In past September, it was the seventy-fifteen anniversary release of the very first Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote short ever made, Fast and Furry-ous. The origins of these creations were destined to be a chase spoof, something that was much well-known from moviegoers by Post-War heydays.
Originally, Wile E. have to be named Don Coyote, muchly a nod to Don Quixotte. The Coyote featuring in the Road Runners having to be separated of the "Super Genius" character from the Bugs' films the few times they encountered each other. Such traits and personality would creeped out by moment like when the Coyote having planned a parachute before to fallen after another missed blackout failure on Beep, Beep! or that Wile E. explaining to the audience about his novelty and experience to catch his prey in Adventures of the Road-Runner. But aside of that, here's how my story went begins...
By the late-1990s, a new Television station service was launched by the name of Télétoon, where the Warner Bros. cartoons package The Road Runner Show was airing. (It would be enough of a staple for be showing on Teletoon Retro until 2010) Before that, several Road Runners using to playing either on ABC, TVA or TQS at a point one have to known how much cartoons of them were made. I would counted it like sixty from them, but actually, there was the same jam-packed 40 shorts that were seen at fillers from one way to another, for Holidays, a off-day or when an actual show was unavailable to be seen.
Quickly, my own reasoning to utilizing Internet for the first time, by 1998, is where and how catching the Warner Bros. shorts on any program or where I will find them on Home Video. Such of a Easter egg hunting by browse fan-page by fan-page when my only use of all that, is for found images from the specific shorts, the rotations of shorts that were playing here and there and in which time we could find these. Though it looks dated nowadays in the Netflix/Disney+ age, for be a French-Canadian myself, that was my only possibility to seek all the informations I've needed, though my own knowledge on the history of Warner Bros. cartoons weren't there.
Since 1997 until the later years, I've become an active follower on many forums, social medias, anywhere where the Looney Tunes fandom is glimpsed by. Blogs have manifested newer nuances to the hard work the bunch of "Looney" mens have made. I needed newer informations, that weren't such in the obvious. When Wikipedia started to collecting such conspiracy theory or urban legends, no mention some people contradict what some history books says, the Warner Bros. animation history is left behind to anyone, anywhere whom own the generosity to preserving these gems for generations to come. In the era of Greg Ford, Jerry Beck, Leonard Maltin or also, George Feltenstein, the creative forces were still in life for interviews or memoirs. Because this is NOT the today's Warner Bros. Discovery corporation that would give it a hand.
There really was a time when I was growth sick to seen the same Road Runners anywhere that it will be fun from such TV stations to ran a variety of the WB shorts. Unfortunately, the truth is unless if you came from the Canada or United States, the Looney Tunes characters are sadly overlooked by the likes of Disney even if it's not merited. There was an indication that in the earlier VHS days, all International countries having the same Looney Tunes Video Show compilations programs (Here, they were rooted for more Daffy-Speedys or Tweetys) from the America, but have augmented volumes out of it- such of a thing the American former series never did!
Arguably, Fast and Furry-ous stays 75 years after its theatrical release a classic, by have renewed the central focus of the blackout cartoons from ten years prior, but with better sense of timing and execution... and no lame radio jokes in there! But when it came a series, the chase formula was something just of a Warner trademark. That would lingered its lack of originality or inspiration by the time Format Films would patched these murky eleven Road Runners by hired a former Chuck Jones colleague, Rudy Larriva, to directed all them. Even him have admit that these shorts weren't that great, though they are good to me but the wrong way. At least more bearable than these montonous and irritating Daffy-Speedys series of shorts released in the same period.
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