Hip Hip-Hurry!

Hip Hip-Hurry!
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	December 8, 1958
Run time	6:20
Starring	Paul Julian Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	John Seely
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Ken Harris Ben Washam Abe Levitow Richard Thompson Keith Darling
Director(s)	Chuck Jones
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Hip Hip-Hurry! is the four hundred and forty-first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on December 8, 1958. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by John W. Burton and directed by Chuck Jones.

After falling through a bridge, Wile E. decides to retaliate by catching the Road Runner by any means necessary.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Road Runner	Paul Julian
Wile E. Coyote	N/A
Mouse	N/A

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Southwest desert
      • Construction zone

Organizations

• Acme

Objects

• Grenade
• Trapeze
• Slingshot
• Firecracker
• Dynamite with a long fuse
• Giant boulder
• Acme Mouse Snare
• Cheese ball
• Acme Hi-Speed Tonic

Vehicles

• Acme Truck
• Speedboat

Production

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Music

The music was composed by John Seely and it was his last cartoon to provide stock music for a Warner Bros. cartoon.

Starting with Cat Feud, Milt Franklyn would return to continue composing music for the series until his death in 1962.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Maurice Noble
• Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard
• Effects Animation: Harry Love
• Film Editor: Treg Brown

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: December 8, 1958 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the cheering phrase, "Hip hip hooray!"
• The MPAA number is 18949.

Legacy

• Scenes and animations from this cartoon would later be reused in Hare-Breadth Hurry and Adventures of the Road-Runner.
• The opening chase, Latin names and boulder drop scenes were used in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • May 30, 2023: Warner Archive Collection releases Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 1 on Blu-ray Disc.