Hook, Line And Stinker
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
From traps as simple as catching the Road Runner in a cooking pan or clobbering him with a mallet to schemes as complicated as swinging after him with a harpoon while suspended from a balloon or one of director Chuck Jones's longest and most involved Rube Goldberg this-hits-that devices (designed to drop a cannonball on his prey), the best laid plans of the coyote go oft awry. So do such evil-minded ideas as placing birdseed on the train tracks and dropping a grand piano from a precipice (this results in Wile E. falling to the road below- along with the piano- and ending up with 88 teeth!). Even simple wires, the kind which connect dynamite sticks to their control boxes, conspire against Wile E., rolling backward so that the TNT follows him.
Characters
Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Mouse
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones
Producing
- Producer
- John Burton Sr
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Maltese
Animation
- Animator
- Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, Ben Washam
Crew
- Layouts and Backgrounds
- Phil De Guard
Companies and other credits
- Music: John Seely Associates
Production notes
Burnius-Roadibus vs. Famishius-Famishius.
This was one of a number Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons to appear musical. The musicals included Hip Hip-Hurry!, Rushing Roulette, Sugar and Spies, and Hook, Line and Stinker.
This was one of a number Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons to appear musical. The musicals included Hip Hip-Hurry!, Rushing Roulette, Sugar and Spies, and Hook, Line and Stinker.
Pictures
Reviews
My favorite of the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons
I watched Looney Toons endlessly as a child and this particular cartoon was my very favorite; largely because of the wonderful, and unique score. The exciting, fast-paced and essentially cheerful song at the beginning is mirrored at the end by a more extensive version easily supporting the imagery while making it even more exciting and fun to watch. The other songs, such as the moody ditty played during the Coyote's ill-fated encounter with storm clouds, and the slowly building track leading to his falling between cliffs onboard a piano are also excellent and very unusual. This music was not at all canned, as the former review suggests. It was unique and only used in this cartoon-an experiment rarely seen in Looney Tunes. It perfectly accentuates the action and is not at all tacked on, as canned music would seem to be. Rather than being a sign of the beginning of the end of quality, this cartoon was the capper and finest example of the Roadrunner series.
Hook, Line And Stinker
The RR/C gags are as superb as ever. What brings this cartoon down is its "score," the very same canned music that Chuck Jones himself was decrying when it was applied to Hanna-Barbera's assembly-line TV animation that was being cobbled together at approximately the same time as this cartoon's release. Truly, the end of a cartoon era is in sight.