Beep Prepared

While getting ready to chase the roadrunner, Wile E. is startled by the Roadrunner's Beep Beep and falls backward off a cliff; he remains suspended in space until the roadrunner fires a starter pistol in the air; Wile E. falls to the canyon floor.After being run off the edge of the cliff, Wile E. Coyote begins his typical plotting of various methods to catch the bird. First, Wile E. tries to trip the Road Runner with his own foot, only to have it flattened by a passing delivery truck. Taking higher ground, Wile E. uses a bow and arrow to skewer the Road Runner, only to have the bow hit him in the nose instead (he ends up being flattened by two rocks). He tries to trap the Road Runner in a manhole, which the Road Runner uses as a portable hole (Wile E. falls through a bridge to a riverbank). Other traps include a rocket-powered flying suit (which explodes), a box of "ACME Iron Bird Seed" and a big magnet (which pulls him into the path of a train), a spring-loaded block of pavement (which ends up crushing him), a pair of machine guns connected by a trip wire (which the Roadrunner cuts; Wile E gets blasted by bullets), and an ACME Rocket-Sled Kit (which blasts off too early; Wile E goes off into space and explodes and turns into a giant firework in the sky of himself about to fire an arrow).

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, being the only Coyote/Road Runner short to receive this.

• Co-Director & Layouts: Maurice Noble
• Story by John Dunn & Chuck Jones
• Animation: Bob Bransford, Tom Ray, Ken Harris & Richard Thompson
• Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard
• Effects Animation: Harry Love
• Film Editor: Treg Brown
• Music: Milt Franklyn
• Produced by David H. DePatie
• Directed by Chuck Jones

• Beep Prepared at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• Beep Prepared at IMDb