Yep, pretty much. WB could have saved themselves a good time of money and effort back in the day if they'd just used Road Runner in place of the "original" Buttons shorts in Animaniacs. The effect would've been exactly the same. Well, with somewhat less annoying dialogue, I guess.
Well, at the very least, there are fanmade videos out there (like this one
or even this one) that either relate to letting Wile E. Coyote actually winning for once or making the existing gags a whole lot more entertaining while being faithful to the source material that can sometimes go against the stale and predictable setups can be a better reward to watch for free on YouTube.
Especially when recent Wile E. Coyote skits (like the HBO counterpart) have been clearly changed to make the antics more interesting than before, and still being very faithful to what the series always was.
Joseph D. Sanford IVLeave a Comment:
Cringe-worthy
How the hell did this make success back in the day, I'll probably never know. All I know is, every time I try to watch them, I get sick.
The show follows some kind of formula in which Coyote tries to capture the Road Runner and suffers a great amount of Amusing Injuries, except those aren't amusing in the very least. It becomes depressing actually.
These shorts are nothing but a compilation of clips that follow this same formula over and over again, after you see the same thing happening for over three scenes, it becomes predictable and boring pretty fast.
I'll admit I liked the shorts with Bugs Bunny better, in which Wile talks and considers himself a "Genius." These shorts with Road Runner are an abomination, never found them funny, and probably never will.