Line #16 WesternAnimation/ZippingAlong


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3	"Zipping Along" is a 1953 cartoon in the ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' series, starring everyone's favorite desert duo, WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner.
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5	The Road Runner starts his day by running along a train and then onto the roads, with Wile E. Coyote spying on him and getting ready to capture him. However, when he goes down onto the road, he is run over repeatedly by his prey, and soon concocts some new plans like throwing a grenade, several mousetraps, dropping an atomic bomb from a kite, axing down a telephone pole, bird seed mixed with steel shot, hypnosis, a seesaw and rock contraption, a gun trap, severing a bridge on a cliff, firing himself from a cannon, a wrecking ball and finally, a doorway that activates TNT when opened.
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8	!!"Zipping Along" provides examples of:
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10	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The wrecking ball that Wile E. tries to hit the Road Runner with somehow manages to keep swinging in a full circle instead of swaying back and forth to a stop, hitting the Coyote instead in the process.
11	* AshFace: Happens thrice in the cartoon, albeit with the Coyote's entire body rather than just his face.
12	** First, when Wile E. screws up his attempt to drop a bomb from a kite.
13	** Second, when he fails to shoot himself from a cannon.
14	** And third, when he tries to escape from the truck through a doorway... [[spoiler:forgetting that it was his final plan to kill the Road Runner]].
15	* BinomiumRidiculus: "Velocitus Tremenjus" for the Road Runner and "Road-Runnerus Digestus" for Wile E. Coyote. In the latter's case, the scene freezes exactly on the animation smear of Wile E. turning his head.
16	* BoobyTrap:
17	** Wile E. crafts one with guns in his ninth scheme to kill his prey. [[BackwardsFiringGun Guess what happens next...]]
18	** He crafts another one that consists of a doorway leading to several explosives, and the detonator is pushed when the door opens. [[spoiler:It all goes horribly wrong when a truck comes along, prompting Wile E. to try to escape from it - and accidentally set off the trap]].
19	* BungledHypnotism: Wile E. practices hypnosis (which will get the victim to walk off a cliff) during his seventh scheme and successfully tests it out on a fly. Unfortunately, he himself becomes hypnotized by the Road Runner using a mirror and subjects himself to gravity.
20	* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] When Wile E. cuts the ropes of the bridge [[GravityIsAHarshMistress and the cliff falls instead of the bridge]], the cliff part has the same level of detail like the rest of the desert backgrounds.
21	* DelayedReaction: Once Wile E. tosses the grenade pin away, it takes him a few seconds to realize what he just did. He also has one before his PainPoweredLeap after his mouse trap plan goes awry.
22	* GravityIsAHarshMistress:
23	** Not even a giant kite can save the Coyote from gravity.
24	** And again when he tries to chop off a bridge with the Road Runner on it.
25	* HammeredIntoTheGround: Wile E. tries to kill his target by chopping down a telephone pole, but the moment it starts falling, the Road Runner passes it. Another telephone pole connected to the first one then pounds the Coyote into the ground like a nail.
26	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: ''Especially'' with that BungledHypnotism attempt described upward.
27	* HollywoodMagnetism: In an attempt to bring the Road Runner to himself, Wile E. gets him to consume bird seed mixed with steel shot, then leaps out wielding a giant magnet, but what does he catch instead of the bird? [[spoiler:An explosive barrel which detonates and [[ExplosionPropulsion sends him flying into a rock wall]]]].
28	* HumanCannonball: Wile E. tries to fire himself from a cannon... with [[EpicFail expected results]].
29	* HypnotismReversal: Wile E. tries to hypnotize the Road Runner into walking off a cliff, but the Road Runner uses a mirror to make Wile E. hypnotize himself instead.
30	* ImpactSilhouette: Wile E. leaves one in a rock wall after his magnet attempt fails.
31	* KiteRiding: Wile E. attempts to do this while carrying a bomb... only to be overtaken by gravity. [[CueTheFallingObject Part of the charred kite then breaks and falls off]].
32	* LawofInverseRecoil: Not only does the cannon fail to shoot out Wile E., it also gets pushed back by the force.
33	* MouseTrap: Wile E. uses several of them in his third attempt to catch the Road Runner. However, the bird harmlessly bowls them over onto the Coyote, causing the latter to succumb to a PainPoweredLeap.
34	* NonSequiturThud: [[spoiler:A dazed and charred Wile E. ends the cartoon by mimicking the Road Runner, right down to the tongue popping and the "Beep beep!", before falling flat on his belly]].
35	* PinPullingTeeth: When he tries to blow up the Roadrunner with a grenade, Wile E. Coyote pulls out the pin with his teeth but then does a ThrowThePin, blowing himself up.
36	* PlungerDetonator: The Coyote puts a pile of explosives behind a wall with a door in it. He sets up a plunger detonator so it will detonate the explosives when the door is opened. A truck comes around a bend and forces him to open the door to escape, blowing himself up.
37	* RacingTheTrain: The Road Runner does this at the start of the cartoon, but after a few moments decides to traverse to the roads.
38	* SeesawCatapult: Wile E. tries to reach the Road Runner on a high cliff with one, which ends with him being squashed by the boulder meant to land on the other side.
39	* ThrowThePin: Wile E. accidentally makes this mistake in the first gag, causing the grenade to go off on ''him''.
40	* ToonPhysics: When Wile E. severs the ropes supporting the bridge, it's the cliff that he's on that falls instead.

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