Clippety Clobbered

Clippety Clobbered
Production company	DePatie–Freleng Enterprises Format Films
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	March 12, 1966
Starring	Paul Julian Mel Blanc (Vocal Only)
Executive producer(s)	Herbert Klynn
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Music composed by	Bill Lava
Story by	Tom Dagenais
Animation	Bob Bransford Hank Smith Virgil Ross
Director(s)	Rudy Larriva
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Clippety Clobbered is the four-hundred and fifty-nineth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 12, 1966. It was written by Tom Dagenais, produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng, and directed by Rudy Larriva.

With Wile E. Coyote's new Scientific Chemistry Set, he concocts various methods to help him try and catch the Road Runner!

Detailed Summary

Characters

Organizations

• Acme
  • Acme Garment Co.

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Midwest desert

Objects

• Wile E.'s mailbox
• Parachute
• Acme Scientific Chemistry Set
• Invisible Paint
• Boulder
• Brick wall
• Super-bouncy blue substance
• Space Science Book
  • Handjets
• Jet Canister
• Miner's helmet

Vehicles

• U.S. Mail Helicopter
• Acme Garment Co. Truck
• Diesel train

Production

Development

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1966.

Music

The stock music was provided by Bill Lava. This is the final cartoon to provide stock music the for Rudy Larriva-directed Road Runner cartoons. For this cartoon, the title music used for the various other Road Runner cartoons directed by Larriva was done differently.

Crew credits

• Layout: Don Sheppard
• Backgrounds: Tony Rizzo
• Film Editor: Al Wahrman

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: March 12, 1966 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• This is the first of three DePatie-Freleng-era Looney Tunes to use a few Hanna-Barbera sound effects, the other two being Sugar and Spies and Daffy's Diner.
• The train tunnel gag is recycled from Hare-Less Wolf, with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote in Bugs Bunny and Charles M. Wolf's roles, respectively.
• The closing animation of the Road Runner was re-used repeatedly for interstitial segments of a 1979 German TV series for ZDF (titled Die schnellste Maus von Mexiko, which was a re-dubbed version of The Merrie Melodies Show) which focused primarily on Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck, and Sylvester, as well as Wile E. and Road Runner. Unusually, these segments were re-animated to have the Road Runner actually speaking and briefly introduce his own cartoons with the Coyote.

Errors

• On a scene where Wile E. falls while having the bouncy coating and Road Runner is watching on a cliff, Wile E. falls directly through a part of the ground of the cliff instead of crashing onto it.
• After Wile E. had crashed through an Acme Garment Truck, he started to head for a railroad tunnel. The Road Runner was standing right in front of the tunnel, but when he noticed Wile E. coming, his beep sounds were not added before he zoomed into the tunnel.

Legacy

• This is the final Road Runner cartoon that Rudy Larriva directed. Though he would direct three Daffy/Speedy cartoons that were outsourced from the Format Films. The three shorts that he directed were entitled: Quacker Tracker, The Music Mice-tro, and The Spy Swatter.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars' Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinx

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