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Jones said he created the Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner cartoons as a parody of traditional "cat and mouse" cartoons such as MGM's Tom and Jerry. [14] He also cites Frank Tashlin's 1941 adaptation of The Fox and the Grapes as inspiration due to its use of blackout gags. [15] Jones modelled the coyote's appearance on fellow animator Ken Harris. [16]
The roadrunner was made popular by the Warner Bros. cartoon characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, created in 1949, and the subject of a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts. In each episode, the cunning, insidious, and constantly hungry Wile E. Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, but is ...
The short was released on January 19, 1960, and stars Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. [ 2 ] The title is a reference to the epigram "Git thar fustest with the mostest", often erroneously attributed to Nathan Bedford Forrest .
The Road Runner Show is an American Saturday morning animated anthology series which compiled theatrical Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, which were produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons between 1949 and 1964.
Jones also produced The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979), which was a compilation of Jones's best theatrical shorts, new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979). New shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980). [15]
Time Warner Cable first launched what would become Road Runner with a 1995 market test in Elmira, New York, under the banner Southern Tier On-Line Community. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Later it became known as LineRunner [ 5 ] (a moniker subsequently employed by its VoIP service), before Time Warner Cable adopted [ when? ] the Road Runner brand name.
Fast and Furry-ous is a 1949 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. [2] The short was released on September 17, 1949, and stars Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, in their debut.
The Road Runner Show: 1966–68 CBS: 26 episodes 1 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour: 1968–69 26 episodes 1 The Bugs Bunny Show: 1971–72 26 episodes 1 The Merrie Melodies Show: 1972 Syndication 24 episodes 1 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour: 1975–77 CBS The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show: 1977–85 The Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy & Speedy Show [6 ...