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https://www.yahoo.com/tv/chuck-jones-road-runner-rules-112898494205.htmlChuck Jones rules that governed each and every encounter between Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote have gone viral on Twitter after director Amos Posner shared a page from the 1999 autobiography of Jones, Chuck Jones, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist.
The nine strict rules made sure there was no dialog apart from beep beep, that every episode was set in the American south west, that Wile E. Coyote only shopped at Acme Corporation despite the appalling success rate of their products and, most tellingly, gravity was to be the coyotes worst enemy whenever possible.
Taken together, Coyote was never going to win.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)(Now I've got "number nine ... number nine ... " going through my head.)
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)and went back to the hunt.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)To quote the producer of Itchy and Scratchy.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)look up "Coyote v. Acme Products" opening statement of Plaintiff's Counsel, by Ian Frazier. It was first published in The New Yorker and later in the Texas Bar Journal in Judge Jerry Buchmeyer's column.
"Plaintiff is unable to pursue his usual occupation as a predator."
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)thank you for the reference.
Initech
(99,914 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)remember, The Simpsons began life as a sketch on Tracey Ullman.
Initech
(99,914 posts)They could do it "Better Call Saul" style and show Krusty's transformation from mild mannered Judaism student Herschel Krustofsky into Krusty and forming Krustylu Studios and starting the media and defective merchandise empire that he has today.
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)And quickly discovered that about 1 minute is the point at which laughter turns into awkward silence for an audience watching Itchy and Scratchy. (Naturally, this is echoed in the Simpsons when Bart is watching I&S with Mr. Burns, and is creeped out by how delighted Mr. Burns is by the cartoon)