Chuck Jones' nine rules for how the coyote and roadrunner functioned:

[tblue37]

Link to tweet

[getagrip_already]

1. beep-beep..... n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. K&R

[dchill]

3. Incongruously, these rules seem to never have been broken.

[ChazInAz]

13. Not quite.

In the first cartoon, Wiley actually spoke. Sounded something like Arthur Trecher or Boris Karloff.

[Orrex]

14. Is that the one in which Bugs Bunny guest starred?

[ChazInAz]

22. Yes, it was.

[Orrex]

23. Nice!

Super-genius!

[mopinko]

4. i have a friend who is a ringling trained, former big top clown.

you know what they teach in their clown school? chuck jones cartoons.
most of their clowns are based on chuck's characters.

[Marthe48]

5. Nothing like having a grown man

sleep it off at your house, wake up hung over, and start laughing uncontrollably at a Road Runner cartoon Good memories.

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. As a child, we cheered for the Road Runner

As an adult, we identify with the Coyote.

[debm55]

7. I always felt sorry for the Coyote. Damn Beep-Beep always won.

[Laffy Kat]

16. Yes! I just said that, too! nt

[packman]

8. I remember the Roadrunner - drolling over it sitting in a car dealship

God, it was beautiful -

[debm55]

10. That's odd because my husband had a Plymouth Duster. Plymouth put a piece on the back with a cyclone

of dirt/ dust and Taz's arms and legs sticking out. It was in the 70's.

[nightwing1240]

17. That car was a favorite of mine as well

Just loved the look of it.

[Bayard]

9. I could still watch those cartoons forever

[kysrsoze]

11. Unless it wasn't a Chuck Jones episode, I remember 1 broken rule.

There was the episode where the two kids are watching the show, and one of them wants to be the roadrunner. The other can’t understand why Wile E. even wants to catch him. Then Wile E. goes on to explain how delicious they are. Maybe it wasn’t a Jones episode.

[KS Toronado]

12. BEEP BEEP

[Laffy Kat]

15. I still find it difficult to watch.

This is super weird, but I feel sorry for the RR. Always have.

[sl8]

18. The coyote can talk in the Bugs' episodes, though:

[TygrBright]

19. Interesting. I learned a lot about him on that thread. I always though he was a physicist...

...moonlighting as an animator.

His grasp of the Newtonian Laws was incredible, and he used them flawlessly.

I still watch the original "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" every year in homage.

appreciatively,
Bright

[sarge43]

20. How to obey the rules and still get the most of out of one ACME Corp object

Jones was a genius.

[Hekate]

21. Back when Obama was campaigning against McCain, there was an online columnist ...

… who compared their interactions as being very like Wile E. and the Roadrunner. Can’t remember the guy’s name, but the characterization was memorable — the red-faced frustration of McCain and the nimble moves of Obama, “meep-meep!”