# Am I Getting Senile, Or Did the Coyote Once Actually Catch the Road Runner? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 23, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-senile-or-did-the-coyote-once-actually-catch-the-road-runner/349514 "2006-03-23T00:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-senile-or-did-the-coyote-once-actually-catch-the-road-runner/349514/1 "2006-03-23T00:16:21Z")
I recall an ep in which Wile E. actually catches the bird…has his around the Roadrunner’s neck. And immediately gets dusted by something. But just for that one shining second, he had the bird He actually had the bird. Does anyone else remember this episode? ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-senile-or-did-the-coyote-once-actually-catch-the-road-runner/349514/2 "2006-03-23T00:20:14Z")
I remember the one mentioned by Cecil at the end of his answer here: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010330.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010330.html) ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-senile-or-did-the-coyote-once-actually-catch-the-road-runner/349514/3 "2006-03-23T00:38:50Z")
Thanks for the reply. I must confess to being amiss here…I actually read that thread and really do remember it. BUT… This is different. What I recall is Wile E. actually, in real time, at real size, catching up to the RoadRunner, had his hand around his neck…and then gets _whapped_ by something. It was very brief. No poster or anything…but just for that one shining .5 second… I am so sure I saw this… ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-senile-or-did-the-coyote-once-actually-catch-the-road-runner/349514/4 "2006-03-23T01:01:58Z")
There’s also the episode [Solid Tin Coyote](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061002/) where an Acme Robot Coyote catches the roadrunner. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-senile-or-did-the-coyote-once-actually-catch-the-road-runner/349514/5 "2006-03-23T01:04:42Z")
I vaguely remember it too, but can’t offer any specifics. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-getting-senile-or-did-the-coyote-once-actually-catch-the-road-runner/349514/6 "2006-03-23T02:01:32Z")
There was a poster popular in the late sixties, with Wile E.'s hands around the roadrunner’s neck, with the title “Beep Beep!, My Ass” Oddly, after doing a search, I can’t find an image online. I know it existed, we had it in our house back in the day, and I can find reference to it, but not an image. In that search, was reminded of an episode where Wile E was using an Acme product, and the label showed that Acme was a “subsidiary of Roadrunner Enterprises”. Them cartoonists of our youth were such smart subversives. A shout onyond to Chuck Jones: Thanks for the nicely cruxy biscuits!