Line #31 WesternAnimation/TheSolidTinCoyote


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor "EAT... stupid."]]]]
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4	"The Solid Tin Coyote" is a 1966 short starring WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner.
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6	With a bucket of tar and a mop, the Coyote lies in wait for his prey on the road. When that fails, he test runs a wide mirror at the edge of another cliff, with interesting effects. Ultimately, having moved to the wrong side of the mirror, Wile E. falls into a bathtub lying among the contents of a dump and gets an {{idea\|Bulb}} that's sure to catch the Road Runner: build a giant coyote robot. Or so he thinks.
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8	The robotic coyote later made an appearance in ''VideoGame/LooneyTunesWorldOfMayhem'', making it one of the few references to the Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises era in modern ''Looney Tunes'' media. It was also the final weapon used by Wile. E in ''VideoGame/RoadRunnersDeathValleyRally''.
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11	!!"The Solid Tin Coyote" provides examples of:
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13	* AccordionMan: Well, Accordion Coyote, on the first instance of him being SquashedFlat, as he is testing out his new invention.
14	* AmbiguousSyntax: After the robot catches the Roadrunner, Wile E. commands it to '''EAT, STUPID'''. While his command is referring to the robot as stupid, the robot takes it to mean he wants him to eat ''Stupid'', so he swallows his stupid creator.
15	* BookEnds: After landing in a junk pile, Wile E. gets the idea to build the coyote robot. At the end of the cartoon, the robot is destroyed after falling over a cliff, with Wile E. ending up in the pile of junk that remains.
16	* CentralTheme: The titular mecha.
17	* DerangedAnimation: Happens from time to time, as per standard of the Rudy Larriva Road Runner cartoons.
18	* GravityIsAHarshMistress: What spells the end for Wile E.'s robot. When it goes after the Road Runner, it fails to notice that he's on the other side of a ravine and despite Wile E.'s attempts to make it stop, it ends up going over the edge and becoming a pile of junk.
19	* HarmlessElectrocution: Electrical charges fire between the robot's ears when it does anything. At one point, Wile E. stands between them—and is electrocuted when he gives a command. He makes a point not to stand there from then on.
20	* HopeSpot: For Wile E. as the coyote robot manages to capture the Road Runner. [[YankTheDogsChain It doesn't last, of course]].
21	* HumongousMecha: The titular Soild Tin Coyote.
22	* IdeaBulb: After seeing that he had fallen into a junk pile, Wile E. has one before using the assorted junk to build the robot coyote.
23	* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: Wile E. sets up a mirror in hopes that the Road Runner will crash into it, but just as he walks off, his reflection stays in place, catching Wile E. by surprise when he realizes it. When he extends himself around the mirror to inspect it, he ends up stepping on thin air and succumbs to gravity once he retracts.
24	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Wile E. manages to create an elaborate GiantMecha that is formidable enough to actually garner the Road Runner's fear. It even catches him multiple times, though always loses him due to a malfunction or command error.
25	* OhCrap: The only time the Road Runner has this reaction is when he sees the giant robot coyote. Wile E. himself as well when his robot coyote [[AIIsACrapshoot ignores his master's pleas to stop]] and [[TooDumbToLive just runs over a cliff and gets himself wrecked]], resulting in Wile's defeat.
26	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Road Runner shows fear for the first and only time in this short.
27	* RobotDog: Well, robot coyote.
28	* SquashedFlat: Wile E. gets flattened twice by his own robot.
29	** First, he gets stepped on by it when he fails to make it obey the '''STOP/HALT''' command, resulting in the AccordionMan trope listed above.
30	** And second, he gives the robot the '''STRIKE''' command in an attempt to kill his target, but unfortunately, the robot uses the hand Wile E. is standing on to do so (interestingly enough, Wile E. doesn't fall off the hand when it turns upside-down), resulting in the poor Coyote ending up like this again.
31	* StandardSnippet: The Charge fanfare, whenever the command is '''HUNT!''' Even worse when the command is '''ONE MORE TRY, YOU IDIOT!'''
32	* StickySituation: A triple whammy for the Coyote. He walks right onto the tar patch without bothering to look, but when he tries to unstick himself, he lands in the bucket instead. And finally, the bucket gets caught in the tar pit as he attempts to outrun the incoming truck.
33	* StockSoundEffects: While there are a few Creator/WarnerBros sound effects utilized (largely the Road Runner's zooming), the rest of the sound effects are the same ones typically heard on Creator/JayWard's works such as ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', making the soundtrack even more different from a typical Road Runner cartoon (alongside the repetitive canned Bill Lava music cues.) This is due to being one of the three Rudy Larriva Road Runner shorts where the sound editing was done right at Format Films (by ''Bullwinkle'' sound designer Joe Siracusa, whom also made heavy use of the sound effects on ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' five years earlier) instead of having post-production sound done at Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises (like the other eight Rudy Larriva Road Runner shorts.)
34	* SurroundedByIdiots: While not said out loud, it's clear that Wile E. feels this way whenever his robot malfunctions.
35	* SwallowedWhole: Should have specified whom to eat.

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