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Zip 'n Snort is a 1961 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.

Plot[]

The credits are shown, and the coyote's Latin name (Evereadii eatibus) is among them. To the left, Wile E. Coyote points at the words and then himself. Road Runner then pulls up behind him and beeps, sending the Coyote into the air. Road Runner's name is shown (Digoutis-hot-rodis) before he moves off stage, leaving a dust cloud for Wile E. to land in. The chase continues, until they reach a tunnel in which the Road Runner leaves the path, allowing a truck to chase Wile E. He eventually kicks up a pothole and runs away from the truck & sticks his tongue out at it, but does not watch where he's going & walks off the edge of a cliff, & upon seeing the situation, he puts his tongue back in & looks at the audience surprised, pointing at the ground, before he hits a cliff & falls off. The Road Runner arrives at the cliff & Wile E. climbs the cliff to continue the chase, but the second he's almost at the top, the precipice falls off with Wile E. at the top. Angered, he then begins thinking of his next plots.

Road Runner pulls up to the top of the mountain that Wile E. ran into and beeps to get the coyote's attention. Fueled by rage, the Coyote climbs the mountain, but soon falls back down. His second climb causes the entire edge of the mountain to fall as the Coyote scrambles to the top. Wile E. climbs to the top of the precipice and prepares to chase Road Runner, but eventually realizes he's on his way down. He can only wince in puzzlement before hitting the ground a third time.

  1. A simple plan - simply loading himself into a bow - leads to a simple denouement: running into the wood instead of going towards the bird.
  2. Rather than face Road Runner directly, Wile E. uses a grenade mounted on top of a model airplane to take out Road Runner from above. However, when he sets the propeller in motion, only the propeller flies into the air. The Coyote soon figures out the situation and throws the entire model airplane into the air, but the grenade still remains in the air, spinning behind the Coyote before exploding.
  3. Returning to simplicity, Wile E. uses a wedge to throw a large rock, but it results in self-squashing.
  4. This time, Wile E. lays out iron pellets covered with bird seed for Road Runner to eat, while lying in wait on a high cliff with a magnet on a fishing line. However, the magnet attaches itself to a power line, electrocuting the Coyote and causing his nose to flash like a light bulb. The Coyote unscrews his nose and gazes at its flashing, looking amused.
  5. The Coyote then attempts to load a cannon, but as he pounds in the cannonball with a stick, the cannon fires the two items out of it, with the Coyote still hanging on to the stick. Gravity results, and Wile E. and the stick land into the ground, to be pounded down by the cannonball.
  6. Wile E. now lies in wait on top of a cliff with a cannon as Road Runner munches on more birdseed. The Coyote turns the cannon downwards as he goes to light the fuse, but the cannon falls off its mount, taking the Coyote down with it. He rolls himself off to the right and finds the cannon facing him. Wile E. gropes downwards to escape the cannon's fire, but the cannon faces him again. Wile E. sighs and soon realizes the inevitable, and is then swallowed by the cannon. Road Runner moves out of the way as the cannon with the Coyote inside hits the ground. Then the cannon fires, sending it back up to its mount, which also causes the precipice to break and to fall back down on the Coyote in a triple whammy.
  7. Hoping to out-corner his rival, Wile E. greases his feet with axle grease and glides across the mountaintop, but soon sees the edge of the cliff. With no alternative, he grabs onto a saguaro and gets speared by its spines. Now, he can spot Road Runner's trajectory and leaps off down the mountain slope, but instead of stopping in the middle of the road, he continues down the mountain and drops off it, and then onto the power lines seen earlier. Wile E. surfs these with no way to stop himself, but when he reaches the ground, he moves directly onto a railroad track, complete with an approaching train! Fortunately, before it hits the Coyote, he moves onto a side track.

Wile E. points happily at the receding train, but now sees he's going into a tunnel with another train coming out of it. Wile E. strokes himself against the wind, barely keeping pace. The train is labeled: "NEW YORK EXPRESS / NON STOP"; Road Runner is in the conductor's compartment.

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  • When this cartoon aired on ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show, the scene of Wile E. getting shocked after his magnet on a fishing line attracts to a power line was edited to make it look like Wile E. Coyote was shocked in one continuous take rather than twice. The part after where Wile E.'s nose turns into a light bulb and Wile E. screws it off and is marveled by it was not censored.[1]

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Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote Shorts
1949 Fast and Furry-ous
1952 Operation: RabbitBeep, BeepGoing! Going! Gosh!
1953 Zipping Along
1954 Stop! Look! And Hasten!
1955 Ready.. Set.. Zoom!Guided Muscle
1956 Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-zThere They Go-Go-Go!To Hare Is Human
1957 Scrambled AchesZoom and Bored
1958 Whoa, Be-Gone!Hook, Line and StinkerHip Hip- Hurry!
1959 Hot-Rod and Reel!Wild About Hurry
1960 Fastest with the MostestRabbit's FeatHopalong Casualty
1961 Zip 'n SnortLickety-SplatCompressed HareBeep Prepared
1962 Zoom at the Top
1963 Hare-Breadth HurryTo Beep or Not to Beep
1964 War and Pieces
1965 Zip Zip Hooray!Roadrunner a Go-GoThe Wild ChaseRushing RouletteRun, Run, Sweet Road RunnerTired and FeatheredBoulder Wham!Just Plane BeepHairied and HurriedHighway RunneryChaser on the Rocks
1966 Shot and BotheredOut and Out RoutThe Solid Tin CoyoteClippety ClobberedSugar and Spies
1979 Freeze Frame
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young BunnySoup or Sonic
1994 Chariots of Fur
1996 Superior Duck
2000 Little Go Beep
2003 Whizzard of Ow
2010 Coyote FallsFur of FlyingRabid Rider
2014 Flash in the Pain
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