Trivia / Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: The Road Runner's claim that roadrunners don't drink in "Beep, Beep" is actually true, as those birds absorb the water from their prey through their digestive systems.
• Acting for Two: In the Japanese dub, Wile E. Coyote's voice actor, Hideyuki Umezu, is also the male narrator in both his and other Looney Tunes shorts.^note In Japan, the Looney Tunes' shorts are sometimes narrated by two narrators, a male and a two females, being Umezu the male one, with Akemi Okamura and Mika Doi the female ones.
• Beep Me Up, Scotty: We all know it's "BEEP BEEP!" Yet for some strange reason, it still sounds like "MEEP MEEP!" Paul Julian, the actual speaker of the sounds (which are still used to this day) said it was more a "HMEEP HMEEP!"
• Completely Different Title: Known in France as Bip Bip et Coyote ("Beep Beep and Coyote", Road Runner's being named after his vocalisation in the French version). A literal translation of the title would be Wile E. Coyote et le Géocoucou.
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  • Les Guignols de l'Info made a skit when Saddam Hussein uses cosmetic surgery to become unrecognizable and evade capture by the US Army. He then gets turned into Road Runner and goes in hiding in the desert.
    • Another skit has Laurence Parisot (former head of the MEDEF) in the role as the Road Runner planting "FERMÉ" signs at various factories along her path, while an unnamed person tries to stop her in the same fashion of how Wile E. tries to eat the Road Runner.
  • Kemono Friends: The Greater Road Runner Friend dons a T-shirt that says "Beep!"
  • Family Guy:
    • The second episode, "I Never Met the Dead Man", had a Cutaway Gag where Peter does a favor for Wile E. by running over the Road Runner in his car.
    • The episode "PTV" had a Cutaway Gag where Peter is working for ACME, with Wile E. Coyote demanding a refund.
    • The banned episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" had Peter try to give Lois an abortion in an homage to these segments.
    • "Peter Problems" has Quagmire show up like the Road Runner holding a sign with his Character Catchphrase "Giggity Giggity" after Lois wants sex that Peter is unable to do.
    • The Christmas Special "The First No L" has the same joke, except Mort, Stella, and the Greased-Up Deaf Guy join after Quagmire's arrival.
    • In "Coma Guy" Lois mentions that Peter ran through a Road Runner tunnel.
  • Speaking of Seth MacFarlane, Seth Mac Farlanes Cavalcade Of Cartoon Comedy contain a segment where Wile E. finally eats the Road Runner...only to discover he has nothing to live for anymore. He tries to kill himself using one of his old contraptions, but then finds God and becomes a Jehovah's Witness.
  • MAD:
    • "Not A Fan-a Montana" has Hannah Montana try to get rid of Justin Bieber the way Wile E. tries to eat the Road Runner due to him eclipsing her in popularity, complete with "Bieb seed" and Bieber saying "beep-beep".
    • The show is crossed over with $#!+ My Dad Says, changing the dad into the Road Runner to make it "Meep! My Dad Says".
    • The final episode has a segment where the two animals get speeding tickets.
  • In Luther, Alice Morgan quips that the police will never catch her, because "they're Wile E. Coyote, and I'm the Road Runner. Meep meep!"
  • An episode of Cheers had the gang engaged in a Seinfeldian Conversation about the series. Woody asks why the Coyote doesn't just buy some food if he can afford everything he buys from Acme. Cliff explains that he's been defeated by the Road Runner so many times that he wants to finally succeed against him. "He wants that road runner."
  • Overhaulin' had an episode where the crew worked on a Plymouth Road Runner while pretending it was stolen. Host Chris Jacobs plays the lead investigator on the "case", Detective Wiley.
  • In the penultimate episode of Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko Midou Madoka relates herself to Wile E and Yohko to Road Runner because she is also always chasing after her.
  • The Strain (TV series) had Vasily Fet planting explosives in a tunnel to stop the spread of the Strigoi. At one point...
    Fet: Wile E. Coyote, eat your heart out. (Beat) Beep beep!
• Uncredited Role: Paul Julian was responsible for the Road Runner's "Beep beep!" noises, but he was never credited onscreen for his work. Julian's Road Runner vocal recordings are, in fact, still used to this very day.

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