

#Looney tunes animation desk series
He's always hungry." Chuck Jones added that he created the Coyote/Road-Runner series as a means of parodying traditional "cat-and-mouse" cartoons like Tom & Jerry (which the director was to work on later in his career, ironically enough). Coyote on Samuel Clemens' book Roughing It, in which Samuel describes the coyote as a "long, slim, sick, sorry-looking skeleton" and a "living, breathing allegory of the desire to want. While he is usually silent in the regular Coyote / Road-Runner shorts, in these solo outings, he speaks with a refined, ego-maniacal, almost English-sounding accent provided by Mel Blanc.Ĭhuck Jones based Wile E. appears separately as an adversary of Bugs Bunny in five cartoons from 1952 to 1963: " Operation: Rabbit", " To Hare Is Human", " Rabbit's Feat", " Compressed Hare", and " Hare-Breadth Hurry". Coyote utilizes elaborate plans and absurdly complex gadgets, often from ACME, but he fails every time. In each cartoon, to try to catch his prey, rather than his natural guile, Wile E. To date, 48 cartoons have been made featuring these characters (including the computer-animated shorts), most of which were directed by Chuck Jones. He debuted with his frequent adversary, Road Runner, in 1949's " Fast and Furry-ous". Coyote is a Looney Tunes character created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Maurice LaMarche ( Looney Tunes: Reality Check and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor)
