Why The Road Runner Cartoons Were Heavily Edited in the 1980s

[@midnittkr]

My Dad was a 20 year naval veteran and survived Pearl Harbor. He never really laughed out loud very often EXCEPT when I would watch the Roadrunner on Saturday mornings. My dad was an engineer at heart and the things the coyote would come up with the blueprints etc would intrigue my Dad. And whenever they went wrong (which was always) he would laugh so hard he couldn't breathe. Tears would be gushing he would laugh so hard. I thought he had injured himself more than once with the gasping laughter he would emit. It was way funnier to me as 9 year old to see him lose his mind than anything on the screen. I'm 62 now so that has always stayed with me.

[@iagmusicandflying]

Sounds like your Dad was a great dad.

[@midnightspares]

Thanks for sharing, beautiful story mate. Hello from Down under. My sister & l love the Road runner show, we watched on Saturday’s late afternoons in Australia at 4pm in the early 80’s. Great laughs. This was an excellent video that warmed my heart. Take care Steve.👍 P.S. l’m looking forward to finally seeing Top gun Maverick in the next 2 weeks.

[@jovetj]

And your story made me laugh out loud. Thank you for sharing.

[@michaeltaylor1603]

Great memory for you. It IS funny watching an adult laughing in child like delight at these toons. It shows they still have the "spark" of an 8 year old in there.

[@velvetunderpants44]

What a lovely memory Made me smile to read it

[@sjmarlowgm]

I grew up watching and loving 'violent' cartoons like Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry. I have never leaped off a cliff or dropped an anvil on anyone.

[@norml.hugh-mann]

So did the Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway

[@hughbrackett343]

I watched all the "violent" cartoons and have never ordered, let alone used rockets and explosives from the Acme Corporation.

[@Joe-lb8qn]

... yet 🙂

[@artsalivestudio]

@@norml.hugh-mann But he never used an anvil or pushed anybody off a cliff.

[@currentsitguy]

@@norml.hugh-mann Despite the number of victims, I don't believe he dropped a safe or grand piano on a single one of them.

[@frankline256]

Chuck Jones was an animation genius!! The old cartoons of the 40s and 50s are so much funnier and better than today's cartoon shorts!! I'm 68 years old and still love Looney Tunes! Funniest cartoons ever made!!

[@AllRequired]

Dude, if you think your work is being butchered, that's the least of your worries.

[@toriless]

Nah! Most 40's had singing and other BS, good one did not start until 1948 and lasted through the early 60's

[@allanalogmusicat78rpm]

​@@AllRequiredhow do you figure that?

[@rexmonarch2]

Back in the day I was working at a friend's art gallery in Corona Del Mar California. One day a guy walked in and was making small talk with me about art when he mentioned he was Chuck Jones. I think he didn't think I'd know who he was but I totally did know about him. I told him that I was track star in high school and the Road Runner was my inspiration to run fast. He hung out awhile regaling me with tales of the animation studios back in the early days. He even bought some art from the gallery. He was a really cool dude.

[@chiararomano1818]

That’s a great story.

[@michelle_pgh]

I saw Chuck Jones speak back in the late '80s. During the Q&A someone asked him how he felt about the cartoons being edited. His response: "What was the question? How do I feel about my work being butchered?" Needless to say he was not a fan.

[@RealGJZig]

​@@lurch789even worse was that in a significant number of the homes and neighbourhoods where these were watched, the real violence made these cartoons tame in comparison. Kent State, Weather Underground, Watts, the hostages in Iran (and I'm only going with big ones), make the anvil into nothing. Just more right-wing dog whistles over imaginary boogeymen.

[@Three_Random_Words]

Do gooder, busybodies.

[@Ratboy2004]

Mom's were given a platform. What is happening with books in the US right now is exactly the same. And ask yourself, how did it work out? Kids are awful today and not because they didn't see Bugs, because they saw mom sanitized and buffered cartoons. I had a 3 year old in the early 90s and I made her watch good cartoons. We avoided the fluff and thus never had those blue people...SMURFS or whatever they were called, in our lives.

[@RealGJZig]

@@Ratboy2004 as someone who had both the anvils and the blue guys, sorry you deprived your kid the best of both. Like in life, you cannot have the laughter without the tears.

[@Ratboy2004]

@@RealGJZig deprived? LOL. Typical, you've passed judgement without knowing squat. You have no clue but one thing for sure, my kids wouldn't do what you did, blame or judge. LOL. And you claim SMURFS were good. Clearly didn't run off on you. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ralphbalfoort2909]

I grew up with the Road Runner and Wiley Coyote, and I've never thought about the harm that I could do with some of Wiley's crazy "Acme" inventions.

[@joanhill4666]

Same.

[@luisalthaus7249]

I used to watch these cartoon in the movie theater back in Argentina in the early 1960, I knew that it was just a cartoon it never traumatized me.

[@jonesy4588]

just how stupid this country has become with idiots in charge of everything

[@Ifyernotawakeyet]

Ahhhh, the American Company that Makes Everything!

[@dkupke]

I actually wondered why he never sued Acme for selling such defective crap

[@Troublemaker1022-r9c]

Everything I learned about physics, I learned from Wilie E Coyote [ Genius].

[@KravKernow]

I reckon the reason I don't buy anything online is I'm worried it might be an ACME product.

[@amb2745]

@Buddy Austin Sure....but I never studied law.

[@gerry5712]

That's super genius 😉

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@Buddy Austin And gravity went to law colleges, of physics 😏!

[@laurabeane8862]

Sadly, I learned about how to deal with a Sooper Genius from Bugs Bunny😑

[@fleece192]

Born 54 here also. Great Saturday morning tv. Riding bikes out side. Hanging with my friends down at the apple tree. Playing till dark. Acme was wild. Thanks for sharing.

[@johnlopez3996]

I used to love how the action would freeze for a bit so that people could read the hilarious scientific names given to the Road Runner and the Coyote.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

“Carnivorous Vulgaris”

[@laurabeane8862]

Famishus Famishus

[@doctube2020]

Yes

[@JedForge]

My favorite was when Wile E. thought he had captured the RR and leaped into the pit trap. Then suddenly you hear the sounds of a cat fight and a worse for the wear Wile E. comes leaping out, followed by a Sabretooth Tiger that he had actually trapped. When they froze the picture, under "Sabertooth Tiger" they put the scientific name as "Supriseabus Supriseabus"

[@eddiedulko4937]

Me too, simply brilliant, simply legendary.

[@garybauer124]

I loved these old cartoons. They were so funny. Although violent, even as a kid we realized most of what was happening was improbable. I think that is what made it so funny.

[@hwgray]

"violent" Well, less violent than the wolf killing and _eating_ grandma, right?

[@alphagt62]

It seems that today’s society is far more violent than the generation that watched these violent cartoons. If anything, we learned not to drop anvils on people’s heads. No cartoons since have been as creative, as musically soundtracked, as well animated, or anywhere near as funny! What the heck happened in 1963 that would cause WB to shut down the animation studio and fire everyone? A huge error on their part.

[@ratdad48]

Although violent you say?? You believe they are really violent? As a 6yr watching and laughing at the hapless coyote getting everything wrong by which the roadrunner always got the best of him was funny not violent. An anvil falling on his head "violent"? It's a cartoon figure. Even at 6 I had that figured out.

[@socksumi]

Cartoons were far less violent than the bible that they regularly spoon fed me as a kid.

[@davidwright8432]

I can only speak for myself, but what made it so super funny was that I realized the violence was imaginary - but shouldn't have been!

[@vic_d_10]

The Roadrunner came up in a conversation with my 6-year-old granddaughter a few months ago and she had no idea what I was talking about. So I streamed a few episodes for her and she laughed so hard at the silliness of it. We watch episodes fairly frequently and she loves it.

[@lokisgodhi]

You're in for it when the mob of outraged pitchfork and torch wielding animal rights nutters and helicopter parents show up at your front door.

[@fnoigy]

It always amazes me how networks think they need to cancel old shows and remake them later but with half the budget and effort. Kids watch older cartoons and absolutely love them, it's something network billionaires seem to have never experienced.

[@jam99]

@@fnoigy I agree. I think the variety is so valuable, too.

[@Neville60001]

@@fnoigy, nobody ever remade these cartoons in any way, shape, or form that I remember; they just stopped airing them for a lot of reasons, one being the sexism in some of them (in particular the one where Bugs Bunny turns a witch that wanted to kill and eat him into a pretty female rabbit, going off with her, then, as she cackles in the same way the witch did, breaking the fourth wall saying 'Yeah, I know, but aren't they all witches inside?')* */And no, I _don't_ condemn these cartoons being censored.

[@Luna-wg6ic]

@@Neville60001 I remember a Pink Panther episode where the panther was battling a witch using a wand. He ended up turning her into a female Pink Panther and they walked off arm in arm together.

[@lilawhite4940]

I loved these cartoons as a kid. Seeing it brought to life was even better. Living in southern Arizona many years ago, I was driving a back road when a roadrunner darted across the road. Within seconds a coyote followed! I almost wrecked my truck because I was laughing so hard.

[@mgman6000]

when I was in the Navy in '64 a theater in San Diego had a roadrunner marathon where they showed all the cartoons on the big screen. the place was full of sailors having a great time I was lucky to have been around for this

[@0neIntangible]

I was born in 1954 as well, and grew up loving watching the RR at every opportunity,...even to this day. They are still my favorite. Thank you for bringing back fond memories and please keep them coming.

[@dogbarbill]

The ones directed by Chuck Jones were the best.

[@greatfullded]

This was my favorate cartoon hour... this was on at 8am back in the 60s and i never missed it growing up on Sat mornings.. i remember watching Davey and Goliath and Heckle and Jeckle at 7am..and i think Gumby was on earlier too. The days when cartoons were Cartoons and back then they were like made for older generations too.. sorta like Bolwinkle alot of the humor was for grown ups... and alot of the other cartoons were too.. these days i know the cartoon are for the mentaly disturbed..

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@@greatfullded Ahhh yes, "DAVEY AND GOLIATH"! Even though it had religious overtones, it WAS STILL, ENJOYABLE (LOVED the frame-by-frame, animation, as well as "GUMBY'S")😊. Try viewing Nickelodeon's, Adult Swim's "Morel Orel", which is kinda fashioned after them (but in a more updated, humorous light)! "GUMBY"! Loved "GUMBY"! Put out by the studios of 'Clokie'. They're were (I believe) a husband & wife team, or brother & sister 🤔. There were possible, sexual 'undertones', there, as do you remember the other characters names? First there was GUMBY (an oral sex act, preformed on a female), POKEY (do we need to go there)? PRICKLE (once again), and GOO (yessirie, Bob)!! Don't worry, my wife didn't catch that, either 😏!!!

[@greatfullded]

@@rogerrendzak8055 To tell you the truth Roger.. i never knew that stuff abt Gumby.... doh @!!! and there was another cartoon that you had to draw on the tv screen to help them get out of trouble.. idk if you ever seen that show.. i just went to utube and still cant find it.. but i guess it may have been localized in Los Angeles.. idk.. and a couple others cartoon i just rememered that was soo cool johnny Quest.. Tenneseee tuxedo and i almost forgot my favorate Thunderbirds.. You were right abt the religious overtones with Davey and Goliath i forgot abt that..but as a kid still watched it.. but thinking back it really did have that.. as for watching stuff on Nickelodeons.. i never did.. but will check out Morel Orel.. even that sounds sexual... LOL.. The kids today could watch Bevis and Butthead and Ren and Stimpy.. which crackes me up... but the Cartoons we grew up on was the time when it was really called Cartoons and can be never duplicated today, cant touch Masterpieces.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@@greatfullded Yes, I do remember a cartoon (or show) where you placed a piece of special paper (like tracing paper), on the tv screen, when directed to do so, but forget the reason, why. Liked "Jonny Quest" (was one of my wife's favorite toons, growing up, she says), though. "Tennessee Tuxedo" was (I believe) 'Don Adams', voice. This was all part of "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" (remember it had side cartoons, like"Commander McBragg")😊! Ahh, "The Thunderbirds"! Before the series, they made two full-length movies. "The Thunderbirds", and "Thunderbirds Are Go". I have both of them. If you get the chance, watch a film titled "THAT THING YOU DO", from 1996. Directed by 'Tom Hanks', there's an exerpt approximately 20 minutes in, of "The Thunderbirds", movie. BTW, that's not a bad pic, to watch. Try watching the directors (Tom Hanks) version. It's much better, and 42 minutes, longer.

[@Jane_Dow]

Thanks for playing the Road Runner theme song ! I'd forgotten about it.

[@nymalous3428]

My mother loved these cartoons when I was growing up. She would laugh and laugh, even if she had seen that particular episode before. In fact, if she knew what was coming, she would start laughing ahead of time. It actually made it more fun to watch somehow.

[@maryblaufuss7533]

You know a piece is evidence of comedic genius when you can watch or listen to it an infinite number of times and it's still funny.

[@Dulcimerist]

Watching the original versions of these cartoons when I was a kid taught me not to goof around near steep cliffs or in the middle of roads, not to play around with explosives, and not to do any of the other antics the coyote did. I was tempted to put rockets on a pair of rollerskates, but decided it was a bad idea after watching what happened to the coyote.

[@BigBri550]

I personally believe that Wile E was an updated version of the ancient Coyote of western Native American oral stories. The purpose of those stories was to amuse young people and teach them, among other things, the folly of carrying through with foolishly impulsive ideas. So, I would say you got the point.

[@idiotwind2248]

And to stay away from ACME products

[@johnmaki3046]

When I first went to school (Fall '62!) the teachers thought i was "gifted"! I learned MORE from cartoons, "The Three Stooges", and "Laurel and Hardy" than I did from Kindergarten through third grade! The "old garbage" was MUCH MORE educational than anything P.B.S. and Nickelodeon have EVER done!

[@CONEHEADDK]

WOW - the idiocy was growing already, when I was a kid, I see.. Nothing mae me thin k of black face as much as a burny coyote - except for just about everything else, and the fact that I didn't know - and still don't beleive - that cartoons pr parodies should be zen sirred.. Starting to do that is the first slice of the salami. Growing up in Toronto in the 60's, the people currently known as "black", used an other word about them selves - as I saw Muhammed Ali do recently... Shaaame on him - or what????

[@DRCRailroard]

Really? The cartoons of our youth were written and portrayed brilliantly by brilliant writers. Portraying the human element of humanity showing our vulnerability and struggles with day to day life. Whereas video games of today dehumanize interactions with participants to the point that makes it acceptable to maim, kill, and destroy without feeling or consequences, and somehow that's acceptable? There were no mass shootings or suicides of young people when I was a kid, like what exists today. Maybe it's time to reevaluate where it all went wrong. I am sure it has nothing to do with violent cartoons. They aren't violent. They're just silly.

[@artdonovandesign]

Thank you for the memories. It's almost as if you grew up in our own home!

[@SuperLuminalElf]

💖👍🏾

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Maybe he did. Hey, what happened to uncle Charley?

[@robind.phillips2129]

It reminds me of my dad. When we were children, we could hear our dad laughing loud while watching the Road Runner on Saturday mornings. Thanks for sharing.

[@eyemnew2991]

Laughing is good. But did you know, laughing can offend people. I found that out at work once.

[@stevethirdcitymo6527]

Oh my word, this is my favorite memory of MY dad. He died in 2018, and that is the thing I miss most about him.

[@eyemnew2991]

@@stevethirdcitymo6527 Have you ever been around someone who was laughing so hard their laughing was so contagious it made you start laughing, then it started the ripple effect on others. There's a word for that I don't know what it is.

[@robind.phillips2129]

@@eyemnew2991 Yes!

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@@eyemnew2991 Laughing, IS GOOD!! F*CK those people! If someone gets offended 'cause I laugh, I now laugh twice, and louder 😂👍!!!

[@ronaldharding3927]

There were only two programs that would stop my dad in his tracks as he would pass through the den--"The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Road Runner". It was always good to laugh with a man that worked as hard as he did.

[@TayoEXE]

I'm 29, but my dad shared his favorite comedies with me. We love watching Beverly Hillbillies, Three Stooges, the Munsters, Hogan's Heroes, etc. together.

[@navret1707]

I was born in 1946 so I grew up with Saturday morning cartoons. The Road Runner and Rocky and Bullwinkle were my favorites. I think the greatest Road Runner gag was Wiley on the top of a mountain (of course), on skis with a refrigerator on his back with an ice maker spewing ice in front of him to ski after the Road Runner. I think that is absolutely hilarious. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when these the artists were brainstorming a gag I’m sure I’d have been in tears.

[@rodneyhopper22]

Yeah those were the best cartoon favorites for my generation in the 70's as well I'm a fan of the older cartoon favorites

[@rodneyhopper22]

Yeah with out a doubt in my mind those people who made the best cartoon favorites in my youthful years in the 60, s and the 70,s and all the way through my life now trust me I've never seen anything more hilarious than those cartoons in my life 😅😂😎🤟

[@Nawona]

I just laughed out loud reading your comment and reminding this.

[@toriless]

The coyote is stronger than me, I could never carry a fridge on my back.

[@SpringIsBACK]

My favorite, perhaps, was Wile E. chasing Roadrunner into a big pipe that gets smaller and smaller, and they come out the other end tiny, look around at their now seemingly gigantic surroundings, simultaneously conclude "this is no good", and run back through the pipe in the opposite direction. Roadrunner emerges normal size and Wile E. is still tiny. Wile E. "Now what do I do?" I still laugh just thinking about it!

[@timheersma4708]

I always liked the parts where the laws of gravity never kicked in until the coyote realized there wasn't ground underneath him anymore 😁

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

This is why Christianity is Santa Claus for adults. Sure, if you have faith you can walk on water and move mountains. You don't fall until you believe there is no ground beneath your feet. Mind over matter. Christianity is lawlessness, even onto the laws of physics.

[@Luna-wg6ic]

Called an Ohnosecond...

[@charlesajones77]

There's a mechanic in some platformer video games where you can still jump a split second after you run off the edge of a platform. Commonly known as "Coyote Time".

[@SuV33358]

Yesssss!

[@rcschmidt668]

There was one time the coyote held up a sign “This defies the law of gravity.” The road runner held up his sign that said, “I never studied law.” What a show!

[@Calico-Jan]

My favorite one had the holes that could be picked up and moved to different locations. Very creative!

[@davidgeary490]

'Meta' absurdist comedy - later to be explored brilliantly on the 80s Letterman show - esp. with the Chris Elliot bits.

[@MitchellMaichak-ze7mr]

I remember Ringo's cartoon character , in the feature length " Yellow Submarine " doing something similar by pulling a hole out of his jacket pocket , and saying " I've got a hole in me pocket " , sort of a cross between Wiley Coyote and Harpo Marx !!!

[@toriless]

Ah yes, those portable holes

[@moepow8160]

Growing up watching these cartoons with 6 other siblings none of us ever thought anything about a rock falling on a character head, we knew it was fake, nor did any of us try to replicate anything on any cartoons with eachother or friends they were simply fun to watch.

[@harrietharlow9929]

I used to laugh myself silly with these and Laurel and Hardy movies. I never once considered replicating anything I saw. Not. Even. Once.

[@jenniferburchill3658]

Same here! I knew that what the Coyote was using was not real dynamite. And I also knew that Elmer Fudd's rifle wasn't real. (My mom, however, was always cautious and still had that talk with me.) And I never saw post- explosion characters as racist, either. To me, the black was from the soot and explosive powder.

[@mbhog8490]

I didn't know it was an unwritten rule that they have no dialog, but when Wile E. Coyote spoke in one of the episodes, it was great! Kids were smart enough then and now to know the difference between cartoon violence and real violence. Not once did I drop a safe on my brothers head no matter how much he deserved it.

[@Broockle]

meep meep

[@WrightWorld]

Yes, they broke the fourth wall with that episode in which a young viewer a viewer asks Wile E. Coyote why he chases the Roadrunner. He responded by explaining how one tastes to a coyote's palate. Having watched as a kid in the 70's into the early 80's, I definitely saw plenty of episodes where Coyote fell off a cliff to the ground with a circular cloud of dust rising upon impact. Do you remember the PSA that began airing at some point with a live actor explaining that "when a cartoon cat chases a cartoon mouse into a cartoon wall, it's funny" - but not so much in real life. ending with him appearing to drop real bricks on his feet? Had to have been in the 80's, but remember feeling talked down to by it -- an insult to kids' intelligence.

[@charlie6629]

I played Cowboys and Indians yet never shot anyone growing up. I was never allowed to point any firearm fake or not at anything I didn't want to destroy. Although we did throw water balloons at cars driving too fast down our street and be gone by the time they turned around. We even had a take your gun to school once a month in elementary for show and tell and smarter than to have ammo.

[@Broockle]

@@charlie6629 that comment took quite a turn 😆

[@KarstenJohansson]

He did talk when he was "working" with the sheepdog. I just remember one of them was named Ralph. I think the other was Fred. They used to talk to each other during shifts. That one doesn't break the rule though, since Road Runner never appeared in those skits.

[@billyraysneed6985]

CLASSIC - There will never be cartoons as cool as Bugs, Roadrunner, Coyote, Daffy, etc.

[@charlescharpentier9196]

Thufferin' thuccotash!

[@robertmccain3489]

"Oh Father, I'm so ashamed!"

[@frogpalpeeper4249]

Also Foghorn Leghorn! I say, I say, I say BOY!

[@toriless]

@@robertmccain3489 Sometimes he was an uncle

[@toriless]

@@frogpalpeeper4249 but I am a chickenhawk

[@cliffvanderveen2590]

I have a great memory of my father laughing himself to tears after every coyote disaster. Precious!

[@briang70]

I have the same memory!!! Even back in the 1970's when I was a kid, my folks already hated "the liberal media: and TV in general but Saturday morning Warner Bros. cartoons and especially the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote were fine by them.

[@sophierobinson2738]

My father would be pretending to read the newspaper, but when Wile E. went off a cliff, you’d hear a snort from behind the paper.

[@wallyman292]

Same here, except it was Foghorn Leghorn that would set my dad off! I still remember how much more I'd laugh myself as a kid just from hearing him laugh.

[@Illgaia]

So do I. We'd be watching them together, and he'd usually end up laughing harder than I did. Now I'm the grown-up, and I still love going back to watch them.

[@Apollyon-er4ut]

I love these as a kid in the 60s. If kids can't distinguish between cartoon violence and real violence, it's not a editing issue, but a parenting issue. Albeit, at its roots, the violence, criminality, immorality in our country today, is also a parenting issue.

[@kevinharding9232]

Thanks for posting exactly what I was thinking!

[@seanbradley6691]

ditto!@@kevinharding9232

[@tomjones4318]

No mass murder school shootings back then or later by this generation. Pretty odd how people will not consider what's different between generations. I guess that makes me genophodic. HaHaHa Today's cartoon is cancel culture/woke insanity.

[@Takeshi357]

I was born in the 1980s but I can still see where you're coming from. The Hanna-Barbera superhero shows like Space Ghost and Birdman are infinitely better than any of the three dozen Scooby-Doo copies they cranked out the following decade!

[@tomjones4318]

No father in the home issue is the main "parenting" issue. In my day they were called bastard child. Now they're just plain punks.

[@kalmac6255]

To paraphrase Dennis Miller: "If your kid is capable of being tipped over the edge by anything in a WB cartoon, you're not doing your job as a parent."

[@sleazybtd]

That's the problem with all these Karen parents trying to ban everything in sight. For them, it's easier to scream at the world than to be a good parent.

[@kalmac6255]

@@sleazybtd "cuz MY widdle Billy wouldnt act that way so it must be SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT!!!

[@ralfp8844]

I don't think so, some kids can be very fragile, others are not. But mainly i am with you, that parents are in charge to overwatch their children, talk to them and find out, what they can cope with. If your kid is scared by While e. Coyote, don't let it watch it. Wait until its ready, but then its a must 🤪. Bugs bunny road runner movie is my favorite one.

[@kalmac6255]

By "tipped over the edge," I was referring to the idea in the video about violence in WB cartoons being blamed for children behaving violently, not to children being afraid of them. That's a whole different can 'o' worms.

[@sleazybtd]

@@kalmac6255 I think it was one of the members of the Insane Clown Posse. I don't remember the exact quote, but to paraphrase, "if some jackass in clown makeup has more influence on your child than you as the parent, then you're not a good parent".

[@keithallver2450]

You have to love Wile E. Coyote's tenacity. He lived up to the old adage “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again”.

[@orbyfan]

My dad loved watching those cartoons with me when I was a kid because he liked how the coyote never gave up.

[@courtney5796]

I kind of think that was the lesson. Keep trying. Don't give up. Don't ever give up. ahhhhhh life lessons!

[@rebeccalynn7795]

never cared for these cartoons but so glad i did get to see when he finally caught the roadrunner lol. sometimes the quest is much better than the result lol.

[@thebigdog2295]

He actually succeeded one time, but the Road Runner was a giant when he finally caught him. It's an episode that's not well known. I've been been told that there's actually two times he actually caught him, but I've only seen one of them. And there's also an episode where the Wiley Coyote actually speaks as well.

[@rebeccalynn7795]

@@thebigdog2295 i've only seen him caught once and seen coyote talk as well. i liked the one's with coyote and the sheep dog much better lol.

[@Roskellan]

I always loved the coyote's tenacity, he just never gave up, no matter how hard the falls and how hapless his efforts.

[@sparkie951]

Coyote is the perfect poster child for "You Should Never Give UP!"

[@stevemcdonald4885]

@@sparkie951 He was a poster child once. My dad was an instructor at a correctional facility, and he had a 4' tall Wile E Coyote doll as his mascot. You nailed it as to why.

[@leeshepard5718]

Also, Hunger is a hellova Motivator!!

[@georgejuniorleedom4476]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Christians don't believe in 9,999 gods. Stop believing in one more and you'll gotten it right, sucker.

[@alanlawrence2954]

I bet you love screw up Biden too?

[@SnagleTooth14]

This show was one of the Best parts of my childhood! Could never get enough of coyote's wild plans for catching roadrunner. I will always be a fan. Thank you for this video❤❤❤

[@jenniferburchill3658]

I've been reliving my childhood by writing fan scripts starring Warner Bros. cartoon characters. I've even made up a few characters of my own!

[@scotthodgins7975]

Wile E Coyote is my "Hero". He has a goal in mind and stays focused on it no matter what distractions may arise. No matter how many times he fails, he gets right back up and tries again. He never tries the exact same thing twice. And finally, he is the greatest example of 'Thinking outside the box' ... ie Taking a ice maker, meat grinder, fan and down hill skis to fashion a snow making machine. His only REAL fault is that he keeps using ACME (which I am guessing is the main reason his plans fail LOL).

[@septembersurprise5178]

If at first you don't succeed, try try again. A valuable life lesson, but please don't discount quality ACME products and services.

[@scotthodgins7975]

@@phat-kid "What are we doing tomorrow?" "The same thing we always do Pinky, try to take over the world".

[@suecrazylady2000]

@@phat-kid lmao

[@sindyparker8977]

I feel the same way. Absolutely love wile e coyote , never gives up, ever. Obsessed with him as a kid n well into adulthood.....so much so I had to have him tattooed on me😁

[@andrewmiller3834]

ACME was owned and operated by the entire Roadrunner clan.

[@KVAR42]

Never occurred to me that my cartoons were "violent". Five years old, I knew the difference. I got SO angry that the poor coyote kept getting hurt and that dumb bird always got away. I never thought it was real, but boy, I was rooting for my favorite! Wile E. Coyote! I myself have the collection and that of all the looney toons. They're still great!

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

I have a T-shirt with the Wile E.Coyote, and he has the Roadrunner, and...ahem...does something to the bird, while above is written: "Say now Beep-Beep!".

[@majorskepticism7836]

Stupid bird apparently didn’t know about flying.

[@LeoTheYuty]

@@beadyeye2312 Lots of people don't even know that roadrunners exist irl.

[@thedwightguy]

I had the biggest western cap gun collection in town. As an adult I'm not anywhere near a gun.

[@stevie65able]

Same here, I would always cheer for the Coyote and hoped he would catch the Roadrunner. Always understood as a child that these cartoons were not reality. Never made me behave in a violent manner.

[@tribalismsucks7784]

My dad died young, while I was in my mid thirties. One of my many memories is being in dad and mom's bed Saturday mornings watching Bugs Bunny and laughing hysterically to the roadrunner cartoons. Man, it was great!

[@MagnumMike44]

I'm an Arizona native and whenever we drove on roads that were on outskirts of a town or a city, we used to see a lot of road runners, running across the roads and they always reminded me of the Road Runner and Wylie Coyote cartoons, which were my favorite. It was fun riding with my parents back in the day (late 1960s through the mid 1970s) and when we saw a road runner, me or one of my 3 siblings would blurt out a "beep beep" just for fun, and I remember one girlfriend did that also. 😃

[@eattheinvaders.3037]

People often forget that the (old school) coyote did speak at least once. There is one notable episode where Wile E. , voiced by Mel Blanc, speaks to 2 children. He pulls out a chart showing what each part of the road runner tastes like. Side note: there's also a Pink Panther cartoon where the panther speaks and we find out he has a British accent.

[@animula6908]

How do you know this? What are your credentials? Can you be trusted?

[@chipwallaceart]

Don't forget the line where he introduces himself.. "Wile E Coyote, genius"

[@michaelkolozsvari3575]

@@chipwallaceart LOL! Suuuuper genius!

[@eattheinvaders.3037]

@@chipwallaceart Same cartoon. Although they may have clipped it to a later cartoon as well. But the one I'm talking about is clearly from the Chuck Jones days at Warner Bros. You can tell from the style of animation. I think Wile E. says his IQ is 242. But it's been a few decades since I've seen it.

[@eattheinvaders.3037]

@@animula6908 Lol. Credentials. I would think that the fact you can see it for yourself, would be sufficient for trust and also nullify the desire for credentials. I can tell you a few things about Anerican cartoons that you probably don't know. I've seen all of the banned WWII era cartoons. I've also seen and heard the original versions of the 1930s thru (I think) 1954 Tom and Jerry cartoons. Try to find a copy of Gabby Gost and Porky Pig where they haven't airbrushed clothes onto them. . I'll leave you with an easter egg of sorts- the old animated Disney movie "A Jungle Book" has a male character, King Louie, that was animated as a female orangutan, not a male. I dont know if it was a mistake or on purpose.

[@Ammo08]

Many years ago I won a trivia contest at the NCO Club. The question was: What is Wile E. Coyote's worst enemy?" My answer was, "Gravity". I won a Shlitz t-shirt, a beer mug, and a six-pack.

[@stefanschleps8758]

You are an official legend!

[@innocentbystander3317]

Nerf gravity... \[T]/

[@MichaelSHartman]

Well earned.

[@josemorales5117]

Best and real answer ever dude!

[@paulpski9855]

Well done.

[@craigsudman4556]

Thanks for the memories, I was born in '55 and grew up with these cartoons. As a child I didn't over think them I just sat and enjoyed them. To this day, even though I know what's coming, I love it when the coyote ends up on the short end of the stick.

[@Rhaspun]

Yes. It's just entertainment. It wasn't meant to be a life changing story telling event.

[@robertbowyer7239]

I’m 66 years old and me and my 5 year old granddaughter watch the roadrunner cartoons when she spends the night with us the morning after, also I own a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner.

[@mitchstaff8281]

The writing was so good on the Looney Tunes. I think the fact that it took so much effort to make them that everything had to be thought out carefully before the first frame was drawn, and the result was absolute brilliance.

[@stefanschleps8758]

I like the way you think! Brilliance indeed!

[@wishusknight3009]

The subtle details and nuance in the presentation was a stark contrast to the low quality and haphazard writing of hanna barbarra and other such animation houses.

[@mitchstaff8281]

@@wishusknight3009 I'll buy that. But they were on more of a time crunch being made for TV. The fact that the Looney Toons have withstood time much better proves your point. Even though the animation isn't as good, the Dudley Do Right, Bullwinkle, and Underdog cartoons had some decent writing and voice overs. I still laugh at them.

[@pwjtu]

The people who believed these cartoons to be violent miss one very important point: no children ever 'played' Road Runner. No child ever assumed these roles. No children ever went outside, met their friends and said 'You be the Coyote and I'll be the Road Runner'. Upon seeing these cartoons for the first time children understood clearly that they were visual hyperbole and had no link to reality. Children are, by definition, under-developed adults yet they understood the cartoons. The adults who insisted on interpreting these cartoons as violent and who forced censorship of them are, therefore, even less intellectually developed than children. And experts wonder why people don't trust experts!

[@AJPemberton]

I'd be surprised if the majority of people calling for such edits as seen in this video were actually experts in child psychology. They were likely well-intentioned people, but a little knowledge coupled with the best of intentions can have strange and often damaging results. Classic Dunning-Kruger effect. ( edit to add missing 'well' )

[@todaywefly4370]

It could be argued that the lack of this kind of controversy could stunt a childs’ emotional and empathetic development.

[@freeguy77]

The real experts, who can understand the true nature of a cartoon, even in their innocent, young brain are the children! They know satire, exaggeration or repudiation of reality when they see it, and that is why they laugh so hard at cartoons!

[@MrOnemanop]

Some people (groups) just aren't having a complete day unless they're in the middle of disapproving of the behaviour of others.

[@101Volts]

@@MrOnemanop Nothing new, it's talked of in the Book of Proverbs which was penned in like 950 BC. I forget the exact verse off the top of my head, so I'll paraphrase: "There are people who lose sleep, unless they have done evil to someone." Mind, "evil" here might be an awful broad definition. Ancient Hebrew worked real differently, and I'm talking English here...

[@theyellowshoe]

I loved that show! Wile E Coyote taught me to NEVER GIVE UP! When my son was little I had him watch this show, he loves it also.

[@saxmusicmail]

"Out of the clear blue of the western sky comes SKY KING!!!" And that beautiful Cessna 310.

[@mikeyh0]

His niece Penny. I had a little crush on her.

[@vimmentors6747]

My favorite Chuck Jones story is him telling the tale of how in the original cartoons the coyote made a loud crash when he hit the ground, but how one time the sound effect guy set the volume low accidentally, making the iconic quiet "poof". The sound guy apologized and was about to fix it, when Jones, after he stopped laughing, said not to.

[@freeguy77]

Jones realized, the quiet sound made hitting the ground that much funnier, in once again, a violation of real life! The quiet sound also unknowingly to our conscious brain, but more to our sixth sense, diminished the huge mass (importance) of the coyote by hardly making any noise in his hitting Earth. The Road Runner, was also shown as superior, with his speed, reflexes, and quick thinking!

[@mash3d67]

I always thought the quiet poof was to highlight the distance he fell. The sound seemed to make it that much further away.

[@vimmentors6747]

@@mash3d67 He said it was an accident. Those guys had way too much fun making those cartoons. My other favorite story is about how Daffy Duck's voice came from a producer, and the producer had no idea it was an impression.

[@freeguy77]

@@mash3d67 Probably also true as in real life with the distance. But as Jones realized from the mistake of a POOF instead of a loud CRASH, it was funnier to have a softer sound, as if his mass wasn't all that much, or more likely in my analysis of keeping the sound man's error, it diminished While E. Coyote's importance compared to the Road Runner--who won every time!

[@kirnpu]

I didn't know that. The poof was just the icing on the cake after the tiny dust cloud. Roadrunner is my favorite cartoon ever and the trip down any cliff to the bottom wayyyyyy down there was always the payoff for me!

[@Namrevlis1938]

I was a student at MIT from 1957 to 1961 and each Saturday we had free movies in the auditorium. I can say, without reservation, that the most popular part of the program was always a Roadrunner cartoon. It was far and away more popular than any Disney or other children's cartoon.

[@PRH123]

Now we know what stimulated the development of String Theory :)

[@socksumi]

Road Runner cartoons taught us some important physics lessons, lessons the coyote never seemed to learn.

[@michaelterrell]

Did you notice that the coyote never paid for his orders from ACME?

[@MartinLittrell]

@@michaelterrell I always wondered why he kept getting stuff from ACME since it always malfunctioned

[@michaelterrell]

@@MartinLittrell He never read thee fine print. Acme was a fully owned subsidiary of Road Runner, Inc.

[@guykwalter1693]

I especially remember the whole cast of characters marching out on stage from the smallest to the biggest, all to the tune “Overture! Curtain -Lights- this is it, we’ll hit the heights, and oh what heights we’ll hit! On with the show this is it!

[@AndrewVelonis]

Before I clicked on this video, I realized that I still remember the whole Roadrunner song.

[@xg6hpyk]

This is really weird but I was singing this song to myself the other day

[@gregorymoore2877]

I also remember that.

[@normandiebryant6989]

There's no more 'hearsing, rehearsing a part, we know every part, by heart ... That was from "The Bugs Bunny Show", another grouping of all the Warner Bros. cartoons. It used to be aired every night after school and on saturday mornings in Australia but stopped in the seventies. I've never heard it even mentioned since then, although Looney Tunes is still around, I see.

[@MagnumMike44]

We also have a lot of coyotes out in the Arizona wilderness and whenever I saw one, I expected it to be chasing a road runner.. LOL..

[@daveshongkongchinachannel]

Thanks for this - I had no idea the editing out of such scenes went back so far. I feel lucky to have grown up before that time and even though I watched these cartoons I have survived well into middle age without major incident or even as much as a broken bone. Let us hope copies of all these original clips are safely kept by people so that future generations can enjoy them in their full glory.

[@ssjup81]

80s kid here. I didn’t realize these were edited, but thought most of the stuff you mentioned was there. It all looked familiar. I always liked them and would always laugh over the irony of the situation over how Wile E never ordered food from ACME. I mean they sell tornadoes in a can and dehydrated boulders…why not food? lol

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Yeah, Acme supermarkets (for us,on the east coast) would like to think so😏!

[@ianmontgomery7534]

well a coyote can comfortably outrun a road-runner (unless it is a Plymouth of course) so it always amused me why they portrayed it the other way around.

[@ssjup81]

@@rogerrendzak8055 I'm ironically an East Coaster, but have never seen an Acme Supermarket.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@@ssjup81 Northeast coast!! Coincidencly, the only known part 😏 (that counts, lol.)

[@frankcantone3823]

You think like I do. I keep asking, if Wilie E Coyote can order a rocket sled from Acme, why doesn't he just order a pizza and be done with it???

[@Sodor18]

It's nice to see the older crowd succeeding on KZbin. It needs more people like you.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

THANK YOU 👍!!!

[@live2dream1966]

I was born in 66. In the late 60's and early 70's, I would wake my Dad up every Saturday morning to watch the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show. I think he enjoyed those cartoons more than any other show that was on during the week. The cartoons that were on when my kids were little just could not compare. One day in my late 20's, I was listening to a classical station while I was laying down and when I closed my eyes I saw Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny. That is when it dawned on me that I had grown up listening to classical music.

[@RCFrizz]

@live2dream1966 BB&RR cartoons were written for adult audiences to enjoy. Especially consider the Bugs Bunny episodes from WWII; a good bit of the humor would not be caught by a typical 3rd-grader.

[@juancana457]

My dad had a voice controlled TV remote way back in 60's. It worked like this, "put it on channel 5, the news is coming up", then biologic appendages (my brother or my arm) would obediently manipulate the channel selector. Never had to look for AAA batteries in the checkout isle, either.

[@midnittkr]

Funny as in grew up in Southern then Northern California in the 60's and we actually had cable TV even way back then. It was a long wire to a box with channel buttons on it. Then the people across the street got a remote control TV and I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. I used to go over as a small kid just to ask the lady who lived there to let me change channels without touching the TV....magic

[@juancana457]

@@midnittkr In the Navy, 80's east coast, I had a channel selector that looked like a toy keyboard, with a cursor you could drag, laterally, across about 30 to 40 keys (channels). We used to watch four to five different shows at once, which could lead to dizziness, as you watched the images flicker between.

[@NA245th]

So true, in our home he also had the power to fine tune the picture after channel selection by adjustment of those two wire like things sitting atop the TV set. Progress was made, and metal rods were placed on top of the roof. Good times good days when there were family investments.

[@juancana457]

@@NA245th I remember having to mess around with those stupid🐰 'rabbit ears' to the point my arms would grew fatigued. And my dad saying, "just little bit further to the left."

[@midnittkr]

On the rabbit ears it always helped to crunch aluminum foil to increase the sharpness....not......hilarious

[@mikehayes6817]

I watched this show when I grew up in the 60's and laughed like crazy. It was one of the funniest shows. I never gave a single thought of doing any of the things in the cartoon. Somehow we were able to separate the cartoon from the real world and knew it was just for fun.

[@DavidPaz-y8t]

That was a cartoon that no matter what happens to the coyote in the cartoon we never took any of mistakes he did seriously and it was just a funny thing to watch on TV as a kid on Saturday mornings and for those people who were sencering it was a stupid thing to do to us true fans of the cartoons on TV

[@georgepruitt637]

But the censors had to earn their paycheck, somehow !!! @@DavidPaz-y8t

[@frogpalpeeper4249]

You were able to tell the cartoon from reality because you were sane. Good for you!

[@toriless]

I did not know it at the time but most of those were created in the 50's and shown in theaters and later shown on TV.

[@labradormcgraw]

Yes, you've hit the nail on the head there. The key difference is that we understood what was real, and what was pretend.

[@danpatterson8009]

You identified with the Coyote because he felt hunger, anticipation, frustration, pride, and suffered the consequences of his failures- but he never, ever gave up. The Roadrunner was just a foil, an emotionless force of nature that could never be overcome. Why some people feel entitled to mess with others' creations is beyond me. Watch it as it was made or don't watch it at all.

[@Roskellan]

Absolutely :-)

[@kiwitrainguy]

We support the Coyote probably because he had more screen time than the Road Runner.

[@AmericaJonesiepipes]

@@kiwitrainguy you are correct, he gets the most screen time . Of course it’s because, Wile E. Coyote, is the protagonist. The Road Runner clearly represents his personal struggles. Perhaps, his greatest challenge is his own ego. As much as one would empathize, most also wonder why he doesn’t move onto easier prey. But ,that Road Runner is always there …like his “white whale “ .

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

@@AmericaJonesiepipes Well imagine if he ever catches the Road Runner! His life would have no purpose and the Acme Corporation would go broke!

[@AmericaJonesiepipes]

@@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 lol , probably true.

[@TheReal10bears]

I loved The Coyote & the Sheep dog clips👍 Ralph & Sam😂

[@davidmitchell1239]

I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s and watched these with my Dad. We would laugh every weekend at the same silly cartoons as if we were seeing them for the first time and never once did I think that I could survive a fall off of a cliff or an anvil landing on my head.

[@hjpngmw]

I share the same type of memory with my own father. I'd add, we watched George of the Jungle, too, and I never thought I'd survive swinging on a vine and hitting a tree either! I'm not sure why 80's parents thought their kids were so stupid. I'm glad I was born and grew up in the 60's and 70's.

[@chiefbobdavis99]

As long as you have a small umbrella, you’ll be okay! 🤣

[@hjpngmw]

@@chiefbobdavis99 🤣

[@jam99]

@@hjpngmw I don't think it was many of the parents that thought this. As it is today, it is spineless TV programmers who don't want a single letter of complaint, take any risk or responsibility, and so negligent, unaware of the fact that a few complaint letters is exactly what you need to know you are stimulating minds.

[@jeffcarlson3269]

I am sure many believed that some of the events in the cartoons were a possibility... ... it happened to the comic books... in 1954... folks were up in arms... because someone got the ball rolling talking people into believing.. the crime and horror.. depicted in comic books.. would cause depraved minds and juvenile deliquency...hebce the cimic code authority... or C.C.A. came into existence to censor all comics from that point on...sadly.. that is the problem with this country... any time.. some one comes up with a safe idea such as comic books or cartoons.. that is fun to be involved with.. someone wants to squelch this.... I guess we arem't allowed to have too much fun...

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Loved Wile E Coyote.... The daft contraptions and ideas he came up with were just hilarious... 😂

[@elizabethsullivan7176]

My favorite is the one with the huge magnet where everything, including satellites and planets, and a rocket, are attracted to it until everything explodes. At the end Bugs Bunny says something like "aren't the northern lights beautiful this time of year?"

[@cybercat29]

@@elizabethsullivan7176 GIGGLE

[@room34]

I was hoping for some more specifics on exactly *when* the edits happened. I watched these cartoons on CBS in the early '80s and at that time they definitely still included Wile E. Coyote hitting the bottom of the canyon, boulders landing on top of him, his charred face after explosions, etc.

[@bipbop3121]

My thoughts exactly. I don't recall ever seeing edited on TV before or after '85.

[@david2869]

Having watched the unedited versions in the 70's as a child and in the 80's as a teen, I could tell the difference when the editing happened. It wasn't a big deal when I noticed the edits, but I did notice them and probably shook my head at wondering why they edited them. I always thought Tom and Jerry was much more violent, and there were other cartoons (most notably Daffy Duck)who suffered as much as Wile E. did.

[@chrislipps2340]

Watching cartoons on Saturday mornings was a joy and I cherish those moments. I was born in 1972 and those were some great times!

[@schaperart]

The lesson I learned from watching Road Runner cartoons was that when you try and hurt someone else - you only end up hurting yourself - I guess the people who wanted to censor these cartoons have a different perspective on life

[@N-Lee]

Tipper Gore, wife of Al Gore, prime person who did the censoring.

[@christopherbell2091]

Too busy spoiling harmless fun to know

[@madnessbydesignVria]

Well said!

[@billyjackson5799]

@Schaperart the Road Runner series was never edited the way the dude in the video was referring to until a few years ago when some dumb fucks managed to get permission to do a remake of the show and the same dumb fucks also made remakes of the other shows as well which is what you currently see playing on the Cartoon Network but you see the original shows the Boomerang Network from time to time

[@edbruder9975]

Yup! Plus a mean spirit that points out only the worst of anything and anybody. But I guess if you don't censor anything, there goes your job.

[@mainlyfine]

What a great post.🙂 We are of the same generation and like you I watched cartoons on a Saturday morning while my parents were still in bed. I was often told off for sitting to close to the TV "You'll get square eyes" Even as a child I always felt sorry for Wily Coyote. He never EVER caught the Road Runner. I am Australian and so I didn't grow up with coyotes and road runners as a natural part of the fauna but your post brought back the memory of my dismay at the injustice of an unequal fight.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Isn't 'fauna', meaning green plant, life? I remember there was a cartoon (in the 60's, or 70's) about a little boy, who watched too much TV, and after being warned by his parents, actually had his eyes turn into, two little TV, screens! Nobody seems to recall, this 😔!

[@charlestaylor253]

@@rogerrendzak8055 I do. Stevie Teevee.

[@mainlyfine]

@@rogerrendzak8055 As far as I know a regions plant life is called 'flora' and its wildlife is called 'fauna'... if I am wrong I am sure somebody will correct me...again

[@woodhonky3890]

@@mainlyfine You are correct.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@@charlestaylor253 WOW! Total recall!! No shit, that's the name!! I forgot ALL about, that 😳!!

[@avejoe]

I love all cartoons from back in days!👍👍

[@jpmahoney56]

I remember as a kid going to the movies with my older brother and watching cartoons (Road Runner) before the film started. Now it's a ton of commercials before you see the movie.

[@sk22ng]

Being born in 1955 I was at one point in my life a kid not only enjoying but living to watch the Saturday cartoons on tv. It was totally unthinkable back then to conceive any of the cartoons as either violent or politically incorrect. Cartoons were simply cartoons and had no connection whatsoever to reality. My closest friends were of various races, and I can swear that none of knew that we were different from each other regarding intellect. We simply enjoyed each other's company and looked forward to playing together. It's a shame these cartoons were edited to make the male and female versions of Karens happy at the expense of the rest of us preferring the unadulterated versions. The Roadrunner cartoons were hilarious to watch, and anyone watching them back then always knew that no matter what happened to Wile E Coyote he always fully recovered from the mishaps. God bless the Cartoon Network for blatantly airing the unedited versions once again.

[@jameseverett4976]

As a great and famous man said recently "Everything woke turns to sh--t".

[@tommissouri4871]

I'm happy you survived. All of my friends and I became horrible creatures, ordering anvils and cannons from ACME weekly to use against others, just because we watched the Road Runner.

[@ccculture9681]

Ah, what memories! Every child innately knew the difference between the cartoon "violence" and real violence. Nobody needed to tell us the difference.

[@juliemunoz2762]

blaming cartoon violence for children’s behavior was just an excuse for lazy and bad parenting.

[@meoff7602]

Ah, little behind the times. No one is complaining about violence in cartoons anymore. That crowd is complaining about other things at the moment. Mainly crying when there is an openly gay character.

[@AJ-vi4nl]

@@meoff7602 kids shows with openly gay characters? do you really need someone to explain to you why most people do not want that? also your crowd now doesn't censor violence anymore they are too busy censoring white people from existing and replacing them and injecting "diversity" into everything.

[@tomjones4318]

No mass murder school shootings back then or later by this generation. Pretty odd how people will not consider what's different between generations. I guess that makes me genophodic. HaHaHa Today's cartoon is cancel culture/woke insanity.

[@maryblaufuss7533]

IKR? Kids aren't idiots. It is a mistake to perceive them that way.

[@metgath]

As a child I watched Animaniacs, Road Runner, and the other cartoons of the time. I was never bothered or thought about trying the antics myself. I knew that those were cartoons and that similar things would not only be illegal in real life, but could really hurt someone. I was also never traumatized by them. I used video games in a similar way. I was an angry child. I used Grand Theft Auto to get the anger out of my system in a safe and legal manner instead of fighting the bullies that picked on me. After all, it was either fight them or fight in a video game since schools, at least the ones I attended, don't properly discourage bullying. Even as a child I knew that the violence in a video game should remain there and that I could use it as a tool for emotional control and release.

[@ilahildasissac1943]

You had common sense, so did I.

[@Famous-Potatoes]

I started my Saturday morning habit in 1961. I’m so glad I can still watch most of those cartoons today. Thanks for the vid!

[@canamus1768]

in addition to the road runner and coyote shorts, i also love the latter's pairings with bugs bunny, starting with "operation rabbit" (1952), in which he had a voice and dialogue, most memorable and iconic of which has to be, "allow me to introduce myself: wile e coyote, suuuper genius." pure gold.

[@timheersma4708]

"Such a genius" 😆

[@mikegrossberg8624]

@@timheersma4708 "Gad, I'm SUCH a GENIUS!"

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Ending with... "Allow me to introduce myself, my name is mud."

[@KT72273]

I'm sorry Mac! The lady of the house ain't home and besides we mailed you people a check last week!

[@amb2745]

Wile E Coyote (after being blown up): "Allow me to introduce myself, my name is mud" Bugs Bunny: "And remember, mud spelled backwards...is dum".

[@bsanders]

I always thought these cartoons would be great for a high school physics class - entertaining and educational. Stop the cartoon after an event in the story, and the class would have to explain if the event would be possible, or what laws of physics were broken by the characters, or why an ACME product wouldn't actually work, using physics terminology. Inertia, velocity, friction, mass, gravity, etc.

[@wuzgoanon9373]

That would encourage free thought and might disproportionately affect certain minorities. Replacing drag queen story hour with real learning and genuine interest would not send an inclusive message. -schools in America today

[@freeguy77]

Momentum, acceleration vs. deceleration, elastic energy, kinetic energy vs. potential energy, conservation of energy, etc.

[@suprchickn7745]

@@wuzgoanon9373 Brilliant!

[@robschlegel8349]

My teacher did exactly that!

[@_onesimpleidea]

In today's educational environment?? You must be kidding. The teacher would be fired and all of the kids would be scheduled for trauma therapy.

[@jimdecaro4220]

Loved them all. Born in 1964 and watched them all my life. Just like with the "3 stooges" I haven't hit anyone over the head with an anvil(or ax or hammer), pushed someone off a cliff. I like coyotes! These cartoons (along with 3-stooges) have always been hilarious fun. The antics are so exaggerated no one in their right mind should ever take them seriously. Just the small clips you played in your video had me laughing... Comedic Genius, like you said! 🤣😄

[@DustyTail]

Bowl of Quisp. 🛸. Got up early, turned on ch 4, the farmers report would be just finishing and soon Skippy, would be on. That Australian roo kept me entertained until the hours of cartoons started. Saturday mornings were must see tv.

[@GeekandGlory]

I remember as a kid my dad took a 6 hour blank VHS tape and recorded 6 hours worth of Looney Toon shorts for me to watch. He would pop it in the VHS and I would be satisfied for a good chunk of the day. He grew up on Looney Toons and I grew up on the same ones he use to watch. Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote were some of my favorites!

[@wuzgoanon9373]

Yosemite Sam was always a favorite of mine. I loved all the loony toons stuff.

[@marka1422]

@@wuzgoanon9373 --Yer darn tootin' right about that! 😄

[@pjparkwood9277]

The neighborhood movie theatre use to have a Saturday matinee with the old cartoons (Tom and Jerry, Droopy Dog, The Road Runner-Coyote, and two or three others) along with a movie (a western, a si-fi, or a comedy). It cost fifty cents. We usually snuck candy in and bought buttered popcorn for a quarter.

[@fredpagniello3267]

You must have seen the cartoon where the Roadrunner and Speedy Gonzales raced to see who was the fastest...and Wiley E Coyote and Sylvester the Cat teamed up to catch them for dinner...

[@johnnewland2409]

Our good ‘ol days. Great memories, even if they’re getting foggier ...

[@rogerrendzak8055]

@PJ Parkwood. You are aware, that you spelled 'theater', wrong? My point being, we're NOT in 'limeyville' (England)!

[@johnnewland2409]

@@rogerrendzak8055 it’s not necessarily “wrong” ... it’s the British way. Same thing applies here in Canada.

[@jeffjames4064]

Even fights with my brothers were put on hold when the road runner started. All offences forgiven by the closing credits. Good times with lots of laughs.😁

[@RickDrew]

I remember the "Duck Season Rabbit Season" bit with Bugs and Daffy. Daffy is shot multiple times from all directions. Daffy Exclaims "Missed me" then drinks a large glass of water. Water pours out of numerous holes that were previously invisible. Watched the same cartoon years later. It ended at "Missed me."

[@kleetus92]

It's truly nauseating to see what wokeness has done to the world.

[@jonphillips2951]

I grew up watching Bugs Bunny/Road Runner and I didn't turn out violent or traumatized (much). Adults just didn't get it.

[@jedidrummerjake]

The Roadrunner was second only to Bugs Bunng! Wonderful being a kid back then.

[@3ggshe11s]

People weren't so danged fragile back then. I watched these cartoons growing up, plus gun-wielding Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, and the slapstick of the Three Stooges reruns. Somehow I've lived my life never becoming a violent delinquent. Never even tried to gouge my friends' eyes with accompanying funny sound effects.

[@jasondashney]

It's so interesting that millions and millions and millions and millions of views is what these cartoons had, and there wasn't an epidemic of violence so we already had the data, yet people love to be offended by things and try to ban everything anyay. I hate those people from the bottom of my heart.

[@b_korthuis]

As a child of the 80s, I find it quite fascinating that the generation who thought cartoons were too violent is now the generation of leaders who won't retire from their political positions and are increasing the societal violence with their current policies.

[@davidbranch1077]

I was a little kid in 1970's and this cartoon was one of my favorites on Saturday mornings among Thundarr the Barbarian, Fat Albert and Godzilla cartoon. I'm still moved to this very day, about the memories of the things, I was born in 1973. So with a birthday coming up and my parents are no longer here, seeing this video means a lot . These memories are more felt from childhood, because we had our parents, our protection and the love from them. I was searching this cartoon for that very reason, and you deserve a like for this video. Well done, searching your memories of this cartoon adds a special touch to the video. Thanks 💙👍💯 Time stamped 6:50am( 8-10-23)

[@jasondashney]

I don't know anybody who doesn't suddenly revert to being a six year old with a big bowl of cereal in front of the TV at the very mention of Saturday morning cartoons. Nothing takes you back quite like it. Kids today are lucky that they have access to cartoons at all times, but they will never understand the thrill of Saturday morning. It was like Christmas 52 times a year.

[@davidwilliams9795]

​@@jasondashneyAre We or today's kids the Lucky Ones...💥😎👍

[@henrycasillas4351]

1972 here, I agree with you 100%.

[@jasondashney]

We are because we got to experience it both ways. @@davidwilliams9795

[@robertholmberg6485]

Even though it broke with the originals, I have to admit that I enjoyed the episode where the two kids are trying to figure out why Wile E. Coyote went to all the trouble to try to catch the roadrunner if for no other reason because of how professionally analytical the kids sound and the coyote's grandeloquent and over professional explanation, and the way he said "asparagus"

[@craigbenz4835]

I once saw a funny bit where Alistair Cooke gave an introduction to a Road Runner cartoon in the same style he was using for his Masterpiece Theater introductions on PBS.

[@tessmoore3762]

I grew up watching these. I loved all the Saturday morning cartoons, but Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote were favorites. Watching them with Dad was the best because he always laughed so hard. We laughed as much at him laughing as we did at the cartoon. Dad did love to laugh, and he would say, "That poor ol' Coyote can't get anything to eat!" Never once thought of being "violent" ourselves, and we watched Yosemite Sam shooting at Bugs as well as Elmer Fudd!

[@toriless]

Yosemite Sam has got to have the world's worst aim

[@willmfrank]

One of my favourite Mythbusters moment is in the segment "Plywood Builder." The overhead shot of Buster falling from the tower and hitting the earth with a dust cloud donut is a near-perfect visual echo of Wile E. Coyote.

[@Olan09]

Pure genius. one of my favorite cartoons from the 60s through to the 70s and beyond. Poor Coyote!

[@maryblaufuss7533]

"Sometimes I feel sorry for the coyote. Sometimes I wish he'd actually catch the road runner." Remember the cartoon with the two little boys who were watching cartoons on TV? As the cartoon went on, Wile-E described the flavors of every cut and feather on a road runner, which is why it was worth all that effort to catch one. The list ended with "Yorkshire pudding and pistachio!"

[@stevenbaer5999]

I was actually a little kid in the 1970s, I knew that it wasn't actually real life but yet it's actually very extremely hilarious and fun to watch. Smart kids knew that it's actually a great cartoon done by a cartoonist. Just like I knew that the 3 Stooges was actually a great act for entertainment but yet they're actually not like that in real life.

[@ewmhop]

THANK FOR BRINGING ME BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD,SOMETIME THE CARTOONS WERE BETER THEN THE MOVIE SHOWING.IF THIS OLD MAN NOT LOSING HIS MIND,DIDN'T THEY HAVE A COMIC BOOK FOR A WHILE.

[@garyreid6165]

Oh, you also forgot about the Sheepdog. He wasn’t an enemy, but a co-worker in a game of Catch As Catch Can. The Sheepdog was named Sam and Wile E. Coyote is named Ralph. And they would talk to each other in the beginning and at the end.

[@photoboyjet]

I loved those Sheepdog and Coyote cartoons. Just as one was just about to get the better of the other, the end of day whistle would blow, and they'd clock out and walk home together. No hard feelings. The idea that the two were just co-workers doing a job was mind-blowing.

[@DreAmeoba1]

Those were fun…”mornin Ralph !”…”mornin Sam !”….”how’s the missus ?”…..& then the ridiculous antics of “Ralph” trying to steal a lamb, etc,…

[@garyreid6165]

@@DreAmeoba1 Ralph-“See you tomorrow, Sam.” Sam-“Better luck next time, Ralph.”

[@Geeksmithing]

Those were actually different characters. It wasn't Wile E. posing as a wolf.

[@carpeinferi]

I suppose I was lucky growing up in the 80s that when I watched them from the mid 80s to early 90s they were the unedited versions.

[@ThomaskellySr.]

I especially loved the one where the coyote used wings to fly after the Roadrunner and was pasted to the canyon wall. Then peeled off and dropped to the canyon floor 😂

[@bobbell1922]

Ah yes, the Acme "Bat-Man" suit (hyphenated to avoid a lawsuit). Guaranteed for the life of the user.

[@dogbarbill]

@@bobbell1922 And it was even green!!

[@robertkeilbley858]

I wanted to order a set of rocket rollerskates !

[@nowthatsjustducky]

The dynamite gliders was my favorite. I think that may be the first time they used a running gag in a single Road Runner cartoon, unless the catapult was the first. Need to go rewatch then both and see if they upheld the Rule of 3.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

Update...Definitely no Rule of 3 on either gag. In the episode with the catapult, Road Runner A Go Go, Wile E. talks quite a bit as he is reviewing his previous failed attempts to catch Road Runner.

[@1angelofthelight2]

I've always loved this pair, especially during my pregnancy with my second daughter. I used to laugh so much it's surprising I managed to carry her to term.

[@schizoidboy]

It's hard to pin down the favorites other than anything that Chuck Jones did. I can only think of their skits rather than the entire episode. I like the bumble bees in a jug that end up attacking the Coyote than the Roadrunner and the skit with the dynamite in the barrel skit where the Coyote actually gets out of the barrel he gets stuck in only to have the lid still on his head where the dynamite is still nailed. The skit with the Burmese tiger trap is also a favorite of mine.

[@maddogmike5178]

A square box with cartoons on Saturday morning and same as you, sugar cereal. It's amazing how many of us did the same things back then. Thanks for posting this. It's great to reminisce.

[@godfreymccammon4531]

All Road Runner/Coyote cartoons are butt-kicking funny,I have a DVD of ALL of the originals. If I have to say I have a favorite, it's the one where Bugs Bunny has to deal with him. He shows Bugs his business card and says "hello my name is Wyle E. Coyote", but by the end of the cartoon where Bugs has managed to blow him up repeatedly, he opens a door and says "hello, my name is mud" as Bugs says mud backwards spells dum...priceless.

[@blackbearish]

i remember that one. it's hilarious

[@ericm4060]

"hello my name is Wyle E. Coyote - super genius and I am going to eat you. You have the customary few minutes to say your prayers" Classic.

[@maggiegarber246]

I was in college at the University of Kansas from 1966 through 1970. One evening I attended a speech by Chuck Jones. One thing that I remember is that he taught his children to draw on only one side of the paper so there wasn’t a conflict as to which side should be put on the refrigerator.

[@desthomas8970]

I worked in a TV repair workshop in the early 70s. When the road runner came on it was down tools time. Everyone watched including the manager.

[@KKRioApartments]

Road Runner was heavily edited? In the 1980s?? That's news to me. I grew up watching these cartoons in the 1980s, and I didn't notice any of the edits mentioned here. When he fell off a cliff, Coyote routinely hit the ground in a puff of dust every Saturday, had stuff fall on him, and when explosives went off, he was left all covered in soot.

[@DRourk]

Video maker is lying. The censorship didn't happen until after Ted Turner bought the rights to the cartoons in the late 90s and they started airing on the cartoon network. Ted Turner was and is a billionaire communist, and considering the video maker is telling us the exact opposite of the truth, he very well make be a communist too.

[@errolfellows409]

LOVE 'EM! Loved them as a kid, and I STILL love them. The censorship was bollocks! Interfering biddies, crabby curmudgeons, holier-than-thou types. ARSEHOLES!! I turned 74 on June 30th.

[@adrianwilson4197]

I wonder where they get the ideas that the AR - 15 fire on their own? ( Gun Violence)

[@tedmoss]

See...They poisoned your mind.

[@marktaha2701]

There should be a law compelling all repeats and films on TV to be shown totally uncut

[@paxhumana2015]

@@marktaha2701 , and enforced by a failure to do so will lead to the idiots being executed live on television.

[@leeshepard5718]

I could tell by all those crazy cuss words... Happy 75th!

[@billmiller2522]

I always loved the episode where the Coyote finally catches the Road Runner. Somehow, he winds up much smaller than RR and when he realizes this fact, he holds up a sign that says, "now that I have him, what do I do?"

[@FriskyNikki]

Glad I’m not the only one who remembers that episode.

[@BadWebDiver]

Same! 😆

[@pacomatic9833]

He's been chasing the Runner for so long that he's completely forgotten his motive

[@SWExplore]

Your rendition of early Saturday mornings getting up and switching on the B/W TV set, with rabbit ears, was exactly my childhood. So thank you for the memories. I'm sure that I had watched every episode more than once, or more. Regarding the violence: The Roadrunner and others were certainly extremely violent and we all lapped it up with a chuckle. Regardless of whatever age, watching someone else's misfortune has always tickled our very human funny bone...as long as it's not us getting the anvil on the head...LOL

[@transparentglazier]

...or a rocket blowing up on your butt! I had the misfortune of falling 30 some feet once and there seemed to be a slight pause before heading downwards. Coincidence from watching Wiley?

[@markp6062]

I never realized that ALL the 'good ones' but one were made before I was born in 63. Great info. Thanks!