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The Road Runner Cartoon Shorts
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The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote are a duo of cartoon characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. In each episode, the cunning, insidious and constantly hungry Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, but is successful (in catching the Road Runner, not eating it) only on one occasion. Instead of his animal instincts, the Coyote uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) to try to catch his prey, which comically backfire, with the Coyote often getting injured in slapstick fashion. Many of the items for these contrivances are mail-ordered from a variety of companies that are all named Acme Corporation.

The Classic Road Runner series is broken into two parts:
~The 24 Classic era (1949-1964) were directed exclusively by Chuck Jones.
~The 16 DePatie-Freleng era (1965-1966) were directed by Chuck Jones (uncredited), Rudy Larriva, Friz Freleng, and Robert McKimson.

Chuck Jones directed 3 more Shorts from 1979 to 1994.

With CGI advancements, modern shorts were created from 2000 to 2014, which were directed by Spike Brandt, Bret Haaland, and Matthew O’Callaghan who did the last 4.

Note Filmographies of the above directors are available via hyperlink.


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Movie: Fast and Furry-ous (Short 1949) ( 1949 )
Wile E. Coyote makes 11 disastrous attempts to catch the Road Runner.
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Movie: Beep, Beep (Short 1952) ( 1952 )
The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mine shafts, with their positions made visible only by the lamps on their helmets.
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Movie: Going! Going! Gosh! (Short 1952) ( 1952 )
The Coyote makes various attempts to get the Road Runner with an explosive-tipped arrow, by shooting himself out of a sling shot and by covering the road with quick drying cement.
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Movie: Zipping Along (Short 1953) ( 1953 )
Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.
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Movie: Stop! Look! And Hasten! (Short 1954) ( 1954 )
The Coyote employs a series of devices to try to capture the Road Runner.
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Movie: Ready.. Set.. Zoom! (Short 1955) ( 1955 )
Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.
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Movie: Guided Muscle (Short 1955) ( 1955 )
While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by- the Road Runner. But making himself into a giant arrow doesn't catch the bird, and the book, "How to Tar and Feather a Road Runner", isn't much help either.
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Movie: Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (Short 1956) ( 1956 )
Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor.
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Movie: There They Go-Go-Go! (Short 1956) ( 1956 )
Wile E. Coyote, tired of eating mud, chases after the Road Runner instead.
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Movie: Scrambled Aches (Short 1957) ( 1957 )
Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner. He applies a drop of water to enlarge it from pebble-size to usual boulder dimensions, but it enlarges as Wile E. is lifting it over his head, coming down on top of him.
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Movie: Zoom and Bored (Short 1957) ( 1957 )
Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his usual unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.
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Movie: Whoa, Be-Gone! (Short 1958) ( 1958 )
Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field.
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Movie: Hook, Line and Stinker (Short 1958) ( 1958 )
Wile E. Coyote hopes to catch the Road Runner using a mallet, a cooking pan, a TNT stick, a balloon, and a piano dropped from a precipice. The last of these results in Wile E. falling to the road below along with the piano and ending up with 88 teeth.
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Movie: Hip Hip-Hurry! (Short 1958) ( 1958 )
Wile E. Coyote is once again after the Road Runner, this time resorting to hand grenades, dynamite, falling rocks and a speed potion (which contains vitamins R, P and M).
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Movie: Hot-Rod and Reel! (Short 1959) ( 1959 )
Wile E. Coyote's failed efforts to catch the Road Runner involve the use of roller skates, a gun in a camera, a trampoline, a dynamite stick on a crossbow, a bogus railroad crossing, and a jet-powered unicycle.
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Movie: Wild About Hurry (Short 1959) ( 1959 )
Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner by enclosing himself inside an "Indestructo Steel Ball", over which he has no directional control!
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Movie: Fastest with the Mostest ( 1960 )
Wile E. Coyote tries to drop a rocket bomb on the Road Runner from a balloon but inflates himself instead, ascends skyward, then falls along with the bomb. He tries painstakingly to deactivate the bomb before it explodes - and fails. His attempt to trap the Road Runner on the edge of a cliff results in the cliff collapsing under his feet, sending him to the ground to be hit by his own knife and fork and then fall into a waterfall leading to a maze of pipes.
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Movie: Hopalong Casualty ( 1960 )
Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a dynamite stick on a fishing pole, a Christmas present wrapping machine, and ACME Earthquake pills, which the Coyote discovers don't affect Road Runners, but only after he himself has angrily downed a whole bottle of the pills! The Coyote quakes and shivers away boulders and whole mountains before the pills wear off.
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Movie: Zip 'N Snort (Short 1961) ( 1961 )
Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a sling shot, a grenade in a toy airplane whose propeller detaches and leaves the plane behind, a cannon on a cliff ledge that gives way, and axle grease on his feet that sends him into the path of a train driven by the Road Runner.
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Movie: Lickety-Splat ( 1961 )
Wile E. Coyote releases a number of explosive darts to attack the Road Runner, only to have them bedevil him continually during his subsequent attempts.
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Movie: Beep Prepared (Short 1961) ( 1961 )
Wile E. Coyote tries and fails to catch the Road Runner using his foot extended to trip, an arrow, a hole in the road, a winged-rocket outfit, two electronically activated machine guns, and a super magnet.
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Movie: Zoom at the Top (Short 1962) ( 1962 )
Wile E. Coyote tries and fails to catch the Road Runner using a bear trap with a bird seed bait, a jet rocket, an ice-making machine, and a boomerang.
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Movie: To Beep or Not to Beep (Short 1963) ( 1963 )
Wile E. Coyote attacks the Road Runner with an enormous boulder-throwing catapult, only to have it constantly backfire on him.
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Movie: War and Pieces (Short 1964) ( 1964 )
Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner with a grenade, a bow, a rope, invisible paint, a gun disguised as a peep show, and a rocket that tunnels him through the Earth to arrive in the Orient, where a Japanese Road Runner greets him.
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Movie: Zip Zip Hooray! (Short 1965)
Two boys watch a cartoon where the Coyote chase the Road Runner.
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Movie: Roadrunner a Go-Go ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote uses slow motion photography to record his failures at catching the Road Runner in hopes of detecting where exactly he went wrong and avoiding the same pratfalls in the future.
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Movie: The Wild Chase (Short 1965) ( 1965 )
Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner are racing each other, with Sylvester Cat and Wile E. Coyote in hot pursuit.
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Movie: Rushing Roulette ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote tries all sorts of methods to catch the Road Runner.
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Movie: Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (Short 1965) ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully tries to catch the Road Runner in a bird seed trap with overhead spikes, and then with a lightning rod disguised as a female Road Runner, with Wile E. doing rain dances to start a storm.
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Movie: Tired and Feathered ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote's latest misbegotten Road Runner-catching schemes include a propeller-powered backpack, a stone log let loose down a hill, and a bogus bird sanctuary containing a phone booth with a TNT stick disguised as the phone receiver. As usual, Wile E. ends up taking the explosion.
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Movie: Boulder Wham! (Short 1965) ( 1965 )
The Coyote tries, with no success, to find a way across a gorge to reach the Road Runner on the other side.
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Movie: Just Plane Beep (Short 1965) ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote builds a World War I bi-plane to chase the Road Runner.
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Movie: Hairied and Hurried (Short 1965) ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner and hopes, without success, to catch his prey using such schemes as a snow-making machine, a bomb dropped from a kite, a parachute dive (into a tornado), dynamite on an extending metal arm, and a karate chop.
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Movie: Highway Runnery ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner around an old jalopy that starts up and runs him over, with the Road Runner at the wheel. Wile E. plants a bomb in a fake egg shell for the Road Runner to sit on, but instead of exploding under the Road Runner, it hatches a robot that walks over to Wile E. and explodes.
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Movie: Chaser on the Rocks (Short 1965) ( 1965 )
Wile E. Coyote is both thirsty and hungry in this one. He keeps seeing mirages of oases in the desert as he chases the Road Runner.
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Movie: Shot and Bothered (Short 1966) ( 1966 )
Wile E. Coyote uses suction cups, a tennis net, TNT sticks on a rope, a skateboard, helium gas, and a bomb in his unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.
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Movie: Out and Out Rout (Short 1966) ( 1966 )
Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner using a skateboard, a hunting falcon, two doves tied to his feet, a hot rod, a wind sail, and glue stuck on the road. The last scheme ends with himself becoming stuck in the glue and flattened by a steam roller driven by the Road Runner.
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Movie: The Solid Tin Coyote ( 1966 )
Wile E. Coyote uses scrap metal from a dump to build a huge, mechanical likeness of himself, and uses this robot to chase the Road Runner. It ends up as just another pile of scrap.
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Movie: Clippety Clobbered ( 1966 )
Wile E. Coyote uses a chemistry set to try and catch the Road Runner. He mixes chemicals to yield invisible paint, a bouncy outer skin, and a jet-powered spray can, none of which are successful.
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Movie: Sugar and Spies ( 1966 )
Wile E. Coyote finds a spy kit and uses its contents (sleeping gas, a mail bomb, explosive putty, and a gadget-filled spy car) in his unsuccessful attempt to catch the Road Runner.
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Movie: Freeze Frame (TV Short 1979) ( 1979 )
Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner across a frozen desert.
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Movie: Soup or Sonic (TV Short 1980) ( 1980 )
The Coyote chases the Roadrunner all over the desert. They both run through a pipe that gets progressively smaller. At the end of the tunnel, the Roadrunner returns to normal size while the Coyote remains tiny.
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Movie: Chariots of Fur ( 1994 )
Chariots of Fur is a seven-minute Looney Tunes short released in 1994 by Warner Bros. It features Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner and was directed by Chuck Jones, who introduced the pair in 1949. the first time a new short of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner had been released theatrically since 1966. This was the final Coyote/Road Runner short to be directed by Jones.
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Movie: Little Go Beep ( 2001 )
Baby Wile E. Coyote is told by his father, Cage E., that he's not to speak until he catches a roadrunner. Wile E. tries several products from Acme Jr., including a jack-in-the-box and a water-rocket-propelled bike. They maintain the fine tradition of Acme quality products.
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Movie: The Whizzard of Ow ( 2003 )
Wile E. Coyote is chasing the Road Runner (still) and comes across the Acme Book of Magic. With the power to levitate heavy boulders, fly on broomsticks, and transfigure anything to suit his need, it seems like Wile E. finally has a chance at getting his breakfast... but then again, this is Wile E. Coyote we're talking about.
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Movie: Coyote Falls ( 2010 )
Wile E. Coyote incorporates a bungee cord into his plans to catch the Road Runner.
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Movie: Fur of Flying (Short 2010) ( 2010 )
Wile E. Coyote intends to catch Road Runner while avoiding heat-seeking missiles using a makeshift copter-helmet.
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Movie: Rabid Rider ( 2010 )
Wile E. Coyote once again tries to ensnare his long-time adversary, the Road Runner. In this short, Wile devises various attempts of capture with the aid of a Sedway, better known in the WC/RR world as the Hyper-Sonic Transporter by ACME.
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Movie: Flash in the Pain (Short 2014) ( 2014 )
Looney Tunes 3D short directed by Matthew O'Callaghan starring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.