Fastest with the Mostest

Plot synopsis:
Wile E. Coyote (Carnivorous - Slobbius) lights a firework, hoping for it to explode when Road Runner (Velocitus - Incalcublii) passes over it, but it explodes instantly. Wile catches up to Road Runner and passes him, but fails to spot the end of the cliff and falls off. Wile climbs the cliff in sections and pulls himself barely up onto the end of the cliff, but Road Runner then scares him off the cliff.
Wile then plans to drop a bomb on Road Runner from a hot air balloon. However, while inflating the balloon, the balloon inflates the coyote instead; Wile floats through the air and bounces on the ground, desperately holding onto the bomb before he deflates and flies through the sky. When all the air leaves him, Wile lets go of the bomb, but falls through the sky. Wile hides to avoid the bomb, but the bomb lands near him. When the bomb starts ticking, Wile unscrews the bomb's head and removes the explosive. The bomb stops ticking, but a relieved Wile is blown up when it abruptly starts ticking again.
This time, Wile posts several white signs along Road Runner's path in an effort to get Road Runner to stop. When Road Runner obligingly munches, Wile prepares to go down in a bucket to trap him, only to struggle getting in the bucket. When Wile finally gets in, he unties the rope to lower himself, only for the rope to detach from the bucket, sending Wile falling. The bucket gets hung up on a tree branch, much to Wile's relief, but he then falls out of the bucket when relaxing. Road Runner lays down a spring, which bounces Wile (who holds a sign saying THANKS in a rare act of gratitude) directly into the first branch, where he is hung up by the spring.
Wile then plants a detour sign in the road, directing Road Runner to go down an outcropping. Road Runner stops at the very edge, and Wile follows, only for the outcropping to break up and send Wile falling to the ground. Wile's knife scrapes the skin off his back, and his fork lands in his tail, sending Wile flying upwards, where is hung up on another branch by his napkin. The tree then falls down and pounds Wile through the ground and into a waterfall. Wile is swept downstream through a network of pipes before twisting himself out of a spigot. Wile then stares at Road Runner, still standing on the floating piece of rock, much to Wile's confusion. He pulls out a sign that says, I WOULDN'T MIND, EXCEPT THAT HE DEFIES THE LAW OF GRAVITY, but the Road Runner holds a sign that says, SURE, BUT I NEVER STUDIED LAW, as he speeds away.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Very solid Roadrunner and Wile E Coyote cartoon.
While not one of Roadrunner and Wile E Coyote's best cartoons, with a quite basic and routine story and slightly too overpowering sound effects, 'Fastest with the Mostest' is still very entertaining and nowhere near one of the worst.The animation is bright, colourful and smooth, with Roadrunner and Wile nicely and fluidly drawn and the backgrounds never too simplistic.
Milt Franklyn's music characteristically is lively and lushly orchestrated, not quite as action enhancing as Carl Stalling but far more preference to Bill Lava.
The gags all hit their mark and are well-timed, never too repetitive or tired.
The hot air balloon and signs and bucket gags are particularly hilarious.Roadrunner is amusing and not annoying like he is in the later cartoons, though Wile is the funnier and more interesting character.
He is cunning and is a comic joy with cleverly drawn facial expressions, though he is also easy to pity.In conclusion, very solid and entertaining.
8/10 Bethany Cox. Carnivorous Slobbius.
The first Road Runner and Coyote short of the 1960s is another enjoyable one.
It's not one of their best but it is fun.
Some of the great gags in this one include a hot air balloon bomb drop gone wrong and a hilarious routine involving signs and a bucket.
Lively music from Milt Franklyn.
The animation is nice; no complaints there really.
One thing I will nitpick about is that the sound effects seem a little louder than usual here.
It's perhaps something you would only notice if you have watched a lot of these old cartoons over and over, but....well, I have, so it sticks out to me.
Anyway, it's a solid effort from Chuck Jones and company that I'm sure most fans will enjoy..
Very nice cartoon.
The Road Runner, or Velocitus Incalcublii, is chased by the Coyote (Carnivorous Slobbius) and this time the Coyote actually runs faster.
The problem is that the Road Runner stops before a cliff and of course the Coyote does not.
We see the Coyote climb up for a change, just to fall down again.
Other gags involve a bomb he wants to drop from a balloon, bird seed that must slow the Road Runner down and a detour that makes you actually think the Coyote might pull it off.
Of course he does not.This is a very nice cartoon.
The balloon gag and the final moments where the Road Runner is cornered are very funny sequences.
Other gags had me smiling.
Especially the timing with some of them is terrific..
I've always found the title amusing..
This is a fairly good Roadrunner cartoon, but I suspect it holds a distinction few people have noticed: it may well be the only cartoon with a (probably imaginary) quote from a Confederate American Civil War General as its title.
Nathan Bedford Forrest is supposed to have replied, when asked which side would win a particular battle, "The one that gets there the fastest with the mostest".Good visual gags here and all in all a good example of the series and a favorite of mine.
An interesting series as a whole.
Well worth watching.
Recommended..
Very good!.
I have watched a few Wile Coyote v Roadrunner cartoons, but so far this is definitely my favourite!
By no means is it my new favourite Looney Tunes cartoons, but I certainly enjoyed watching it.
The plot-line is the same basic plot line of all the Wile Coyote v Roadrunner cartoons: WC trying to catch R and eat him.
In each episode, Wile Coyote tries and fails and even though he should not eat Roadrunner (because he is so cute) you do feel sorry for Wile Coyote.The reason this is my favourite so far is because some of the slapstick was more unexpected than it usually is in these cartoons and there was a funny ending with words in the form of boards.
When I watch Looney Tunes, I generally prefer the ones with Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny, where there is much witty dialogue involved, but I enjoyed this just as much as many of those sort of episodes.
:-) This episode is highly recommended to people who already like Wile Coyote and Roadrunner and to people who like "witty" slapstick, as there was here.
Enjoy "Fastest with the Mostest"!
:-) 8 and a half out of ten..
live fast, not die young (in fact, not die at all).
Once again, Wile E.
"Carnivorous Slobbius" Coyote sets up a series of traps for Road "Velocitus Incalcublii" Runner, and they always backfire.
In one instance, RR turns into sort of a jerk (or at least that was how I interpreted it).
The overall point is that even though we always know what sorts of things are going to happen, it's a total pleasure to watch them play.
Those signs encouraging RR to slow down reminded me of the expression "live fast, die young" (often used to describe Elvis Presley).But anyway, "Fastest with the Mostest" is just great, even though the end was clearly lifted from the Bugs Bunny vehicle "High-Diving Hare".
On that subject, I have studied law some, so I'd better be careful on ledges!.
This one also has a good beat to it!.
As with most other Looney Tunes shorts with the Road Runner, there is no dialogue in this one (especially that I could recite verbatim, like "Daffy Duck Hunt," "Napoleon Bunny-Part," or "Foxy By Proxy," for example).However, this particular Looney Tune is unique to me in that I remember about 95% of its musical score, and that (as was the case with "Easy Peckin's") whenever I saw this short and heard the music again, I would be slapping my knees to the music's rhythm, much to the chagrin of the rest of my family, who got extremely p.o.'d.I especially found myself slapping my knees to the rhythm of: (1) the fast music over the opening credits; (2) the sequence where the Coyote gets vertigo while hanging from a protruding branch from a cliff (accented by trombones); (3) the scene where the Coyote rhythmically pounds the "detour" sign into the ground; (4) the clarinet cascade heard after the Coyote corners the Road Runner and ties on a bib; (5) the lead-in to the final scenes where the Coyote is hammered into a raging current by a large branch hanging over the river; and (6) the final screeches heard when the Coyote hits the corners of the water pipe he's traveling through before opening the faucet to let himself out.
(As I'm typing this, I can still hear the squeaks of the bucket the Coyote hides in, the twang of the large spring he gets caught in, and the rhythmic taps of that branch hammering the Coyote into the raging river!) There are also three funny observations I have regarding "Fastest With the Mostest:" (1) as the knife and fork slice downward through the sky before the fork pierces the Coyote's tail and sends him skyward, the way the knife is falling made me think of the old Screen Gems "S from Hell" logo as the S is being formed from the top half of the screen; (2) this particular Looney Tune must have been a favorite of the program director at WOOD-TV (a.k.a. WOTV), Channel 8, in Grand Rapids, Michigan (which we received when I lived in Lansing, Michigan in the 70's); not only did Channel 8 air this one during their weekday airings of the Looney Tunes, but they also used it as a short subject frequently whenever a movie ended ahead of time (on one occasion, WOOD-TV ran the Bugs Bunny short "Hare Splitter" before one of those low-budget Sun Classic Pictures travelogues - "Alaskan Safari," to be exact - and followed said feature with "Fastest With the Mostest" to recreate the feel of a Sunday afternoon matinée at a theater); and (3) I especially remember on another occasion my dad and younger sister were watching this with me and I began slapping my knees; my dad started roaring at me and ordered me to stop.
Even though I was 12 at that time, I should have told him, "All right, I'll make a deal with you.
You stop subjecting me to that hillbilly music, and I'll stop slapping my knees!" (My father subjected us to him playing hillbilly songs on his electric guitar practically day in and day out; how I wanted to do like those punk rockers did and smash his guitar into pieces or like John Goodman did to Tiny Tim's ukelele at the end of an episode of "Roseanne," but that's another story.
Rock and pop music rule!) In any event, for its humor, rhythmic musical score, and funny pre-teen memories it holds, "Fastest With the Mostest" gets an 8.
But, it ranks 6th in my Top 10 all-time favorite Looney Tunes; "Daffy Duck Hunt" is STILL #1 in my book.Warner Home Video, will you ever put "Fastest With the Mostest" on a Looney Tunes DVD compilation soon?
I sure hope so!.
Everybody connected with the Classic Looney Tunes .
. (falsely) contend that these Roadrunner shorts are very formulaic, governed by their own set of "iron-clad laws." For instance, the Roadrunner has to stay on the road.
(This troublemaking bird is shown off-road AT LEAST four times during FASTEST WITH THE MOSTEST).
The most supposedly rigid rule for the Roadrunner is that he NEVER physically attacks Wile E.
Coyote, or even overtly causes any of this "Carnivorous Slobbius'" many downfalls.
However, you can watch the incident occurring about 1:55 into FASTEST WITH THE MOSTEST once or a billion times, and upon each and every viewing anyone with eyes in their head will witness the dirty bird butting Wile into the Abyss.
At the end of this Roadrunner episode, the fleet trickster even confesses to his crimes, holding up a sign stating "Sure (I'm guilty of defying the Laws of Decency)--but I never studied law.".
Cartoon brilliance!.
This episode starts off with a bang!
-- right in the poor coyote's face -- and ends with one of the most disastrous "epic fails" of Wile E's career.In between, there's enough action going on to keep you laughing throughout.
Director Chuck Jones once wrote that one of his major rules in this series was to, wherever possible, make gravity the coyote's greatest enemy -- and it certainly is here.
The poor hungry canine spends virtually the entire cartoon falling off one of those two-mile-high precipices -- and even over a waterfall -- in fact, it gets so bad for him that Road Runner actually seems to take pity on him at one point and provide a giant coil spring to break his fall (not that it completely saves him from pain).
Mind you, maybe Roadrunner owed him that after earlier "meepmeep"ing him off the edge of one after he'd just completed a long, painful climb up the darn thing.
It's a scene very similar to one in the earlier "Zoom and Bored" -- but even funnier this time in that it shows more of Wile E's horrified expression after the bird zings him yet again.
But the best scene by far is the long-drawn-out ending, in which Coyote finally seems to have trapped Road Runner at the edge of a cliff, only to have Cruel Fate intervene once again, sending our hapless predator onto a series of calamities, ending with him thoroughly defeated and wondering why gravity only works on him, and not on that frustrating bird!
A couple of trivia notes: this cartoon was released in January 1960, thus becoming the first WB cartoon released in the 60's.
And it's also the first Road Runner cartoon not to credit Michael Maltese as the story writer.
In fact, there is no "Story" credit at all, making me suspect Maltese really did write it, but his name was removed because by this time, he had defected to Hanna-Barbera.
Besides, his touch seems to be all over the pacing of this hilarious cartoon.
He was one of the best!