Coyote versus Gun Safety

            Coyote versus Gun Safety

 

After viewing some Coyote vs Roadrunner clips, I shook my head. Coyote’s plans are too complicated. Why doesn’t he just get a gun?

Then I thought better of it. Of all people, Wile E. Coyote should never, ever, I mean never ever EVER, handle firearms!

But why not? What could possibly go wrong? Well...

Scene 1. Coyote gets an Acme gun in the mail. He unpacks it, picks it up, caresses it, kisses it, and BLAM, it shoots him in the face.

Scene 2. Coyote twirls the gun by its trigger guard. BLAM.

Scene 3. Whoops, he drops it. BLAM.

Scene 4. He does target practice. He hits a cactus, a road sign, a tin can. Then he shoots a rock. KAPWEENG, the bullet ricochets. He ducks, it creases his hair. A couple more ricochets, and the bullet hits a precariously balanced boulder. It falls a comically long distance (FWEEE...) straight onto Coyote.

Scene 5. He stands on a precipice and fires at Roadrunner. The recoil makes him miss, and he stumbles backwards off the precipice. He falls a comically long distance (FWEEE...); he hits the ground; the gun falls down too, and lands next to him. BLAM.

Scene 6. He aims at Roadrunner and squeezes trigger. *Click*. Puzzled, he squeezes the trigger three more times. *Click*, *click*, *click*. Annoyed, he looks down the barrel... BLAM. (pause) BLAM, BLAM, BLAM.

Of course there can be toon-physics scenes. He’s shot by his own mirror image; or by a painted image of himself; or he shoots at Roadrunner, who easily outpaces the bullet in a hypersonic burst of speed, the bullet brakes to a halt, it falls to the ground, Coyote picks up the bullet, it explodes.