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Zoom and Bored
1957 American film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zoom and Bored is a 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon, being a part of the Merrie Melodies series and directed by Chuck Jones.[1] The short was released on September 14, 1957, and stars Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.[2] The title is a play on room and board, just like the Sylvester and Tweety short Room and Bird. This is one of the few shorts where the Road Runner shows a soft side for Wile E. Coyote and spares him.
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After the Road Runner runs him off a cliff, Wile E. Coyote studies a book called The Art of Roadrunner Trapping for some new ideas. He tries to dig a hole in the road, but cannot successfully handle a jackhammer, he vibrated from this effect and he tears the books. Other attempted traps include a brick wall, he sees his rear end and decided to use a dynamite to blow up his doppelganger's rear, only to realize his mistake because that rear belong to him, which causes him to leap into the air and then fall down in a burning pain, and a plate of birdseed attached to a beehive, despite being close to the Roadrunner, the bees stings Coyote again and again. The fourth gag is an anvil to squash the flightless bird who is eating the birdseed. Predictably, an anvil is very heavy and it cause the board to break and land on the road which Roadrunner take a step aside and when the board covered the hole, the Roadrunner continue to eat his second lunch. Now seeing this fails, Wile E. Coyote build a ramp with a bomb at the top so it will roll down and blow up the bird, but for some reason, before he can have a chance to light up the bomb, it explodes. The sixth trap is a catapult so when it is launched, the boulder will crush the bird, but the boulder is extremely heavy that it ended up crushing Coyote, and a last attempt is harpoon gun with a rope on one end, but Wile E. see his foot getting caught in the rope before dragging him into cactus and under some rocks. He unzip this, but he quickly grab the rope before he could fall, however, the rope launch into a pipe and then he gets hit by a truck and a train. After Wile E.'s traumatizing experience with the harpoon, he breaks down in tears. The Road Runner zips up behind Wile E., but doesn't have the heart to beep at him that time.
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The music is Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride by Bedrich Smetana.[3]
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