Attack Backfire / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Sidekick Creature Nuisance / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Silent Snarker / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Specific Situation Books / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Spexico / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Spring Coil / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Sprint Shoes / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Sprint Shoes / int_b6079e8b
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Sticky Situation / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Stock Animal Diet / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Stock Desert Interstate / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Suddenly Speaking / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Suddenly Voiced / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Super-Persistent Missile / int_b6079e8b
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Super-Persistent Predator / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Super Serum / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Super-Speed / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Talking Animal / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Terrible Artist / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	The '40s / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	The Big Bad Wolf / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	The Runt at the End / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	The Speedster / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	The Television Talks Back / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Those Wily Coyotes / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Through a Face Full of Fur / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Throw the Pin / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Tightrope Walking / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Torso with a View / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Tree Buchet / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Variable Terminal Velocity / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Verbal Tic Name / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Villain Exclusivity Clause / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Villainous Underdog / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Walking Techbane / int_b6079e8b
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Weaponized Car / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	What a Drag / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Wildlife Commentary Spoof / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Wizard Duel / int_83cbe2ab
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Written Sound Effect / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	You Got Murder / int_4d30cecb
Looney Tunes	seeAlso	Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
The Smurfs	seeAlso	Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
What's Opera, Doc?	seeAlso	Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner	sameAs	Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
WileECoyoteandTheRoadrunner	sameAs	Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
WileECoyoteandtheRoadRunner	sameAs	Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d30cecb
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner	hasFeature	Wrong Parachute Gag / int_4d30cecb

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