The Road Runner cartoons are a series of Looney Tunes
cartoons created by Chuck Jones for Warner Brothers.Chuck
Jones once said of his most famous protagonist and antagonist
that "Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal."
He originally created the Road Runner cartoons as a parody
of traditional "cat and mouse" cartoons (such
as Tom and Jerry) which were increasingly popular at the
time. The Road Runner shorts are very simple in their
premise: the Road Runner, a flightless cartoon bird (loosely
based on a real bird, the Greater Roadrunner), is chased
down the highways of the Southwestern United States by
a hungry coyote, named Wile E. Coyote (a pun on "wily
coyote"). Despite numerous clever attempts, the coyote
never catches or kills the Road Runner, and all of his
elaborate schemes end up injuring himself in humorous
instances of highly exaggerated cartoon slapstick violence.
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