History Funny / WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner

** The ending, however, really takes the cake: Wile. E has one last trick up his sleeve: an ACME tornado kit. He plants some seeds on the road for the Road Runner to mistake them for [[TrademarkFavouriteFood birdseed]] and lies with a water gun to make them grow and snare the bird, but the gun misfires and the water lands... ''on the entire can of tornado seeds'', which form a massive tornado that sucks the Coyote up and drags him as he futilely attempts to escape... [[HilarityEnsues to a landmine field]]. [[StuffBlowingUp It's pretty obvious]] [[NonFatalExplosions what happens next.]] It ends with the Road Runner pulling the "That's All Folks" card on poor Wile. E.

** The ending, however, really takes the cake: Wile. E has one last trick up his sleeve: an ACME tornado kit. He plants some seeds on the road for the Road Runner to mistake them for [[TrademarkFavouriteFood birdseed]] and lies with a water gun to make them grow and snare the bird, but the gun misfires and the water lands... ''on the entire can of tornado seeds'', which form a massive tornado that sucks the Coyote up and drags him as he futilely attempts to escape... [[HilarityEnsues to a landmine field]]. [[StuffBlowingUp It's pretty obvious]] [[NonFatalExplosions what happens next.]] It ends with the RoadRunner pulling the "That's All Folks" card on poor Wile. E.

** The ending, however, really takes the cake: Wile. E has one last trick up his sleeve: an ACME tornado kit. He plants some seeds on the road for the Road Runner to mistake them for [[TrademarkFavouriteFood birdseed]] and lies with a water gun to make them grow and snare the bird, but the gun misfires and the water lands... ''on the entire can of tornado seeds'', which form a massive tornado that sucks the Coyote up and drags him as he futilely attempts to escape... [[HilarityEnsues to a landmine field]]. [[StuffBlowingUp It's pretty obvious]] [[NonFatalExplosions what happens next.]]

** The ending, however, really takes the cake: Wile. E has one last trick up his sleeve: an ACME tornado kit. He plants some seeds on the road for the Road Runner to mistake them for [[TradermarkFavouriteFood birdseed]] and lies with a water gun to make them grow and snare the bird, but the gun misfires and the water lands... ''on the entire can of tornado seeds'', which form a massive tornado that sucks the Coyote up and drags him as he futilely attempts to escape... [[HilarityEnsues to a landmine field]]. [[StuffBlowingUp It's pretty obvious]] [[NonFatalExplosions what happens next.]]

** The ending, however, really takes the cake: Wile. E has one last trick up his sleeve: an ACME tornado kit. He plants some seeds on the road for the Road Runner to mistake them for [[TradermarkFavoriteFood birdseed]] and lies with a water gun to make them grow and snare the bird, but the gun misfires and the water lands... ''on the entire can of tornado seeds'', which form a massive tornado that sucks the Coyote up and drags him as he futilely attempts to escape... [[HilarityEnsues to a minefield]]. [[StuffBlowingUp It's pretty obvious]] [[NonFatalExplosions what happens next.]]

* A bit of [[FridgeLogic Fridge Humour]] from "Whoa Be Gone!": Wile E. gets himself "One (1) Giant Rubber Band (For Tripping Road-Runners)"...meaning someone took the time to conceive this very specific item, test it, and ''succeed''. In other words, Wile E.'s not the only one in the Looney Tunes universe who's trying to catch road runners (although he might be the only one who fails on such a consistent basis)!

* While the "[[DorkAge Larriva Eleven]]" [[FanonDiscontinuity are just about reviled by any ''Looney Tunes'' fan, there are a couple gags that are ''almost'' on par with the Jones shorts:

* "Zoom and Bored", where Wile E Coyote had built an enormously complicated contraption to drop a bomb onto the Roadrunner. They spend about [[OverlyLongGag ten seconds]] just panning up the thing. When we finally get to Wile E Coyote at the top, he lights the bomb... and it ''instantly'' blows up in his face.

** Also the very end. [[spoiler:Wile E. Coyote is catching his wheezing breath on the clifftop after getting dragged through the desert and then hit by a train. Enter Roadrunner, who displays a sign reading "I just don't have the heart".]]

** ''Good lord''. The Roadrunner stops on a bridge to eat birdseed, and Wile E. uses a saw to cut a circle around the Roadrunner, expecting him to fall through the hole...but instead, '''''the entire bridge and the rock formations it's attached to fall while the Roadrunner is just floating in thin air'''''!

* The chase Wile E. and Roadrunner have in an underground mine. They're represented from afar as two dots, one of which is pursuing the other. The two dots go hell for leather around the mine, so fast that at first even the viewers barely realise when the actual chase stops. It stops because Roadrunner has stepped into another passage just out of sight, leaving the Coyote to run madly round and round the same square mine passage wondering where the hell he's gone. This goes on long enough for the audience to figure it out and laugh themselves stupid. And the way Wile E. comes screeching to a halt when he spots Roadrunner's hiding place is priceless.

* At the very end of "Soup or Sonic", the Coyote chases the Roadrunner through a pipe that gets smaller and smaller, until they come out the other end, only a few inches tall. So they go back through the pipe... but only the Roadrunner returns to regular size. The tiny Coyote triumphantly throws both arms around the Roadrunner's ankle, pulls out knife and fork, looks up at the Roadrunner now towering over him... After a moment of stunned indecision, he holds up signs reading, "Okay, wise guys, you always wanted me to catch him -- [[NowWhat now what do I do]]?"

* One short has Wile E. buy an industrial strength rubber band and construct a slingshot, in the hope that it will give him enough speed to catch the Roadrunner. Roadrunner runs by, Wile E. cuts the line and releases the rubber band, and... nothing happens. It stay taut, much to his confusion, so he gets out from the rubber band and checks to see what's wrong, including sticking his head into the rubber band to see if there's anything beneath it that has it snagged. [[HilarityEnsues Then the rubber band decides to release, slamming Coyote into the ground a few yards away]].
* The ending of "Scrambled Aches"; Wile E. builds a giant steamroller, but it rolls away from him. The out of control steamroller chases the Road Runner into a detour ("In case of steamroller, use detour!"), which the Road Runner runs into...right into a cannon. Wile E. jumps behind it and lights the fuse, but the cannon doesn't fire, so Wile E. looks into it. He sees a headlight accompanied by a train whistle. Wile E. looks up confused, then figures it's the Roadrunner playing a joke and looks again. Suddenly, the Road Runner comes flying out on top of the cannon ball, and just when you think it's over, suddenly the steamroller appears, running towards Wile E. The fact that the steamroller is GONE for a good chunk of this plan, and then just shows up at the end out of the blue, is pretty much the funniest thing ever.

** Especially hilarious is the WildTake he makes when he suddenly notices the "Doesn't work on roadrunners" disclaimer on the bottle.

* In "Beep Prepared", the Coyote waits by a manhole in the road, but the Roadrunner stops in the nick of time just as the Coyote whips off the manhole cover. Then the Road Runner ''[[PortableHole picks up the hole]]'' and zips away. Outraged, the Coyote pursues the Roadrunner to a bridge, where the bird throws down the hole, and the Coyote plunges through it and down. Even funnier is that there's a river underneath, and the poor Coyote failed to land on the water.

* "Zoom and Bored", where Wile E Coyote had built an enormously complicated contraption to drop a bomb onto the Roadrunner. They spend about [[OverlyLongGag three minutes]] just panning up the thing. When we finally get to Wile E Coyote at the top, he lights the bomb... and it instantly blows up in his face.

** ''Good lord''. The Roadrunner stops on a bridge to eat birdseed, and Wile E. uses a saw to cut a circle around the Roadrunner, expecting him to fall through the hole...but instead, '''''the entire bridge and the rock formations it's attached to falls'''''!
** And for the love of God, LEG MUSCLE VITAMINS???!!! WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong

* "[[WesternAnimation/OperationRabbit Operation: Rabbit]]", where he tried to chase WesternAnimation/{{Bugs Bunny}} -- the rare cartoon where he had [[SuddenlyVoiced lines]], and he turned out to be a WickedCultured SmugSnake with a ''massive'' superiority complex ("Wile E. Coyote.... ''Suuuuper Geniusssss!''"). Naturally, this made his total annihilation even funnier than usual, culminating in an incident involving a shack full of nitroglycerin-filled carrots and an ''oncoming train.''

** And for the love of God, LEG MUSCLE VITAMINS???!!! WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong

* "Whoa, Be-Gone!" features quite possibly the Coyote's most ridiculous plan ever: riding down several hundred feet of metal via a single wheel screwed into a helmet... while facing backwards... ''and'' upside-down. It takes forever for him to get balanced on the cable, and the moment he finally does, the cable snaps (of course) under his weight and sends him plummeting into the abyss. (And then to add insult to injury, the snapped cable falls on [[HarmlessElectrocution some electrical wires...]])

--->STOP IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY
* A taut cable from the top of a bluff to the road below, and a helmet with a caster bolted on top...

* For anyone asking why Wile E. doesn't just [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim get a gun and shoot the Road Runner]], "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z" answers that question: the Road Runner would simply ''outrun the bullet'', which then apparently gives up in confusion and falls to the ground. Wile E., annoyed, picks it up the bullet and it [[RuleOfFunny of course]] explodes in his face.

* For anyone asking why Wile E. doesn't simply [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim get a gun and shoot the Road Runner]], "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z" answers that question: the Road Runner would simply ''outrun the bullet'', which then apparently gives up in confusion and falls to the ground. Wile E., annoyed, picks it up the bullet and it [[RuleOfFunny of course]] explodes in his face.

* In "Beep Prepared", the Coyote waits by a manhole in the road, but the Roadrunner stops in the nick of time just as the Coyote whips off the manhole cover. Then the Road Runner ''[[PortableHole picks up the hole]]'' and zips away. Outraged, the Coyote pursues the Roadrunner to a bridge, where the bird down the hole, and the Coyote plunges through it and down. Even funnier is that there's a river underneath, and the poor Coyote failed to land on the water.

* "Operation: Rabbit", where he tried to chase WesternAnimation/{{Bugs Bunny}} -- the rare cartoon where he had [[SuddenlyVoiced lines]], and he turned out to be a WickedCultured SmugSnake with a ''massive'' superiority complex ("Wile E. Coyote.... ''Suuuuper Geniusssss!''"). Naturally, this made his total annihilation even funnier than usual, culminating in an incident involving a shack full of nitroglycerin-filled carrots and an ''oncoming train.''

*** ChuckJones's daughter Linda stated once that this is her absolute favorite gag from the Road Runner series.