History WesternAnimation / StopLookAndHasten

* BoobyTrap: The Coyote builds a Burmese tiger pit and covers it up. Upon hearing the Road Runner beep and the trap activate, the Coyote dives in to capture his prey... only to find he TrappedTheWrongTarget, [[ColorFailure instantly re-emerge all white]] and flee in terror, after which a Burmese tiger angrily climbs out of the pit and stalks off.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Burmese tiger trap (indicated on the cover of the book in that scene) is used in war and hunting, usually with sharp spikes at the bottom.

** Or when he runs away in terror after realizing that the booby trap [[ExactWords literally]] captured a ''Burmese tiger''.

* SpecificSituationBooks: ''How to Build a Burmese Tiger Trap''. Though as noted, they are in real life used to catch all sorts of prey, human and otherwise.

* PlungerDetonator: Which gets caught on a stump as the Coyote is placing the dynamite. KABOOM!!

"Stop! Look! And Hasten!" was a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon directed by Creator/ChuckJones. With WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner.

* MisplacedWildlife: What's a tiger doing out on the open highways of the American southwest, anyway?

* SpecificSituationBooks: ''How to Build a Burmese Tiger Trap''

* SpecificSituationBooks: ''How to Build a Burmese Tiger Trap (Tenth Edition)''

'''"Stop! Look! And Hasten!"''' was a 1954 WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies cartoon directed by Creator/ChuckJones. With WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner.

!Tropes appearing in this cartoon:

* EpicFail: The Coyote is hanging over a bridge, [[CirclingSaw taking a saw to the space around the birdseed]] while the Road Runner is eating. Guess which one part of the bridge doesn’t fall away?

* FictionalDocument: [[SpecificSituationBooks “How to Build a Burmese Tiger Trap.”]]

* MeatOVision: To the tune of “A Cup of Coffee,” the Road Runner is depicted as a roast bird with all the fixings.
* MisplacedWildlife: What’s a tiger doing out on the open highways of the American southwest, anyway? [[note]]RuleOfFunny, perhaps?[[/note]]

* PunBasedTitle: The second cartoon to have one for “stop look and listen.”

* TooDesperateToBePicky: To further expound on the “Eatibus anythingus” designation, the Coyote is shown eating a bee or a fly (which isn’t a bad source of protein, for the record) and a tin can.
* WhatADrag: The lasso winds up getting a moving truck instead. The Coyote gets bumped along a few times, does a forward roll once he loses his grip, and “slides” forward on his backside — losing that part of his hide. He skulks off in disgust.

The Coyote is trudging around an open road when he hears some buzzing. Snatching up and eating the source of the buzzing, he continues his pacing. Then he notices a tincan in the middle of the road, rummages around inside, and finally chews on it like a cartoon goat. He is still chewing when he gets knocked into the air by the Road Runner.

Watching the Road Runner put on his usual burst of speed for the getaway, the Coyote feels his eyes fall out of his sockets. Putting them back in and laying down on the road, he ponders his next play.

Between a lanyard on a boulder, a lasso on the road, an open-road PitTrap covered by a tarpaulin, a pop-up grate with a crank, a ChaseScene on train tracks, a dynamite stack in a culvert, a motorcycle, a birdseed stop on a bridge (if you can believe it, his ''only'' date with gravity in the whole cartoon), and some – get this – '''Leg Muscle Vitamins''' ''(triple strength fortified, even),'' the Coyote continues to go nowhere in his pursuits.

* BoobyTrap: The Coyote builds a Burmese tiger pit and covers it up. Upon hearing the Road Runner beep and the trap activate, the Coyote dives in to capture his prey... only to find he TrappedTheWrongTarget, [[ColorFailure instantly re-emerge all white]] and flee in terror, after which a ''real'' Burmese tiger stealthily climbs out of the pit and stalks off.

* BrickJoke: The pop-up steel grate that didn't pop up when Wile E. needed it to finally deploys just as he's about to catch the Roadrunner and slams into it head on.

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[SpecificSituationBooks “How to Build a Burmese Tiger Trap.”]] Tenth Printing, no less. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The boulder connected to the pulley, and the grate wall that ''finally'' deploys once the Road Runner passes over it.

* TalkingWithSigns: Soon as the relieved Coyote takes a step out on the tracks, he hears a train whistle behind him. Turning around to notice the source of the whistle: '''STOP IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY!''' Of course, the train doesn't listen because the Coyote isn't human.
* ThatsAllFolks: Written out in a dust trail after the Road Runner returns to observe the {{impact|Silhouette}} of the grate on the Coyote. It crossfades into the regular end card after.

* EpicFail: The Coyote is hanging over a bridge, taking a saw to the space around the birdseed while the Road Runner is eating. Guess which one part of the bridge doesn’t fall away?

* TalkingWithSigns: Soon as the relieved Coyote takes a step out on the tracks, he hears a train whistle behind him. Turning around to notice the source of the whistle: '''STOP IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY!'''

* MisplacedWildlife: What’s a tiger doing out on the open highways of the American southwest, anyway? [[note]]RuleOfFunny, perhaps?[[note]]

* MisplacedWildlife: What’s a tiger doing out on the open highways of the American southwest, anyway?

** On CBS, the end card where the Roadrunner spells out "That's All Folks!" in dust was cut (very much like the original opening cards and credits, any ending cards—particularly those that serve as the final gag in the cartoon and aren't separated by an iris-out—were edited on network TV airings for time reasons).
** The Nickelodeon version leaves in what ABC and CBS cut, but edits the sequence during the cartoon's climax where Wile E. Coyote ingests "Acme Triple-Strength Leg Muscle Vitamins" to remove the close-up shot of the box (yet the part where Wile E. gulps down the entire box was left in. Contrast this with the aspirin scene from "WesternAnimation/BeepBeep" or the earthquake pill sequence from "WesternAnimation/HopalongCasualty" where the actual act of pill ingestion was cut on Nickelodeon).

* BoobyTrap: The Coyote builds a Burmese tiger pit and covers it up. Upon hearing the Road Runner beep and the trap activate, the Coyote dives in to capture his prey... only to [[ColorFailure instantly re-emerge all white]] and flee in terror, after which a ''real'' Burmese tiger stealthily climbs out of the pit and stalks off. Perhaps the Coyote should have [[ExactWords read the fine print]] on the book before digging up the hole.

* BoobyTrap: The Coyote builds a Burmese tiger pit and covers it up. Upon hearing the Road Runner beep and the trap activate, the Coyote dives in to capture his prey... only to [[ColorFailure instantly re-emerge all white]] and flee in terror, after which a REAL Burmese tiger stealthily climbs out of the pit and stalks off. Perhaps the Coyote should have [[ExactWords read the fine print]] on the book before digging up the hole.

* ColorFailure: The Coyote upon leaping into his Burmese Tiger Trap and discovering who he's actually caught with it.

Between a lanyard on a boulder, a lasso on the road, an open-road trap covered by a tarp, a pop-up grate with a crank, a ChaseScene on train tracks, a dynamite stack in a culvert, a motorcycle, a birdseed stop on a bridge (if you can believe it, his ''only'' date with gravity in the whole cartoon), and some – get this – '''Leg Muscle Vitamins''' ''(triple strength fortified, even),'' the Coyote continues to go nowhere in his pursuits.

* OhCrap: The Coyote [[ColorFailure runs away in sheer terror]] when the Burmese tiger emerges from the square pit trap he set for the Road Runner. Perhaps the Coyote should have read the fine print on the book before digging the hole.