OT but if you like that you might like:
Over the years he’s tried to take over the world in every way imaginable: doomsday devices of all varieties (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological) and mass mind control. He’s traveled backwards in time to change history, forward in time to escape it. He’s commanded robot armies, insect armies, and dinosaur armies. Fungus army. Army of fish. Of rodents. Alien invasions. All failures. But not this time. This time it’s going to be different…
Ha! That’s one of my favorite books, actually! There’s a quote from Doctor Impossible that always knocks me off my feet: “When you can’t bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn’t you anymore; you’ve changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”
Thank you for the recommendation, though ~ if I’d never read it, I’d be off to read it now.
Evolved? GOD created roadrunners on the fifth day. He must have created roads a bit earlier, probably during the night, so that road construction work would not interfere with the flow of traffic. After all, Genesis does not say what God did during the nights.
That, truly, is a film I wish I had never seen.
Same thing as every night; try to take over the…
Oh, wait…
He’s an influencer. All of those buttes and gullies, those fake train tunnels and the exploding bird food: it’s all Instagram gold. He’s a cross between a Kardashian and Fail Army. How could he not be a success?
I’m with you on that. A movie camera in his hands becomes a serious weapon.
Late to this topic, but had to post this:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme
In addition to all the other great things about the cartoons others have mentioned, I’ll add Jones & Co.'s excellent work on Wile E’s facial expressions. The looks of horror or despair or resignation when things inevitably went pear-shaped were works of art.
BEEP-BEEP!
(I have to type something more than beep-beep for boingboing to accept this as a worthy response.) 
… except those of us who are pleased it is Centrifugal Force’s nemesis 
Reading that, got me thinking about the Animaniacs and Pinky & the Brain, which was surely an evolution of that conceptual drift towards irony and fatalism, with the mask of pretend faith concealing inevitable despair.
The coyote displayed resilience, despite the certitude when considering his circumstances that he would never catch the road runner.
“Scooby Doo” was my favorite. But now that you mention it the scripts were very similar…
That’s not wrong.
Riiigght. Next you’ll tell us that Tasmanian Devils don’t actually form tiny, violent tornadoes when they move.
Did you ever watch that made-for-TV movie where Gilligan and the castaways finally get rescued? It sucked. Then they made another TV movie in which the castaways get rescued again, which wasn’t any better.
Ehem…
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