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Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner 2-Disc Box Set DVD
Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner gathers the legendary Looney Tunes theatrical short series that ran across decades from the late 1940s into the 1960s, with broadcast life on CBS, ABC, and The WB and home-video releases extending the property across many subsequent years. The premise stayed loyal across the run: a perpetually starving coyote pursued an unflappable, supersonic road runner across the American Southwest, with each short delivering a self-contained chase, an elaborate scheme, and the inevitable failure of the predator's increasingly improbable plans.
What stands out is the property's commitment to its central premise. Across many decades and dozens of shorts, the chase formula never wavered: Wile E. Coyote pursued, the Road Runner escaped, the coyote's increasingly elaborate Acme-equipment-supplied schemes failed catastrophically, and the cycle continued. The shorts ran almost entirely without dialogue, leaving the comic timing, the visual gags, and the music to carry the storytelling, which gave the property a clarity and focus unlike most theatrical-cartoon series of any era. Director Chuck Jones's particular comic sensibility shaped much of the run.
In the broader era of theatrical short-cartoon production and broadcast afterlife, this property holds a particular place, the kind of work whose specific physical-comedy structure influenced subsequent generations of animators and whose character pair has remained recognizable across many decades of broadcast and home-video distribution. It suited household viewing across generations, the kind of cartoon parents and grandparents could enjoy alongside children, and the steady rhythm of broadcast cartoon blocks. It pairs well with other classic Looney Tunes work.
Favorite shorts include the franchise-launching "Fast And Furry-ous," the early-classic "Going! Going! Gosh!," the structural-classic "Stop! Look! And Hasten!," the chase-comedy "Hopalong Casualty," the visual-classic "Hook, Line And Stinker," the meta-flavored "To Beep Or Not To Beep," the literary-spoof "War And Pieces," the international-flavored "The Wild Chase," and the later-era "Soup Or Sonic." This 2-disc set gathers 50 shorts plus bonus Sheep, Operation Rabbit, and Coyote vs Sheep cartoons, a deep archive of legendary theatrical short-cartoon comedy that disc ownership keeps available.
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 1 - Fast And Furry-ous
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 2 - Beep, Beep
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 3 - Going! Going! Gosh!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 4 - Zipping Along
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 5 - Stop! Look! And Hasten!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 6 - Ready, Set, Zoom!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 7 - Guided Muscle
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 8 - Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 9 - There They Go-Go-Go!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 10 - Scrambled Aches
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 11 - Zoom And Bored
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 12 - Whoa, Be-Gone!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 13 - Hook, Line And Stinker
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 14 - Hip Hip-Hurry!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 15 - Hot-Rod And Reel!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 16 - Wild About Hurry
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 17 - Fastest With The Mostest
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 18 - Hopalong Casualty
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 19 - Zip 'N Snort
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 20 - Lickety-Splat
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 21 - Beep Prepared
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 22 - Zoom At The Top
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 23 - To Beep Or Not To Beep
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 24 - War And Pieces
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 25 - Zip Zip Hooray!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 26 - Road Runner A Go-Go
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 27 - The Wild Chase
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 28 - Rushing Roulette
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 29 - Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 30 - Tired And Feathered
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 31 - Boulder Wham!
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 32 - Just Plane Beep
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 33 - Hairied And Hurried
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 34 - Highway Runnery
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 35 - Chaser On The Rocks
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 36 - Shot And Bothered
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 37 - Out And Out Rout
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 38 - The Solid Tin Coyote
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 39 - Clippety Clobbered
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 40 - Sugar And Spies
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 41 - Freeze Frame
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 42 - Soup Or Sonic
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 43 - Chariots Of Fur
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 44 - Little Go Beep
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 45 - The Whizzard Of Ow
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 46 - Coyote Falls
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 47 - Fur Of Flying
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 48 - Rabid Rider
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 49 - Flash In The Pain
Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Episode 50 - Look Before You Beep
Don't Give Up the Sheep (1953)
Steal Wool (1957)
Ready, Woolen and Able (1960)
A Sheep in the Deep (1962)
Woolen Under Where (1963)
Operation Rabbit (1952)
To Hare is Human (1956)
Rabbit's Feat (1960)
Compressed Hare (1961)
Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)
Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too (1969)
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