1. The coyote never catches the road runner;
2. The road runner never actively interferes with the coyote's plans;
3. The road runner must stick to the road;
4. Whenever possible, gravity is the coyote's biggest enemy.
From Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones (1994).
(By way of The Straight Dope)
4 comments:
that's all well and good... but where's the original stuff??
okay, gotta differ with you (or Chuck, I guess).
I'll have to do the research to get episode numbers, but I distinctly remember:
1, the coyote did catch the road runner and had him tied up for a while, but his nefarious plans were so convoluted that the road runner got bored and escaped.
2. The road runner has been known to occaisionally move a road sign or otherwise "Alter" the scenario.
3. THe road runner occaisionally runs up behind the coyote while he's perched on the edge of a precipice over-looking the road in order to utter "meep-meep" and scare the coyote off the edge. This also violates #2, i suppose.
andrew you are super-cool
yup.
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