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Dec 1, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

Seems that the coyote really needed cocaine bear's help over all those years

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Was it Family Guy that did a riff on the Coyote catching the Roadrunner, and documented his existential collapse in the wake of finally achieving his goal?

Ah yes, here it is:

https://youtu.be/B69ew9FtRF0

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"If he catches you, you're through." has stuck in my head for eons.

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Think Sylvester and Twitty Bird

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The enduring nature of the format indicates the part it plays in making people laugh, young and old, for decades. The endlessly different scenarios, that the road runner and the hapless coyote have to re-enact Ad infinitum, which in any other show would have entailed giving it a shot in the arm, such as jumping the shark with the fading Fonz or Harrison Ford avoiding the nuclear explosion by getting inside the refrigerator, are a true acid test of the shows durability.

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Somewhere on the googlenet is the letter to ACME from the Coyote's lawyers. I always enjoy that.

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when will learn that he's never gonna slow him down.....

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