Beep Prepared
| Beep Prepared | |
|---|---|
| Merrie Melodies (Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner) series | |
| Directed by |
Chuck Jones Maurice Noble |
| Produced by | David H. DePatie |
| Story by |
John W. Dunn Chuck Jones |
| Voices by |
Paul Julian (uncredited) |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by | Bob Bransford Ken Harris Tom Ray Richard Thompson |
| Backgrounds by | Phillip Deguard |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | November 11, 1961 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Beep Prepared is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released in 1961. It features Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner. Chuck Jones and designer Maurice Noble (billed as co-director) directed from a story by John Dunn and Jones. The title is a play on the Boy Scouts of America motto "Be Prepared".
As in all other cartoons featuring the pair, Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner. It begins with the Coyote (Hungrii flea-baggius) assuming the "on your mark" stance used in track and field events. As soon as he goes into "get set" mode, he hears the familiar beeping sound and gets shocked into a backward move, suspended in mid-air atop a ravine. The Road Runner (Tid-bittius velocitus) issues the gunshot that causes the Coyote to drop (one of three overhead shots shown in the short). The episode title card follows.
1.) First, Wile E. tries to trip the Road Runner with his own foot, only to have it flattened by a passing delivery truck.
2.) Taking higher ground, Wile E. uses a bow and arrow to skewer the Road Runner, only to backfire and cause a chain of reactions that leads to him getting sandwiched by boulders.
3.) Lifting a manhole cover off a manhole, Wile E. intends to trap the Road Runner in the manhole. But when the Road Runner approaches the manhole, the laws of physics break as the Road Runner picks up the manhole as a portable hole and runs off. Furiously, Wile E. gives chase after Road Runner towards the bridge. Road Runner stops half-way in the middle of the bridge as he drops the hole in Wile E.'s path. The result: Wile E. falls in through the hole in the bridge and plummets to the ground below.
4.) Hoping to have a better advantage in the air, Wile E. uses a cloth-based Bat-Man Costume, but this time, to ensure he goes faster, he uses a small rocket to help him chase after Road Runner. An explosion follows, leaving behind nothing but the framework of the device. And since the wings were made of cloth, the fabric was also destroyed in the blast. With no support left whatsoever (not even slots in the wings), gravity takes over as the Coyote leaves a trail of soot.
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