Going! Going! Gosh!
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| Going! Going! Gosh!
Merrie Melodies, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner series |
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| Directed by | Charles M. Jones |
| Produced by | Eddie Selzer |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Voices by | Paul Julian as the Road Runner (unc.) |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Lloyd Vaughn (misspelled in credits) Ben Washam Ken Harris |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | 23 August 1952 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6 minutes, 25 seconds |
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Going! Going! Gosh! is a Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. It was produced in 1951 and released on August 23rd 1952. The cartoon was directed by Chuck Jones, and animated by Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam and Ken Harris.
[edit] Plot
The Road Runner burns some rubber on the road, while Wile E. Coyote jumps out in front of the speeding bird with a knife and fork. Just before the utensils are about to hit, the ludicrous Latin names are showned: Road Runner: Acceleratti Incredibilis and Coyote: Carnivorous Vulgaris. The cartoon restarts in slo-mo, and the Coyote stabs through his legs, ends up missing the Road Runner by a hair, and twists himself into a snail. With an enraged expression, he unravels himself and bounds after the bird. As the Coyote gains on him, the Road Runner gears into superspeed and leaves all the roads in a cloud of dust. Wile slows down and hangs his face downwards, and plots his next scheme.
As the Road Runner speeds across the mountain roads, he fires a bow loaded with some dynamite attached to an arrow. However, it's just like that - he fires the bow, and the dynamite explodes on himself.
Fuming, the Coyote loads himself onto a slingshot; however, the support breaks out of the ground and wedges him into a stack of hay.
Wile E. Coyote now tries covering the ground with quick-drying cement. Unfortunately, the Road Runner cuts directly through it, and the Coyote is drenched and soon frozen.
He then hides himself under a manhole with an armed hand grenade, but the Road Runner's pass drops a boulder on top of the cover, which prevents the Coyote from throwing the grenade out at the bird, and thus he suffers its explosive effects. Then, the manhole cover falls on his head...followed by the boulder!
Soon afterwards, Wile E. Coyote dresses as a Southern Belle in an attempt to lure the Road Runner, but the clever bird speeds right past him and uncovers the Coyote. The Road Runner puts on his own thin disguise and holds up a sign saying "I've already got a date".
Later, the Coyote paints a realistic picture of a bridge and places it at the end of a road where there is no bridge, simply the "Danger: End of the Road" sign, which has turned around. The Road Runner runs through the trick picture as if it was like a real road. As the Coyote looks on, puzzled, he fails to see a truck emerging through the road in the painting, which promptly runs him over. Frustrated, the Coyote runs towards the painting, but tears through it and crashes to the ground. That results in dust forming in the air shaped in the word "OH NO!"
Wile uses his back to drop a large boulder onto the winding mountain roads which the Road Runner is traveling. Eventually, the Road Runner and the boulder approach the same area, but the Road Runner slips just out of the way, while the boulder is pitched into the air, up a serac, and onto a new set of roads. The coyote is out peeking at the roads, hoping to see the Road Runner crushed, but the boulder just happens to roll behind him and crush him.
The Coyote uses various ACME devices put together (an anvil, a weather balloon, and a fan) to create a makeshift air balloon. Through the clouds, he sees the Road Runner and releases the anvil, causing the balloon to rise in the air until it stops and the string keeping it blown up unfurls, sending it flying through the air until it runs out of air. Then, he falls to and into the earth, followed by the anvil falling on his head and the Road Runner passing over him.
Finally, at the end of a cartoon, the Coyote, listening out for the Road Runner's beeping, drops from a high log and lunges towards the bird with a javelin, only to realise that the beeping came from a nearby truck, which the Coyote dives straight into, and is thus whacked into the air and winded around the log. It is revealed that when the Road Runner is driving the truck.
