WILE E. COYOTE
Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as “The Coyote”) and the Road Runner are a duo of characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. In the cartoons, the Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, a fast-running ground bird, but is never successful. Instead of his species’ animal instincts, the Coyote uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) and elaborate plans to pursue his prey, resulting in his devices comically backfiring with the Coyote often getting injured in slapstick fashion. Many of the items for these contrivances are mail-ordered from a variety of companies all named Acme. One running gag involves the Coyote trying in vain to shield himself with a little parasol against a great falling boulder that is about to crush him. The Coyote appears separately as an occasional antagonist of Bugs Bunny in five shorts from 1952 to 1963. While he is generally silent in the Coyote-Road Runner shorts, he speaks with a refined accent in most of these solo outings, beginning with 1952’s Operation: Rabbit, introducing himself as “Wile E. Coyote — Genius”, voiced with an upper-class accent by Mel Blanc. (More from Wikipedia)
As quoted in the Nick Gillespie post, Dee Snider told the U. S. Senate: “You will note from the lyrics before you that there is absolutely no violence of any type either sung about or implied anywhere in the song. Now, it strikes me that the PMRC may have confused our video presentation for this song . . . with the lyrics, with the meaning of the lyrics. It is no secret that the videos often depict story lines completely unrelated to the lyrics of the song they accompany. The video ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ was simply meant to be a cartoon with human actors playing variations on the Road Runner – Wile E. Coyote theme. Each stunt was selected from my extensive personal collection of cartoons.”
(June 2016)
