page_title: Acme Corporation
section_title: Appearances
hierarchical_section_title: Acme Corporation / Appearances
caption_attribution_description: English: You can find this on the third floor of Building 9 at MIT, in the corridor that should lead to Building 7 (but doesn't). See the next photo for a higher quality shot, and to see what that thing on the right is.
context_page_description: The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote animated shorts as a running gag featuring outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the worst possible times. The name is also used as a generic title in many cartoons, especially those made by Warner Bros., and films, TV series, commercials and comic strips.
  The company name in the Road Runner cartoons is ironic, since the word acme is derived from Greek meaning the peak, zenith or prime, yet products from the fictional Acme Corporation are often generic, failure-prone, or explosive.
context_section_description: The name "Acme" is used as a generic corporate name in a huge number of cartoons, comics, television shows, such as in early episodes of I Love Lucy and “The Andy Griffith Show”, and film, from the silent era onward in such titles as Buster Keaton's silent film Neighbors (1920) and Harold Lloyd's Grandma's Boy (1922). Acme is also briefly featured in the Walt Disney Donald Duck episode Cured Duck released in 1945.
  Examples which specifically reference the Wile E. Coyote cartoon character include:
caption: A mural of Wile E. Coyote smashed into an ACME Instant Tunnel on the wall of the Rotch Library at MIT
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