History WesternAnimation / ZoomAndBored

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even the Road Runner feels sorry for Wile E. after his harpoon misadventure and refrains from [[KickTheDog giving him another jump scare]].

[[caption-width-right:350:That was fast.]]'''"Zoom and Bored"''' is a 1957 short featuring Looney Tune characters Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.

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* WhatADrag: For the final gag, Wile E. fires a harpoon, but the rope gets caught on his ankle and is dragged through the desert floor, through a pipe, crashing into a truck ''and'' a train, and eventually landing on top of a cliff.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even the Road Runner feels sorry for Wile E. after his harpoon misadventure and refrains from [[KickTheDog kicking the dog]].

* WhatADrag: For the final gag, Wile E. fires a harpoon, but the rope gets caught on his ankle and is dragged through the desert floor, eventually landing on top of a cliff.

* BeeAfraid: Wile E. sets up a bottle of ACME bees to open when the Road Runner runs by. But as soon as he pulls the cork from a distance, the bees head straight for him.

* AshFace: As shown in the page image, Wile E. gets a bomb exploding in his face (no less, the instant he lights the fuse).

* MindScrew: Wile E has set up a brick wall to stop the Road Runner. He hears the bird approaching, then stop behind the wall. He looks behind the wall, and sees... ''himself from behind, looking at the other side in the far end.'' He is confounded, as his other self does everything he does. Eventually he figures it's another coyote and to prove it, sets the other coyote's tail on fire with a lit stick of dynamite. Laughing at the imposter's misfortune, he steps out from behind the wall... ''with is tail on fire from the shot!''

* AshFace: A shown in the page image, Wile E. gets a bomb exploding in his face.

* MindScrew: Wile E has set up a brick wall to stop the Road Runner. He hears the bird approaching, then stop behind the wall. He looks behind the wall, and sees... ''himself from behind, looking at the other side in the far end.'' He is confounded, as his other self does everything he does. Eventually he figures it's another coyote and to prove it, shoots a gun at his tail. Laughing at the imposter's misfortune, he steps out from behind the wall... ''with is tail on fire from the shot!''

%% * HammeredIntoTheGround: Inverted (and the page image for that trope).
* ThrowTheDogABone: By the end, upon seeing him exhausted after all he went through with that harpoon rope, the Road Runner doesn't find it in his heart to scare the Coyote off the cliff when he had the chance.

* ThrowTheDogABone: By the end, upon seeing him cry after all he went through with that harpoon rope, the Road Runner doesn't find it in his heart to scare the Coyote off the cliff when he had the chance.

After getting a few {{jump scare}}s from his opponent, Wile E. Coyote comes up with a few schemes that end up backfiring on him, from following instructions in '''The Art of Roadrunner-Trapping'' to using a harpoon. By the end, after Wile E. goes through a lot from the last gag, he's in tears, which makes the Roadrunner decide not to give him another jump scare.

* PetTheDog: By the end, upon seeing his opponent cry after all he went through with that rope, the Roadrunner doesn't find it in his heart to scare him off the cliff when he had the chance.

'''"Zoom and Bored"''' is a 1957 short featuring Looney Tune characters Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.

After getting a few jump scares from his opponent, Wile E. Coyote comes up with a few schemes that end up backfiring on him, from following instructions in '''The Art of Roadrunner-Trapping'' to using a harpoon. By the end, after Wile E. goes through a lot from the last gag, he's in tears, which makes the Roadrunner decide not to give him another jump scare.

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''"Zoom and Bored"'' is a 1957 short featuring Looney Tune characters Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.