oscaralbert Review of Soup or Sonic

Soup or Sonic (1980 TV Short)

This is another one of those animated shorts in which Wile E. Coyote . . .

[7/10 · 19 November 2016]

. . . takes a beating, but keeps on ticking. During this Looney Tune's 8:35 running time, I counted about eight incidents in which Mr. Coyote suffers potentially fatal hurt. He falls down into a canyon after just 56 seconds. He plunges again in about the same place 68 seconds later. It only takes half a minute before Wile is whistling Dixie down once again. Just 39 ticks later DOWN GOES WILE! DOWN GOES WILE! DOWN GOES WILE! yet again (to paraphrase the late Howard Cosell), this time with a heavy safe following up to add insult to injury. Wile is blown up for the sake of variety after another 30 seconds passes. Then, 34 seconds after THAT, Wile's Acme brand Giant Fly Paper draws a Giant Fly! About five minutes into this masochistic exercise Mr. Coyote is crushed and blown up in the same catastrophe. Before the end credits roll Wile is in the midst of a giant explosion involving Acme tennis balls.