Did you know # 13:The day Coyote caught Bip-Bip

In the whole story of the cartoon, this only happened once, but it happened!

While the comic of this work is very precisely in the fact that in spite of implausible means, a recourse to the "techniques of points" and an all-out will, the famous Coyote always takes evil wiping while trying to catch the A volatile bird, he did it during the 42nd episode, named Soup or Sonic : we can see the canine seize Bip-Bip with his arms and prepare his cooking utensils to satisfy his hunger. Everything will not happen, however, as expected ...

But more than any description, the best is still to see it!

Here is the passage in which coyote finally catches Bip-Bip

This episode is the longest for the series, 9:11, while a classic episode lasts 5 to 7 minutes (except for extras).

Let's go back now to the history and the peculiarities of this cartoon which still meets today, an immense success with big as small.

The series comes in 48 episodes and some extras. Created in 1948 by the animation director of Warner bros, Chuck Jones, the work was originally intended to be a parody of the usual cartoons featuring the classic antagonists of the cat and the mouse. Resuming this principle dear to many publishers, but in a new way, success was immediately at the rendezvous for the first episodes.

It's a classic start-up, Willy (Wile E. Coyote) chasing the Great Roadrunner (California Geocoucou). The action stops and we present the two characters, embellished with a wacky scientific name that changes almost every episode, highlighting the character of the protagonists and their relationships. Some examples of a typical wink:

Wile E. Coyote is usually adorned with names that emphasize his insatiable hunger, his ridicule or his desperate search for Bip-Bip: Carnivorus Vulgaris , Eatibus Anythingus , Eatius Road-runnerus , Gigantus Appetitius , Nemesis Ridiculii ... (his real scientific name isCanis Latrans )
Bip-Bip carries names related to its incredible speed, or the fact that it represents a tantalizing dish for Wile E. Coyote: Acceleratii Incredibilus , Velocitus Delectiblus , Supersonicus Tastius , Delicius-Delicius ... its real scientific name is Geococcyx californianus )

These little pseudo-scientific nicknames helped make the series very popular by playing on the humor of rare written and vocal information. There is indeed little text, and few vocalizations: the road runner is limited to his "song" characteristic (after 70 years, there is still debate on it, as to whether beeping says " beep-beep " or " meep meep- ") and sometimes the sound of the language he shoots coyote. The coyote, he vocalizes very little, except in some ancillary productions where it is also heard speak. Outside, it is often either noise of breathlessness or cry of pain!

Several elements also make this series and its humor, typical: the gravity is the biggest enemy of the Coyote, and many times, the accent is put on the time (long) that this one puts to fall in a ravine before lift a small cloud of dust ... These falls are a real trademark, some for nearly 10 seconds!

Now, some small anecdotes about the series!
In 1965, in the episode The Wild Chase , there is a race between the road runner and the famous Speedy Gonzales ! Both are pursued by both the Coyote and Sylvester the cat.
In 1979, a real parody film, The Villain , with notable actors like Kirk Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger , resumes in a western mode, the principle of hunting and some gags specific to road-runner movies: while the persecuted can borrow a path drawn on a board, the "naughty" Kirk Douglas takes the wall on which the painting is hung ...
Many wacky debates have emerged to try to explain some facts of the series: How the coyote gets all his inventions at Acme corp. ? Why does not he use money to buy food instead of buying weapons?
The coyote has enrolled in popular culture to the point of appearing in many movies and series: South Park, The Simpsons, MAD, Who wants the skin of Roger Rabbit ?, etc ...
Mark Knofler , guitarist and leader of Dire Straits , created in 2002 the song " Coyote " on the album " The Ragpicker's dream " in tribute to Wile E.