It was the Pepe le Pew cartoons that I couldn’t stand. Identical stupid plot each time, and an unsympathetic, creepy protagonist.
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I always liked Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
I liked his indefatigable spirit. It’s always going to work, this time!
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The meta-gag is that there’s only one named coyote, and literally millions of road runners in the desert. It’s always a different one…
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I was just having a discussion with my oldest kid the other day. He asked what would happen if a supersonic plane crashed into the ground. I replied that it would be much like any other impact in that you’d get a bit of a crater and a debris field downslope from it. He’s like “no, what if it went straight into the ground?” I replied “Oh, like if it Wile E. Coyoted in?” He just looked at me blankly. sigh I have failed as a parent.
We spend the next half hour watching cartoons. We only stopped because he was laughing so hard that I was worried he’d pass out. I found them funny, too, but not quite as much as my little guy.
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Very few views on that video, anyone know the origin?
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Road runners are pretty vicious fighters though and surprisingly strong.
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Yeah, but if the fuel runs out it stops before it hits, so you could get out and be fine!!
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But knowing was half the battle.
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I wish!
But AFAIK topical references were pretty rare in WB cartoons after the 1940’s.
And sound effects! The thumb in a bottle thhpp thhpp sound was brilliant.
Under the Influence has a bit about how the Roadrunner influenced him:
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man, that’s some good internet right there Synerdata.
I don’t like Road Runner … a repetitive, unfunny cartoon series.
As a kid, I was frustrated that the Coyote never caught him.
As an adult, rewatching these cartoons, I can appreciate how brilliantly simple they are. No dialogue, two characters, one setting, one set-up – and with those constraints, they crafted some of the most surprising, funniest gags in any Looney Tunes cartoon. They’re Chuck Jones at his best.
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Careful what you wish for…
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Well, that or you apply the air brakes.
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Obligatory:
Oh, but he did, though:
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Not I.
It seems to be very much based on one of the last scenes in Irreversible by director Gaspar Noé (a particularly extreme and violent film that I would not immediately recommend to everyone in sight). His Enter the Void makes up for it, though; it’s a real mind bender.
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I don’t think you need the qualifier…
To scale with human
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Here’s the full cartoon for context:
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Just don’t try to watch it in French. I don’t know about other countries but the French redubbed the foley and it’s like listening to a cheese grater to these anglo ears.
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I’ve seen it many times; thanks for cosigning.
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