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Cheese Chasers

“There’s nothing left to live for!”

It’s Hubie and Bertie’s last cartoon! To commemorate, they decide to eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat all the cheese they can! After eating (possibly literally) tons of the stuff, they feel they can never stomach it again. (I hate when this happens to me) Figuring that suicide is the only answer, they climb into Claude’s mouth.

Claude is suspicious as to why natural prey of his would want to die. He tries to bribe them into leaving him be with cheese but he just freaks out more when they refuse to eat it. With the rodents acting so strange, Claude figures he can never enjoy mice again. He decides to end it all at the hands of a bulldog. (Marc Antony making his FIRST appearance) The dog wonders why Claude wants to die, and freaks out even more when the mice want the same thing. In the end, the dog chases a dog catcher’s van… with Claude and the mice in hot pursuit.

Personal Rating: 3

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Claude Cat

Okay, I need to take a break from all these coyote cartoons. As much as we love them, I need some time to think of new ways to talk about essentially the same plot time after time. So I looked though my books for a character I had not yet talked about. Here he is.

Unlike Sylvester, Claude never got the same fame which is a shame. (Heh heh) Unlike the putty tat, Claude seems to be more of a foe, since it’s not unusual to his prey to be afraid of him. However, he’s a pretty big coward. Hubie and Bertie, Marc Antony and Frisky Puppy are all very talented at scaring him. Chuck Jones created some original characters that can’t be matched. Claude might not be one of them, but you still you have to love him.

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Whoa, be-gone!

“one (1) giant rubber band (for tripping road-runners)”

For once, the coyote is not chasing the bird on foot during the opening credits. Instead, he is riding a rocket after the mouth watering morsel. Coming up to a tunnel, he hits his head as the rocket keeps chasing the bird. It turns around and comes back, and the coyote just barely dodges it. (He gets hit by a truck, instead.)

In the following gags, he falls off a cliff not once but thrice! He decides to erect a trampoline to catch him just in case it happens again. (He falls right through it) One more gag deserves mention, he tries to roll down a wire using a wheeled helmet, but the wire snaps and he falls. The ends of the wire land on him and a telephone wire. He purchases some tornado seeds but the squirt gun he is using leaks and a tornado carries him away into an abandoned mine field.

Personal Rating: 3

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Zoom and Bored

“More free bird seed”

During another one of their never ending chases, the Roadrunner leaves an awful lot of smoke in his wake. So obviously, the coyote does not notice the ground has run out and he falls. He climbs up again, and as soon as he makes it, the bird startles him into falling again. Then as he walks away, it comes up behind, scares him again, and he jumps into a rock.

Following some book instructions, he prepares a hole with a jackhammer. It is very powerful, and he keeps feeling aftershock. He uses this to his advantage and destroys the book this way. After building a brick wall (and experiencing another shake) he is shocked to see another coyote’s rear on the other side. It copies everything he does, so he rolls some TNT at it, only to find out that it’s still him. (Gotta love cartoon logic)

More gags ensure, (including one with angry bees) and he ultimately fires a harpoon gun that also is wound around his leg and he gets launched. After a wild ride, he’s bruised and whimpering near a cliffs edge. The Roadrunner appears, but doesn’t scare him this time. He lets us know that he hasn’t the heart.

Personal Rating: 3

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Scrambled Aches

“Dehydrated Boulders”

Sorry for not updating, even though I had plenty of time. Spring cleaning was brutal. Anyways, sit back and enjoy our latest Wile E. Coyote cartoon post.

While chasing the Roadrunner for the umpteenth time, (and falling off a cliff) the coyote uses a fake leg that he aims to trip the bird with. The bird runs by so fast it twists, and when the coyote sets it down, he twists. Continuing on with his clever contraptions that he builds; he makes one with a sail, roller skates, and a fan. He can’t steer it apparently since he goes through a lake and off a cliff.

Now up high, he throws an anvil. The bird stops short and the anvil keeps falling and lands on some telephone wires and back up. (Don’t worry. It does not hurt the coyote, it just severs the cliff he’s on.) He sets up a miniature steamroller and it chases the bird. It takes a detour to avoid the roller, and ends up in a cannon. After it fails to ignite, Wile E. looks inside to see what looks like a train. Figuring its just one of the birds pranks, he keeps looking only to get hit by a cannonball, with the bird on top. As he walks away fuming, the steamroller appears. Before he’s clobbered he lets us know it’s the end.

Personal Rating: 3

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There they go-go-go

“?”

Wile E. Coyote is preparing a delicious feast: a turkey made of mud. After it cooks, he finds he can not eat it and proceeds to toss it into a mud trash can. Cue object of desire. Lunging with a spear (crashes into road) and using a pop-out gun (comes out too far, thus shooting him) are both nothing new. Then he makes some really cool mace copter! That lands on him.

He deploys a ladder for use as a bridge, but cuts it partly so it will break. When he sees the Roadrunner above him, he grabs the ladder and prepares to climb, only for it to snap in half. Eventually he sets up a trap where various boulders will be emptied onto the bird, but they are packed in too tightly. He pokes them with a stick before he realizes what he’s doing. CRASH!

Personal Rating: 3

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Gee Whiz-z-z

“Egad!!”

While Wile E is chasing his prey, the bird makes a sharp turn just to confuse the canine. (Remember this trick.) The coyote shoots a gun, but the bird actually outruns the bullet. He holds up a steel plate but the bird runs through it. (I think he took the coyote’s body too.) Wile E tries a bat man’s (not Batman) outfit and surprisingly, it works. If he had only looked where he was going…

He makes use of his artistic side and paints a “bridge out” scene. The tunnel gag goes in reverse now, with the bird running through it and the coyote running off it. As a last resort, Wile E rides a jet engine and nearly catches his prize. It pulls the same sharp turn trick though and the coyote falls off a cliff. As he falls he asks that the cartoon end before we see his impact I suppose that’s fair.

Personal Rating: 3

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Guided Muscle

“Acme Grease“

Ahh, lunchtime. Today the coyote is stewing up a delicious can. Too bad he can’t bring himself to actually eat it. Especially when there is better game to hunt. Turning himself into an arrow works until he launches himself into a cactus and off a cliff. He sets up a slingshot attached to a red fuzzy cactus (?) but it does not launch until he does not want it to. He tries firing a cannon, but it shoots him back into a cliff wall before shooting himself in the head.

A wrecking ball just makes the tree it’s attached to fall on him, and when he greases the road, the Roadrunner just mocks him by skating. He thinks tarring and feathering would work, but did you know roadrunners are already feathered? Finally, he buries some dynamite but the bird causes him to run over it just as it detonates. Frustrated, he quits his cartoon job, and and pulls out the “That’s all, folks!” card.

Personal Rating: 3

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Ready, Set, Zoom!

“Detour thru tunnel”

One morning, the coyote awakes for a fresh day of Roadrunner chasing. Today’s tricks include painting a road with glue. (Look, he’s on it, but then there’s a circle around him. Did it just evaporate?) He gets hit by a truck. He tries again with the glue and a dynamite stick, but the bird just runs through it, splashing the glue on him and the TNT. BOOM!

He successfully gets the bird into a log perched off a cliff, but the bird just jumps out through a knothole. The coyote falls. He tries to drop a weight that does not fall until he’s under it and when he tries a TNT lasso, the bird takes an alternate route, and the coyote blows up. He also makes a creative device complete with wagon and boat motor.  He goes careening off a cliff, and quickly unties himself only for the machine make it to the other side, anyway. He also puts on a female roadrunner suit, and gets chased by every coyote in the desert.

Personal Rating: 3

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Stop! Look! and Hasten!

“Coyote (Eatibus Anythingus)”

365 days of this blog! One more until the first anniversary!

Food is scarce in the desert, so the coyote has to make do with flies and old cans. Then his dream lunch runs by and new ideas swarm in his head. A boulder just falls on him and a snare trap gets him a truck. A tiger trap only catches a tiger (obviously) and when he tries a steel wall that will pop out of the ground, the stupid thing gets stuck.

The chase continues onto the railroad where he gets creamed by a train, and when he decides to use a detonator, he blows himself up. (Watch the handle, it changes color.) Getting the bird to stop for some free bird seed, he tries the classic saw around prey, and whole bridge falls gag. (Good thing roadrunners can fly.)

As a last resort, he chugs down some leg vitamins and now he can catch up to the bird, but of course just as he is about to catch it, the wall from earlier pops up. The Roadrunner spells out “That’s all Folks” in his dust.

Personal Rating: 4