Although Wile E. Coyote was notoriously unsuccessful in catching the Road Runner, he occasionally caught...other things. In "Stop! Look! and Hasten!" (Chuck Jones, 1954), the Coyote builds a "Burmese tiger trap", and catches...a Burmese tiger, of course! Director Chuck Jones must have liked this gag, because he did new variations on it years later. In "Soup or Sonic" (Chuck Jones, 1980), a short created for a 1980 TV special, the Coyote tries giant fly paper. In "Chariots of Fur" (Chuck Jones, 1

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The Road Runner cartoons created in the mid to late 1960's, after the original Warner Bros. cartoon studio shut down, and made without creator Chuck Jones, are widely panned by many. But despite the limited animation and canned musical score re-edited over and over again in the 11 shorts directed by Rudy Larriva, there were a few highlights. The final three gags in "Highway Runnery" (Rudy Larriva, 1965) are worth another look. One gag, the "electric fan sail", is actually iconic and well-remembe

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