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* RacingTheTrain: In the cartoon "Zipping Along," the establishing scene features the bird zipping along a train, although he leaves the road and never attempts to beat the train to the crossing.
** The Road Runner's observation of safety is reprised in a later '''Operation:Lifesaver''' commercial aimed at children. In it, the Road Runner, despite his ability to put some extra speed in his already fast run, is aware of safety rules concerning railroad crossings and stops to allow a train to pass. Of course, Wile E. Coyote arrogantly doesn't, and he (once again) is crushed beneath another oncoming train.
** The Road Runner's observation of safety is reprised in a later '''Operation:Lifesaver''' commercial aimed at children. In it, the Road Runner, despite his ability to put some extra speed in his already fast run, is aware of safety rules concerning railroad crossings and stops to allow a train to pass. Of course, Wile E. Coyote arrogantly doesn't, and he (once again) is crushed beneath another oncoming train.
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** And again in the CGI short "Shut Your Trap". [[YankTheDogsChain Doesn't work out]].
** And AGAIN in the CGI short "Heartbreak Bridge", where The Road Runner willingly and happily jumps into the Coyote's arms, but this unbalances the bridge they are both standing on, and to save himself the Coyote has to throw the Road Runner to the other side. The rest of the short is the Coyote attempting to keep the bridge balanced while the Road Runner tries to tip it up. [[YankTheDogsChain Doesn't work out]].
** And AGAIN in the CGI short "Heartbreak Bridge", where The Road Runner willingly and happily jumps into the Coyote's arms, but this unbalances the bridge they are both standing on, and to save himself the Coyote has to throw the Road Runner to the other side. The rest of the short is the Coyote attempting to keep the bridge balanced while the Road Runner tries to tip it up. [[YankTheDogsChain Doesn't work out]].
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* FlatCharacter: The Road Runner himself is nondescript in personality, with the shorts choosing to give focus to Wile E Coyote instead.
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** Arguably this is no longer the case in ''TheLooneyTunesShow'', where The Road Runner is portrayed as finding Wile E. Coyote's efforts playfully amusing; he gets as close to the Coyote as possible, including posing for photos with him, and in the short 'Heavy Metal' he repeatedly runs back through the same tunnel to encourage the Coyote to chase him again.
** Arguably this is no longer the case in ''TheLooneyTunesShow'', where The Road Runner is portrayed as finding Wile E. Coyote's efforts playfully amusing; he gets as close to the Coyote as possible, including posing for photos with him, and in the short 'Heavy Metal' he repeatedly runs back through the same tunnel to encourage the Coyote to chase him again.
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* DitzyGenius: Wile E. Coyote, especially on the occasions when he goes after BugsBunny.
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* HollywoodMagnetism: Wile E. Coyote got bitten by this once. In his attempt to catch Bugs Bunny with an iron carrot, his super-magnet ended up attracting all sorts of metal junk instead, including the Eiffel Tower, an ocean liner and finally a ballistic missile, which blew him to kingdom come.
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* SurpriseJump: The Road Runner frequently does this to the Coyote. Subverted at the end of "Zoom and Bored" where the Coyote had just endured a harrowing journey involving a harpoon gun and had landed safely on solid ground. The Road Runner runs up behind him as usual... but then [[TalingWithSigns "says"]] he doesn't have the heart this time, and leaves.
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* SurpriseJump: The Road Runner frequently does this to the Coyote. Subverted at the end of "Zoom and Bored" where the Coyote had just endured a harrowing journey involving a harpoon gun and had landed safely on solid ground. The Road Runner runs up behind him as usual... but then [[TalingWithSigns [[TalkingWithSigns "says"]] he doesn't have the heart this time, and leaves.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: InUniverse, Wile E. sometimes forgets to read the directions on what he buys from Acme, such as when he gave earthquake pills to the Road Runner (with the pills clearly labeled as not working on road runners).
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* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: Anything that Wile E. launches will produce one of these. Right over him. [[HomingProjectile Even if he tries to dodge]].
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An extremely popular series of ''LooneyTunes'' ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short subjects made by ChuckJones during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts are centered on the titular duo as the smart but obsessive coyote does everything within his power (and uses everything within the ACME catalog) to capture the Road Runner for dinner. Despite the penchant for formula and sporadic entries in the original theatrical lineup, the shorts have remained extremely popular to this day, lasting for 40 shorts in the classic era, with new shorts being created recently for theaters!
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** Some later shorts show a possible method of survival, opening with the Coyote trying to eat a rock or a cactus, failing, then going in pursuit of the Roadrunner.
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* [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ineffectual Sympathetic]] {{Villain Protagonist}}: Coyote, natch.
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* RecycledINSPACE: It's a cat and mouse cartoon [[AC:IN THE DESERT]]! [[AC: AND THE VILLAIN IS WHO EARNS EARN OUR SYMPATHY!]]
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-->''"Now we're going to watch one of my favorite cartoons about a pathetic Coyote who spends his life in the ''futile'' pursuit of a sadistic roadrunner, who mocks him and laughs at him as he's repeatedly '''crushed''' and '''maimed'''! ''I hope you enjoy it!''"''
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* GoneHorriblyRight: The Coyote disguised himself as a female roadrunner to attract the Road Runner. The disguise did a good work deceiving... other coyotes.
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* TheRuntAtTheEnd: When Wile disguised himself as a female roadrunner to attract his prey but instead attracted other coyotes, the last coyote was a runt.
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** Rule Number 8: "Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote's greatest enemy."
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: InUniverse, Wile E. sometimes forgets to read the directions on what he buys from Acme, such as when he gave earthquake pills to the Road Runner (with the pills clearly labeled as not working on road runners).
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* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: Anything that Wile E. launches will produce one of these. Right over him. [[HomingProjectile Even if he tries to dodge]].
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-->''"Now we're going to watch one of my favorite cartoons about a pathetic Coyote who spends his life in the ''futile'' pursuit of a sadistic roadrunner, who mocks him and laughs at him as he's repeatedly '''crushed''' and '''maimed'''! ''I hope you enjoy it!''"''
-->--'''George Newman''', [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al's]] character in ''{{UHF}}''
An extremely popular series of ''LooneyTunes'' short subjects made by ChuckJones during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts are centered on the titular duo as the smart but obsessive coyote does everything within his power (and uses everything within the ACME catalog) to capture the Road Runner for dinner. Despite the penchant for formula and sporadic entries in the original theatrical lineup, the shorts have remained extremely popular to this day, lasting for 40 shorts in the classic era, with new shorts being created recently for theaters!
They have recently made a comeback via CGI in ''TheLooneyTunesShow''.
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!1949
* Fast and Furry-ous
!1952
* Beep, Beep
* Going! Going! Gosh!
!1953
* Zipping Along
!1954
* Stop! Look! And Hasten!
!1955
* Ready, Set, Zoom!
* Guided Muscle
!1956
* Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
* There They Go-Go-Go!
!1957
* Scrambled Aches
* Zoom and Bored
!1958
* Whoa, Be-Gone!
* Hook, Line and Stinker
* Hip Hip Hurry!
!1959
* Hot-Rod and Reel!
* Wild About Hurry
!1960
* Fastest With The Mostest
* Hopalong Casualty
!1961
* Zip 'N Snort
* Lickety-Splat
* Beep Prepared
!1962
* Adventures of the Road-Runner: A TV pilot intended for a proposed series of Road-Runner cartoons.
* Zoom at the Top
!1963
* To Beep or Not to Beep
!1964
* War and Pieces
!1965
* Zip Zip Hooray!: Recycles footage from the Adventures of Road Runner TV pilot.
* Road Runner a Go-Go: Also recycles footage from the Adventures of Road Runner pilot.
* The Wild Chase: (Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt)
* Rushing Roulette: (Robert [=McKimson=])
* Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner: 1st of the "Larriva Eleven".
* Tired and Feathered
* Boulder Wham!
* Just Plane Beep
* Hairied and Hurried
* Highway Runnery
* Chaser on the Rocks
!1966
* Shot and Bothered
* Out and Out Rout
* The Solid Tin Coyote
* Clippety Clobbered: Last of the "Larriva Eleven".
* Sugar and Spies ([=McKimson=]): Last of the original theatrical Road Runners.
!1979
* Freeze Frame
!1980
* Soup or Sonic
!1994
* Chariots of Fur
!2000
* Little Go Beep
!2003
* The Whizzard of Ow
* LooneyTunesBackInAction: Makes a cameo.
!2010
* Coyote Falls
* Fur of Flying
* Rabid Rider
!2011
* Untitled upcoming film
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!!These cartoons provide examples of:
* [[AccordionMan Accordion Coyote]]
* AcmeProducts
* AffectionateParody: The first short was originally made as a ''parody'' of "cat chases mouse" cartoons (and nature documentaries; the [[CanisLatinicus pseudo-Latin names]] are a direct callback to those), but audiences [[PoesLaw took it at face value]] and thought it was just something new. The rest is history.
* AmusingInjuries: And friggin' HOW!
* ArchEnemy: Wile E. and the Road Runner.
* ArtEvolution: The designs of the two characters did change a bit over the years, but this trope was more evident in the background designs. The first three cartoons had scenic, but fairly bland-looking backgrounds, which gave way to more abstract designs starting with Maurice Noble's arrival. They gradually got more and more unusual, eventually leading to some flat-out ''weird'' scenery in "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" before settling down into a more consistent style from 1957 onwards.
* AshFace
* BeamMeUpScotty: It's "BEEP BEEP!" not "MEEP MEEP!"
* BrickJoke: In some cartoons, an [=ACME=] contraption would fail early on and be ignored, until the Coyote comes back across it and does something foolish to trigger it.
* ButtMonkey: Wile E. himself.
** IronButtMonkey: Even for a Warner Brothers cartoon, it's amazing what the Coyote goes through.
* CanisLatinicus: Both parties receive a new genus/species name in this style before each short.
** Though The Whizzard of Ow showed the actual scientific names, Geococcyx Californianus (greater roadrunner) and Canis Latrans (coyote).
* {{Catchphrase}}: Beep Beep!
* {{Crossover}}: Two, on a technicality. "Hare-breadth Hurry" has Bugs Bunny filling in for a sidelined Road Runner, while "The Wild Chase" has a cannonball race between the Road Runner and Speedy Gonzales, with the Coyote and Sylvester in pursuit.
** Wile E. also crossed into a few Bugs Bunny cartoons as well. These are where the "Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius" persona come from.
* TheDarkAgeOfAnimation
* {{Determinator}}: The Coyote, of course.
** Rule Number 3: "The Coyote could stop any time — IF he were not a fanatic."
*** Halfway through the cartoon, one realizes that the Coyote doesn't want to eat the Road Runner at that point--he just wants his contraptions to work properly.
* {{Directors}}: ChuckJones directed the bulk of the cartoons, while 11 of them were directed by Rudy Larriva, two by Robert [=McKimson=], and one co-directed by FrizFreleng and Hawley Pratt.
* EpicFail: Cutting the branch hanging off a cliffside that the Roadrunner's on -- and the ''cliff'' collapses. 'Nuff said.
** Anything involving catapults will end in misfires that ''break phyics''.
** Pretty much everything Coyote does ends in this. HilarityEnsues.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[FridgeLogic How did he not starve to death?]] [[FridgeBrilliance Oh yeah, he's functionally immortal.]] Averted at the end of one or two episodes, though. Flipped in the arcade game where you play the Roadrunner, and [[EndlessGame being eaten is the only way to end the game]].
* FlatCharacter: The Road Runner himself is nondescript in personality, with the shorts choosing to give focus to Wile E Coyote instead.
* TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: The TropeCodifier in the public mind, since about half the gags involved Wile falling off a cliff.
* HeroAntagonist: The Road Runner can be considered the hero of this short, being hunted after by a hungry predator. However his character is kept deliberately [[FlatCharacter flat]] and OutOfFocus in each short so that the audience's sympathy is instead with [[VillainProtagonist Wile E Coyote]].
* HopeSpot: Villainous example with "The Solid Tin Coyote", which the Road Runner shows visible fear towards and is captured by Coyote's HumongousMecha. [[YankTheDogsChain It doesn't work out.]]
* HumongousMecha: The eponymous giant robot from "The Solid Tin Coyote".
* [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ineffectual Sympathetic]] {{Villain Protagonist}}: Coyote, natch.
* JustEatHim: Wile E. orders his aforementioned mecha to do this after capturing the Road Runner, which is strange considering that Wile E. himself should be the one trying to eat him.
* LooneyTunesInTheForties: The very first short was made in the forties.
* LooneyTunesInTheFifties: Fifteen of the shorts were produced during this time.
* LooneyTunesInTheSixties: Where the bulk of the series output was made.
* LooneyTunesInTheSeventiesAndOnward: The newer theatrical shorts.
* TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation
* OhCrap: Wile E. has this expression a lot (especially when [[GravityIsAHarshMistress gravitational cognizance]] kicks in). Perhaps the only time the Roadrunner has shown it is when he sees the [[HumongousMecha giant mechanical coyote]] that Wile E. has built.
* PackedHero: Wile E. ends up in a parcel that was meant for the Road Runner. Courtesy of an Acme parcel-making machine, naturally.
* PaintedTunnelRealTrain: ''Road Runner'' loves this trope.
* PerpetualSmiler: The Road Runner--the only time he ''ever'' changes from this is when he sees the eponymous [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] from "The Solid Tin Coyote".
** He also changes it into a thoughtful frown as he seemingly forgets his {{Catchphrase}} in "The Whizzard of Ow".
* RecycledINSPACE: It's a cat and mouse cartoon [[AC:IN THE DESERT]]!
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: TropeNamer.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Used in the climax of "Hook, Line and Stinker".
* StrictlyFormula: Popular as the shorts are, they're best watched in small doses, as they tend to feel really, really samey if you watch all of them back to back.
* SuddenlyVoiced: At those rare occasions Wile E. ''does'' talk, he speaks in a very refined voice, as well as revealing the fact that he's an InsufferableGenius.
* SuperPersistentPredator: And how! {{Lampshaded}} by BugsBunny in ''Hare-Breadth Hurry'':
-->"Y'know, it's amazin' the trouble this joker goes to to get a square meal."
* SuperSpeed: The Road Runner.
* TalkingWithSigns
* TeamRocketWins: Yes, the Coyote catches the Road Runner at one point...but he's too small at that point to even eat the bird. He even lampshades it by asking the audience what he should do now.
** There are plenty of YouTube videos where Wile E. actually does eat the Road Runner.
** He also catches Road Runner in "The Soild Tin Coyote", [[YankTheDogsChain Doesn't work out]]
* TechnicolorEyes: In the shorts by Matthew O'Callaghan, Wile E.'s are {{red|EyesTakeWarning}}, and the Road Runner's are turquoise.
* ThoseWilyCoyotes
* ThreeDimensionalEpisode: "Coyote Falls", "Fur of Flying", and "Rabid Rider".
* TheVoiceless: Both of them. Wile E. does speak during four of his five appearances with BugsBunny, and again when explaining to two young boys why he wants to eat the road runner.
** If you were to count the Road Runner's "BEEP BEEP" as a voice, he would fall under TheUnintelligible.
* TruthInTelevision: In ''Just Plane Beep'' when coyote shoots the propeller of his biplane off trying to hit the road runner. That was a real problem in WWI before the interrupter gear was invented, and one solution (as was also shown) was to put armor plating on the propeller.
* VillainProtagonist: Wile E. Coyote is trying to eat the Road Runner, and is therefore ostensibly the bad guy. But he's just so adorably persistent in how he goes about it that you can't help but root for him.
** Chuck Jones in fact had it as written lore that ''all'' sympathy must be with the Coyote.
* WrittenSoundEffect: "Chariots of Fur" (Chuck Jones's last Road Runner short) uses these quite a bit, but only once does it do something creative with them -- when the Coyote disguises himself as a cactus and tries to garb the Road Runner, but the Road Runner avoids him, the Coyote accidentally wraps his arms around himself in the process, and the smoke trail the Road Runner left behind turns into a "!!YEE-OOWW!!"
* WrongParachuteGag: Wile E. tries to be CrazyPrepared by wearing a parachute in case he falls off a cliff. He opens it and out comes... canning samples.
* [[ArtisticLicensePhysics You Fail Physics Forever]]: But it's so side-splittingly funny in ''all'' cases that [[RuleOfFunny it doesn't matter]].
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-->''"Now we're going to watch one of my favorite cartoons about a pathetic Coyote who spends his life in the ''futile'' pursuit of a sadistic roadrunner, who mocks him and laughs at him as he's repeatedly '''crushed''' and '''maimed'''! ''I hope you enjoy it!''"''
-->--'''George Newman''', [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al's]] character in ''{{UHF}}''
An extremely popular series of ''LooneyTunes'' short subjects made by ChuckJones during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts are centered on the titular duo as the smart but obsessive coyote does everything within his power (and uses everything within the ACME catalog) to capture the Road Runner for dinner. Despite the penchant for formula and sporadic entries in the original theatrical lineup, the shorts have remained extremely popular to this day, lasting for 40 shorts in the classic era, with new shorts being created recently for theaters!
They have recently made a comeback via CGI in ''TheLooneyTunesShow''.
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!1949
* Fast and Furry-ous
!1952
* Beep, Beep
* Going! Going! Gosh!
!1953
* Zipping Along
!1954
* Stop! Look! And Hasten!
!1955
* Ready, Set, Zoom!
* Guided Muscle
!1956
* Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
* There They Go-Go-Go!
!1957
* Scrambled Aches
* Zoom and Bored
!1958
* Whoa, Be-Gone!
* Hook, Line and Stinker
* Hip Hip Hurry!
!1959
* Hot-Rod and Reel!
* Wild About Hurry
!1960
* Fastest With The Mostest
* Hopalong Casualty
!1961
* Zip 'N Snort
* Lickety-Splat
* Beep Prepared
!1962
* Adventures of the Road-Runner: A TV pilot intended for a proposed series of Road-Runner cartoons.
* Zoom at the Top
!1963
* To Beep or Not to Beep
!1964
* War and Pieces
!1965
* Zip Zip Hooray!: Recycles footage from the Adventures of Road Runner TV pilot.
* Road Runner a Go-Go: Also recycles footage from the Adventures of Road Runner pilot.
* The Wild Chase: (Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt)
* Rushing Roulette: (Robert [=McKimson=])
* Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner: 1st of the "Larriva Eleven".
* Tired and Feathered
* Boulder Wham!
* Just Plane Beep
* Hairied and Hurried
* Highway Runnery
* Chaser on the Rocks
!1966
* Shot and Bothered
* Out and Out Rout
* The Solid Tin Coyote
* Clippety Clobbered: Last of the "Larriva Eleven".
* Sugar and Spies ([=McKimson=]): Last of the original theatrical Road Runners.
!1979
* Freeze Frame
!1980
* Soup or Sonic
!1994
* Chariots of Fur
!2000
* Little Go Beep
!2003
* The Whizzard of Ow
* LooneyTunesBackInAction: Makes a cameo.
!2010
* Coyote Falls
* Fur of Flying
* Rabid Rider
!2011
* Untitled upcoming film
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!!These cartoons provide examples of:
* [[AccordionMan Accordion Coyote]]
* AcmeProducts
* AffectionateParody: The first short was originally made as a ''parody'' of "cat chases mouse" cartoons (and nature documentaries; the [[CanisLatinicus pseudo-Latin names]] are a direct callback to those), but audiences [[PoesLaw took it at face value]] and thought it was just something new. The rest is history.
* AmusingInjuries: And friggin' HOW!
* ArchEnemy: Wile E. and the Road Runner.
* ArtEvolution: The designs of the two characters did change a bit over the years, but this trope was more evident in the background designs. The first three cartoons had scenic, but fairly bland-looking backgrounds, which gave way to more abstract designs starting with Maurice Noble's arrival. They gradually got more and more unusual, eventually leading to some flat-out ''weird'' scenery in "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" before settling down into a more consistent style from 1957 onwards.
* AshFace
* BeamMeUpScotty: It's "BEEP BEEP!" not "MEEP MEEP!"
* BrickJoke: In some cartoons, an [=ACME=] contraption would fail early on and be ignored, until the Coyote comes back across it and does something foolish to trigger it.
* ButtMonkey: Wile E. himself.
** IronButtMonkey: Even for a Warner Brothers cartoon, it's amazing what the Coyote goes through.
* CanisLatinicus: Both parties receive a new genus/species name in this style before each short.
** Though The Whizzard of Ow showed the actual scientific names, Geococcyx Californianus (greater roadrunner) and Canis Latrans (coyote).
* {{Catchphrase}}: Beep Beep!
* {{Crossover}}: Two, on a technicality. "Hare-breadth Hurry" has Bugs Bunny filling in for a sidelined Road Runner, while "The Wild Chase" has a cannonball race between the Road Runner and Speedy Gonzales, with the Coyote and Sylvester in pursuit.
** Wile E. also crossed into a few Bugs Bunny cartoons as well. These are where the "Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius" persona come from.
* TheDarkAgeOfAnimation
* {{Determinator}}: The Coyote, of course.
** Rule Number 3: "The Coyote could stop any time — IF he were not a fanatic."
*** Halfway through the cartoon, one realizes that the Coyote doesn't want to eat the Road Runner at that point--he just wants his contraptions to work properly.
* {{Directors}}: ChuckJones directed the bulk of the cartoons, while 11 of them were directed by Rudy Larriva, two by Robert [=McKimson=], and one co-directed by FrizFreleng and Hawley Pratt.
* EpicFail: Cutting the branch hanging off a cliffside that the Roadrunner's on -- and the ''cliff'' collapses. 'Nuff said.
** Anything involving catapults will end in misfires that ''break phyics''.
** Pretty much everything Coyote does ends in this. HilarityEnsues.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[FridgeLogic How did he not starve to death?]] [[FridgeBrilliance Oh yeah, he's functionally immortal.]] Averted at the end of one or two episodes, though. Flipped in the arcade game where you play the Roadrunner, and [[EndlessGame being eaten is the only way to end the game]].
* FlatCharacter: The Road Runner himself is nondescript in personality, with the shorts choosing to give focus to Wile E Coyote instead.
* TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: The TropeCodifier in the public mind, since about half the gags involved Wile falling off a cliff.
* HeroAntagonist: The Road Runner can be considered the hero of this short, being hunted after by a hungry predator. However his character is kept deliberately [[FlatCharacter flat]] and OutOfFocus in each short so that the audience's sympathy is instead with [[VillainProtagonist Wile E Coyote]].
* HopeSpot: Villainous example with "The Solid Tin Coyote", which the Road Runner shows visible fear towards and is captured by Coyote's HumongousMecha. [[YankTheDogsChain It doesn't work out.]]
* HumongousMecha: The eponymous giant robot from "The Solid Tin Coyote".
* [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ineffectual Sympathetic]] {{Villain Protagonist}}: Coyote, natch.
* JustEatHim: Wile E. orders his aforementioned mecha to do this after capturing the Road Runner, which is strange considering that Wile E. himself should be the one trying to eat him.
* LooneyTunesInTheForties: The very first short was made in the forties.
* LooneyTunesInTheFifties: Fifteen of the shorts were produced during this time.
* LooneyTunesInTheSixties: Where the bulk of the series output was made.
* LooneyTunesInTheSeventiesAndOnward: The newer theatrical shorts.
* TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation
* OhCrap: Wile E. has this expression a lot (especially when [[GravityIsAHarshMistress gravitational cognizance]] kicks in). Perhaps the only time the Roadrunner has shown it is when he sees the [[HumongousMecha giant mechanical coyote]] that Wile E. has built.
* PackedHero: Wile E. ends up in a parcel that was meant for the Road Runner. Courtesy of an Acme parcel-making machine, naturally.
* PaintedTunnelRealTrain: ''Road Runner'' loves this trope.
* PerpetualSmiler: The Road Runner--the only time he ''ever'' changes from this is when he sees the eponymous [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] from "The Solid Tin Coyote".
** He also changes it into a thoughtful frown as he seemingly forgets his {{Catchphrase}} in "The Whizzard of Ow".
* RecycledINSPACE: It's a cat and mouse cartoon [[AC:IN THE DESERT]]!
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: TropeNamer.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Used in the climax of "Hook, Line and Stinker".
* StrictlyFormula: Popular as the shorts are, they're best watched in small doses, as they tend to feel really, really samey if you watch all of them back to back.
* SuddenlyVoiced: At those rare occasions Wile E. ''does'' talk, he speaks in a very refined voice, as well as revealing the fact that he's an InsufferableGenius.
* SuperPersistentPredator: And how! {{Lampshaded}} by BugsBunny in ''Hare-Breadth Hurry'':
-->"Y'know, it's amazin' the trouble this joker goes to to get a square meal."
* SuperSpeed: The Road Runner.
* TalkingWithSigns
* TeamRocketWins: Yes, the Coyote catches the Road Runner at one point...but he's too small at that point to even eat the bird. He even lampshades it by asking the audience what he should do now.
** There are plenty of YouTube videos where Wile E. actually does eat the Road Runner.
** He also catches Road Runner in "The Soild Tin Coyote", [[YankTheDogsChain Doesn't work out]]
* TechnicolorEyes: In the shorts by Matthew O'Callaghan, Wile E.'s are {{red|EyesTakeWarning}}, and the Road Runner's are turquoise.
* ThoseWilyCoyotes
* ThreeDimensionalEpisode: "Coyote Falls", "Fur of Flying", and "Rabid Rider".
* TheVoiceless: Both of them. Wile E. does speak during four of his five appearances with BugsBunny, and again when explaining to two young boys why he wants to eat the road runner.
** If you were to count the Road Runner's "BEEP BEEP" as a voice, he would fall under TheUnintelligible.
* TruthInTelevision: In ''Just Plane Beep'' when coyote shoots the propeller of his biplane off trying to hit the road runner. That was a real problem in WWI before the interrupter gear was invented, and one solution (as was also shown) was to put armor plating on the propeller.
* VillainProtagonist: Wile E. Coyote is trying to eat the Road Runner, and is therefore ostensibly the bad guy. But he's just so adorably persistent in how he goes about it that you can't help but root for him.
** Chuck Jones in fact had it as written lore that ''all'' sympathy must be with the Coyote.
* WrittenSoundEffect: "Chariots of Fur" (Chuck Jones's last Road Runner short) uses these quite a bit, but only once does it do something creative with them -- when the Coyote disguises himself as a cactus and tries to garb the Road Runner, but the Road Runner avoids him, the Coyote accidentally wraps his arms around himself in the process, and the smoke trail the Road Runner left behind turns into a "!!YEE-OOWW!!"
* WrongParachuteGag: Wile E. tries to be CrazyPrepared by wearing a parachute in case he falls off a cliff. He opens it and out comes... canning samples.
* [[ArtisticLicensePhysics You Fail Physics Forever]]: But it's so side-splittingly funny in ''all'' cases that [[RuleOfFunny it doesn't matter]].
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