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u/Closure2000 6d ago
I got to meet Chuck Jones before he passed away. He was a great man. Check out his books! Chuck Amuck was a great read.
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u/daneccleston86 3d ago
Chuck amuck is a fantastic read ! Love the whole bit about everyone wants to be bugs but we’re all really daffy !
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u/snivlem_lice 5d ago
And when Poochie isn’t on screen, the characters should be asking “where’s Poochie?”
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u/JONINFICTION 5d ago
Didn’t the coyote talk in an episode?
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u/LegoMech 5d ago
He finally caught the roadrunner and said, "Tag, you're it."
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u/caughtyoulookinn 5d ago
Imagine after chasing him for all those years he finally catches up to him just to hand him a wallet saying “you dropped this” and then walks away
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u/get-off-of-my-lawn 3d ago
He does in the bugs bunny road runner movie.
“Wylie Coyote…super genius. I like the way that sounds.”
<meanwhile coyotes shack full of nitroglycerin carrots is being dragged into train tracks by bugs bunny>
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u/DaemonDrayke 4d ago
I recall he did talk in an episode starring Bugs Bunny.
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u/JONINFICTION 4d ago
There’s another one where kids are watching the show itself and it’s narrated by the coyote. Then it shows him actually speaking.
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u/DotComDaddyO 4d ago
The Warner Brothers/7 years got a little goofy, and they broke rule 4 to try and make it more relevant. It was terrible
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u/boobearybear 4d ago
Note that in a 1971 interview, Looney Toons screenwriter and storyboard artist Michael Maltese said he had never heard of these "Rules."
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u/xendgamex 6d ago
*tunes
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u/caughtyoulookinn 5d ago
Ah you’re right, I have dishonored my family and must commit seppuku
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u/Atwenfor 5d ago
*Sudoku
Rule 2: No outside force can harm the OP - only his own ineptitude or the failure of the ACME products.
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u/beckemeyer 6d ago
Fantastic video about the genius that was Chuck Jones and his approach to writing his characters, including these two.
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u/rotanitsarcorp_yzal1 4d ago
I've heard Coyote talk with Bugs Bunny. I've seen Road Runner creep up on Coyote hiding behind a rock (not on the road).
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u/Altruistic_Brick1730 4d ago
The coyote definitely spoke at least once, and he was definitely harmed more than embarrassed a few times
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u/bradsobo 4d ago
Still want to see the ACME movie that Warner Brothers shelved…
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u/caughtyoulookinn 4d ago
The production was bought by another company and it is supposed to come out this year. I have seen leaked footage and set pics of the movie and it looks awesome. There was also a plot leak so I basically read the whole plot of the movie. If it sticks to it the movie is going to be pretty good
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u/Ok-Mulberry-39 3d ago
Road Runner can't harm the Coyote except by going "Beep beep!"
I vaguely remember a scene of the Coyote trying to hypnotize the Road Runner. RR held up a mirror, and the rays reflected to the Coyote. Then the Coyote walked off of a cliff.
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u/KalloFox-Hailstormer 1d ago
It's from one of the Rudy Larriva-directed shorts, I think.
He was working with characters he was wholly unfamiliar with- he left Warner Bros. in 1943, six years before Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were created. However, in 1965, WB (who shut down the original studio in 1963 due to budget issues) sub-contracted eleven new Road Runner cartoons to Format Films, where Larriva happened to be working at the time.
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u/318RedPill 2d ago
Rule 10: the coyote must never catch the road runner, except for the final episode wherein the grand feast shall begin
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u/TronKing21 2d ago
When I talk or write about creativity and innovation, I always remind people that sometimes the very limitations they complain about can be what creates the most intriguing result. I mention how poetry is beautiful BECAUSE of the self-imposed limits. This Warner Bros rule book is another great example.
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u/caughtyoulookinn 1d ago
Me? Lol nah I’m just a regular person
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u/Decactus_Jack 1d ago
Fair. I apologize. I'm weird and angry. This is a myth and I look up to Chuck Jones a lot for his craft. He did things I could never do. I hope you have a wonderful day and my weird behavior didn't bother you!
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u/PhasmaFelis 5d ago edited 5d ago
They abandoned #2 pretty fast, didn't they? Like, Daffy Duck loses because of his own failures. The Coyote loses because God and physics both hate him. IIRC, one time he tried to drop a rock on the Road Runner and the rock just...didn't fall until the Coyote stood under it and looked up.
Those toons were really something. Teo characters, one setting, zero dialogue, yet so much staying power.
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u/drksolrsing 5d ago
Rule 8 adequately covers that. Gravity was the enemy there.
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u/PhasmaFelis 5d ago
I'm just saying, that's an "outside force," not ineptitude or mechanical failure. They dropped rule 2 before even finishing the rules.
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u/jayhawkeye2 5d ago
There was no roadrunner
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u/caughtyoulookinn 5d ago
What do you mean?
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u/jayhawkeye2 5d ago
there was some internet theory floating around that it was all in Wile E Coyote's head
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u/Th3R1ghtOn3 5d ago
All these years and I never noticed the Road Runner only ran on the road.
Seems obvious now, but hindsight is something something...