Chuck Jones' 9 rules for writing Road Runner stories

Mark Frauenfelder 10:02 am Thu Jun 13, 2019

I admire Chuck Jones and all the great work he did on Looney Tunes cartoons. That said, I don't like Road Runner. It suffers from the same problem that Scooby Do, Where Are You? and Dora the Explorer have – the same story told again and again. I also didn't like the smug bird, and when I saw this photocopy office art many years ago I knew others shared my sentiment:

I just came across these 9 rules that Chuck Jones created for Road Runner cartoons. Constraints are often a good thing for creative projects, but in this case, they resulted in a repetitive, unfunny cartoon series.

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