2014
Flash in the Pain
Release date: 2014-06-10
Plot: Wile E. Coyote gets his paws on a new gadget, an ACME Transporter wrist device, and decides it's the perfect tool to finally blow up the Road Runner. Of course, every teleport goes wrong: he ricochets between cliffs, trucks, road signs, a runaway boulder and an Acme bomb that refuses to leave him alone. In one misfire he pops out not in the desert, but inside Granny's apartment, where Sylvester is chasing Tweety.
Name and role: Here Wile E. Coyote is still the classic overconfident super genius, but the new teleport device literally breaks his usual desert loop and drops him into an urban setting: Granny's city apartment, straight out of the Sylvester-Tweety shorts. For a few seconds he stops being the sole architect of his own pain and becomes just another intruder for Granny to clobber with her bat, getting hit repeatedly as he blinks in and out of the room. The gag flips the usual formula: instead of Acme alone betraying him, he's physically punished by another character, then dumped back into the highway chase to be finished off by his own bomb and the boulder. This is also one of the very rare times Wile directly intersects the Sylvester, Tweety and Granny world.
Trivia and other appearances: Wile had already broken out of "pure Road Runner continuity" before, co-starring with Bugs Bunny in Operation: Rabbit (1952), To Hare Is Human (1956), Rabbit's Feat (1960) and Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963) but also Pairing with Sylvester in the short "The Wild Chase" (1965)
Release date: 2014-06-10
Plot: Wile E. Coyote gets his paws on a new gadget, an ACME Transporter wrist device, and decides it's the perfect tool to finally blow up the Road Runner. Of course, every teleport goes wrong: he ricochets between cliffs, trucks, road signs, a runaway boulder and an Acme bomb that refuses to leave him alone. In one misfire he pops out not in the desert, but inside Granny's apartment, where Sylvester is chasing Tweety.
Name and role: Here Wile E. Coyote is still the classic overconfident super genius, but the new teleport device literally breaks his usual desert loop and drops him into an urban setting: Granny's city apartment, straight out of the Sylvester-Tweety shorts. For a few seconds he stops being the sole architect of his own pain and becomes just another intruder for Granny to clobber with her bat, getting hit repeatedly as he blinks in and out of the room. The gag flips the usual formula: instead of Acme alone betraying him, he's physically punished by another character, then dumped back into the highway chase to be finished off by his own bomb and the boulder. This is also one of the very rare times Wile directly intersects the Sylvester, Tweety and Granny world.
Trivia and other appearances: Wile had already broken out of "pure Road Runner continuity" before, co-starring with Bugs Bunny in Operation: Rabbit (1952), To Hare Is Human (1956), Rabbit's Feat (1960) and Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963) but also Pairing with Sylvester in the short "The Wild Chase" (1965)