Soup or Sonic

Soup or Sonic
Production company	Chuck Jones Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television
Release date	May 21, 1980
Run time	9:11
Starring	Mel Blanc Paul Julian
Producer(s)	Chuck Jones Marian Dern Mary Roscoe Don Arioli
Music composed by	Dean Elliot
Story by	Chuck Jones
Animation	Phil Monroe Virgil Ross Manny Perez Ken Champin Irv Anderson Dick Thompson Lloyd Vaughman Tom Ray Terry Lennon Bob Shellhorn Sammie Lanham Bob Treat Grace Stanzell Bob Tyler Carole Beers Bill Wolf George Scribner Retta Davidson
Director(s)	Chuck Jones Phil Monroe (co-direction)
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Soup or Sonic is the five hundred and thirty-third short of the Merrie Melodies theatrical series, which originally came as the third and final segment in the Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over television special. It aired on May 21, 1980 on CBS. It was written and directed by Chuck Jones.

Wile E. Coyote, after many years of chasing after the Road Runner, finally catches him in the end, but with one sizable difference.

Memorable quotes

Wile E.: (holding sign) How did I ever get into this line of work?

Wile E.: (holds up one sign) For sale: one used tennis racket- (holds up second sign) cheap!

Wile E.: (holds up one sign) Okay, wise guys, you always wanted me to catch him. (holds up second sign) Now what do I do?

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

Organizations

• Acme
• Freleng Manufacturing Co.

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Southwest desert
    • Missouri (indirectly mentioned)
      • Kansas City (mentioned)

Objects

• 10ft. pole jump stick
• Large skyrocket
• A large safe tied to a rope through a pulley
• Teeter-totter shaped boulders
• Acme Frisbee Disc
• Acme Little-Giant Giant Fire Crackers
• A Fire Cracker-loaded Frisbee
• Acme Giant Fly Paper
• Acme Explosive Tennis Balls
• Tennis Racquet
• Metal Pipes
• Can of Acme Tomato Juice

Music

The music was composed by Dean Elliot.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: May 21, 1980 on CBS

Behind the scenes

• The Road Runner's "Beep! Beep!" phrase gets its own latin name: Beepius-Beepius
• The packaging for the Acme Frisbee Disc has text for "Freleng Manufacturing Co., Kansas City, Mo." This is a reference to director Friz Freleng.
• This short is widely cited (albeit incorrectly) as the only short where Wile E. has canonically caught the Road Runner. However, Wile E. previously catches him, albeit briefly, in The Solid Tin Coyote.
• Compared to the other segments of the special, it is the longest with 9 minutes and 11 seconds in runtime.