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{{Infobox character
| multiple = yes
| series = [[Looney Tunes]]/[[Merrie Melodies]]
| image = tobeepornottobeep.jpg
| image_size = 300 px
| caption = The duo as seen in the short ''[[To Beep or Not to Beep]]'' (1963)
| first = ''[[Fast and Furry-ous]]'' ({{Start date and age|1949|9|17}})
| voice = '''Wile E. Coyote''':<br>[[Mel Blanc]] (1949–1989)<ref name="CartoonVoices">{{cite book|last1=Scott|first1=Keith|title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2|date=October 3, 2022|publisher=BearManor Media|language=en}}</ref><br>[[Joe Alaskey]] (1990–2001)<ref name="Joe Alaskey">{{cite web|title=Joe Alaskey interview (Tiny Toon Adventures / Looney Tunes / Who Framed Roger Rabbit)|website=Saturday Morning Rewind|url=http://www.saturdaymorningrewind.com/joe-alaskey-podcast-interview.html|access-date=June 12, 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420141512/http://www.saturdaymorningrewind.com/joe-alaskey-podcast-interview.html|archive-date=April 20, 2021|quote=Since 1981, over the past 30 years, I've been doing Bugs, Daffy, and the other characters. I'm the only guy in the talent pool who has played all of the major characters, including... yes, including Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, but also Porky. You have to hunt for some of these credits, but I have done them all at one point, Hubie and Bertie, and Henery Hawk, all those characters.}}</ref><br>[[Bob Bergen]] (1998)<ref name="Learning Adventures">{{cite web|title=Looney Tunes DVD and Video Guide: VHS: Misc.|website=The Internet Animation Database|url=https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/videowbmisc.aspx|access-date=November 30, 2021}}</ref><br>[[Dee Bradley Baker]] (2003)<ref name="Duck Dodgers">{{cite web|title=Voice of Alien Hunter in Duck Dodgers|website=Behind the Voice Actors|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Duck-Dodgers/Alien-Hunter/|access-date=2020-08-21|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611021329/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Duck-Dodgers/Alien-Hunter/|archive-date=2021-06-11}}</ref><br>[[Maurice LaMarche]] (2008)<ref name="Conductor 1">{{cite web|title=Voice of Wile E. Coyote in Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor|website=Behind the Voice Actors|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Looney-Tunes-Cartoon-Conductor/Wile-E-Coyote/|access-date=2020-08-21|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611021315/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Looney-Tunes-Cartoon-Conductor/Wile-E-Coyote/|archive-date=2021-06-11}}</ref><br>[[James Arnold Taylor]] (2014)<ref name="Cartoon Universe">{{cite web |title=Scooby Doo & Looney Tunes Cartoon Universe: Adventure |website=Behind The Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Scooby-Doo-Looney-Tunes-Cartoon-Universe-Adventure/ |access-date=2019-10-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419163625/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Scooby-Doo-Looney-Tunes-Cartoon-Universe-Adventure/ |archive-date=2019-04-19}}</ref><br>[[J. P. Karliak]] (2015–2020, 2024–present)<br>[[Eric Bauza]] (2018, 2023–present)<br>[[Keith Ferguson (voice actor)|Keith Ferguson]] (2022–present)<br>'''The Road Runner''':<br>[[Paul Julian (artist)|Paul Julian]] (1949–1994, 1996–present, vocal archives only)<br>[[Mel Blanc]] (1964, 1973–1974, 1978)<ref name="Card">{{cite web|title=Classic Cartoon Greeting Card Records by Buzza-Cardozo|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/classic-cartoon-greeting-card-records-by-buzza-cardozo/|date=May 19, 2020|publisher=Cartoon Research|access-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604194249/https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/classic-cartoon-greeting-card-records-by-buzza-cardozo/|archive-date=June 4, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Record">{{cite web|title="Bugs Bunny in Storyland": The Good, The Bad & the Bugs|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/bugs-bunny-in-storyland-the-good-the-bad-the-bugs/|date=January 7, 2014|publisher=Cartoon Research|access-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920050720/https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/bugs-bunny-in-storyland-the-good-the-bad-the-bugs/|archive-date=September 20, 2020}}</ref><br>[[Jeff Bergman]] (1990)<ref name="Jeff Bergman">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLPYw-METH0&t=2143s|title=JEFF BERGMAN Voice Actor Panel – Steel City Con April 2024|date=April 29, 2024|publisher=YouTube|access-date=May 12, 2025}}</ref><br>[[Joe Alaskey]] (2008)<ref name="Joe Alaskey"/><br>Eric Bauza (2018, 2023)<br>([[#Voice actors|see below]])
| creator = [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Michael Maltese]]
| species = Wile E. Coyote: [[Coyote]]<br>The Road Runner: [[Greater roadrunner]]
| gender = Male (both)
| relatives = Wile E. Coyote: Tech E. Coyote (descendant)<br>The Road Runner: Rev Runner (descendant)
}}
'''Wile E. Coyote''' and the '''Road Runner''' are a duo of cartoon characters from the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' series of [[cartoons|animated cartoons]], first appearing in 1949 in the theatrical short ''[[Fast and Furry-ous]]''. In each film, the cunning, devious and constantly hungry [[coyote]] repeatedly attempts to catch and eat the [[greater roadrunner|roadrunner]], but is humorously unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |pages=128–129 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/128/mode/2up |access-date=June 6, 2020}}</ref> Instead of using animal instinct, the coyote deploys absurdly complex schemes and devices to try to catch his prey. They comically backfire, with the coyote invariably getting injured in [[slapstick]] fashion. Many of the items for these contrivances are [[mail order|mail-ordered]] from the [[Acme Corporation]] and other companies. ''[[TV Guide]]'' included Wile E. Coyote in its 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time".<ref>Bretts, Bruce, Roush, Matt, (March 25, 2013). "Baddies to the Bone: The 60 nastiest villains of all time." ''[[TV Guide]]''. pp. 14−15.</ref>
The characters were created for [[Warner Bros.]] in 1948 by [[Chuck Jones]] and writer [[Michael Maltese]], with Maltese also setting the template for their adventures. The characters star in a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts (the first 16 of which were written by Maltese) and occasional made-for-television cartoons. Originally meant to parody chase-cartoon characters such as ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Schneider |first=Steve |title=That's All Folks!: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation |year=1988 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |publication-place=New York, New York |page=222}}</ref> they became popular in their own right. By 2014, 49 cartoons had been made featuring the characters (including the four [[computer-generated imagery|CGI]] shorts), the majority by Jones.
==History==
=== Conception ===
Jones based the coyote on [[Mark Twain]]'s book ''[[Roughing It]]'',<ref name="Collins1989">{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Glen |title=Chuck Jones on Life and Daffy Duck |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 7, 1989 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DB1E3CF934A35752C1A96F948260 |access-date=September 18, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428154218/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/07/movies/chuck-jones-on-life-and-daffy-duck.html |archive-date=April 28, 2023}}</ref> in which Twain described the coyote as "a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton" that is "a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is ''always'' hungry." 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]]''.<ref name="Barrier">{{cite book |title=Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age |last=Barrier |first=Michael |date=November 6, 2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |___location=United States |isbn=978-0-19-516729-0 |page=672}}</ref> He also cites [[Frank Tashlin]]'s [[The Fox and the Crow (animated characters)|1941 adaptation]] of ''[[The Fox and the Grapes]]'' as inspiration due to its use of [[blackout gag|blackout gags]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |title=Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons |publisher=[[New American Library]] |year=1980 |isbn=9780452259935 |page=214 |chapter=Columbia: Charles Mintz and Screen Gems}}</ref> Jones modelled the coyote's appearance on fellow animator [[Ken Harris]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Richard Williams: the master animator |work=The Guardian |date=April 19, 2013 |author=Wroe, Nicholas |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/19/richard-williams-master-animation |access-date=2013-04-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112015936/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/19/richard-williams-master-animation |archive-date=2020-11-12}}</ref>
The coyote's name of Wile E. is a pun of the word "wily". The "E" stands for "Ethelbert" in one issue of a Looney Tunes comic book.<ref name="Newsfromme.com">{{cite web |title=News from Me (column): "The Name Game" (Feb. 20, 2006), by Mark Evanier |publisher=Newsfromme.com |url=http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_02_20.html#012965 |access-date=April 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304081357/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_02_20.html#012965 |archive-date=March 4, 2007}}</ref> The coyote's surname is routinely pronounced with a long "e" ({{IPAc-en|k|aɪ|ˈ|oʊ|t|iː}} {{respell|ky|OH|tee}}), but in two cartoon shorts, ''[[To Hare Is Human]]'' and ''[[Rabbit's Feat]]'', Wile E. is heard pronouncing it with a [[diphthong]] ({{IPAc-en|k|aɪ|ˈ|oʊ|t|eɪ}} {{respell|ky|OH|tay}}). Early model sheets for the character prior to his initial appearance (in ''[[Fast and Furry-ous]]'') identified him as "Don Coyote", a pun on [[Don Quixote]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: Wile E. Coyote |author=Costello, E.O. |url=http://www.i-foo.com/~eocostello/wbcc/eowbcc-w.html#wile_e_coyote |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712234212/http://www.i-foo.com/~eocostello/wbcc/eowbcc-w.html#wile_e_coyote |archive-date=July 12, 2011 |quote=The original model sheet for the character bears a label referring to the character as "Don Coyote", in reference to Miguel Ceverantes' ''Don Quixote''.}}</ref>
The Road Runner's [[beep, beep (sound)|"beep, beep" sound]] was inspired by background artist [[Paul Julian (artist)|Paul Julian]]'s imitation of a [[vehicle horn|car horn]].<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Michael Barrier]] |title="Beep, Beep (film)" on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 (Region 2 DVD release) |medium=DVD commentary |time=0m26s |quote=Actually the title is somewhat of a misnomer, the actual 'beep beep' sound you just heard the Road Runner make was made by a background painter named Paul Julian, who used to make it in the hallways at Warner Brothers when he was carrying a large painting along, so people would get out of his way. Chuck Jones heard him make that - or [[Treg Brown]] I guess, actually, the sound effects wizard at Warner Brothers - heard him make that noise and suggested that they record that for the Road Runner, and it's been the standard Road Runner noise ever since.}}</ref> Julian voiced the various recordings of the phrase used throughout the Road Runner cartoons, although he was not credited for his work on screen. According to animation historian [[Michael Barrier]], Julian's preferred spelling of the sound effect was either "hmeep hmeep"<ref>{{cite AV media|people=[[Michael Barrier]]|title="Fast and Furry-ous" on Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 1 (Region 2 DVD release)|medium=DVD commentary|time=6m10s|quote=Even though the expression was spelled 'beep beep' on the screen, and that the word 'beep' was used in many subsequent Road Runner cartoon titles, Paul Julian insisted that the correct spelling was 'H-M-E-E-P", 'hmeep hmeep', rather than 'beep beep'. But obviously after dozens of Road Runner cartoons, and other appearances of the Road Runner and Coyote in other media, with the word 'beep' attached, it's much too late to make any change in that spelling.}}</ref> or "mweep, mweep."<ref>{{cite AV media|people=[[Michael Barrier]]|title="Beep, Beep (film)" on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 (Region 2 DVD release)|medium=DVD commentary|time=0m50s|quote=Paul Julian said that the actual spelling of that should be something more like 'M-W-E-E-P', 'mweep mweep' as opposed to 'beep beep'. But 'beep beep' it is on screen here and 'beep beep', as far as 99.9% of the world is concerned, it still is.}}</ref>
In the main series, Wile E. does not speak, instead portrayed as a mute character who communicates with the use of signs. However he does speak in the 1965 short ''[[Zip Zip Hooray!]]'', where he explains his desire to eat the Road Runner, and in another 1965 short ''[[Road Runner a Go-Go]]'', where he explains how he sets up his cameras in the desert, as well as the first four cartoons where he is pitted against [[Bugs Bunny]]—''[[Operation: Rabbit]]'', ''[[To Hare is Human]]'', ''[[Rabbit's Feat]]'', and ''[[Compressed Hare]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Flint |first=Peter |date=July 11, 1989 |title=Mel Blanc, Who Provided Voices For 3,000 Cartoons, Is Dead at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/11/obituaries/mel-blanc-who-provided-voices-for-3000-cartoons-is-dead-at-81.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719084451/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/11/obituaries/mel-blanc-who-provided-voices-for-3000-cartoons-is-dead-at-81.html |archive-date=July 19, 2018 |access-date=December 1, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
=== Scenery ===
[[File:zoomandbored.jpg|thumb|250px|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner in ''[[Zoom and Bored]]'', 1957]]
The desert scenery in the first three Road Runner cartoons, ''[[Fast and Furry-ous]]'' (1949), ''[[Beep, Beep (film)|Beep, Beep]]'' (1952), and ''[[Going! Going! Gosh!]]'' (also 1952), was designed by [[Robert Gribbroek]] and was quite realistic. In most later cartoons, the scenery was designed by [[Maurice Noble]] and was far more [[abstract art|abstract]]. It is based on the deserts of the [[Southwestern United States]].
=== Acme Corporation ===
{{Main|Acme Corporation}}
Wile E. Coyote often obtains various complex and ludicrous devices from a mail-order company, the fictitious [[Acme Corporation]], which he hopes will help him catch the Road Runner. The devices invariably fail in improbable and spectacular fashion.
In August, September and October 1982, the ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' published a three-part series chronicling the lawsuit Wile E. filed against the Acme Corporation over the faulty items they sold him in his pursuit of the Road Runner. Even though the Road Runner appeared as a witness for the plaintiff, the coyote still lost the suit.<ref>{{cite web |date=13 December 2012 |title=Link of the Day: Wile e. Coyote Sues the ACME Company |url=https://www.imao.us/2012/12/link-of-the-day-wile-e-coyote-sues-the-acme-company/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206215510/https://www.imao.us/2012/12/link-of-the-day-wile-e-coyote-sues-the-acme-company/ |archive-date=6 December 2020 |access-date=August 4, 2017 |website=IMAO}}</ref>
=== Laws and rules ===
In his book ''Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Chuck|title=Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times Of An Animated Cartoonist|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=1999|isbn=978-0-374-52620-7}}</ref> Chuck Jones claimed that he and the artists behind the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons adhered to some simple but strict rules:
# "The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going 'Beep-Beep!'"
# "No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products."
# "The Coyote could stop anytime — ''if'' he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: 'A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.' — [[George Santayana]])."
# "No dialogue ever, except 'Beep-Beep!'"
# "The Road Runner must stay on the road — otherwise, logically, he would not be called a Road Runner."
# "All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters — the southwest American desert."
# "All materials tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation."
# "Whenever possible, make [[gravity]] the Coyote's greatest enemy."
# "The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures."
These rules were not always followed, and in an interview years after the series was made, principal writer of the original 16 cartoons Michael Maltese stated he had never heard of these or any "rules" and dismissed them as "post production observation".<ref name="Barrier interview">The interviews included in the [[DVD]] commentary were recorded by animation historian [[Michael Barrier (historian)|Michael Barrier]] for his book ''Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Barrett|first1=Rich|title=Chuck Jones' Rules for Writing Road Runner Cartoons|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62035/chuck-jones-rules-writing-road-runner-cartoons|date=March 4, 2015|publisher=Mental Floss|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
=== Running gags ===
[[File:There They Go-Go-Go! (screencap).jpg|thumb|left|Wile E. Coyote anticipates an imminent rockfall by raising a small parasol, in ''[[There They Go-Go-Go!]]'']]
In many of the shorts, a cartoon typically starts with Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner in a desperate attempt to catch him, only for the Road Runner to zip away in breakneck speed, much to the Coyote's surprise and utter amazement.
One notable running gag involves the Coyote falling from high cliffs; after momentarily being suspended in midair, as if the fall is delayed until he realizes that there is nothing below him. The rest of the scene, shot from a [[bird's-eye view]], shows him falling into a canyon so deep that his figure is eventually lost to sight, with only a small puff of dust indicating his impact.
The coyote is notably a brilliant artist, capable of quickly painting lifelike renderings of such things as tunnels and roadside scenes, in further (and equally futile) attempts to deceive the bird. Additionally, another running gag involves the coyote trying, in vain, to shield himself with a little parasol against a great falling boulder that is about to crush him.
== Later cartoons ==
The original [[Chuck Jones]] productions ended in 1963 after [[Jack L. Warner]] closed the [[Warner Bros.]] animation studio. ''[[War and Pieces]]'', the last Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner short directed by Jones, was released on June 6, 1964. By that time, [[David H. DePatie]] and director [[Friz Freleng]] had formed [[DePatie–Freleng Enterprises]], moved into the facility just emptied by Warner, and signed a license with Warner Bros. to produce cartoons for the big studio to distribute.
The first DePatie–Freleng cartoon to feature the Road Runner was ''[[The Wild Chase]]'', directed by Freleng in 1965. The premise was a race between the bird and "the fastest mouse in all México", [[Speedy Gonzales]], with the Coyote and [[Sylvester the Cat]] each trying to make a meal out of their respective usual targets. Much of the material was animation [[rotoscoping|rotoscoped]] from earlier Road Runner and Speedy Gonzales shorts, with the other characters added in. Additionally, DePatie-Freleng produced two cartoons ([[Zip Zip Hooray!|''Zip Zip Hooray!'']] (1965) and [[Road Runner a Go-Go|''Road Runner a Go-Go'']] (1965)) that reuse footage from Chuck Jones' 1962 television pilot ''Adventures of the Road Runner,'' with the original audio kept intact. DePatie-Freleng went on to produce 13 more ''Road Runner'' cartoons. Two of these shorts were produced in-house and were directed by [[Robert McKimson]] (''[[Rushing Roulette]]'' (1965) and ''[[Sugar and Spies]]'' (1966)), while the remaining eleven, directed by [[Rudy Larriva]], were outsourced to [[Format Films]].
Format's ''Road Runner'' cartoons, nicknamed the "Larriva Eleven", were characterized for its poorer production quality when compared to DePatie-Freleng, with animation often being reused in nearly every cartoon. The music was also of poorer quality, as the soundtrack (composed by [[William Lava|Bill Lava]]) was relegated to the use of pre-composed music cues rather than a proper score, the only exception of this being ''[[Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner|Run Run, Sweet Road Runner]]'' (1965) as it was produced with a proper soundtrack. In addition, except for the planet Earth scene at the end of ''[[Highway Runnery]] (''1965), there was only one clip of the Coyote's fall to the ground, used over and over again. Jones' previously described "laws" for the characters were not followed with any significant fidelity, nor were Latin phrases used when introducing the characters. These 11 shorts have been considered inferior to the other Golden Age shorts, garnering mixed to poor reviews from critics. [[Leonard Maltin]], in his book ''Of Mice and Magic'', calls the series "witless in every sense of the word".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xp9PEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22witless+in+every+sense+of+the+word%22&pg=PA276 |title=Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Revised and Updated |last2=Beck |first2=Jerry |date=1987-12-01 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-452-25993-5 |language=en}}</ref>
All these Road Runner cartoons can be easily distinguished from Chuck Jones' Roadrunner cartoons because they utilize the "Abstract" WB logo opening and closing sequences, which ironically was the original idea of Jones himself.
===Post-theatrical appearances===
The Road Runner and the Coyote appeared on Saturday mornings as the stars of their own TV series, ''[[The Road Runner Show]]'', from September 1966 to September 1968, on [[CBS]]. At this time it was merged with ''[[The Bugs Bunny Show]]'' to become ''The Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Show'', running from 1968 to 1985. The show was later seen on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] until 2000, and on [[Global Television Network|Global]] until 2001.
In the 1970s, [[Chuck Jones]] directed some Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner short films for the educational children's TV series ''[[The Electric Company]]''. These short cartoons used the Coyote and the Road Runner to display words for children to read.
In 1979, ''[[Freeze Frame (cartoon)|Freeze Frame]]'', in which Jones moved the chase from the desert to snow-covered mountains, was seen as part of ''[[Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales]]''.
At the end of Bugs Bunny's ''[[Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny]]'' (the initial sequence of [[Chuck Jones]]' TV special ''[[Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over]]''), Bugs mentions to the audience that he and [[Elmer Fudd]] may have been the first pair of characters to have chase scenes in these cartoons, but then a pint-sized baby Wile E. Coyote (wearing a diaper and holding a small knife and fork) runs right in front of Bugs, chasing a gold-colored, mostly unhatched (except for the tail, which is sticking out) Road Runner egg, which is running rapidly while some high-pitched "Beep, beep" noises can be heard. Earlier in that story, while kid Elmer was falling from a cliff, Wile E. Coyote's adult self tells him to move over and leave falling to people who know how to do it and then he falls, followed by Elmer. This short was followed by the full-fledged Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote short ''[[Soup or Sonic]]''.
In the 1980s, ABC began showing many [[Warner Bros.]] shorts, but in highly edited form. Many scenes integral to the stories were taken out, including scenes in which Wile E. Coyote landed at the bottom of the canyon after falling from a cliff, or had a boulder or anvil actually make contact with him. In almost all WB animated features, scenes where a character's face was burnt and black, some thought resembling [[blackface]], were removed, as were animated characters smoking [[cigarette]]s.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} Some cigar-smoking scenes were left in. The unedited versions of these shorts (with the exception of ones with blackface) were not seen again until [[Cartoon Network]], and later [[Boomerang (TV network)|Boomerang]], began showing them again in the 1990s and early 2000s. Since the release of the WB library of cartoons on [[DVD]], the cartoons gradually disappeared from television, presumably to increase sales of the DVDs. However, Cartoon Network began to air them again in 2011, coinciding with the premiere of ''The Looney Tunes Show'' (2011), and the shorts were afterward moved to Boomerang, where they have remained to this day.
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner appeared in several episodes of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. In this series, Wile E. (voiced in the [[Jim Reardon]] episode "Piece of Mind" by [[Joe Alaskey]]) was the [[dean (education)|dean]] of Acme Looniversity and the mentor of [[Calamity Coyote]]. The Road Runner's protégé in this series was [[Little Beeper]]. In the episode "Piece of Mind", Wile E. narrates the life story of Calamity while Calamity is falling from the top of a tall [[skyscraper]]. In the direct-to-video film ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation]]'', the Road Runner finally gets a taste of humiliation by getting run over by a mail truck that "brakes for coyotes".
The two were also seen in cameos in ''[[Animaniacs]]''. They were together in two ''[[Slappy Squirrel]]'' cartoons: "Bumbie's Mom" and "Little Old Slappy from [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]]". In the latter, the Road Runner gets another taste of humiliation when he is out-run by Slappy's car, and holds up a sign saying "I quit" — immediately afterward, [[Buttons and Mindy|Buttons]], who was launched into the air during a previous gag, lands squarely on top of him. Wile E. appears without the bird in a ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' [[parody]], dressed in his [[bat]]suit from one short, in a [[tornado|twister]] (tornado) funnel in "Buttons in Ows" Also, in the beginning of one episode, an artist is seen drawing the Road Runner.
The Road Runner appears in an episode of the 1991 series ''[[Taz-Mania]]'', in which Taz grabs him by the leg and gets ready to eat him, until the two gators are ready to capture Taz, so he lets the Road Runner go. In another episode of ''Taz-Mania'', the Road Runner cartoons are parodied, with Taz dressed as the Road Runner and the character Willy Wombat dressed as Wile E. Coyote. Willy tries to catch Taz with Acme Roller Skates but fails, and Taz even says "Beep, beep."
Wile E. and the Road Runner would also make an appearance in the 1996 film ''[[Space Jam]]'', where they, along with the read of the ''Looney Tunes'' characters, must win against invading aliens through basketball with the help of [[Michael Jordan]]. They would also appear in its 2021 sequel ''[[Space Jam: A New Legacy]]''.
Wile E. and the Road Runner would return to theatrical shorts in toddler form in the 2000 theatrical short ''[[Little Go Beep]]'', and later in ''[[Baby Looney Tunes]]'', but only in songs. However, they both had made a cameo in the episode "Are We There Yet?", where the Road Runner was seen out the window of Floyd's car with Wile E. chasing him.
Wile E. Coyote had a cameo as the true identity of an alien hunter (a parody of ''[[Predator (alien)|Predator]]'') in the ''[[Duck Dodgers (TV series)|Duck Dodgers]]'' episode "K-9 Quarry", voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]]. In that episode, he was hunting Martian Commander X-2 and K-9. He is also temporary as a member of Agent Roboto's Legion of Duck Doom from the previous season in another episode.
In ''[[Loonatics Unleashed]]'', Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner's 28th century descendants are Tech E. Coyote (voiced by [[Kevin Michael Richardson]]) and Rev Runner (voiced by [[Rob Paulsen]]). Tech E. Coyote was the tech expert of the Loonatics (influenced by the past cartoons with many of the machines ordered by Wile E. from [[Acme Corporation|Acme]]), and has magnetic hands and the ability to molecularly regenerate himself (influenced by the many times in which Wile E. painfully failed to capture the Road Runner and then was shown to have miraculously recovered). Tech E. Coyote speaks, but does not have a transatlantic accent as Wile E. Coyote did. Rev Runner is also able to talk, though extremely rapidly, and can fly without the use of [[jet pack]]s, which are used by other members of the Loonatics. He also has sonic speed, also a take-off of the Road Runner. The pair get on rather well, despite the number of gadgets Tech designs in order to stop Rev from talking, also they have their moments where they do not get along. When friendship is shown it is often only from Rev to Tech, not the other way around, this could, however, be attributed to the fact that Tech has only the barest minimum of social skills. They are both portrayed as smart, but Tech is the better inventor and at times Rev is shown doing stupid things. References to their ancestors' past are seen in the episode "Family Business" where the other Road Runners are wary of Tech and Tech relives the famous falling gags done in the Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner shorts.
The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote feature in 3D computer-animated cartoons or cartoon animation in the [[Cartoon Network]] TV series ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''. The CGI shorts were only included in Season 1, but Wile E. and the Road Runner still appeared throughout the series in 2D animation.
Wile E. Coyote also appears in the TV series ''[[New Looney Tunes|Wabbit]]'', voiced by [[J. P. Karliak]], in a similar vein to his previous pairings with Bugs Bunny. He appears as Bugs' annoying know-it-all neighbor who always uses his inventions to compete with Bugs. The Road Runner began making appearances when the series was renamed ''New Looney Tunes'' in 2017.
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner both appear in their own cartoon shorts in the [[Max (streaming service)|HBO Max]] streaming series ''[[Looney Tunes Cartoons]]''.
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner make occasional appearances in the preschool educational series ''[[Bugs Bunny Builders]]''. Wile E. (voiced by [[Keith Ferguson (voice actor)|Keith Ferguson]]) has a minor supporting role in the series in which he often helps the Looney Builders out with their plans, often using some of his inventions. In the episode "Looney Science", Wile E. has the Looney Builders build him a science museum to show off his inventions, but the Road Runner keeps constantly distracting him.<ref>{{cite web |date=14 June 2022 |title=Trailer: 'Bugs Bunny Builders' Breaks Ground on Cartoonito July 25 |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/trailer-bugs-bunny-builders-breaks-ground-on-cartoonito-july-25/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614135517/https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/trailer-bugs-bunny-builders-breaks-ground-on-cartoonito-july-25/ |archive-date=14 June 2022 |access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref>
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner appear in the ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' reboot, ''[[Tiny Toons Looniversity]]'', as well as their protégés from the original series Calamity Coyote and Little Beeper. In this series Wile E. is the science professor at Acme Looniversity rather than the dean. In the episode "General Hogspital", Wile E. develops a potion that makes toons lose their looney DNA to try and finally catch the Road Runner, only for it to backfire and pollute the campus water supply.
===3-D shorts===
The characters appeared in seven 3-D shorts attached to Warner Bros. features. Three have been screened with features, while the rest serve as segments in [[list of The Looney Tunes Show episodes#Season 1 (2011–12)|season 1]] of ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''. A short called ''Flash in the Pain'' was shown on the web in 2014, but was not shown in theaters until 2016, when the movie ''[[Storks (film)|Storks]]'' premiered.
==''Coyote vs. Acme''==
{{Main article|Coyote vs. Acme}}
In late 2018, it was announced that [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] were developing a [[live-action animated film]] centered on Wile E. Coyote titled ''[[Coyote vs. Acme]]'', produced by [[Warner Animation Group]], with ''[[The Lego Batman Movie]]'' director [[Chris McKay]] on board to produce.<ref name="Coyote">{{cite news |last1=McNary |first1=Dave |date=August 29, 2018 |title=Coyote vs. Acme Gives Wile E. Coyote His Own Looney Tunes Movie |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/974793-coyote-vs-acme-gives-wile-e-coyote-his-own-looney-tunes-movie |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829023521/http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/974793-coyote-vs-acme-gives-wile-e-coyote-his-own-looney-tunes-movie |archive-date=August 29, 2018 |access-date=August 29, 2018 |work=ComingSoon.net}}</ref><ref name="CoyotevsAcme">{{cite web |last=Donnelly |first=Matt |date=December 17, 2019 |title=Warner Bros.' Wile E. Coyote Movie Sets Dave Green to Direct (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/looney-tunes-coyote-v-acme-director-dave-green-warner-bros-1203440879/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217234514/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/looney-tunes-coyote-v-acme-director-dave-green-warner-bros-1203440879/ |archive-date=December 17, 2019 |access-date=December 18, 2019 |work=[[Variety (magazine) |Variety]]}}</ref> The film is said to be based on ''[[The New Yorker]]'' short story "Coyote v. Acme" by author [[Ian Frazier]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Frazier |first=Ian |date=February 26, 1990 |title=Coyote v. Acme |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016032705/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme |archive-date=October 16, 2018 |access-date=October 15, 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> Published in 1990, the piece imagined a lawsuit brought about by Wile E. Coyote against the Acme Company who provided him with various devices and tools to aid in his pursuit of the Road Runner. The devices frequently malfunctioned, leading to the humorous failures, injuries, and sight gags for which the Road Runner cartoons are known.<ref>{{cite web |title=Looney Tunes Movie Coyote vs. Acme Sets 2023 Release Date |url=https://comicbook.com/movies/news/looney-toons-coyote-vs-acme-2023-release-date-warner-bros/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121014011/https://comicbook.com/movies/news/looney-toons-coyote-vs-acme-2023-release-date-warner-bros/ |archive-date=2022-01-21 |access-date=2021-09-23 |website=Movies}}</ref> Jon and Josh Silberman were originally set to write the screenplay.<ref name="Coyote" /> On December 18, 2019, it was reported that [[Dave Green (director)|Dave Green]] would direct the project.<ref name="CoyotevsAcme" /> It was also reported that the project was looking for a new writer, with Jon and Josh Silberman instead co-producing the film alongside McKay.<ref name="CoyotevsAcme" /> However, by December 2020, McKay departed the project, while Jon and Josh Silberman left their roles as producers and resumed their screenwriting roles, with Samy Burch, [[Jeremy Slater]], and [[James Gunn]] scheduled to write its screenplay. Gunn would have also co-produced the project alongside [[Christopher DeFaria|Chris DeFaria]]. It was later announced that the film was scheduled to be released on July 21, 2023.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rubin |first1=Rebecca |date=23 December 2020 |title=Warner Bros. to Release 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Prequel and 'The Color Purple' Musical in Theaters in 2023 |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/warner-bros-mad-max-fury-road-color-purple-1234874609/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224022908/https://variety.com/2020/film/news/warner-bros-mad-max-fury-road-color-purple-1234874609/ |archive-date=24 December 2020 |access-date=28 December 2020 |website=[[Variety (magazine) |Variety]]}}</ref>
In February 2022, it was announced that professional wrestler [[John Cena]] would star in the film.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=February 16, 2022 |title=John Cena To Star In Looney Tunes Live-Action/Animated Hybrid Pic 'Coyote Vs. Acme' |url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/john-cena-warner-bros-coyote-vs-acme-1234935112/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217015515/https://deadline.com/2022/02/john-cena-warner-bros-coyote-vs-acme-1234935112/amp/ |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |access-date=February 17, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref> In March 2022, [[Will Forte]] and [[Lana Condor]] were added to the cast.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kroll |first=Justin |date=March 9, 2022 |title=Will Forte And Lana Condor To Co-Star With John Cena In Looney Tunes Live-Action/Animated Hybrid Pic 'Coyote Vs. Acme' |url=https://deadline.com/2022/03/will-forte-lana-condor-john-cena-looneytunes-coyote-vs-acme-1234974670/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310203712/https://deadline.com/2022/03/will-forte-lana-condor-john-cena-looneytunes-coyote-vs-acme-1234974670/ |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |access-date=March 9, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref> On April 26, 2022, it was taken off the release schedule with ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'' taking over its original release date.<ref>{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=April 26, 2022 |title=''Barbie'' Heads To Summer 2023 – CinemaCon |url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/barbie-coyote-vs-acme-release-date-1235010330/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426234202/https://deadline.com/2022/04/barbie-coyote-vs-acme-release-date-1235010330/ |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |access-date=8 June 2023 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref> Despite its completion by November 9, 2023, it was announced that its theatrical and public release would be cancelled, with the company taking an approximately US$30 million [[tax write-off]] for the film. Consistent with its long-term [[development hell|production issues]] and delays, Green later expressed his views on the decision:
{{blockquote|I am beyond proud of the final product, and beyond devastated by WB's decision. But in the spirit of Wile E. Coyote, resilience and persistence win the day.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coyote vs. Acme Director Voices Out Disappointment over Cancelation |date=10 November 2023 |url=https://www.cbr.com/coyote-vs-acme-director-cancelation/}}</ref><ref name="shelved">{{cite web |title='Coyote Vs. Acme': Finished Live/Action Animated Pic Shelved Completely By Warner Bros As Studio Takes $30M Tax Write-off |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |work=Deadline |date=November 9, 2023 |accessdate=November 9, 2023 |url=https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-shelved-warner-bros-discovery-writeoff-david-zaslav-1235598676/}}</ref>}}
However, four days later, the decision was reversed. Later that day, it was reported that Warner Bros. would instead allow the crew behind ''Coyote vs. Acme'' to shop out the film to other possible distributors, with [[Apple TV+]], [[Netflix]], and [[Amazon MGM Studios]] being among its potential buyers.<ref>{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=13 November 2023 |title='Coyote Vs. Acme': Warner Bros Setting Up Screenings For Streamers Of Axed Looney Tunes Film; Amazon A Prime Candidate – The Dish |url=https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-amazon-apple-streamer-acquisition-1235601190/ |access-date=19 November 2023 |website=Deadline}}</ref> Due to the company's handling of the matter, U.S. Congressman [[Joaquin Castro]] called for a federal investigation regarding the film's initial cancellation and tax-write off plan, stemming from possible violations of [[antitrust]] guidelines.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 13, 2023 |title=Congressman Slams Warner Bros. for Cancelling Coyote vs. Acme, Calls for Federal Investigation |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coyote-vs-acme-warners-investigation-1235647011/ |magazine=Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
On December 8, it was reported that the film had been screened to [[Paramount Pictures]], Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and [[Sony Pictures]]. Netflix and Paramount made bids for the rights to the film, with the latter planning to release it theatrically. Amazon considered making a formal bid, while Sony and Apple declined the offer to bid.<ref>{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=2023-12-08 |title=''Coyote Vs. Acme'': Paramount Circling; Amazon Still Possible Contender – The Dish |url=https://deadline.com/2023/12/coyote-vs-acme-paramount-amazon-contenders-1235658240/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
On December 31, [[Eric Bauza]] unveiled an official screenshot of the film on social media, depicting Wile E. Coyote and his lawyer seated in the courtroom, all while the film continued to search for a new distributor.
In March 2025, [[Ketchup Entertainment]] acquired the rights to the film after previously doing so with ''[[The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie]]''. The film is set to be released on August 28, 2026.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/coyote-vs-acme-release-date-1236471190/|first=Adam B.|last=Vary |website=Variety|title='Coyote vs. Acme' Lands August 2026 Release Date, Footage Debuts at Comic-Con Despite Acme Corp. Meddling|date=July 26, 2025|access-date=July 26, 2025}}</ref>
==Spin-offs and other media==
The coyote appears separately as an occasional antagonist of [[Bugs Bunny]] in five shorts from 1952 to 1963: ''[[Operation: Rabbit]]'', ''[[To Hare Is Human]]'', ''[[Rabbit's Feat]]'', ''[[Compressed Hare]]'', and ''[[Hare-Breadth Hurry]]''. While he is generally silent in the Wile E. Coyote – Road Runner shorts, he speaks with a [[Good American Speech|refined accent]] in these solo outings (except for ''[[Hare-Breadth Hurry]]''), beginning with 1952's ''[[Operation: Rabbit]]'', introducing himself as "Wile E. Coyote, (Super) Genius", voiced by [[Mel Blanc]]. ''Hare-Breadth Hurry'' in particular stands out as the short uses the framework of a typical Road Runner cartoon, but with Bugs as the substitute since the former had "sprained a giblet cornering a sharp curve the other day."
In another series of Warner Bros. ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons, [[Chuck Jones]] used the character design (model sheets and personality) of Wile E. Coyote as "[[Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog|Ralph Wolf]]". In this series, Ralph continually attempts to steal [[sheep]] from a flock being guarded by the eternally vigilant Sam Sheepdog. As with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote series, Ralph Wolf uses all sorts of wild inventions and schemes to steal the sheep, but he is continually foiled by the [[livestock guardian dog|sheepdog]]. In a move seen by many as a self-referential gag, Ralph Wolf continually tries to steal the sheep not because he is a fanatic (as Wile E. Coyote was), but because it is his job. In every cartoon, he and Sam Sheepdog punch a timeclock and exchange pleasantries, go to work, stop what they are doing to take a lunch break, go back to work and pick up right where they left off, and clock out to go home for the day and exchange pleasantries again, all according to a factory-like blowing whistle. The most obvious difference between the coyote and the [[wolf]], aside from their locales, is that Wile E. has a black nose and Ralph has a red nose.
===Comic books===
Wile E. Coyote was called Kelsey Coyote in his comic book debut, a [[Henery Hawk]] story in ''Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies'' #91 (May 1949). He only made a couple of other appearances at this time and did not have his official name yet, as it was not used until 1952 (in ''[[Operation: Rabbit]]'', his second appearance).<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Beck |editor1-first=Jerry |title=The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons |date=2020 |publisher=Insight Editions |isbn=978-1-64722-137-9 |page=73}}</ref>
The first appearance of the Road Runner in a comic book was in ''Bugs Bunny Vacation Funnies'' #8 (August 1958) published by [[Dell Comics]]. The feature is titled "Beep Beep the Road Runner" and the story "Desert Dessert". It presents itself as the first meeting between Beep Beep and Wile E. (whose mailbox reads "Wile E. Coyote, Inventor and Genius"), and introduces the Road Runner's wife, Matilda, and their three newly hatched sons (though Matilda soon disappeared from the comics). This story established the convention that the Road Runner family talked in rhyme, a convention that also appeared in early children's book adaptations of the cartoons.
Dell initially published a dedicated "Beep Beep the Road Runner" comic as part of ''[[Four Color Comics]]'' #918, 1008, and 1046 before launching a separate series for the character numbered #4–14 (1960–1962), with the three try-out issues counted as the first three numbers. After a hiatus, [[Gold Key Comics]] took over the character with issues #1–88 (1966–1984). During the 1960s, the artwork was done by [[Pete Alvarado]] and [[Phil DeLara]], from 1966 to 1969, the Gold Key issues consisted of Dell reprints. Afterward, new stories began to appear, initially drawn by Alvarado and De Lara before Jack Manning became the main artist for the title. New and reprinted Beep Beep stories also appeared in ''[[Golden Comics Digest]]'' and Gold Key's revival of ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' in the 1970s. During this period, Wile E.'s middle name was revealed to be "Ethelbert"<ref name="Newsfromme.com" /> in the story "The Greatest of E's" in issue #53 (cover-dated September 1975) of [[Gold Key Comics]]' licensed comic book ''Beep Beep the Road Runner''.<ref>Evanier, ''News from Me'': "[[Mike Maltese]] had been occasionally writing the comics in semi-retirement before me, but when he dropped the 'semi' part, I got the job and that was one of the plots I came up with. For the record, the story was drawn by a terrific artist named Jack Manning, and Mr. Maltese complimented me on it. Still, I wouldn't take that as any official endorsement of the Coyote's middle name. If you want to say the Coyote's middle name is Ethelbert, fine. I mean, it's not like someone's going to suddenly whip out Wile E.'s actual birth certificate and yell, 'Aha! Here's incontrovertible proof!' But like I said, I never imagined anyone would take it as part of the official 'canon' of the character. If I had, I'd have said the 'E' stood for Evanier."</ref>
The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote also make appearances in the [[DC Comics]] ''Looney Tunes'' title. Wile E. was able to speak in some of his appearances in the DC comics.
In 2017, DC Comics featured a ''Looney Tunes'' and DC Comics crossovers that reimagined the characters in a darker style. The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote had a crossover with the intergalactic bounty hunter [[Lobo (DC Comics)|Lobo]] in ''Lobo/Road Runner Special'' #1. In this version, the Road Runner, Wile E., and other Looney Tunes characters are reimagined as standard animals who were experimented upon with alien DNA at Acme to transform them into their cartoon forms. In the back-up story, done in more traditional cartoon style, Lobo tries to hunt down the Road Runner, but is limited by Bugs to be more kid-friendly in his language and approach.<ref>''Lobo/Road Runner Special'' #1</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sagers |first1=Aaron |title=Exclusive Preview: DC Comics' Lobo/Road Runner Special #1 |publisher=Syfy |date=June 20, 2017 |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/exclusive-preview-dc-comics-loboroad-runner-special-1 |access-date=July 2, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625045813/http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/exclusive-preview-dc-comics-loboroad-runner-special-1 |archive-date=June 25, 2017}}</ref>
=== Video games ===
Many Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner-themed video games have been produced:
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* ''[[Road Runner (game)|Road Runner]]'' (arcade game by [[Atari Games]])
* ''Electronic Road Runner'' (self-contained LCD game from Tiger Electronics released in 1990)
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' ([[Game Boy]] game by [[Sunsoft]])
* ''[[The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle]]'' (NES/Game Boy game by [[Kemco]])
* ''[[The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2]]'' (Game Boy game by [[Kemco]])
* ''[[The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout]]'' (NES game by [[Kemco]])
* ''[[Road Runner's Death Valley Rally]]'' ([[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]] game by [[Sunsoft]])
* ''Wile E. Coyote's Revenge'' ([[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]] game by [[Sunsoft]])
* ''[[Desert Speedtrap]]'' ([[Game Gear]] and [[Master System]] game by [[Sega]]/[[Probe Entertainment|Probe Software]])
* ''[[Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3]]'' (Game Boy game by Kemco)
* ''[[Desert Demolition]]'' ([[Mega Drive|Mega Drive/Genesis]] game by [[Sega]]/[[BlueSky Software]])
* ''[[Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf]]'' (for the original [[PlayStation]] and published by Infogrames, actually based on the [[Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog]] cartoons, but the Road Runner does make two [[cameo appearance]]s)
* ''[[Looney Tunes B-Ball]]'' (Wile E. is a playable character)
* ''[[Space Jam (video game)|Space Jam]]''
* ''[[Looney Tunes Racing]]'' (Wile E. is a playable character. The Road Runner is also seen in the game as a non-playable character.)
* ''[[Taz Express]]'' ([[Nintendo 64]]) game published by [[Infogrames]] (Wile E. is an antagonist)
* ''[[Taz: Wanted]]'' (Wile E. appears)
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action (video game)|Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' (published by [[Electronic Arts]])
* ''Looney Tunes Double Pack'' (published by [[Majesco Entertainment]], developed by [[WayForward|WayForward Technologies]], where "Acme Antics" is the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner half of the double pack)
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Space Race]]'' (Wile E. is a playable character)
* ''[[Looney Tunes Acme Arsenal]]'' (Wile E. has his own level in the PS2 version)
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor]]''
* ''[[Looney Tunes Dash]]'' (iOS and Android game)
* ''Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem'' (iOS and Android game)
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==Filmography==
The series consists of:
* 49 shorts, mostly about six to nine minutes long, but including four web cartoons which are "three-minute, three-dimensional cartoons in widescreen (scope)".<ref name="forum.blueguerilla.org">{{cite web |title=blueguerilla.org :: View topic - Looney Tunes exclusive clip: Coyote Falls |url=https://bg.blueguerilla.org/viewtopic.php?p=142221 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027022729/http://forum.blueguerilla.org/viewtopic.php?p=142221 |archive-date=October 27, 2015 |access-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref>
* One half-hour special released theatrically (26 minutes).
* Four feature-length films that combine [[live action]] and animation.
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!rowspan="2"| #
!rowspan="2"| Release date
!rowspan="2"| Title
!rowspan="2"| Duration
!colspan="2"| Credits
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! Story/writing
! Direction
|-
| 1
| {{Start date|1949|9|17}}
| ''[[Fast and Furry-ous]]''
| 6:55
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>(credited as [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]])
|-
| 2
| {{Start date|1952|5|24}}
| ''[[Beep, Beep (film)|Beep, Beep]]''
| 6:45
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
|-
| 3
| {{Start date|1952|8|23}}
| ''[[Going! Going! Gosh!]]''
| 6:25
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
|-
| 4
| {{Start date|1953|9|19}}
| ''[[Zipping Along]]''
| 6:55
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
|-
| 5
| {{Start date|1954|8|14}}
| ''[[Stop! Look! And Hasten!]]''
| 7:00
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
|-
| 6
| {{Start date|1955|4|30}}
| ''[[Ready, Set, Zoom!]]''
| 6:55
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
|-
| 7
| {{Start date|1955|12|10}}
| ''[[Guided Muscle]]''
| 6:40
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
|-
| 8
| {{Start date|1956|5|5}}
| ''[[Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z]]''
| 6:35
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]]
|-
| 9
| {{Start date|1956|11|10}}
| ''[[There They Go-Go-Go!]]''
| 6:35
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 10
| {{Start date|1957|1|26}}
| ''[[Scrambled Aches]]''
| 6:50
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 11
| {{Start date|1957|9|14}}
| ''[[Zoom and Bored]]''
| 6:15
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 12
| {{Start date|1958|4|12}}
| ''[[Whoa, Be-Gone!]]''
| 6:10
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 13
| {{Start date|1958|10|11}}
| ''[[Hook, Line and Stinker]]''
| 5:55
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 14
| {{Start date|1958|12|6}}
| ''[[Hip Hip-Hurry!]]''
| 6:13
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 15
| {{Start date|1959|5|9}}
| ''[[Hot-Rod and Reel!]]''
| 6:25
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 16
| {{Start date|1959|10|10}}
| ''[[Wild About Hurry]]''
| 6:45
| [[Michael Maltese]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 17
| {{Start date|1960|1|9}}
| ''[[Fastest with the Mostest]]''
| 7:20
| [[Michael Maltese]] (uncredited)
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 18
| {{Start date|1960|10|8}}
| ''[[Hopalong Casualty]]''
| 6:05
| [[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 19
| {{Start date|1961|1|21}}
| ''[[Zip 'N Snort]]''
| 5:50
| [[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 20
| {{Start date|1961|6|3}}
| ''[[Lickety-Splat]]''
| 6:20
| [[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Abe Levitow]]
|-
| 21
| {{Start date|1961|11|11}}
| ''[[Beep Prepared]]''
| 6:00
| [[John Dunn (animator)|John Dunn]]<br>[[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Maurice Noble]]
|-
| Special
| {{Start date|1962|6|2}}
| style="white-space:nowrap;"|''[[Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography#1960s|Adventures of the Road Runner]]''
| 26:00
| style="white-space:nowrap;"|[[John Dunn (animator)|John Dunn]]<br>[[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Michael Maltese]]<ref name="supercartoons.net">{{cite web |title=Adventures of the Road-Runner |url=https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/866/road-runner-adventures-of-the-road-runner.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118234934/https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/866/road-runner-adventures-of-the-road-runner.html |archive-date=2021-01-18 |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=Super Cartoons}}</ref>
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Maurice Noble]]<br>[[Tom Ray]]<ref name="supercartoons.net" />
|-
| 22
| {{Start date|1962|6|30}}
| ''[[Zoom at the Top]]''
| 6:30
| [[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Maurice Noble]]
|-
| 23
| {{Start date|1963|12|28}}
| ''[[To Beep or Not to Beep]]''<sup>1</sup>
| 6:35
| [[John Dunn (animator)|John Dunn]]<br>[[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Michael Maltese]] (uncredited)<ref name="supercartoons.net" />
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Maurice Noble]]<br>[[Tom Ray]] (uncredited)<ref name="supercartoons.net" />
|-
| 24
| {{Start date|1964|6|6}}
| ''[[War and Pieces]]''
| 6:40
| [[John Dunn (animator)|John Dunn]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Maurice Noble]]
|-
| 25
| {{Start date|1965|1|1}}
| ''[[Zip Zip Hooray!]]''<sup>2</sup>
| 6:15
| [[John Dunn (animator)|John Dunn]]<br>[[Chuck Jones]] (uncredited)<br>[[Michael Maltese]] (uncredited)<ref name="supercartoons.net" />
| [[Chuck Jones]] (uncredited)<br>[[Maurice Noble]]<br>[[Tom Ray]] (uncredited)<ref name="supercartoons.net" />
|-
| 26
| {{Start date|1965|2|1}}
| ''[[Road Runner a Go-Go]]''<sup>2</sup>
| 6:05
| [[John Dunn (animator)|John Dunn]]<br>[[Chuck Jones]] (uncredited)<br>[[Michael Maltese]] (uncredited)<ref name="supercartoons.net" />
| [[Chuck Jones]] (uncredited) <br>[[Maurice Noble]] <br>[[Tom Ray]] (uncredited)<ref name="supercartoons.net" />
|-
| 27
| {{Start date|1965|2|27}}
| ''[[The Wild Chase]]''
| 6:30
| [[Friz Freleng]]<br>[[Cal Howard]]<br>(both uncredited)
| [[Friz Freleng]]<br>[[Hawley Pratt]]
|-
| 28
| {{Start date|1965|7|31}}
| ''[[Rushing Roulette]]''
| 6:20
| David Detiege
| [[Robert McKimson]]
|-
| 29
| {{Start date|1965|8|21}}
| ''[[Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner]]''
| 6:00
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 30
| {{Start date|1965|9|18}}
| ''[[Tired and Feathered]]''
| 6:20
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 31
| {{Start date|1965|10|9}}
| ''[[Boulder Wham!]]''
| 6:30
| [[Len Janson]]
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 32
| {{Start date|1965|10|30}}
| ''[[Just Plane Beep]]''
| 6:45
| Don Jurwich
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 33
| {{Start date|1965|11|13}}
| ''[[Hairied and Hurried]]''
| 6:45
| Nick Bennion
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 34
| {{Start date|1965|12|11}}
| ''[[Highway Runnery]]''
| 6:45
| [[Al Bertino]]
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 35
| {{Start date|1965|12|25}}
| ''[[Chaser on the Rocks]]''
| 6:45
| Tom Dagenais
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 36
| {{Start date|1966|1|8}}
| ''[[Shot and Bothered]]''
| 6:30
| Nick Bennion
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 37
| {{Start date|1966|1|29}}
| ''[[Out and Out Rout]]''
| 6:00
| Dale Hale
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 38
| {{Start date|1966|2|19}}
| ''[[The Solid Tin Coyote]]''
| 6:15
| Don Jurwich
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 39
| {{Start date|1966|3|12}}
| ''[[Clippety Clobbered]]''
| 6:15
| Tom Dagenais
| [[Rudy Larriva]]
|-
| 40
| {{Start date|1966|11|5}}
| ''[[Sugar and Spies]]''
| 6:20
| Tom Dagenais
| [[Robert McKimson]]
|-
| 41
| {{Start date|1979|11|27}}
| ''[[Freeze Frame (1979 film)|Freeze Frame]]''
| 6:05
| John W. Dunn<br>[[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| 42
| {{Start date|1980|5|21}}
| ''[[Soup or Sonic]]''
| 9:10
| [[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]<br>[[Phil Monroe]]
|-
| 43
| {{Start date|1994|12|21}}
| ''[[Chariots of Fur]]''<sup>3</sup>
| 7:00
| [[Chuck Jones]]
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|-
| Film
| {{Start date|1996|11|15}}
| ''[[Space Jam]]''
| 1:27:00
| [[Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick|Leo Benvenuti]]<br>[[Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick|Steve Rudnick]]<br>[[Timothy Harris (writer)|Timothy Harris]]
| [[Joe Pytka]]
|-
| 44
| {{Start date|2000|11|6}}
| ''[[Little Go Beep]]''
| 7:55
| Kathleen Helppie-Shipley<br>Earl Kress
| [[Spike Brandt]]
|-
| 45
| {{Start date|2003|11|1}}
| ''[[Whizzard of Ow]]''
| 7:00
| Chris Kelly
| [[Bret Haaland]]
|-
| Film
| {{Start date|2003|11|14}}
| ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]''
| 1:31:00
| [[Larry Doyle (writer)|Larry Doyle]]
| [[Joe Dante]]
|-
| 46
| {{Start date|2010|7|30}}
| ''[[Coyote Falls]]''<sup>3</sup>
| 2:59
| Tom Sheppard<ref>{{cite web |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Maltin |date=September 27, 2010 |title=Welcome back, Wile E. |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/welcome_back_wile_e |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023163402/http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/welcome_back_wile_e |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |access-date=February 8, 2012 |work=Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy}}</ref>
| [[Matthew O'Callaghan]]
|-
| 47
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |{{Start date|2010|9|24}}
| ''[[Fur of Flying]]''<sup>3</sup>
| 3:03<ref name="BBFC">{{cite web |title=Fur of Flying |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/fur-of-flying-film-qxnzzxq6vlgtoty1nti0 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122215316/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/fur-of-flying-film-qxnzzxq6vlgtoty1nti0 |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |access-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref>
| Tom Sheppard
| style="white-space:nowrap;" | [[Matthew O'Callaghan]]<ref name="BBFC" />
|-
| 48
| {{Start date|2010|12|17}}
| ''[[Rabid Rider]]''<sup>3</sup>
| 3:07
| Tom Sheppard
| [[Matthew O'Callaghan]]
|-
| 49
| {{Start date|2014|6|10}}
| ''[[Flash in the Pain]]''<ref name="VarietyFranceEmerging">{{cite news |last1=Hopewell |first1=John |date=June 9, 2014 |title=Studios, France, Emerging Industries Energize Annecy |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/markets-festivals/studios-france-emerging-industries-energize-annecy-1201216458/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307205905/https://variety.com/2014/film/markets-festivals/studios-france-emerging-industries-energize-annecy-1201216458/ |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |access-date=February 6, 2017 |work=Variety}}</ref><ref name="ReelFXLiveAnnecy">{{cite web |date=June 11, 2014 |title=Reel FX Live from Annecy! |url=https://www.reelfx.com/news/item/live-from-annexy-reel-fx-is-a-trifecta |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140624201453/http://www.reelfx.com/news/item/live-from-annexy-reel-fx-is-a-trifecta |archive-date=June 24, 2014 |access-date=June 24, 2014 |publisher=Reel FX |quote=Peil wrapped up the presentation with the 6th installment in the series of Looney Tunes shorts "Flash in the Pain".}}</ref>
| 3:13
| Tom Sheppard
| [[Matthew O'Callaghan]]
|-
| Film
| {{Start date|2021|7|16}}
| ''[[Space Jam: A New Legacy]]''
| 1:55:00
| Juel Taylor<br>Tony Rettenmaier<br>Keenan Coogler<br>[[Terence Nance]]
| [[Malcolm D. Lee]]
|-
| Film
| {{Start date|2026|8|28}}
| ''[[Coyote vs. Acme]]''
| TBA
| [[James Gunn]]<br>[[Jeremy Slater]]<br>[[Samy Burch]]
| [[Dave Green (director)|Dave Green]]
|}
</div>
<sup>1</sup> Re-edited from ''Adventures of the Road Runner'' by Chuck Jones and with new music direction from Bill Lava
<br><sup>2</sup> Re-edited from ''Adventures of the Road Runner'' by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
<br><sup>3</sup> These cartoons were each shown with a feature-length film. ''[[Chariots of Fur]]'' was shown with ''[[Richie Rich (film)|Richie Rich]]'', ''[[Coyote Falls]]'' was shown with ''[[Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore]]'',<ref name="forum.blueguerilla.org" /> ''[[Fur of Flying]]'' was shown with ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'',<ref name="latinoreview.com">{{cite web |title=latinoreview.com |url=http://www.latinoreview.com/news/looney-tunes-shorts-attached-to-upcoming-family-films-10714 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806105536/http://www.latinoreview.com/news/looney-tunes-shorts-attached-to-upcoming-family-films-10714 |archive-date=August 6, 2010 |access-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref> and ''[[Rabid Rider]]'' was shown with ''[[Yogi Bear (film)|Yogi Bear]]''. ''[[Flash in the Pain]]'' was shown at the [[Annecy International Animated Film Festival]] on June 10, 2014.<ref name="VarietyFranceEmerging" /><ref name="ReelFXLiveAnnecy" />
==Voice actors==
===Wile E. Coyote===
* [[Mel Blanc]] (1949–1989)<ref name="CartoonVoices"/>
* [[Paul Julian (artist)|Paul Julian]] (imitating the Road Runner in ''[[Zipping Along]]'', ''[[Ready, Set, Zoom!]]'', ''[[The Road Runner Show]]'' bumper and ''[[Road Runner's Death Valley Rally]]'')
* [[Joe Alaskey]] (''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', ''Judge Granny''<ref>{{cite web |title=Looney Tunes: Reality Check |website=Behind The Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/Looney-Tunes-Reality-Check/ |access-date=2020-04-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023112539/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/Looney-Tunes-Reality-Check/ |archive-date=2020-10-23}}</ref>)<ref name="Joe Alaskey"/><ref name="Wile E. Coyote at BTVA">{{cite web |title=Voice(s) of Wile E. Coyote |website=Behind the Voice Actors |url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Looney-Tunes/Wile-E-Coyote/ |access-date=2021-04-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010053940/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Looney-Tunes/Wile-E-Coyote/ |archive-date=2021-10-10}}</ref>
* [[Keith Scott (voice actor)|Keith Scott]] (''[[Warner Bros. Movie World|Spectacular Light and Show Illuminanza]]'',<ref name="Illuminanza 2">{{cite web |title=Warner Bros. Movie World Illuminanza |website=Behind The Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/Warner-Bros-Movie-World-Illuminanza/ |access-date=2021-03-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417022426/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/Warner-Bros-Movie-World-Illuminanza/ |archive-date=2021-04-17}}</ref> ''The Looney Tunes Radio Show''<ref name="Radio Show 1">{{cite web |title=That Wascally Wabbit |url=http://www.ianheydon.com/that-wascally-wabbit/ |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317112128/http://www.ianheydon.com/that-wascally-wabbit/ |archive-date=17 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="Radio Show 2">{{cite web |title=The Day I Met Bugs Bunny |publisher=Ian Heydon |url=http://www.ianheydon.com/category/the-day-i-met-bugs-bunny/ |access-date=9 October 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027111532/http://www.ianheydon.com/category/the-day-i-met-bugs-bunny/ |archive-date=27 October 2020}}</ref>)<ref name="Wile E. Coyote at BTVA"/><ref name="scottbio">{{cite web |title=Keith Scott: Down Under's Voice Over Marvel |publisher=Animation World Network |url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/keith-scott-down-unders-voice-over-marvel-0 |access-date=July 2, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702193941/https://www.awn.com/animationworld/keith-scott-down-unders-voice-over-marvel-0 |archive-date=July 2, 2020}}</ref><ref name="scottbio2">[http://www.keithscott.com/bio.html "Keith Scott-"The One-Man Crowd""] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916224159/http://www.keithscott.com/bio.html |date=2020-09-16}}. Retrieved July 2, 2020.</ref>
* [[Bob Bergen]] (''Bugs Bunny's Learning Adventures'')<ref name="Learning Adventures"/>
* [[Seth MacFarlane]] (''[[Family Guy]]'', ''[[Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy]]'')<ref name="Family Guy">{{cite web |title=Voice of Wile E. Coyote in Family Guy |website=Behind The Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Family-Guy/Wile-E-Coyote/ |access-date=2020-04-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412072729/http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Family-Guy/Wile-E-Coyote/ |archive-date=2018-04-12}}</ref><ref name="Cavalcade">{{cite web |title=Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy |website=Behind The Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Seth-MacFarlanes-Cavalcade-of-Cartoon-Comedy/ |access-date=2020-04-20}}</ref>
* [[Dee Bradley Baker]] (''[[Duck Dodgers (TV series)|Duck Dodgers]]'')<ref name="Duck Dodgers"/><ref name="Wile E. Coyote at BTVA"/>
* [[Maurice LaMarche]] (''[[Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor]]'')<ref name="Conductor 1"/><ref name="Wile E. Coyote at BTVA"/>
* [[Jess Harnell]] (''[[The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!]]'')<ref name="Drawn Together">{{cite web |title=The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! |website=Behind the Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/The-Drawn-Together-Movie-The-Movie/ |access-date=2020-04-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203195221/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/The-Drawn-Together-Movie-The-Movie/ |archive-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>
* [[James Arnold Taylor]] (''Scooby Doo and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe'')<ref name="Cartoon Universe"/><ref name="Wile E. Coyote at BTVA"/>
* [[JP Karliak]] (''[[New Looney Tunes]]'')<ref name="Wile E. Coyote
at BTVA"/>
* [[Martin Starr]] (''[[Robot Chicken]]'')<ref name="Robot Chicken 1">{{cite web |title=Voice of Wile E. Coyote in Robot Chicken |website=Behind The Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Robot-Chicken/Wile-E-Coyote/ |access-date=2023-11-23}}</ref>
* [[Eric Bauza]] (''Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem'')<ref name="World of Mayhem">{{cite web |title=Looney Tunes World of Mayhem |website=Behind the Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Looney-Tunes-World-of-Mayhem/ |access-date=2019-11-01 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619154530/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Looney-Tunes-World-of-Mayhem/ |archive-date=2019-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=2023-11-15 |title=''Coyote Vs. Acme'': Lord & Miller, Paul Scheer Catch Early Screening: 'Best Version Of The ''Looney Tunes'' On The Big Screen' |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |url=https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-early-screening-reaction-lord-miller-paul-scheer-1235612560/ |access-date=2023-11-17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117143606/https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-vs-acme-early-screening-reaction-lord-miller-paul-scheer-1235612560/ |archive-date=November 17, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Wile E. Coyote at BTVA"/>
* [[Keith Ferguson (voice actor)|Keith Ferguson]] (''[[Bugs Bunny Builders]]'')<ref name="Wile E. Coyote at BTVA"/>
===The Road Runner===
The voice artist [[Paul Julian (artist)|Paul Julian]] originated the character's voice. Before and after his death, his voice was appearing in various media through archive recordings, for example, in TV series, shorts, and video games, such as 2014's ''[[Looney Tunes Dash]]''. In addition, other voice actors have replaced him. These voice actors are:
* [[Mel Blanc]] (1964 Greeting Card Record,<ref name="Card"/> ''The New Adventures of Bugs Bunny'' (1973), ''Four More Adventures of Bugs Bunny'' (1974),<ref name="Record"/> one beep in ''[[Six Flags Great America|Bugs Bunny's Magic World]]'',<ref name="Magic World">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQCgx-EnpEo&t=614s|title=1978 - Bugs Bunny's Magic World - Marriott's Great America Chicago - Theatre Royale|date=July 12, 2021|publisher=YouTube|access-date=November 13, 2024}}</ref> Mel Blanc Voice Watches,<ref name="Blanc in Merch">{{cite book|title=Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices|isbn=9781593932596|last1=Ohmart|first1=Ben|date=November 15, 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8KCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT225|access-date=23 November 2023 |quote=Mel and WB were/are inseparable. In 1982 he and Noel began a massive recording project at JEL Recording Studios in which Mel recorded the audio for fifty automated stage shows featuring Bugs, Daffy, and the gang, full of dialogue and song. It stemmed from a long-term contract between Warner-Blanc Audio Associates and JEL, under the direction of Noel and Bill Baldwin, Jr. For years, on a weekly basis, these new recordings of Mel's voices were also given to a variety of toys, watches, video games, websites, etc.}}</ref><ref name="Voice Watch">{{cite book|title=Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices|isbn=9781593932596|last1=Ohmart|first1=Ben|date=November 15, 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8KCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT236|access-date=23 November 2023|quote=In 1994, the Blanc estate and Warner Bros. forged a new alliance: the Warner-Blanc Audio Library, which consisted of approximately 550 songs and voices of every character in Mel's repertoire, which he had begun setting down at his multi-track studio in 1958 amid fears of a future when he'd be around no longer to record. 15 hours of new tapes of Mel's material had been discovered in 1996, and Noel expected to find more soon. Of course Mel's death never did diminish his impact on society as a cult icon. New technology has made him fresh for each generation. Around 1998 a line of talking watches featuring Warner characters were released under a joint venture from Warner-Blanc, digitizing some of Mel's vast back catalog to use in new items. The Mel Blanc Voice Watch Collection by Armitron was produced to celebrate what would have been his 90th birthday. Daffy spitting, "You're desthpicable", Tweety chirping, "I tawt I taw a puddy tat", and the ever popular Bugs asking the eternal question, "What's up, doc?" were a few choices emanating for 10 or 15 seconds from a small computer chip and miniature speaker at the press of a button. The price for each: $50.}}</ref> ''Looney Tunes'' Talking Character Wall Clock<ref name="Blanc in Merch"/><ref name="Voice Watch"/>)
* [[Jeff Bergman]] (''Tiny Toon Adventures'' (in the episode "Animaniacs"))<ref name="Jeff Bergman"/>
* [[Seth MacFarlane]] (grunting in ''[[Family Guy]]'', beeping in ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'')
* [[Keith Scott (voice actor)|Keith Scott]] (''[[Road Runner Roller Coaster]]'' commercial,<ref name="demo">{{cite web|title=Keith Scott|publisher=Blah Artists|url=https://www.blah.com.au/artistdetails%26id%3D36|access-date=July 2, 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704084801/https://www.blah.com.au/artistdetails%26id%3D36|archive-date=July 4, 2020}}</ref> ''The Looney Tunes Radio Show''<ref name="Radio Show 1"/><ref name="Radio Show 2"/>)<ref name="scottbio"/><ref name="scottbio2"/><ref name="Road Runner at BTVA">{{cite web |title=Voice(s) of Road Runner |website=Behind the Voice Actors |url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Looney-Tunes/Road-Runner/ |access-date=2021-04-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010053940/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Looney-Tunes/Road-Runner/ |archive-date=2021-10-10}}</ref>
* [[Joe Alaskey]] (''[[Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor]]'')<ref name="Joe Alaskey"/><ref name="Road Runner at BTVA"/>
* [[James Arnold Taylor]] (''[[The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!]]'')<ref name="Drawn Together"/>
* [[Kevin Shinick]] (''[[Mad (TV series)|Mad]]'')<ref name="Mad">{{cite web |title=Voice of Road Runner in Mad |website=Behind The Voice Actors |language=en-US |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Mad/Road-Runner/ |access-date=2020-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022190451/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Mad/Road-Runner/ |archive-date=2021-10-22}}</ref>
* [[Seth Green]] (''[[Robot Chicken]]'')<ref name="Robot Chicken 2">{{cite web |title=Voice of Road Runner in Robot Chicken |website=Behind The Voice Actors |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Robot-Chicken/Road-Runner/ |access-date=2020-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429032802/https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Robot-Chicken/Road-Runner/ |archive-date=2021-04-29}}</ref>
* Unknown (''Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe: Arcade'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEBxaL5tSnc&t=707s|title=Cartoon Universe Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo! - Gameplay Universal [BR]|date=July 21, 2013|publisher=YouTube|access-date=May 12, 2025}}</ref>
* [[Eric Bauza]] (''[[Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi|Ani-Mayhem]]'', ''[[Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi|Fast and Furry-ous]]'', ''Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem'',<ref name="World of Mayhem"/> ''Acme Fools'')<ref name="Road Runner at BTVA"/>
==In popular culture==
[[File:Wile E. Coyote's ACME Instant Tunnel at MIT.jpg|thumb|A mural of Wile E. Coyote smashed into the wall of the Rotch Library at [[MIT]]. Due to differences in floor height in connected buildings, this hallway unexpectedly ends in a wall.]]
In 1959, [[Bo Diddley]] recorded a song titled "[[Road Runner (Bo Diddley song)|Road Runner]]" with the female background singers singing "beep-beep". The song was released in 1960.<ref name="Bo Diddley">{{cite AV media notes|title=His Best (Bo Diddley album)|others=[[Bo Diddley]]|year=1997|url=http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Bo_Diddley_His_Best.html|type=CD liner|publisher=[[Chess Records]]/[[MCA Records]]|id=CHD-9373|___location=[[United States]]|access-date=2010-12-17|archive-date=2011-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916055954/http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Bo_Diddley_His_Best.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The pictorial sleeves for [[Junior Walker|Junior Walker & the Allstars]]' 1966 album ''[[Road Runner (Junior Walker album)|Road Runner]]'' and the single "[[(I'm a) Road Runner]]" depict a running bird similar to the Road Runner character.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2598441-JR-Walker-The-All-Stars-Road-Runner|title=Jr. Walker & The All Stars – Road Runner|date=1966|publisher=Discogs|access-date=July 19, 2025}}</ref>
A clip from the cartoon ''Whoa, Be-Gone!'' was featured in the 1974 [[Steven Spielberg]] film ''[[The Sugarland Express]]'', during a scene at a drive-in theater.<ref name="Influence">{{cite web|last1=Alexander|first1=Vincent|title=The Influence Of Looney Tunes On Live-Action Filmmakers|url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/the-influence-of-looney-tunes-on-live-action-filmmakers-239709.html|date=April 24, 2024|publisher=Cartoon Brew|access-date=May 30, 2025}}</ref><ref name="Lambiek">{{cite web|title=Chuck Jones|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jones_chuck.htm|publisher=Lambiek Comiclopedia|access-date=May 30, 2025}}</ref>
In the ''[[Fraidy Cat (TV series)|Fraidy Cat]]'' episode "Choo-Choo Fraidy", Fraidy Cat meets a coyote named Smile E. Coyote who prefers to not eat Fraidy and instead goes after an overweight jogging roadrunner, clearly parodying the iconic duo.
The 1979 Western comedy film ''[[The Villain (1979 film)|The Villain]]'' is a tribute to the cartoons, reconstructing several famous gags in live action.<ref>{{cite news|last=Siskel|first=Gene|authorlink=Gene Siskel|title='Villain' is like Road Runner, but it isn't funny|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|publisher=[[Tribune Media Services]]|date=July 25, 1979|page=10, s. 3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37073204/gene_siskel_movie_review_the_villain/|access-date=March 13, 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012103307/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37073204/gene_siskel_movie_review_the_villain/|archive-date=October 12, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Influence"/>
There are two scenes in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s 1980 adaptation of ''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]'' where [[Danny Torrance]] and his mother, [[Wendy Torrance]], are watching ''The Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Show''. The chase between Danny and his father, [[Jack Torrance]], is even reminiscent of the Road Runner cartoons, with the former putting his escape tactics (which he learns from watching the cartoons) to good use, and the chase ending with the latter frozen in ice, in a similar manner to Wile E. Coyote's failed attempts to catch the Road Runner.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ager|first1=Rob|title=CHAPTER THREE: CARTOONS AND FAIRY TALES|url=https://www.collativelearning.com/the%20shining%20-%20chap%203.html|publisher=Collative Learning|access-date=May 30, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Nayman|first1=Adam|title='The Shining' Will Turn Us Around and Around, Forever and Ever|url=https://www.theringer.com/2020/05/21/movies/the-shining-legacy-jack-nicholson-room-237|date=May 21, 2020|publisher=The Ringer|access-date=May 30, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Scott|first1=Sam|title=Small Details You Missed In The Shining|url=https://www.looper.com/467039/small-details-you-missed-in-the-shining/|date=July 21, 2021|publisher=Looper|access-date=April 13, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Influence"/> Both Danny and Wendy also watch the cartoon ''Rabbit's Feat'' in [[Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)|Mike Flanagan]]'s 2019 adaptation of ''[[Doctor Sleep (2019 film)|Doctor Sleep]]''.<ref name="Influence"/>
A Wile E. Coyote doll is seen amongst [[Elliott Taylor]]'s toys in the 1982 film ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''.<ref name="Influence"/>
The music videos for [[Twisted Sister]]'s signature songs "[[We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister song)|We're Not Gonna Take It]]" and "[[I Wanna Rock]]" were based heavily on the cartoon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Vyr1TylTE&t=283s|title=Dee Snider's PMRC Senate Hearing Speech (Full)|date=May 4, 2012|publisher=YouTube|access-date=July 19, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister|publisher=Rocking in the Norselands|url=https://norselandsrock.com/were-not-gonna-take-it-twisted-sister/|access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="Lambiek"/>
The Dutch Euro disco/Italo disco duo [[Video Kids]]' song "Sky Rider", from their 1984 album ''[[The Invasion of the Spacepeckers]]'', includes samples of the Road Runner's "beep, beep" sound throughout.
In the ''[[G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1983 TV series)|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' episode "Lights! Camera! Cobra!", [[Shipwreck (G.I. Joe)|Shipwreck]] kicks away a coyote before saying, "Beep, beep!"
The 1986 album ''[[Bares y Fondas]]'' from the Argentine rock group [[Los Fabulosos Cadillacs]] included a track called "Tus Tontas Trampas" ("Your Foolish Traps"), which is sung from the Road Runner's perspective on how Wile E. Coyote is going to kill himself in his attempts to catch him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2083341-Los-Fabulosos-Cadillacs-Bares-Y-Fondas|title=Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – Bares Y Fondas|date=1986|publisher=Discogs|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner appeared in the 1988 Touchstone/Amblin film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''. They are first seen silhouetted by the elevator doors in Toontown, and then in full in the ACME Factory during the final scene with other characters.<ref name="Lambiek"/>
Issue #5 of [[Grant Morrison]]'s run on ''[[Animal Man]]'' contains a story titled "The Coyote Gospel", in which the character, a thinly veiled parody of Wile E. Coyote named Crafty, decides to leave the "cartoon world" as an attempt to escape the seemingly endless cycle of violence. He is also pursued by a deceased truck driver's vengeful friend, who believes that he is the devil.<ref name="Coyote Gospel">{{Citation|last=Irvine|first=Alex|author-link=Alexander C. Irvine|contribution=Animal Man|editor-last=Dougall|editor-first=Alastair|title=The Vertigo Encyclopedia|pages=27|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|place=New York|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7566-4122-1|oclc=213309015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title="The Coyote Gospel": A Gospel As According to Grant Morrison|url=https://shelfdust.com/2019/03/13/the-coyote-gospel-a-gospel-as-according-to-grant-morrison/|date=March 13, 2019|publisher=Shelfdust|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Let's Talk About Grant Morrison's Animal Man|url=https://www.youdontreadcomics.com/articles/2019/11/7/lets-talk-about-grant-morrisons-animal-man|date=November 7, 2019|publisher=You Don't Read Comics|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref> It was nominated for an [[Eisner Award]] for [[Eisner Award for Best Single Issue/One-Shot|Best Single Issue]].
In [[Weird Al Yankovic]]'s film ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', a depressed George Newman introduces a Road Runner cartoon on "Uncle Nutsy's Clubhouse" as a "sad and depressing tale of a pathetic coyote in the futile pursuit of a sadistic roadrunner, who mocks him and laughs at him as he's repeatedly crushed and maimed!"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-quYXU0hGfE|title=UHF - Road Runner|date=May 28, 2009|publisher=YouTube|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
Humorist [[Ian Frazier]] created the mock-legal prose piece "Coyote v. Acme",<ref>Frazier, Ian, "[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme Coyote v. Acme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016032705/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme|date=2018-10-16}}", ''[[The New Yorker]]'', February 26, 1990, p. 42.</ref> which is included in a book of the same name.<ref>{{cite book|last=Frazier|first=Ian|title=Coyote v. Acme|publisher=Picador USA|year=2002|isbn=0312420587|edition=1st|___location=New York|oclc=47995755}}</ref>
Wile E. Coyote appeared in an episode of ''[[Night Court]]'' (Season 7, Episode 22: ''Sill Another Day in the Life'') in which Judge Harold T. Stone ([[Harry Anderson]]) found him guilty of harassment and told him to leave the Road Runner alone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh1pZqmxvmM|title=Wile E. Coyote on Night Court|date=July 12, 2009|publisher=YouTube|access-date=June 14, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517152858/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh1pZqmxvmM|archive-date=May 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Palace|first1=Steve|title=Night Court: Judge These Facts About The Sitcom For Yourself|url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2021/07/29/night-court-judge-these-facts-about-the-sitcom-for-yourself/|date=July 29, 2021|publisher=The Vintage News|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
In 1990, Brazilian thrash metal band [[Chakal]] recorded the song "Acme Dead End Road" as part of their album, ''The Man Is His Own Jackal''. The song begins with the Road Runner's "beep, beep" sound.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Catálogo Cogumelo 30 anos|year=2012|publisher=Cogumelo Records|page=83}}</ref><ref name="Lambiek"/>
In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Homer Alone]]", [[Homer Simpson]] chases [[Bart Simpson]] around the house. During the chase, they are each freeze framed and subtitled with their mock latin names, reading "BART (Brat'us Don'thaveacow'us)" and "HOMER (Homo Neanderthal'us)". In the episode "[[Bart's Inner Child]]", Homer is trying to push a trampoline off a cliff, an obvious reference to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The episode "[[Realty Bites]]" featured attempts by [[List of recurring characters from The Simpsons#Snake|Snake]] to recover his car from Homer; one of these is to set up a wire across a road to decapitate Homer as he drives by. The wire is supplied by "Acme". The episode "[[The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show]]" featured the voice actress for [[Itchy and Scratchy]], June Bellamy (a parody of [[June Foray]]), who claimed to have done the "Beep!" for the Road Runner, being paid for only one, which the producers then doubled up. Wile E. Coyote appeared during the [[The Simpsons opening sequence|couch gag]] in the episode "[[Smoke on the Daughter]]" in which he paints a fake couch on the living room wall which the [[Simpson family]] run into. [[Maggie Simpson]] then zooms in and imitates the Road Runner's "beep, beep" noise. The Road Runner appeared in the episode "[[Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion]]" during a dream sequence in which he is attacked and eaten by the [[El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)|Space Coyote]].
In 1992–1998, French-Italian dance project Cartoons used Wile E. Coyote on the covers of their albums. They also released the song "Beep-Beep", which contains samples from the cartoons. The song was produced by Pin-Occhio and written by Giuliano Saglia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/716086-Various-Cartoons-Techno-Melodies|title=Various – Cartoons Techno... Melodies?|date=1992|publisher=Discogs|access-date=July 19, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4370708-Cartoons-3-Featuring-Pin-Occhio-Beep-Beep|title=Cartoons Featuring Pin-Occhio – Beep-Beep|date=1993|publisher=Discogs|access-date=July 19, 2025}}</ref>
In the 1992 film ''[[Under Siege]]'', "Road Runner" is the code name of the renegade former CIA operative William Strannix, played by [[Tommy Lee Jones]], in a reference to the fact that the character is never captured.
Wile E. Coyote has appeared twice in ''[[Family Guy]]'': his first episode, "[[I Never Met the Dead Man]]", depicts him riding in a car with [[Peter Griffin]]. When Peter runs over the Road Runner and asks if he hit "that [[ostrich]]", Wile E. tells him to keep going.<ref name="TV Critic">{{cite web|title=Episode 2: I Never Met The Dead Man|last=Pierson|first=Robin|work=The TV Critic|date=August 7, 2009|url=http://thetvcritic.org/reviews/comedies/family-guy/season-39/i-never-met-the-dead-man/|access-date=2011-10-23|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901005711/http://thetvcritic.org/reviews/comedies/family-guy/season-39/i-never-met-the-dead-man/|archive-date=2020-09-01}}</ref> His second appearance was in "[[PTV (Family Guy)|PTV]]", in which Wile E. attempts to get a refund for a giant-sized slingshot at an ACME retailer where Peter works. The DVD-exclusive episode "[[Partial Terms of Endearment]]" features a gag that parodies the Wile E./Road Runner cartoons where Peter attempts to drop a boulder on Lois to terminate her pregnancy; in place of the usual free bird seed, he lures her with free ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' DVDs.
The [[Tom Smith (filker)|Tom Smith]] song "Operation: Desert Storm", which won a [[Pegasus award]] for Best Fool Song in 1999, is about the different ways Wile E. Coyote's plans fail.<ref>{{cite web|title=The FuMP: Operation: Desert Storm by Tom Smith|url=https://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1310|access-date=December 16, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111183341/https://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1310|archive-date=January 11, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Lambiek"/> Guitarist [[Mark Knopfler]] recorded a song called "Coyote" in homage to Wile E. and the Road Runner on the 2002 album ''[[The Ragpicker's Dream]]''.<ref name="Lambiek"/>
In the book ''[[Thief of Time]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]], a character performs "the Stance of the Coyote": stopping a fall in mid-air.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Breebaart|first=Leo|date=2016-08-24|title=The Annotated Pratchett File 9.0|url=https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/thief-of-time.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250304235425/http://www.lspace.org:80/books/apf/thief-of-time.html|archive-date=2025-03-04|access-date=2025-04-15|website=The L-Space Web}}</ref>
In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''[[The Crooked World]]'', one of the inhabitants of the planet is the Watchamacallit, a parody of the Road Runner.<ref name="Doctor Who">{{cite web|last1=Wolverson|first1=E.G.|title=The Crooked World|url=http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk/EDA57.htm|website=Doctor Who Reviews|access-date=14 June 2025|archive-date=5 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205012154/http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk/EDA57.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In the ''[[Bounty Hamster]]'' episode "Just Deserts", Marion is seen flipping through an Acme (here referred to as "Acmee") catalogue, and uses its products to get Cassie back, only to fail. Wile E. Coyote (coloured grey here) shows up and comments that after 30 years, he has finally learnt not to buy from the same brand; however, one of the Acmee products, a giant catapult, falls onto him immediately after, followed by a boulder.
In the 2004 film ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'', the scene in which Sing is chased by the Landlady as he flees from Pigsty Alley is a homage to the cartoons.<ref name="Kung Fu">{{cite web|last1=Tucker|first1=Ken|title=Kicking and Screaming|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/11636/|date=March 30, 2005|publisher=New York Magazine|access-date=May 30, 2025}}</ref><ref name="Lambiek"/>
In the ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?]]'' episode "New Mexico, Old Monster," Wile E. and the Road Runner make a cameo appearance where they are seen outside the Mystery Machine's window. The Road Runner beeps at [[Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby-Doo]], and following a failed attempt by Wile E., a confused Scooby turns to the camera and says "Beep, beep?"
In the ''[[Teen Titans (animated series)|Teen Titans]]'' episode, "Episode 257-494", which featured the heroes trapped in a television world, [[Beast Boy]], having morphed into a perfect Wile E. Coyote look-alike and described "Animalus Switcheroonus", chases Control Freak, or "Couchus Potaticus". In the subsequent sequence, the disguised Beast Boy falls off a cliff just as Wile E. frequently does, complete with a "Help" sign.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNWBF4wGHY|title=Teen Titans - Wile E. Coyote|date=December 16, 2014|publisher=YouTube|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
[[Bell X1 (band)|Bell X1]]'s song "One Stringed Harp" from their 2009 album ''[[Blue Lights on the Runway]]'' includes the lyric ''"Like Wile E. Coyote/As if the fall wasn't enough/Those bastards from Acme/They got more nasty stuff"''.
The Road Runner appeared in the [[Pilot (The Cleveland Show)|pilot episode]] of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' in which Peter Griffin straps a rocket to his back in a similar fashion of Wile E. Coyote and attempts to catch the Road Runner, only to wreck [[Cleveland Brown]]'s house again, prompting Cleveland to finally decide to leave Quahog.
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner appeared in ''[[Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy]]'' in the short "Die, Sweet Roadrunner, Die". In this short, Wile E. crushes the Road Runner with a large boulder and eats him, but then struggles to find purpose in life, having not trained for anything else other than chasing the Road Runner. Ultimately, after a short-lived job as a waiter in a local diner, and a suicide attempt (by way of catapulting himself into a mountain at close range), Wile E. finally realizes what he is to do with his life, and reveals he is now an advocate for Christianity.
During a scene in ''[[The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!]]'', the ''[[Drawn Together]]'' cast accidentally run over and kill the Road Runner with [[List of Drawn Together characters|Foxxy Love]]'s van. Upon noticing this, Wile E. Coyote runs up to the Road Runner's corpse and declares "Without you, my life really has no meaning", before shooting himself with a [[novelty item|"Bang!" flag gun]].
The French-South Korean television series ''[[Oscar's Oasis]]'' is heavily inspired by the cartoons, with the action taking place in a desert and containing several chase scenes; the characters also often fall off a cliff in a similar manner to Wile E.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stuart|first=Alexander|title=Oscar's Oasis Rules!|url=https://www.alexanderstuart.com/2013/11/oscars-oasis-rules.html|date=November 24, 2013|publisher=AlexanderStuart.com|access-date=July 16, 2025}}</ref>
The French slapstick animated series ''[[Zig & Sharko]]'' is also heavily inspired by the cartoons, with Zig the Hyena constantly trying to catch and eat Marina the Mermaid by using various contraptions similar to Wile E.'s plans, but his plans are always foiled by Sharko. Zig even imitates the Road Runner's "beep, beep" noise in the episode "Run Sharko, Run".
Both Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner have appeared in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' on multiple occasions. One sketch sees Wile E. faking his own suicide and then torching the Road Runner with a flamethrower when he shows up at Wile E.'s "funeral".<ref>{{cite web|title=Wile E. Piphany - S6 EP1 - Robot Chicken|publisher=Adult Swim|url=https://www.adultswim.com/videos/robot-chicken/wile-e-piphany|access-date=April 13, 2024}}</ref> Another sketch shows Wile E. teaching a college course on [[How to Get Away with Murder|how to get away with murder]], using the Road Runner's murder as an example, the students trace the mail orders for the ACME products used to commit the murder to Wile E., who is executed by electric chair for the crime. Another sketch sees Wile E. presenting his iconic "fake tunnel" at an art auction, and another reveals why Wile E.'s ACME products always fail - the ACME Corporation is run by multiple Road Runners.
In the ''[[Teen Titans Go!]]'' episode "Squash & Stretch", [[Cyborg (DC Comics)|Cyborg]] teaches the other Titans about the humor in cartoon violence, and shows them a Road Runner cartoon, with the characters replaced with parodies of Gumball Watterson and Darwin from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner appear in the episode, "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary". They are among the ''Looney Tunes'' characters as guests for the Warner Bros. centennial celebration.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Freitag|first1=Lee|title=Teen Titans Go! Clip Celebrates 100 Years of Warner Bros.|url=https://www.cbr.com/teen-titans-go-clip-warner-bros-100-anniversary-cameos/|date=September 22, 2023|publisher=CBR|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref> They also made a cameo appearance in the Season 9 premiere episode "Stickiest Situation", in which Sticky Joe is teleported into the cartoon. The scene was animated by Hayk Manukyan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CIjFNP0oHY|title=I Animated This Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote Special for Teen Titans Go!|date=March 1, 2025|publisher=YouTube|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
In the ''[[Dino Dana]]'' episode "Get That Incisivosaurus!", Dana Jain tries getting the feather of the Incisivosaurus, but her plans keep failing. Her inspirations come from her stepfather Aman Jain's old cartoon show, ''The Fox and the Hare'', a parody of Wile E Coyote and the Road Runner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptZrXdrRvQ|title=Dino Dana {{!}} Get That Incisivosaurus! - Episode Promo {{!}} Michela Luci, Saara Chaudry|date=April 28, 2018|publisher=YouTube|access-date=July 19, 2025}}</ref>
In the ''[[Sugar and Toys]]'' episode "The Every Damn Internet Challenge Challenge", Wile E. (here named "Grimy Coyote") appears in a parody of ''[[Laff-A-Lympics]]'' called "L-O-Lympics" as a co-host (replacing [[Mildew Wolf]]), along with [[Snagglepuss]] (called Strugglepuzz).<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Sugar And Toys "The Every Damn Internet Challenge Challenge"|url=https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2019/06/review-sugar-and-toys-the-every-damn-internet-challenge-challenge/|date=June 17, 2019|publisher=Bubbleblabber|access-date=June 14, 2025}}</ref>
A handler-dog team called Road Runners Beep Beep were competitors in the 2023 annual televised UK dog show ''[[Crufts]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JawkmiY0yXA|title=Crufts 2023 Flyball Champions: Road Runners Beep Beep's Most ICONIC Moments {{!}} Crufts {{!}} Channel 4|date=21 March 2023|publisher=YouTube|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref>
Wile E. appears in the 197th episode of the web series ''[[Death Battle]]'', to face off against [[Tom Cat]] himself in a battle of unsuccessful cartoon chasers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRcZ7fT9jig|title=Wile E. Coyote can NEVER win? {{!}} Looney Tunes in DEATH BATTLE!|date=June 8, 2025|publisher=YouTube|access-date=June 10, 2025}}</ref> This episode was selected to happen by votes from fans, beating out several other popular ideas as well. The episode was initially slated for 2024, but was canceled after ''Death Battle''{{'}}s company [[Rooster Teeth]] was shut down by its parent company Warner Bros.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rooster Teeth Is Shutting Down For Good|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/rooster-teeth/rooster-teeth-is-shutting-down-for-good|access-date=2024-07-29|website=Paste Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=2024-03-06|title=Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery, The Roost Podcast Network To Continue|url=https://deadline.com/2024/03/rooster-teeth-shut-down-warner-bros-discovery-roost-podcast-continue-1235847264/|access-date=2024-07-29|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref> However, show creators Ben Singer, Chad James, Austin Harper and Sam Mitchell managed to secure the ''Death Battle'' intellectual property, and started a [[Kickstarter]] to continue the show.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-07-25|title=Death Battle Is Coming Back! Will Do Kickstarter To Make New Episodes|url=https://www.theouterhaven.net/2024/07/death-battle-is-coming-back-will-do-kickstarter-to-make-new-episodes/|access-date=2024-07-29|website=www.theouterhaven.net|language=en-US|archive-date=29 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729210745/https://www.theouterhaven.net/2024/07/death-battle-is-coming-back-will-do-kickstarter-to-make-new-episodes/|url-status=live}}</ref> The episode released on June 22, 2025, and declared Wile E. the winner due to his superior physical stats, arsenal, and "toonliness."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Black|first=Todd|date=2025-06-22|title=Death Battle Gets "Tuned Up" For Wile E Coyote vs Tom Cat|url=https://www.theouterhaven.net/death-battle-gets-tuned-up-for-wile-e-coyote-vs-tom-cat/|access-date=2025-06-23|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BDk8SyGMNo|title=Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat (Looney Tunes VS Tom & Jerry) {{!}} DEATH BATTLE!|date=2025-06-22|last=DEATH BATTLE!|access-date=2025-06-23|via=YouTube}}</ref>
"Coyote time" is a term used in the video game community to describe a situation in some games where a character is able to move and jump slightly further beyond the apparent graphical edge of a cliff or building, named for Wile E. Coyote's tendency to run off the edge of a cliff without initially falling. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coyote_time]
==Commercial appearances==
In 1985-1987, [[General Motors]] used the Road Runner on its marketing campaign in 1985 for its [[Holden Barina]] in [[Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Holden_201511|title=Holden Barina Roadrunner Pack. Freedom of the individual.|publisher=Holden|date=February 1985|access-date=3 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="TakeOff"/> The campaign's slogan, "Beep beep Barina", is still known as a catchphrase by many Australians to this day.
In 1994-1996, Wile E. appeared in a few [[Energizer]] commercials trying to capture the [[Energizer Bunny]].<ref>Fowles, Jib (1996). [https://www.google.com/books?id=YkxMPOkSQ_0C&pg=PA8 ''Advertising and Popular Culture: Volume 5''], p. 8. SAGE Publications. {{ISBN|0803954832}}</ref>
In 1996, Wile E. Coyote appeared alongside football star [[Deion Sanders]] in a [[Pepsi]] commercial.<ref>Sandler, Kevin (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=zd_WTZZjvqkC&pg=PA13 ''Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation''], p. 13. Rutgers University Press. {{ISBN|0813525381}}</ref><ref>Pomerance, Murray (2001). [https://www.google.com/books?id=RbCE31IKK48C&pg=PA135 ''Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century''], p. 135. State University of New York Press. {{ISBN|079144886X}}</ref>
==See also==
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* ''[[Zig & Sharko]]'', a French animated [[slapstick comedy]] television series which was inspired by the Coyote and Roadrunner shorts
* [[Arizona Coyotes]], a former [[National Hockey League|NHL]] team whose [[American Hockey League|AHL]] affiliate was the [[Tucson Roadrunners]]
* [[Calamity Coyote]]
* [[Coyote (mythology)]]
* [[Coyotes in popular culture]]
* [[Little Beeper]]
* [[Plymouth Road Runner]]
* [[Road Runner High Speed Online]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150923065953/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0029626/ Wile E. Coyote] on [[IMDb]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150923070002/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030552/ Road Runner] on [[IMDb]]
* [https://toonopedia.com/coyote.htm Wile E. Coyote] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091016104952/http://www.toonopedia.com/coyote.htm Archived] from the original on January 19, 2017.
* [https://toonopedia.com/roadrunr.htm Road Runner] at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. [https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091016105058/http://www.toonopedia.com/roadrunr.htm Archived] from the original on January 19, 2017.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007045935/http://looneytunes.warnerbros.com/stars_of_the_show/wile_roadrunner/wile_story.html Looney Tunes—Stars of the Show: Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner] (official studio site)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050316093748/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/articles/1960article.html "That WASN'T All, Folks!: Warner Bros. Cartoons
* [https://chuckjones.com/characters/wile-e-coyote/ All about Wile E. Coyote] on [[Chuck Jones]] Official Website.
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