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austin_dern) wrote2005-04-12 07:34 pm
That coyote is really a crazy clown
Now here's something unexpected: Cartoon Network Singapore picked up The Road-Runner Show. This isn't relabelled Acme Hour stuff; this is the 1960s Saturday Morning series, complete with individual cartoon opening and closings cut off and replaced with static title cards, with faded prints, and that audio track which, if a little richer, could be monaural. It's even got the interstitial one-shot Coyote and Road Runner jokes. They cut the opening credits, though, I guess for commercial time, though there are fewer commercials than contemporary US shows have.
As the title implies Coyote and Road Runner get the first cartoon. It seems Sylvester and Tweety get the second, which I count as a tactical error. Sylvester and Tweety are (ultimately) the low-rent version of Coyote and Road Runner, and putting them back-to-back makes Sylvester and Tweety less likable, even if you dig deep into the Rudy Larriva cartoons, with four bars of music and nary a chuckle in sight, to make Coyote look bad.
They've also got some cartoons that make me wonder why I haven't seen them on TV in ages, like Trick or Tweet. I can see wanting to pretend the Daffy Duck-Speedy Gonzales cartoons or Solid Tin Coyote never existed (you'd think a giant coyote robot would be fun), but why hide the competent ones?
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Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone ...
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Mm, yes, probably, at least once you're past the Bob Clampett cartoons, where he could make pretty near any character funny. It's a bit surprising to notice how much Courage the Cowardly Dog borrows from what were really just a few shorts, but stands up to them well.