Wild About Hurry
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Wild About Hurry is a 1959 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.
[edit] Plot
Wile is shown brandishing scissors on top of a high-rise tree branch, ready to cut the rope and drop a rock onto the passing Road Runner. The rock displays the title, and when it falls to the ground (barely missing its target) the credits are shown in the dust. Chuck Jones' credit is displayed upon a rocket that the Coyote plans to ride.
The rocket is paused in mid-flight to show the Coyote's Latin name: Hardheadipus Oedipus. The Road Runner is still leading the way, and his flight is paused to show his Latin name: Batoutahelius.
The chase goes well for Wile, until the rocket slams into a low plateau. Luckily enough, the coyote still can continue the air chase. He almost catches the Road Runner, but slams his head on a rock arch before he can pounce. Wile now looks like a sunflower. He poses for the camera and then trudges away.
Wile takes delivery of One Giant ACME Rubber Band: Fantastically Elastic and attempts to launch himself off a slingshot. However, he is throwned barely two feet and onto the ground.
The Coyote poses innocently on a rock perch until the Road Runner passes by below. He scratches his back and poses for the camera again. The camera cuts to Wile's next plan. He flips a clam-shaped rock into the air, but instead of falling downwards, it flips over and the end attaches itself to the precipice. Wile attempts to push it down, but that fails. He then stomps on and off it six times, with no result. Then, he jumps fully on and puts his whole might onto the rock...and then it falls. He continues to stomp on the rock until he realizes he's falling. He looks down and sees the ground, then attempts to jump off the rock. However, all that does is turn the rock in circles. He persists, and manages to slow the rock down, but the end result is the rock drilling through the large rock face and into a train tunnel, where he is hit. A small piece of the rock lifts Wile out of the tunnel and plants him on the ground neatly. Wile steps off, but finds himself continuing to rotate periodically as he walks.
The camera shows an order form for an extremely large railroad construction job that Wile has done to attempt to ensnare his nemesis. The camera zooms across the landscape to show the extremely long railroad, and that the coyote has put himself into a mini-spaceship to glide across the tracks. The first turn is going from almost straight down to about 60 degrees downwards; however, the spaceship breaks directly through the mounted railroad and face plants on the ground.
The Coyote baits the Road Runner's bird seed with iron pellets and then plants a magnet attached to a bomb next to him; however, the magnetic force is strong enough to break the connection between the two items, leaving the bomb close to the Coyote. The puzzled coyote pokes his head up from his hiding place and is obliterated by the bomb.
Wile makes a simple squashing trap: drop a bowling ball through a pipe section and hope to squash the Road Runner. It misses, and is heavy enough to bounce straight back up through the pipe and hit its owner in the face. Wile is thrown up into the air, and down through the pipe and onto the ground. Then the bowling ball hits him again and pounds the Coyote into the ground.
The Coyote plugs himself into an ACME Indestructo Steel Ball and rolls himself off an escarpment. However, he narrowly misses his intended target (the Road Runner) and pitches himself onto a serac and into a dam. He rolls himself up out of the water, and then directly down a wall. He bounces on several rocks and then back into the water. Wile finally pokes out enough to realize where he is going: off the edge again. He falls directly down the waterfall, into a mash of water, and finally out of the dam..but then onto some railroad tracks. He gets out, relieved, but soon gets back inside for shelter when he sees an approaching train.
The ball is then thrown directly into an abandoned mine field, where one explosion dents the ball and sends him back into the air. He passes his original base and falls back down the original incline. Wile misses the Road Runner on the road, and starts the sequence all over again. The Road Runner holds up a sign that says HERE WE GO AGAIN, beeps, and dashes to the side.
[edit] Censorship
- Some local TV stations cut the obligatory frozen introductory shot of the Road Runner in the beginning of the cartoon (because his faux Latin name in this cartoon technically says "Bat-outta-hell-ius").
