Chuck Jones' Rules for the Roadrunner and Coyote

Those who [like me! Ed.] have known Walt for donkeys' know of my undying love for Warner Brothers cartoons, but only the good ones which were produced for showing in cinemas. The later ones, from about 1960 onwards, produced for TV with the execrable Hanna-Barbera-style "limited animation", bite the big one. 

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the later Roadrunner cartoons, where the motion of the characters' legs and feet is just a circular blur. The BWBDOAT (Best Warner Bros. Director of All Time), Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones would never have allowed such cheap visual tricks. He had very strict rules -- he actually called them "rules", not just a style guide -- for the depiction of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, and the latter's fanatical pursuit of the former.

Here, courtesty of Agent 6, are Mr Jones' original rules for the Roadrunner & Coyote.

Th-th-th-th-th-th-that's all folks!