Least wiley Coyote gag

[angilbas]

Here's your opportunity to select the best (or worst) example of Wile E. Coyote not living up to his given names.

[Pilmedium]

I would say the one from "Solid Tin Coyote", but then again, that was a themed DePatie-Freleng cartoon, and might be on different standards.

[dendawg]

Originally posted by angilbas
Here's your opportunity to select the best (or worst) example of Wile E. Coyote not living up to his given names.

I voted for the Earthquake pills, but I've got another example of the poor coyote at his least "Wile E.": Putting on a cactus suit with actual needles on it and getting pricked when the Roadrunner goes by. ("Chariots of Fur")

[DR. BELCH]

I forget the short it was in, but after enduring some harrowing torture caused by one of his backfiring boobytraps, he crawls along, sees a glass of "water" atop a crate, and reaches for it gratefully...forgetting that it's his own boobytrap from earlier in the short that the Road Runner didn't bother with--saying "[We] don't drink"--and blowing himself up.

[Jack]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
I forget the short it was in, but after enduring some harrowing torture caused by one of his backfiring boobytraps, he crawls along, sees a glass of "water" atop a crate, and reaches for it gratefully...forgetting that it's his own boobytrap from earlier in the short that the Road Runner didn't bother with--saying "[We] don't drink"--and blowing himself up.
That's from "Beep Beep," probably my #1 favorite sequence from a Road Runner cartoon.


Jack :D

[Pilmedium]

I'm surprised so many people voted for "Stands under jammed rocks and prods 'em". That sounds like a kind of normal gag to me. Yet, no one said why they voted for it by replying. :confused:

[Matt Yorston]

That's funny, Pilmedium. I was just about to reply to it when I read your post.

The reason I voted for it, at least, was because by the time the trap door even opens, the Road Runner is already in the next county. By the time the coyote starts jumping on the rock pile and prodding it, the Road Runner is already in the next state. And by the time the coyote is flattened when the rocks finally come tumbling down, the Road Runner is probably halfway to Timbuktoo, if you will.

It was rather futile to go to so much trouble to get the rocks falling if, by the time, he got around to unjamming them, the road runner is already long gone anyway. It'd make more sense to ignore the stuck rock pile and go further up the road and set a new trap. But, of course, then he wouldn't be the coyote...

[Geezil]

And ...
the Coyote's pathetic side is really brought home as the trap doors slowly start to give, first showering him with pebbles ... then, when he finally grasps the situation, up comes yet another handheld sign: "In heaven's name ... what am I doing?"

Hysterical and priceless too.

[Thad Komorowski]

My favorite Wile E. Coyote gag is the ACME Batman suit costume he uses in "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z!" The costume is working perfectly, Wile E. looks at us with a puzzled smile (he probably didn't think himself it would work), before foolishly crashing into a cliff.


-Thad

[Tintin]

Le mien est la grenade dans "Zipping Along". Franchement crampant! :p

[angilbas]

Originally posted by Martin Juneau
Le mien est la grenade dans "Zipping Along". Franchement crampant! :p

Oui ... le coyotte était un vrai tour de lune. ;)

-Tony