Wile E. Coyote & the Road Runner turned 74 a few days ago.

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   tsmogposted 14 months ago

   Did you watch the infamous and humorous cartoon on Saturday mornings? Other than a good laugh did it teach anything? It is said everything we sense as in see (Read) or hear remains our entire life floating around our brain/subconscious waiting to be recalled through some trigger. So, those Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner episodes are lurking for the right opportunity to guide a person's decisions and actions somehow and someway.
   
   From The Spinoff online magazine article; The dark and depressing reality of Wile E Coyote (Aug 11, 2018) states:
   
   "You can go deep into the philosophy and the humanity behind these cartoons, as I’m sure many boring men have in the past. I have no doubt somebody has written a PhD or five about how Wile. E Coyote’s constant pursuit of the Road Runner despite his consistent and brutal failure is a metaphor for the human existence and how we chase after things futilely, knowing that we’ll never get them, or something like that.
   
   https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/11 … e-e-coyote
   
   In contrast from Highbrow Magazine comes:
   
   "Douglas R. Bruce of John Carroll University, in a 2001 paper (“Notes Towards a Rhetoric of Animation: The Road Runner as Cultural Critique” Critical Studies in Media Communication 18.2, 2001), contends that the Roadrunner cartoon criticizes America’s over-reliance on technology through a retelling of the Myth of Sisyphus. As the story goes, Sisyphus, due to his hubris against the gods, is sentenced to roll a large boulder up a hill, only to have it fall down the hillside upon reaching the top, for eternity. Americans and the coyote are similarly condemned to search for and develop ever-more grandiose mechanisms to fulfill basic needs. This absurd condition is resolved by a return to the wild for the coyote, as Professor Bruce claims the former “could catch his prey without assistance.” For Americans, it would be to abandon this quest to dominate nature through technological prowess."
   
   The American Dream and Ideology in the Road Runner Cartoon (Sept 22, 2023)
   https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/americ … er-cartoon
   
   Now, how about an episode or two to reach into the subconscious and stir things up a bit while having a good laugh.
   
   First Road Runner Episode 1949 (YouTube 2:59 min)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uj8OACYl9Y
   
   And, a good explainer is: Have a Laugh: Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner (YouTube 4:53 min)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHwwqvBd3E

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   Jodahposted 14 months ago

   Wow 74 years old. Thank you for sharing this info and links, Tim. A social commentary for sure.

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   Venkatachari Mposted 14 months ago

   I was unaware of it. Just now checked and found it to be 74 year-old.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 14 months ago

   What I learned from the show was to never buy anything made by the Acme Manufacturing Company.

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