| Zoom and Bored | |
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| Directed by | Chuck Jones |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
| Starring | Paul Julian |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Ken Harris Abe Levitow Richard Thompson Corny Cole (uncredited) |
| Layouts by | Maurice Noble |
| Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
| Color process | Technicolor |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 6 minutes 16 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Zoom and Bored is a 1957Warner Bros. cartoon, being a part of theMerrie Melodies series and directed byChuck Jones.[1] The short was released on September 14, 1957, and starsWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.[2] The title is a play onroom and board, just like theSylvester andTweety shortRoom and Bird. This is one of the few shorts where the Road Runner shows a soft side for Wile E. Coyote and spares him.
After the Road Runner (Birdibus Zippibus) runs him off a cliff, Wile E. Coyote (Famishus Vulgaris) studies a book calledThe Art of Roadrunner Trapping for some new ideas. He tries to dig a hole in the road, but cannot successfully handle ajackhammer, he vibrates from this effect and he tears the books. Other attempted traps include a brick wall, he sees his rear end and decides to use adynamite to blow up his doppelganger's rear, only to realize his mistake because that rear belong tohim, which causes him to leap into the air and then fall down in a burning pain; and a plate of birdseed attached to a beehive, despite being close to the Roadrunner, the bees stings Coyote again and again. The fourth gag is an anvil to squash the flightless bird who is eating the birdseed. Predictably, an anvil is very heavy and it causes the board to break and land on the road which Roadrunner takes a step aside and when the board covered the hole, the Roadrunner continues to eat his second lunch. Now seeing this fails, Wile E. Coyote builds a ramp with a bomb at the top so it will roll down and blow up the bird, but for some reason, before he can have a chance to light up the bomb, it explodes. The sixth trap is acatapult so when it is launched, the boulder will crush the bird, but the boulder is extremely heavy that it ended up crushing Coyote, and a last attempt isharpoon gun with a rope on one end, but Wile E. sees his foot getting caught in the rope before dragging him into cactus and under some rocks. He unzips this, but he quickly grabs the rope before he could fall, however, the rope launches into a pipe and then he gets hit by a truck and a train. After Wile E.'s traumatizing experience with the harpoon, he breaks down in tears. The Road Runner zips up behind Wile E., but doesn't have the heart to beep at him that time.
The music isDance of the Comedians fromThe Bartered Bride byBedrich Smetana.[3]