Line #17 WesternAnimation/SugarAndSpies


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Includes all TropeCo/TropeCo {{espionage\|tropes}} cliches!]]
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4	"Sugar and Spies" is a 1966 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon.
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6	It looks like just another day, another {{chase\|scene}} for WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner. Just as he’s about to catch his target, the Coyote gets hit with a mystery briefcase. It turns out to be a Spy Kit, tossed out by a black-clad fugitive being {{chase\|scene}}d on the open road by a patrol car. Intrigued by the prospect of new (non-ACME) resources, he gets right down to business.
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8	Naturally, he gets HoistByHisOwnPetard ''no matter what he uses.'' Whether it’s [[InstantSedation sleeping gas,]] a packaged time bomb, a fuse linked to explosive mastic on a boulder, plans for the type of car the fugitive used, or some remote-controlled missiles, the end result never varies.
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10	It is notable for being the final classic-era cartoon to feature the pair — the latter of two directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and the 14th not directed by Creator/ChuckJones.
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13	!!Spy Trope Plans:
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15	* AnimationBump: Although still not up to the standards of the original series, the animation and timing are at least a marked improvement over the 11 previous shorts directed by Rudy Larriva.
16	* BookEnds: For director [=McKimson=]. His other effort ("WesternAnimation/RushingRoulette") came out before the first of the Larriva 11 ("WesternAnimation/RunRunSweetRoadRunner"), while this one came out after the final entry ("WesternAnimation/ClippetyClobbered").
17	* CentralTheme: One of only three such cartoons to clearly state (behind “WesternAnimation/TheSolidTinCoyote” and “Just Plane Beep”).
18	* ClothingDamage: In the final gag, when the missile explodes right on the Coyote. The trenchcoat loses its lower half, button section, and foresleeves in the process, but there is little HatDamage.
19	* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Not that black matters much where they are.
20	* HomingBoulders: The first one has a lump of mastic attached and linked to the fuse the Coyote lights. The other is the cannonball that rolls into the air from a curved stump the Road Runner is standing on.
21	* HomingProjectile: The missiles in the final gag. They follow the Road Runner around just like they're supposed to. But then he hits on the bright idea of hiding under the Coyote's stool until just before the missile hits.
22	* NewSoundAlbum: The only Road Runner cartoon to be scored by Walter Greene, combined with the spy-themed plot, makes for a very different kind of music score for the series, being more twangy and with muted trumpets in a manner not unlike Greene's ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheInspector'' scores.
23	* VisualPun: Aside from being a play on words for “sugar and spice.” In the opening title credits, there is a sugar bowl with a shadowy figure inside and a few more crouching behind it.
24	* WeaponizedCar: Being on the open road, the Coyote makes his vehicle out of the junk he finds in the roadside dump. Between the machine guns in the headlights, two uses of an EjectionSeat, and a cannon in the trunk, one guess as to how it all turns out.
25	* YouGotMurder: Wile E. tries to deliver a bomb in a package to the Road Runner, but it gets sent back to him for '''insufficient postage.''' It explodes before he can retrieve another stamp for it.

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