Beep Prepared
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
As in all other cartoons featuring the pair, Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner. It begins with the Coyote (Hungrii flea-baggius) assuming the "on your mark" stance used in track and field events. As soon as he goes into "get set" mode, he hears the familiar beeping sound and gets shocked into a backward move, suspended in mid-air atop a ravine. The Road Runner (Tid-bittius velocitus) issues the gunshot that causes the Coyote to drop (one of three overhead shots shown in the short). The episode title card follows.
1.) First, Wile E. tries to trip the Road Runner with his own foot, only to have it flattened by a passing delivery truck.
2.) Taking higher ground, Wile E. uses a bow and arrow to skewer the Road Runner, only to backfire and cause a chain of reactions that leads to him getting sandwiched by boulders.
3.) Lifting a manhole cover off a manhole, Wile E. intends to trap the Road Runner in the manhole. But when the Road Runner approaches the manhole, the laws of physics break as the Road Runner picks up the manhole as a portable hole and runs off. Furiously, Wile E. gives chase after Road Runner towards the bridge. Road Runner stops half-way in the middle of the bridge as he drops the hole in Wile E.'s path. The result: Wile E. falls in through the hole in the bridge and plummets to the ground below.
4.) Hoping to have a better advantage in the air, Wile E. uses a cloth-based Bat-Man Costume, but this time, to ensure he goes faster, he uses a small rocket to help him chase after Road Runner. An explosion follows, leaving behind nothing but the framework of the device. And since the wings were made of cloth, the fabric was also destroyed in the blast. With no support left whatsoever (not even slots in the wings), gravity takes over as the Coyote leaves a trail of soot.
5.) Wile E. obtains a box of ACME Iron Bird Seed for use as bait. This time, he's wearing roller skates. Wile E. sets up the bait with a "FREE LUNCH!" sign, skates over behind a rock, and straps on a big magnet. When Road Runner eats the seeds, the magnet that Wile E. had strapped on suddenly gets attracted to the bird. As the magnet follows potential prey, so does Wile E. as the skates provide transportation. Road Runner leads Wile E. up a hillside and onto railroad tracks. Just as Road Runner approaches a bridge, he suddenly runs off as Wile E. runs into the path of a train. The Coyote tries to run off, but the magnet remains facing the train. The magnet remains upright as he winds up snared in the track bed.
6.) After that failure, and as dusk approaches, Wile E. sets up a spring-loaded block of pavement, which ends up crushing him just as the Road Runner stopped right in front of it.
7.) As the day comes to a close, Wile E. erects a pair of machine guns connected by a trip rope, and ends up getting reduced in size when the guns blast him in the midsection. Out he comes, holding up his midsection.
8.) Finally, at night, Wile E. gets two last things from ACME: a Little Giant Do-It-Yourself Rocket Sled Kit and 30 miles of railroad tracks. However, just as Wile E. was about to pursue the Road Runner, one last time... The rocket sled blasts off from the ground and soars off, up in the sky, leaving Earth's atmosphere. His rocket passes Sputnik I and Explorer I, the first satellites in orbit. It sends Wile E. past the moon and beyond the stars. After the rocket sled explodes in deep space, the night sky has a new Sagittarius-like constellation... in the form of Wile E. Coyote. Twinkle twinkle little star.
Like all Merrie Melodies cartoons, the closing scene said, "That's all Folks!".

Review: don't worry, beep happy.
Coyote comes up with a series of schemes to catch Road Runner, but they all backfire on him.
Although I just saw "Beep Prepared" for the first time, I remember the whole end scene from the compilation film "The Great American Chase" (more commonly known as "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Chase Movie").Why does WEC keep at it?
The people behind these cartoons say that he comes just close enough to catching RR so that he believes that he'll succeed next time.
It's George Santayana's description of fanaticism (redoubling your efforts after you've forgotten your aim).
All in all, a really good one..
Side-splitters.
It's about 50 years since I saw these cartoons, and I still remember them with affection.
When I saw them I was 'rolling in the aisles' and found them extremely amusing.Poor old 'Eatus Birdus' (I think that was in the credits for the coyote's 'latin' name): he never gets his dinner!
I think this type of humour relates to the silent movies of Charlie Chaplin and the other greats, which I found similarly amusing.
Probably says something about me...Now that I'm old and wrinkly, and in need of a few laughs, I would love to see these cartoons again.
Are they on DVD anywhere?.
Good example of the Coyote-Roadrunner series.
Nominated for an Academy Award, there is nothing especially novel or intriguing about this short.
It's just a good example of the series as a whole.
spends the bulk of the cartoon trying to catch the Roadrunner and giving his insurance agent the ulcer to end all ulcers.
It also serves as a warning not to buy anything from Acme unless you are desperate and/or a masochist.
Cartoon Network runs this with some frequency.
Recommended..
Among the best Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons of the series.
If I were asked whether Beep Prepared deserved its Oscar nomination, it would definitely be yes.
It's a wonderful cartoon and one of the best of an entertaining series(apart from a few duds in the mid-late 60s), admittedly it is very formulaic but in all honesty that is true of pretty much all the cartoons in the series.
The animation is colourful and has fluidity in the backgrounds, it's not flashy but it's definitely not sparse either.
The music is full of energy and character and is lushly orchestrated, none of it sounding canned, the music is a component that is always looked out for by me and it didn't disappoint.
The gags are hilarious and wonderfully weird, the arrow and hole-in-the-ground ones faring the best.
Beep Prepared's not the first time Coyote has used a rocket or magnet to try and capture the Road Runner but they are still very funny here and not as predictable as you might think.
Beep Prepared is never dull and is nicely rounded off.
Road Runner is amusing enough in his own right and somewhat cute, he and Coyote work well together, though he can be described as a "plot-device" character(though that might seem unfair).
Coyote has always been the much funnier and more interesting character, and he as always is delightful.
Especially enjoyable are his facial expressions- something that you don't always pick up upon when you're a child and notice more as an adult, I felt the same way with the humour of the Foghorn Leghorn and particularly Pepe LePew cartoons-, which are always beautifully and cleverly drawn as well as very expressive whether cunning, frustrated or shocked, they even manage to be just as funny and even funnier than the gags themselves.
All in all, Beep Prepared's a wonderful cartoon and among the best of the Road Runner/Coyote series, its Oscar nomination justified.
9/10 Bethany Cox. Hungrii flea-baggius.
Classic Road Runner & Coyote short from the great Chuck Jones.
As is usually the case, the plot is paper thin but no one watches these cartoons for the plot.
The gags are all hilarious, including a variation on the infamous Bat-Man costume, the portable hole, and some wonderful treats from the good folks at ACME.
The animation is beautifully drawn with bright colors and stylish backgrounds.
Love the shot of Wile E.
on top of a craggy peak with a series of ladders leading up, for those who wondered how he always made it to the top of these mountains.
The action scenes are terrific.
The music is whimsical and lively.
It's a fantastic cartoon from a fun series that rarely disappointed when Jones was at the helm.
This was the only Road Runner & Coyote short nominated for an Oscar..
Oscar nominated cartoon.
'Beep Prepared' is another nice cartoon from the Road Runner-series, with Wile E.
Coyote chasing the bird.
This time the Coyote tries to trip the Road Runner, but that doesn't end well.
He also uses an arrow, himself as a rocket man, some machine guns, a hole in the ground and a big magnet that makes sure he will be pulled to the Road Runner after the bird has eaten some bird seed with metal.
Of course things do not as planned.This is another nice cartoon from the series and this time it deserved an Oscar nomination.
Directed by Chuck Jones it is a perfect example of a successful Road Runner cartoon.
The hole in the ground-gag plays very nice and the gag with the big magnet plays pretty good as well..
This animated short is another in Warner Bros.' series .
. of Looney Tunes warning America of the peril posed by the Rich People's "Political" Party (Pogrom Propagators would be more accurate).
Wile E.
Wile E.
Wile E.
Coyote, always depicted as a hard-working thinker scrambling to make his ends meat, clearly is set up by Warner as the Epitome of Joe Blow the Normal, Average U.S. Union Label Citizen.
That malicious lazy Fraudster Road Runner, on the other hand, is given an unconquerable Headstart in Life through its unfair speed advantage, indicating that the Looney Tuners want viewers to see it as symbolic of all the Rumpster Fat Cat One Per Centers born with platinum spoons in their Cry Holes.
Before the opening credits of BEEP PREPARED even roll, Road Runner pulls a gun on the Working Class Coyote, showing that Warner Bros.' always prophetic Looney Tunes prognosticators foresaw in the 1960s that Rich People Party Dittoheads would--by this 21st Century--monopolize the firearms intended by Sam Adams, Paul Revere & Co. for America's "well-regulated militia," as they wrote in our Flawed U.S. Constitution.
Later in BEEP PREPARED the Road Runner drags a hole around until it can be positioned to insure the Doom of We Coyotes, suggesting Election-Rigger-in-Chief Rump's use of the Lazy Southern Racist "Electoral College" Loophole--despite losing by TWO MILLION VOTES--to make Life in America a Living Hell after 2016 (which may well begin with a total ban on Classic Looney Tunes, and a FAHRENHEIT 451-style hunt to destroy every copy!).