Zipping Along

Zipping Along is a 1953 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. The Road Runner is "zipping along" by a train, and the camera zooms in and then freezes for his "Latin" name: Velocitus Tremenjus. When the cartoon restarts, the Road Runner leaves the train and runs onto the main roads, with the coyote watching from above. He glances from side to side, and in mid-turn, the camera freezes for Wile ... more

Zipping Along is a 1953 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. The Road Runner is "zipping along" by a train, and the camera zooms in and then freezes for his "Latin" name: Velocitus Tremenjus. When the cartoon restarts, the Road Runner leaves the train and runs onto the main roads, with the coyote watching from above. He glances from side to side, and in mid-turn, the camera freezes for Wile E. Coyote's "Latin" name: Road-Runnerus Digestus. He prepares to do just that, as he ventures down the mountain and toward the road. He hears the Beep-beep and jumps into a 4-way intersection; the Road Runner mows him down from behind, and then from all the other directions as well before Wile can chase him. The camera cuts to Wile, who looks increasingly annoyed as this sequence repeats over and over. The coyote hides behind a rock formation with a hand grenade in tow; he chews off the stop and throws the grenade at the Road Runner. Or so he... less