Beep, Beep

Wile E. Coyote acts as though he has a chance of catching his prey, and actually carries napkins and silverware. After a boxing glove sprung from a boulder fails, Wile E. blueprints his plans, beginning with an anvil that he intends to drop from a high wire suspended between two peaks. He then rigs up a "last glass of water" (the sign reads "Last Chance For Water") with an explosive booby trap, which the bird simply ignores, explaining with a sign: "Road Runners can't read and don't drink." Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner into a long series of tunnels and abandoned mine shafts, the two being shown mainly on a maplike cross-section (which looks like one of those modern "you are here" deals). The two are visible mainly from the lights on their miner's helmets. The sequence ends with the coyote lighting a match to see where he is. It turns out to be in a storeroom full of explosives. Outside, a small catapult hurls him into the ground and a rocket zooms straight up (with Wile E. becoming fireworks which advertise "Eat at Joe's") before running out of fuel mid-air. The exasperated coyote then crawls over to a glass of water, not realizing it's the explosive drink that he rigged up a few scenes earlier. Finally, a phony railroad crossing not only fails to halt the Road Runner, but leads to Wile E.'s getting nailed by a real locomotive, with the Road Runner waving from the caboose.

Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote

Accelerati Incredibilus Vs Carnivorous Vulgaris

According to this short, Acme is in Fairfield, N.J.

In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.

All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.