#Roadrunner and coyote series#
In a series of animated short films, the fleet-footed Road Runner races along the highways of the American Southwest, his legs and feet moving so fast that they form a wheel-like blur, with Wile E. I thought the cheerleaders were chanting: “It ain’t us!”Īnd that’s exactly what I screamed from the stands. Road Runner, American cartoon character, a speedy, slender, blue and purple bird who continually frustrated the efforts of a coyote (Wile E. Obviously, “NHS” stood for North High School, but it wasn’t so obvious to me at the time. “Who’s the best in the city? NHS!” the cheerleaders exclaimed. DYK: Our team specializes in long haul metro-to-metro LTL services helping you deliver on time and on budget. Speaking of youthful misunderstandings, I’m still mortified by my performance at North High School pep assemblies.Īs a freshman in the late 1970s, I didn’t quite understand what was happening as the Viking cheerleaders led students in the gymnasium. I’m ashamed to say that I only recently realized that the girl in the logo isn’t holding a deadly weapon. She’s officially known as the Little Utz Girl and she’s been the mascot for the Pennsylvania snack company for a century. Well, that was my impression of it … for decades! Have you ever looked at the logo on Utz snack products?Ī rose-cheeked girl with a red bow in her hair appears to clutch a jagged blade that’s dripping in blood. and Albrecht should finally do a cross-promotion. Production is scheduled to begin in late March in New Mexico, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
#Roadrunner and coyote movie#
Acme,” a live-action/animation hybrid movie based on Wile E. Last week, wrestler and actor John Cena signed a deal to star in “Coyote Vs. Things are about to get really interesting in the marketing department. It certainly was disappointing, though, to go shopping with my parents and not be able to find tornado kits, earthquake pills and rocket sleds in the aisles of Acme. Albrecht Grocery Co.įazio’s, A&P, Kroger, Sparkle Market, Bisson’s and other stores couldn’t buy that kind of advertising - even if the products didn’t seem to work as planned. from Looney Tunes was a reference to Acme stores from the Akron-based F.W.
Some of us - OK, maybe just me - thought the fictional Acme Corp. This seemed liked product placement to children of the 1960s and 1970s. In an effort to catch his prey, the hungry coyote employed such mail-order gadgets as Acme Anvils, Acme Dynamite, Acme Axle Grease, Acme Invisible Paint, Acme Giant Rubber Bands, Acme Rocket Powered Roller Skates, Acme Dehydrated Boulders and an Acme Jet-Propelled Pogo Stick. his awesome speed allows him to escape Wile E. Coyote, seemed to buy most of his sophisticated weaponry from an Akron grocery chain.Īkron flashback: Random people haunt my memories The fastest denizen of the desert, the Road Runner, Accelerati incredibulis in Latin. **Sentence edited after a correction in the comments.If you grew up in Summit County, Road Runner cartoons had a special meaning. *Citation for Greater Roadrunner speeds found via Wikipedia’s Greater Roadrunner page and information about the top speed of a Coyote came via Fact Monster. Should a coyote someday catch a roadrunner the result would likely be something like this: It would seem that despite the greater speed of the coyote, and, considering its adaptability to multiple habitats, what is likely a greater native intelligence, that the roadrunner will somehow always stay one step ahead of its cartoon nemesis. They prefer not to but if a coyote were about to catch a roadrunner that roadrunner would take to the wing and be gone!įinally, despite what Warner Brothers would like you to believe, there has never been a documented instance of a coyote catching a roadrunner.** Shocking, no? Especially considering that coyotes are known to eat pretty much everything! It’s as if all the cartoons I watched as a child were just made up scenarios in pretend worlds with no actual relation to reality and no practical use whatsoever. Wild coyotes can’t expect roadrunners to actually stick to the road when their life is on the line! There is also the really pesky fact that roadrunners can fly. First of all, roadrunners have an amazing ability to use ground cover as they run and they rarely move in a straight line. Of course, a couple facts get in the way of Wile E Coyote snacking on Road Runner. Clearly, in an all out footrace, the roadrunner would be dinner. Coyote chasing it, a Greater Roadrunner can reach speeds of 20 MPH (32 KPH) while a Coyote can reach speeds of up to 43 MPH (69 KPH). According to Mark Lockwood’s Basic Texas Birds: A Field Guide, with or without Wile. Every child who has ever seen a cartoon featuring Wile E Coyote and Road Runner has to have wondered if poor Wile E ever had a fair shot at catching the Road Runner.
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