Hopalong Casualty

Hopalong Casualty
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	October 8, 1960
Run time	6:05
Starring	Paul Julian Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Tom Ray Ken Harris Richard Thompson Bob Bransford
Director(s)	Chuck Jones
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Hopalong Casualty is the four hundred and ninth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was published by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on October 8, 1960. It was produced by John W. Burton, and both written and directed by Chuck Jones.

While trying to catch the Road Runner, Wile E. inadvertently takes some Acme Earthquake Pills. But when he realizes that they have no effect on roadrunners, he soon regrets his decision to try them as he suffers the shakingly and quakingly effects of the pills.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Road Runner	Paul Julian
Wile E. Coyote	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Southwest desert

Organizations

• Acme

Objects

• Lassoed boulder
• Dynamite and detonator
• Acme Christmas Package Machine
• Fake detour tunnel
• Fishing rod and dynamite
• Acme Earthquake Pills

Vehicles

• Truck

Music

The music was scored by Milt Franklyn.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Maurice Noble
• Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 8, 1960 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun of the cowboy hero, Hopalong Cassidy.
• Starting with this short, the desert background scenery would use the traditional blue sky and off-white rock formations for the Road Runner cartoons up until War and Pieces.
• To date, the Acme Earthquake Pills was the longest gag that Wile E. had ever done in the Road Runner cartoon series.
• Starting with this cartoon, the byline tag, "A Vitagraph release", would be seen underneath the "A Warner Bros. cartoon" byline tag, and would be used for every Looney Tunes cartoon until the studio's closure.

Legacy

• The Acme Earthquake Pills scene (minus the ending where Road Runner dashes off) would be used in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie.
• The title of this cartoon was also used as the name of an underground mine level in the video game, Road Runner's Death Valley Rally.
• The detonator and dynamite scene would be reanimated and reused in "The Wild Chase".
• In the mobile game, Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem, One of Damaged Wile E.'s special abilities involved the Acme Earthquake Pills used from this cartoon.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 4