There They Go-Go-Go!
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| There They Go-Go-Go! | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | November 10, 1956 |
| Run time | 6:40 |
| Starring | Paul Julian |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Animation | Richard Thompson Ken Harris Abe Levitow Ben Washam |
| Director(s) | Chuck Jones |
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There They Go-Go-Go! is the three hundred and sixty-seventh Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 29, 1956. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Chuck Jones.
After making and failing to have a roast bird made of clay, Wile E. decides to go for fast food. That sort of fast food is, of course, the Road Runner.
Detailed summary
Memorable quote signs
Wile E.: (holds up sign) In Heaven's name -- What am I doing?!
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Southwest desert
- Mudhole
- Southwest desert
- United States
Objects
- Outdoor oven
- Clay chicken
- Rope swing and javelin
- Pop-up shotgun trap
- Makeshift catapult
- Mechanical whip with spiked maces
- Fake detour sign
- Fake bridge sign
- Ruins of a homesteader wagon
- Dynamited wagon wheel
- Metallic rocket missile
- Rock avalanche with trap door mechanism
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 10, 1956 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun of the phrase, 'There they go!'
- This and Scrambled Aches would be the only cartoons to utilize a combination of yellow sky yellow sand for the backgrounds.
- This is one of the few Road Runner cartoons to not include any products from the Acme Corporation.
- It was the final cartoon to to use the "color by Techincolor" byline. The byline for each cartoon only uses "Technicolor" until 1969.
Legacy
- The rock avalanche scene, though edited for time, would be used in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie.
- Wile E.'s sign, "In Heaven's Name - What am I Doing?!" would be reused in Chariots of Fur.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- November 2, 2004 Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 on DVD.
