From jthiel@garnet.msen.com Thu May 26 12:17:37 EDT 1994 Article: 12384 of rec.video.releases Xref: economic.mess.cs.cmu.edu alt.animation.warner-bros:1939 rec.video.releases:12384 alt.video.laserdisc:8174 Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!jthiel From: jthiel@garnet.msen.com (Joe Thiel) Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,alt.animation.warner-bros,rec.video.releases,alt.video.laserdisc Subject: Re: thoughts on new Road Runner LD Followup-To: rec.arts.animation,alt.animation.warner-bros,rec.video.releases,alt.video.laserdisc Date: 24 May 1994 13:22:54 GMT Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, MI (account info: +1 313 998-4562) Lines: 86 Message-ID: <2rsv3e$si@nigel.msen.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Well! The Road Runner and Coyote finally made it to laserdisc! *Now* maybe I have a reason to buy one... :-) Amberle S Ferrian (amberle@epx.cis.umn.edu) wrote: : There are 14 cartoons on the CLV disc, presented in chronological order. Not quite, but close to chronological. More in a minute... : Side 1: Fast and Furious Side 2: Guided Muscle : Beep, Beep Gee Whiz-z-z : Going! Going! Gosh! There They Go-Go-Go! : Operation: Rabbit Scrambled Aches : Zipping Along Zoom and Bored : Stop! Look! and Hasten! Whoa, Be Gone! : Ready Set Zoom! Hopalong Casualty : (What, these things had titles? I never knew that! It was always "that's : the one where Wile E. eats the earthquake pills" and so forth! :-) How true, how very true... :-) Here are the titles along with year of release and series sequence: FAST AND FURIOUS (Sept 1949), 1st RR cartoon BEEP BEEP (May 1952), 2nd RR cartoon GOING! GOING! GOSH! (Aug 1952), 3rd RR cartoon OPERATION: RABBIT (Jan 1952), 1st Wile E./Bugs cartoon ZIPPING ALONG (Sept 1953), 4th RR cartoon STOP! LOOK! AND HASTEN! (Aug 1954), 5th RR cartoon READY, SET, ZOOM! (Apr 1955), 6th RR cartoon GUIDED MUSCLE (Dec 1955), 7th RR cartoon GEE WHIZ-Z-Z-Z (May 1956), 8th RR cartoon THERE THEY GO-GO-GO! (Nov 1956), 9th RR cartoon SCRAMBLED ACHES (Jan 1957), 10th RR cartoon ZOOM AND BORED (Sep 1957), 11th RR cartoon WHOA, BE GONE! (Apr 1958), 12th RR cartoon HOPALONG CASUALTY (Oct 1960), 18th RR cartoon So only "Operation: Rabbit" is out of sequence (by a few months), and they skipped over a few cartoons to put "Hopalong Casualty" in there. : Couple of questions: COYOTE TRIVIA QUESTIONS!! Gloat, gloat, drool, drool!!! (Obviously, you've come to the right person...) :-) : Is this the first time Road Runner cartoons have been released on video? No, only their first time on laserdisc. The videotapes are: THE ROAD RUNNER & WILE E. COYOTE'S CRASH COURSE (1993) Going! Going Gosh! Ready, Set, Zoom! There They Go-Go-Go! Hip Hip Hurry Scrambled Aches THE ROAD RUNNER & WILE E. COYOTE: THE SCRAPES OF WRATH (1992) Whoa, Be Gone! Guided Muscle Rabbit's Feat Stop! Look! and Hasten! Hopalong Casualty ROAD RUNNER VS. WILE E. COYOTE: THE CLASSIC CHASE (1985) Fast and Furry-ous Operation: Rabbit Zip 'n' Snort Beep Beep Gee Whiz-z-z-z Hook, Line and Stinker Ready, Woolen and Able To Beep or Not to Beep They have also appeared mixed in with the other Looney Tunes on various other tapes. : Are the ones released here all there is? Certainly not! There are 42 Road Runner cartoons (but only 28 if you don't count the marginal ones made in the late '60s). There are also 5 Wile E. vs. Bugs cartoons, and 7 Wolf/Sheepdog cartoons. And there's a rumor that Chuck Jones has returned to animation, and is working on a new Road Runner cartoon even as we speak! : Did any of the Road Runner cartoons win any awards? Oscars? Emmys? : Whatever? "Beep Prepared" (Nov 1961) was the only one that came close. It was nominated for an Academy Award. : Great disc. Meep, meep! :-) Aiigh! Don't DOOOO that! -- O O ! Joe Thiel ! "We're going to push through ( \=/ ) ! jthiel@mail.msen.com ! health care reform regardless of (=) ! Eli on FurryMUCK ! the views of the American people." O ! Maps folded $1.00 ! Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D) WV