Scrambled Aches

Scrambled Aches is a 1957 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones. 
== Title ==
The title is a pun on the dish "scrambled eggs."
== Plot ==
Wile E. Coyote (Eternalii famishiis) and Road Runner (Tastyus supersonicus) are continuing their chase through the twisty roads of the desert. As Wile E. closes in on Road Runner, a four-way intersection is reached and Road Runner takes a left turn. Wile E. looks back as he brakes himself into the dirt, not noticing a "DANGER BRIDGE OUT" sign, and thus falls off the edge of the plateau and busts a hole in the ground far below. Tossing out his utensils and untying the napkin from his neck, the Coyote walks out of the hole and plans his next scheme.
#Thinking simple, the Coyote attempts to simply trip Road Runner with a fake coyote foot (to avoid unpleasant repercussions on himself), but only ends up getting the fake foot winded. As he walks out, he leans on the leg and scratches his head, only for the leg to unreel itself, twisting his body in turn.
#Wile E. broods in the dirt, and soon comes up with a new plan: Throw out a dynamite stick with a string. However, when Wile E. circles the string over his head, it lassos itself around the coyote's face before exploding.
#Going for speed again, the Coyote then builds a contraption made from a fan, a sail, and roller skates to propel himself down the road. This works excellent in a straight line, but cannot follow Road Runner around a tight curve. The poor Coyote is thrown into a pool, digs through a dirt beach, and slams directly into a wall.
#Next, Wile E. holds onto a large firework and lights it as Road Runner passes, hoping to give semi-aerial chase. However, the firework takes off without its owner, flaying the coyote's chest in the process, and then it hits a curve and reverses itself, also flaying Wile's pate and deeply annoying the devious coyote.
#Devious doesn't apply to the next simple trap: Wile E. tries to pull a large boulder onto one end of a see-saw to launch himself towards Road Runner on a high cliff, but the boulder squashes him instead.
#Wile E. pushes an anvil tied to a balloon off an outcropping, and then pulls the string when he hears Road Runner, trying to flatten his nemesis. The anvil and Road Runner converge towards the same spot in the bridge Road Runner is now on, but Road Runner brakes just in time to avoid it. The anvil smashes through the bridge, is thrown back up through the hole by a power line, and drops towards the Coyote who is perched on the very edge of the outcropping. Shivering with fear, Wile E. covers his head, preparing for the impact. The anvil misses him, but instead breaks through another part of the outcropping. The Coyote sighs with relief, but soon spots he is defying gravity and is then subject to it.
#Again attempting to give semi-aerial chase, the Coyote retracts a massive spring coil attached to a wall and sits in it, tentatively letting go of his grip on the ground as Road Runner passes on the left. But instead of launching at the bird, he simply gets caught inside the spring as it extends itself outwards.
#Another ACME product (Dehydrated Boulders) takes the scene. Wile E. picks up one of them, hydrates it, and attempts to throw it off the cliff towards Road Runner below, but the boulder expands first and crushes him.
#In a final attempt to outrun and flatten Road Runner, the Coyote constructs an outboard steam roller. When he turns it on, it rolls away from him and down the road. The steam roller soon encounters Road Runner, who reverses direction and runs away. Wile E. continues to chase after his creation, while a fork comes up ahead with a sign stating, "In case of steam roller use Detour". Road Runner takes the detour and zooms into a miniature "escape tunnel", which was actually a cannon trap, with the coyote in hot pursuit. Wile E. leaps behind the cannon, lights the fuse and sits down, tired but satisfied. The fuse smokes, but the cannon doesn't fire. Confused, Wile E. looks inside the cannon and sees a white light coming out, accompanied by railroad signs. Seeing no danger, he laughs and looks inside again, but the cannon fires, with Road Runner riding on top of the cannonball. Road Runner waves at the now injured Coyote as he walks away and is then flattened by his own steamroller, as Wile E. holds up a "This is the end." sign.
== Availability ==
ROAD RUNNER AND WILE E COYOTE'S CRASH COURSE.jpg|(1993) VHS Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote's Crash Course
ROAD RUNNER VS WILE E COYOTE.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc Road Runner Vs. Wile E. Coyote: If at First You Don't Succeed...
lt collection faorrawec.jpg|(1996) VHS Looney Tunes Collection - Further Adventures of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
Golden Collection box 2.jpg|(2004) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc Two
lt cbrr1.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Road Runner Volume 1
lt cbrr1 vcd.jpg|(2005) VCD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Road Runner Volume 1
lt spotlight 7.jpg|(2009) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 7, Disc 1
lt bbot wc.jpg|(2011) DVD Wile E. Coyote
lt 3fcbo.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes 3 Feature Collection Best Of
=== Streaming ===
Lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App ( - )
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022)
Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* On ABC, gag number two, the dynamite on a rope sequence, was cut.https://web.archive.org/web/20240222124028/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-s.aspx
== Notes ==
* The spring coil gag was used in The Bugs Bunny Road-Runner Movie.
**The spring coil gag is later re-enacted in one of the 2004-2011 Boomerang Europe character idents, except here the spring coil that traps Wile E. morphs into the 2004 Boomerang Europe logo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWi9PYQ13U0
==Gallery==
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==References==
==External links ==
* "Scrambled Aches" at the SFX Resource
Category:1957
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Wile E. Coyote Cartoons
Category:Road Runner Cartoons
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons animated by Abe Levitow
Category:Cartoons animated by Richard Thompson
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with no dialogue