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[dawson99]

its...meep meep

i fricking love those cartoons!!!

[account deleted by request]

I think it was beep beep on the badges but I may be wrong (I usually am)

[dawson99]

well the badges maybe, i'll grant u they may have been beep beep, but after staudying roadrunner cartoons, and recieving my 2-2 doctorate on it, with a side degree in ACME, i can assure all here that the correct pronounciation and the proper dialect of said roadrunner is meep meep

[account deleted by request]

I have just done a search for concrete proof but no luck. meep meep

[dawson99]

Signature "beep"
There is some uncertainty on the source of the Road Runner's "Beep-Beep". One claim is this one, which is unsourced and uncited:

The Road Runner was voiced by Paul Julian, who worked as a background painter for Friz Freleng's unit. Julian first made the noise around the Warner Bros. lot (imitating a car horn) as a lighthearted means of getting people out of his way when he was in a hurry. Julian performed several variations of the sound at a single recording session. Editor Treg Brown then sped up and looped some of them to make even more versions.
The use of a staff member to perform a voice caused a rift with the performers' union. Jones was forced to agree that, for all future recording sessions, an accredited actor would be used. He got around this by simply reusing Julian's initial recording (and Brown's variants) in all future Road Runner cartoons.
Because of the union problems, the studio refused to acknowledge the real voice of the Road Runner for decades. Some sources claimed that Mel Blanc performed the voice, while others went so far as to say it came from an actual horn.
The website called the Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion [1] is less definitive:

"Legend has it that background artist Paul Julian inspired the dialogue for the Road Runner by passing Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese at a crucial moment with his arms full of drawings, saying 'Beep Beep.' Both Jones and Maltese viewed this as something not short of divine inspiration."
The more straightforward claim is this, cited by Mel Blanc on page 106 of his autobiography, That's Not All Folks!. Summarizing:

The Road Runner's beep in his inaugural cartoon was produced by Treg Brown on a claxon horn. For the second cartoon, Blanc recorded the signature "Beep-Beep" just once, and it was used in every cartoon after the first.


have i been wrong all these years? im sticking with my phonetic meep meep

[account deleted by request]

don't allow this to shake the foundations of all you stand for ,it was only the badge (or poster ) I was looking for. meep meep is what you believe in, its whats in your heart that counts. meep meep 

[woof woof !]

Thats it you f'uckers , side with the bird . without me he'd just be another piece of road kill .   

[dawson99]

Wil E is the master of the cartoon dude, so chill, but roadrunner is easier to type, just semantics

[red37]

Roadrunner rocks!  i was a long standing fan of his for years. Still am if truth be told.....Although i do have a soft spot for the Soup-dragon as well.....i just cant decide who, between them has had the major influence over my life up to this point.  What a 'dimella'.   Saying that, Hector's house taught me all i know...so i wont be drawn on the subject further, only than to say my loyalties are split somewhat fractiously between several of these maverick 'Patriarchal' figures. And in no way do i want to disparage the merits of either. 

Acme for ever!

[dawson99]

glad to see more people adopting the "so and so ROCKS" as well...always nice to hear

soup dragons were cool, can u dig it?

[adamnbarrett]

woof and thecatsmeow 

[dward]

[account deleted by request]

Noggin the nog and the ice-dragon was better!

[dawson99]

all about these two beauties:





oh, and:

[red37]

Ah the memories.....