Highway Runnery is a 1965 Looney Tunes short directed by Rudy Larriva.
Title[]
The title is a play on the phrase "highway robbery."
Plot[]
Road Runner is running down the highway, and his wake is rattling objects on the side of the road. When he passes Wile E. Coyote, the gust of air pushes a cactus into Wile E.'s backside causing him to hop into the air while howling. Later, he chases the bird around and around a junk car, kicking up a cloud of dust, and Road Runner suddenly disappears. Wile E. examines the car, but it suddenly starts and runs over him. Road Runner pops up behind the steering wheel, turns the car around as he later leaps on the sign that says "Dead End" while standing, and crashes it into the coyote against a rock face.
Wile E. uses a giant rubber band as a slingshot. First, when the Roadrunner zooms past, he launches himself and hits a few boulders. As he smiles while trying to grab the Road Runner with his arms, then Road Runner ducks down as he misses, hits the sign that says "Slow curve", crosses a canyon, and smacks into the opposite wall, before falling to the canyon floor and making an accordion of himself.
He rigs a sail to a skateboard, then uses an electric fan to blow wind in the sail. Using this he nearly succeeds but the cord pulls out of the socket and he coasts off the edge of the canyon again.
He builds a bomb with dynamite and an alarm clock, and puts it inside a big egg shell. He places the egg in a nest on the road, and when Road Runner comes, he dutifully sits on it. It soon hatches, and out walks the alarm clock with a road runner head on a spring on top of it. The clock walks over to the hiding coyote and promptly explodes. When the remains of the clock rings again, the annoyed coyote slams it with another rock, causing it to explode again.
Lastly, he straps a big rocket on his back as he's chasing his prey on a motor scooter. However, when he lights the rocket it sends him up in the air, where he passes through four clouds, and ends up in space. The rocket explodes, propelling a surprisingly unsoiled Wile E. into the air. The coyote plummets straight back to Earth, and crashes to the ground with such force that the impact dust can be seen far from Earth.
Availability[]
Bugs and Road Runner: Runaway Rabbit
(1997 dubbed version) (only in PAL regions)
Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 7)
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks (restored)
Road Runner
Looney Tunes Super Stars 3-Pack, Disc 3
Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature, Disc 3
Streaming[]
Notes[]
- Wile E. Coyote howls like a real coyote after getting slapped on the back by a cactus. This is the first and only time he howls.
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