You start finding meanings in “Tom and Jerry” cartoons and finding yourself looking out for falling anvils when you hear the beep beep of passing vehicles (which there are a lot of here)
Then you realise you’ve sank to another level altogether when you’re researching on these cartoon when there is a big test coming up the next day.
The amount of useless nuggets of information you can turn up with an hour or 2 online is amazing!
This is a site that has abstracts from Chuck Jones’ (the chief director of the Road Runner Show) biography Chuck Amuck.
http://www.squidoo.com/wileecoyote/
The article lists the golden rules the producers stood by in the production of the Road Runner Show….
The one I love the most?
Rule 10. The audience’s sympathy must remain with the Coyote
And it does… I’ve always thought of the Road Runner as a no personality, bimbo fairy.
So There!
