David Bianculli

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Fresh Air · Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones / Remembering singer Cassandra Wilson · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

The film version intermingled cartoon and human characters, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with the animated Wile E. Coyote sharing the same screen as his human lawyer, played by Will Forte. voice-verified

The Coyote hires the lawyer after seeing him on a low-rent TV ad, the kind of small-screen huckstering Bob Odenkirk's sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman used to do on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. voice-verified

It's a very clever, very funny movie, but was buried deep in the Warner Bros. voice-verified

Discovery vaults until it was rescued this year by an independent distributor, which purchased the rights for $50 million and finally released it in theaters last month. voice-verified

Coyote vs. Acme, written by Sammy Birch and directed by Dave Green, has been shown in relatively few theaters nationwide, but already has made almost all that money back in the U.S., as well as an additional $30 million worldwide. voice-verified

Both the movie plot and the film's history are delightful stories of perseverance. voice-verified

So today on Fresh Air, we're saluting Coyote vs. Acme and the long cartoon history it celebrates by listening back to an interview with Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones. voice-verified

The cartoon that introduced the roadrunner and his nemesis, Wiley Coyote, was Fast and Furious in 1949. voice-verified

It was directed by Chuck Jones and introduced the running gag that recurred ever since. voice-verified

The coyote ordering mail-order merchandise to try, and ultimately fail, to catch the elusive roadrunner. voice-verified

In later cartoons, that company was identified as Acme, which promptly delivered the faulty goods. voice-verified

That inspired the New Yorker article that inspired the movie Coyote vs. Acme. voice-verified

And, in a way, Chuck Jones, with his Acme idea, also might be said to have inspired the entire rapid delivery concept of today's real-life equivalent, Amazon. voice-verified

Chuck Jones worked at Warner Brothers from 1933 until the studio closed down its cartoon division in 1963. voice-verified

He then formed his own production company and kept producing and directing until his death in 2002. voice-verified

Terry Gross spoke to him in 1989. voice-verified

Jones also wrote an autobiography called Chuckamuck. voice-verified

That title is borrowed from Duckamuck, which was the cartoon Jones made about cartooning. voice-verified

In it, Daffy Duck finds himself at the mercy of a fickle cartoonist. voice-verified

Daffy opens the cartoon as a brave musketeer, but the cartoonist keeps changing the scenery on him to the most inappropriate settings, a farm, the Arctic, Hawaii. voice-verified

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