Who would win a race between Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner? I figure there must be some kind of reletive standard by which their speeds could be compared.
Road Runner.
Speedy’s probably just as fast but Road Runner has a much longer gait.
It depends on the course.
Speedy probably has the edge on the flat, but Roadrunner would win on a mountain track. Haven’t you seen how he handles those winding roads? And he can run right off a cliff and keep going straight to the other side. Any body else, even Speedy, would get halfway and drop, just like Coyote does.
Yeah, but Speedy could probably call on Slowpoke Rodriguez for help. “There’s one thing you gotta remember about Slowpoke Rodriguez. He carry a gun.”
RUBBISH!
Speedy does most of his running indoors, as his cartoons plainly show. His small size implies a small turn radius.
However, he does not show any signs of great stamina, so perhaps the RR wins the 500 kilometer run.
I seem to recall seeing Speedy winded on at least one occasion, but that may nave been in one of those non-existant '60s cartoons wherein Daffy has taken an antagonistic position to Speedy for no earthly reason.
I do not believe I have ever seen the Road Runner pant or show any signs of fatigue.
Y’all do realize, don’t you, that there is a Chuck Jones cartoon depicting a race between Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner. (The two were neck-and-neck for most of the race, but at the finish line, the winner was the Coyote.)
I don’t think it was actually a Chuck Jones cartoon. It was one of those crappy WB cartoons where Daffy Duck was chasing after Speedy Gonzales for some ungodly reason. In the Speedy/RR race (which took place in a Mexican desert I believe), the winner was Daffy and Wile E riding a rocket, passig the speedsters as the duck and coyote attempted to capture their respective quarry.
The one I remember was Wile E. and Sylvester riding past on a rocket. And like Greek heroes, they were transformed into constellations for their feat.
I think at full speed, Speedy’s sombrero would cause a bunch of drag, slowing him down. Not to mention he wears baggy clothes. RR by comparison is pretty streamlined with minimal drag.
My vote goes for Road Runner.
Think about it, Road Runner was so fast that he frequently went from one side of a cliff to the other in a flat trajectory.
Advantage = Road Runner
Of course, then we could get into which one of them could withstand more G’s of acceleration…
The bird would live longer than the rat in any case… and maybe would even eat the lil bugger…
D.
Pah. ANY cartoon character can do that, so long as he doesn’t look down.
Point taken. And if said cartoon character DOES look down he is required by law to hold up a sign that is easily legible saying “YIPE!”
Now is Speedy shopped in the ACME catalog, he may have a chance… lol
Unless of course, said character hasn’t studied law, in which case his quarry is obligated to give him a lawbook and/or an elementary physics text.