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Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social |
Chuck Jones' rules for writing a Road Runner cartoon - this is the original Dogme manifesto
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Walk Of Life
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Amazing!
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Chihuly con Carnie
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I believe this is taken from Chuck Amuck, which is worth every minute you devote to it.
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Brian O'Grady
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Some of these sound like they’re lifted from a Barry Lopez lyric essay
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True Tourtillott
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There are many occasional episodes where we hear Wile E. speaking. But only to refer to himself as a genius prior to an ignominious fall.
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Policy_g
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Clear boundary and rules make the best writing.
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Travels With Brindle, head bimbo at Danceteria
@travelswithbrindle.bsky.social
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Thomas Townley
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Gravity is everyone's enemy.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
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Wow! Thanks for sharing! 👏👏👏
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Juli Gittinger aka Dr G
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Rule #4 broken on one episode where the coyote tells the viewer (using a butchers map) of the various cuts on a roadrunner and what they taste like.
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@aeravon.bsky.social
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Later cartoons would abandon the no dialogue rule, as the Coyote would 4th wall break and talk to the audience in a calm tone (and there were earlier ones where he communicated without speaking using other visuals). This is a gem, though. Thanks for sharing!
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Mr. Charlie
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All the A.C.M.E. Products used by the Roadrunner.
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El Gato Astronomico
@astrocat.bsky.social
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Realizing the Coyote is either in purgatory or is some kind of godlike construct
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Nobody Ever
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These rules only applied to interactions between those two characters. Wile E talks during interactions with other characters. Thus we know he is a Super Genius.
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Ari from Aotearoa
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Loved the early Roadrunner cartoons. Watched them with my grandkids who agreed that the early ones were best
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Kezz
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Wouldn't getting hit by copious amounts of trucks break rule 2?
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W. Brian Lane (he/him)
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So... how does that square with *the* Coyote vs. Bugs Bunny episode?
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Self-deprecating ghost
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Who first broke the dialog rule?
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Semi-Interesting Photography, etc.
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This and Cartoon Physics might answer many difficult questions about the universe.
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amdiamanti
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My favorite fail. I don't know why this one in particular hits so hard, maybe because the suit is so ridiculous (why neon green?) or the way he still tries to fly after mangling it. I just remember laughing hysterically every time this episode came on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHDO...
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amdiamanti
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There is so much genius here, but making gravity as the coyote's greatest enemy is next level.
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Minuit
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Wait Wile E. coyote talked to himself all the time. But only really to proclaim himself a genius so I guess that was one of the more ignored rules.
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Anna
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thank you.
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Sleepy-eyed boy
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This is gold. Thank you.
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CaffieneKitty
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Oh this is a treasure! 😊
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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill
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Your skeet reminded me of this classic.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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Rob the Bastard, Lord of Misrule
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Wiley Coyote did speak, at least once. I remember a moment when he looked out from the screen and asked, "But how?" after his trap went impossibly wrong.
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Not without my coffee
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Those rules must have been written after the first few episodes — because there are a few early episodes where Wiley E Coyote talks. In order to label himself “Super Genius.”
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WordleBacon
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Life changing
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Michèle Sharik
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Rule 4? But the coyote speaks. Or does that not count since it's a monologue & not a dialogue?
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Scream_Rag
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It's also not real.
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As A Dog-man ☭
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Intrigued that whether the Coyote can ever catch the Road Runner is not addressed
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G S Wikinson
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I guess this answers the question of whether it was 'meep meep' or 'beep beep'
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Vausch
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Rule 4 was broken a few times. Was that before or after Wile E. went after Bugs?
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Alfred N Montestruc
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Osbo the Osborne
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Reminds me of that one cartoon where Wyle starts talking to us and it just felt wrong.
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James Fox
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I want this framed on my wall
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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
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Jady, but seriously.
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I love this for the Acme corporation.
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MDoorpsy
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Road runner must run on road. Irrefutable advice.
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Brian Smith
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When I was a kid, I so wanted the very long poster that had the roadrunner at one end and the coyote at the other desertscape between, and the line, "Obsession is when you redouble your efforts while losing site of your goal."
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Paul Jacob Smith
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the road runner says "Beep Beep"? My whole life i thought it was "Meep Meep"
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