Road Runner facts
While investigating facts about Road Runner Sports and Road Runner Cartoon, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Khemjira Klongsanun, a runner in a Vietnam Marathon, found an abandoned puppy on the side of the road during the race, and ended up carrying it for the remaining 19 miles until the finish line. She adopted it afterwards.
how fast can a roadrunner run?
There are unofficial Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner rules, such as "No outside force can harm the Coyote" and "The Road Runner must stay on the road"
What does the road runner say?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering roadrunner animal. Here are 18 of the best facts about Roadrunner Bird and Roadrunner Tracking I managed to collect.
what do roadrunners eat?
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The debut episode for Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner was called: Fast and Furry-ous
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Chuck Jones had rules when creating the plot in his Road Runner cartoons. One of them read 'The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote, except by going "meep, meep" '
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The Pan-American Highway doesn't actually connect North America and South America, there is a 100 mile gap of swampland and forest between Panama and Colombia with no roads, inhabited by drug runners
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On the "Live Free or Die Hard" poster, the blurb "Hysterically...entertaining" was taken out of context from a longer sentence: "The action in this fast-paced, hysterically overproduced and surprisingly entertaining film is as realistic as a Road Runner cartoon."
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Wile E. Coyote actually caught the Road Runner without him escaping afterwards.
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There was a Road Runner-themed game in development for the Genesis in 1993 that didn’t get released because the main designer couldn’t decide whether the playable character should be Road Runner or Wile E. Coyote.
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A coyote can run 43 MPH, while a roadrunner can only run 20 MPH. So if it were a foot race, Wile E. Coyote could catch (and likely eat) Road Runner. If a coyote was actually chasing a roadrunner though, it would probably just fly away.
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ACME Co, maker of failure-prone products from "Road Runner" means "the peak" in Greek, making it the pinnacle of irony.
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Coyotes are actually faster than Road Runners.
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The Acme title and products used in the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote cartoons is ironic since the word itself is Greek for "zenith" or "prime", despite the fact that almost all of Coyote's products fail spectacularly
Why road rage is a problem?
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There is a Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner cartoon where the Coyote actually catches the road runner, holds up a sign, and says "Now what?" [7:26]
The epitaph on the voice actor that did the voices Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat , Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and many more characters grave, Mel Blanc says " That's All Folks". - source
Plymouth spent $10,000 developing the Road Runner’s horn to match the cartoon namesakes “beep, beep” (video in comments) - source
Acme isn't just a company in the road runner cartoon, it's actually a bunch of stuff
At the 1904 Olympics, the marathon was brutally hot, With dusty roads. One of the runners, Felix Carvajal, came to the race in street clothes at the last minute after gambling all his money in New Orleans, he had to hitch hike his way to the Olympics. Continued in comments... - source
When coyote catches road runner?
There were specific rules for writing Road Runner cartoons.
