The Road Runner

The Road Runner is a character from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. In the cartoons, Wile E. Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, a fast-running ground bird, but is never successful. Instead of his species' animal instincts, he uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) and elaborate plans to pursue the Road Runner, which always comically backfire with Wile normally getting injured by the slapstick humor.

Wile E. Coyote appears separately as an occasional antagonist of Bugs Bunny in five shorts from 1952 to 1963: Operation: Rabbit, To Hare Is Human, Rabbit's Feat, Compressed Hare, and Hare-Breadth Hurry. While he is generally silent in the Coyote-Road Runner shorts, he speaks with a refined accent in these solo outings (except for Hare-Breadth Hurry), introducing himself as "Wile E. Coyote — super genius", voiced with an upper-class accent by Mel Blanc. The Road Runner vocalizes only with a signature sound, "Beep, Beep", recorded by Paul Julian, and an occasional "popping-cork" tongue noise.

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The Road Runner is a character from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. In the cartoons, Wile E. Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, a fast-running ground bird, but is never successful. Instead of his species' animal instincts, he uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) and elaborate plans to pursue the Road Runner, which always comically backfire with Wile normally getting injured by the slapstick humor.

Wile E. Coyote appears separately as an occasional antagonist of Bugs Bunny in five shorts from 1952 to 1963: Operation: Rabbit, To Hare Is Human, Rabbit's Feat, Compressed Hare, and Hare-Breadth Hurry. While he is generally silent in the Coyote-Road Runner shorts, he speaks with a refined accent in these solo outings (except for Hare-Breadth Hurry), introducing himself as "Wile E. Coyote — super genius", voiced with an upper-class accent by Mel Blanc. The Road Runner vocalizes only with a signature sound, "Beep, Beep", recorded by Paul Julian, and an occasional "popping-cork" tongue noise.

Subject ID: 29176

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