
" Whizzard of Ow" used a style of scenery similar to " Zoom and Bored" and " Fastest with the Mostest", but with a more extensive use of golden yellowish hues, especially in the sky and the rocks. " Chariots of Fur" used a style of scenery similar to " Hopalong Casualty", and its successors, albeit slightly less detailed and with no visible clouds in the sky. The sky is reverted to a rich blue color, and some rocks seen in the background are purple. " Soup or Sonic", a direct-to-television cartoon originally shown as part of the 1980 CBS special Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over, depicts a notable change in background style, incorporating the abstract art style of the later Road Runner cartoons and the "realistic" colors from the first two Road Runner cartoons. " Freeze Frame", a direct-to-television cartoon originally shown as part of the 1979 CBS special Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales, depicts Road Runner taking a turn that leads the chase into mountains and across a wintry landscape of ice and snow. The eleven Format Films cartoons used a style of scenery similar to " Hopalong Casualty", and its successors, albeit less detailed and with small puffy clouds rather than crescent-shaped ones, and with a pale light blue sky as opposed to a rich blue sky previously used. Coyote's rocket blasts him through the center of the Earth to China, which is portrayed with abstract Oriental backgrounds. In the last scene of "War & Pieces", Wile E. The crescent shapes used for bushes starting with "Zoom & Bored" were retained, and also applied to clouds. " Hopalong Casualty" changed the color scheme, with the sky reverting to blue, and some rocks becoming off-white, while the bright yellow desert sand color is retained, along with the 'sharp' style of rock formations pioneered by "Zoom & Bored". Except for " Whoa, Be-Gone!", whose scenery design harked back to Guided Muscle in certain aspects (such as off-white sky), this style of scenery was retained as far as " Fastest with the Mostest". Sharp, top-heavy rock formations became more prominent, and warm colors (yellow, orange, and red) were favored. " Zoom and Bored" introduced a major change in background style. Zoom!" A bright yellow sky made its debut in the 1956 cartoon " Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z", but was not used consistently until " There They Go-Go-Go!" was released later that same year. Gravity-defying rock formations appear in " Ready. In most later cartoons, the scenery was designed by Maurice Noble, who made it far more abstract.įrom 1951 to 1954, the scenery was semi-realistic, with off-white skies (possibly implying overcast/cloudy weather conditions).

The desert scenery in the first two Roadrunner cartoons was designed by Robert Gribbroek and was quite realistic. Early model sheets for the character prior to his debut in the 1949 cartoon "Fast and Furry-ous" identify him as "Don Coyote," a pun on Don Quixote. Coyote's name is an obvious pun on the word "wily." His middle initial, "E", is said to stand for "Ethelbert" in one issue of Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Comics, but its cartoonist did not intend to make it part of the official continuity, making his middle name non-canon to the show.
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He's always hungry." Chuck Jones added that he created the Coyote/Road-Runner series as a means of parodying traditional "cat-and-mouse" cartoons like Tom & Jerry (which the director was to work on later in his career, ironically enough). Coyote on Samuel Clemens' book Roughing It, in which Samuel describes the coyote as a "long, slim, sick, sorry-looking skeleton" and a "living, breathing allegory of the desire to want. While he is usually silent in the regular Coyote / Road-Runner shorts, in these solo outings he speaks with a refined, ego-maniacal, almost English-sounding accent provided by Mel Blanc.Ĭhuck Jones based Wile E. appears separately as an adversary of Bugs Bunny in five cartoons from 1952 to 1963: " Operation: Rabbit", " To Hare Is Human", " Rabbit's Feat", " Compressed Hare", and " Hare-Breadth Hurry". Coyote utilizes elaborate plans and absurdly complex gadgets, often from ACME, but he fails every time. In each cartoon, to try to catch his prey, rather than his natural guile, Wile E. To date, 48 cartoons have been made featuring these characters (including the computer-animated shorts), most of which were directed by Chuck Jones. He debuted with his frequent adversary, Road Runner, in 1949's " Fast and Furry-ous".

Coyote is a Looney Tunes character created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese.
