Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z

1956 American film

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z

Directed by| Charles M. Jones
Story by| Michael Maltese
Produced by| Eddie Selzer
Music by| Milt Franklyn
Carl Stalling (uncredited)[1]
Animation by| Ben Washam
Abe Levitow
Richard Thompson
Ken Harris
Layouts by| Ernie Nordli
Backgrounds by| Philip DeGuard
Color process| Technicolor

Production
company

Warner Bros. Cartoons

Distributed by| Warner Bros.

Release date

* May 5, 1956 (1956-05-05)

Running time

| 6:36
Country| United States
Language| English

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z is a 1956 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.[2] The short was released on May 5, 1956, and stars Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.[3]

## Plot

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Wile. E Coyote sporting his Acme Bat-Man's Outfit in Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z.

The cartoon begins with the title sign and the Coyote hiding behind it, before the Road Runner speeding past. As he comes by, the Coyote runs right after him but gets hit by a truck (with the card on which the main producers of the cartoon are shown), and at just the moment Wile E is hit, a box falls on him with Charles M. Jones' name. The Coyote angrily throws the box away and his mock Binomial nomenclature in Dog Latin (Eatius Birdius) is shown. He runs right again after Road Runner (Delicius-Delicius), but the speedy bird takes a rectangular U-turn, and the Coyote runs through the smoke and stops midway, wondering where the Road Runner went. The Road Runner speeds through the plateau roads in the background and right next to the away-looking Coyote, beeps at him and runs away again. Wile E holds up two signs saying "EGAD" and two exclamation marks; before dropping them, he sits on the ground and plans his schemes.

1\. Hiding in a manhole, the Coyote pops out and fires a rifle at the bird. The bullet eventually runs behind the Road Runner, but doesn't hit the bird, even the bird mockingly turns around and beeps on it, then speeds away. The bullet loses its track (brakes in midair and shows question and exclamation marks) and falls on the ground. When the angry Coyote picks it up, it explodes.

2\. The next scene shows the annoyed Coyote walking back and forth, but he already came up with his plan. In another attempt, Wile E. leaps out into the road with "1 sheet ACME Triple Strength BATTLESHIP STEEL ARMOR PLATE" in front of him; even this cannot stop the Road Runner from barreling through it. The Coyote looks puzzled and even checks his body to see if the bird ran through it too. As he sees the result, such as the background where he should logically see parts of his own body, he nervously walks away with the plate.

3\. While the Road Runner is feasting on some dirt nearby the road, the Coyote puts a lighted stick of dynamite on the end of a fishing line and casts it out. However, it misses the Road Runner, rolls under a huge boulder, then explodes. The explosion causes the boulder to fly over the target and crush the Coyote.

4\. Wile E., sporting an Acme Bat-Man's Outfit, dives off a cliff, attempting to fly. At first, he isn't successful, but he eventually learns the moves. However, when he looks at the camera, he crashes into a huge rock face, and the wings from the costume get torn away and stuck on the rock. The Coyote tries to stay in the air with the damaged costume, but he only succeeds in falling.

5\. After that debacle, he perches himself upon a high branch with an anvil attached to the end of an ACME Rubber Band. He tries to keep himself on the branch with his legs, but the anvil stretches the greatly elastic rubber band so much that he falls through the road with the anvil. The rubber band then throws the Coyote out from the hole and he hits his head right in the branch.

6\. The Coyote tries attaching a stick of dynamite to a telescoping spring, and he tests the device successfully. But as he attempts to use it on the Road Runner, now with the dynamite lighted, the spring retracts backwards and sends the Coyote right through a rock wall, after which the spring shrinks and sends the dynamite into the wall as well, which explodes. The Coyote stands charred with the broken device in his hand in the middle of the walls.

7\. In the next attempt, Wile E. paints a landscape of a broken bridge on a stone wall, which he already displayed with a STOP! BRIDGE OUT sign. The running-by Road Runner rams through the painting, predictably angering the Coyote, for whom the painting activates, and he falls into the deep pit he painted. (The situation is quite the contrary of the painting attempt used in the episode Going! Going! Gosh!)

8\. The next attempt is to blow up a bridge with explosives. Wile E. tries to activate the detonator as the Road Runner comes by, but the detonator won't go off. He vainly tries jumping on it and smashing it into the ground before angrily speeding up after the Road Runner. Unfortunately, the detonator finally goes off, thus blowing up the TNT under the bridge where the Coyote is.

9\. In the last attempt, the Coyote crafts a makeshift jet bike made from a jet motor and handlebars. With his high-speed vehicle, he quickly follows the Road Runner just one mile behind the bird. However, when the duo arrives at a cliff, the Road Runner, as previously shown, takes his U-turn and the Coyote goes right past his smoke. As he notices his missed target, he angrily switches off his motor, waiting for it to arrive at the other cliff. The Road Runner arrives on the other end of the cliff and the Coyote doesn't reach the end of the cliff. As the Road Runner beeps to greet his nemesis, the Coyote angrily jumps at the bird, but he points to the ground and gravity enables, thus the Coyote falls down with his jet bike. In the end, as he starts to fall down to the ground, he holds a sign saying asking for a favor, "How about ending this cartoon before I hit?" His wish is granted, and as the cartoon irises out, he holds another sign saying, "Thank you."

## See also

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* Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)

## References

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1. ^ ASCAP: "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z Cues"
2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 285\. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 128–129\. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

## External links

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* Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z at IMDb

* v
* t
* e

Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner in animation

Short films|

* Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
* Operation: Rabbit (1952; Coyote only)
* Beep, Beep (1952)
* Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)
* Zipping Along (1953)
* Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954)
* Sheep Ahoy (1954; cameo, Coyote only)
* Ready, Set, Zoom! (1955)
* Guided Muscle (1955)
* Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
* There They Go-Go-Go! (1956)
* To Hare Is Human (1956; Coyote only)
* Scrambled Aches (1957)
* Zoom and Bored (1957)
* Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958)
* Hook, Line and Stinker (1958)
* Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958)
* Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959)
* Wild About Hurry (1959)
* Fastest with the Mostest (1960)
* Rabbit's Feat (1960; Coyote only)
* Hopalong Casualty (1960)
* Zip 'N Snort (1961)
* Lickety-Splat (1961)
* Compressed Hare (1961; Coyote only)
* Beep Prepared (1961)
* Adventures of the Road Runner (1962)
* Zoom at the Top (1962)
* Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963; Coyote only)
* To Beep or Not to Beep (1963)
* War and Pieces (1964)
* Zip Zip Hooray! (1965)
* Road Runner a Go-Go (1965)
* The Wild Chase (1965)
* Rushing Roulette (1965)
* Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (1965)
* Tired and Feathered (1965)
* Boulder Wham! (1965)
* Just Plane Beep (1965)
* Hairied and Hurried (1965)
* Highway Runnery (1965)
* Chaser on the Rocks (1965)
* Shot and Bothered (1966)
* Out and Out Rout (1966)
* The Solid Tin Coyote (1966)
* Clippety Clobbered (1966)
* Sugar and Spies (1966)
* Freeze Frame (1979)
* Soup or Sonic (1980)
* Chariots of Fur (1994)
* Little Go Beep (2000)
* The Whizzard of Ow (2003)
* Coyote Falls (2010)
* Fur of Flying (2010)
* Rabid Rider (2010)
* Flash in the Pain (2014)

Feature films|

| Theatrical|

* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979; archive footage)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988; cameo)
* Space Jam (1996)
* Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
* Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
* Coyote vs. Acme (2026)

|

Direct-to-video|

* Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992; cameo; Road Runner only)
* Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000; cameo, Coyote only)
* Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006; cameo)

TV series|

* The Road Runner Show (1966–1972)
* Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1992)
* Baby Looney Tunes (2002–2005)
* The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2013)
* New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)
* Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020–2024)
* Bugs Bunny Builders (2022–present)
* Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023–present)

TV specials|

* Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972)
* Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet (1976)
* Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
* Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980)
* The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980; Coyote only)

* v
* t
* e

Chuck Jones

Short subjects|

| 1930s|

* The Night Watchman (1938)
* Dog Gone Modern (1939)
* Robin Hood Makes Good (1939)
* Prest-O Change-O (1939)
* Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939)
* Naughty but Mice (1939)
* Old Glory (1939)
* Snowman's Land (1939)
* Little Brother Rat (1939)
* The Little Lion Hunter (1939)
* The Good Egg (1939)
* Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939)
* The Curious Puppy (1939)

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1940s|

* Mighty Hunters (1940)
* Elmer's Candid Camera (1940)
* Sniffles Takes a Trip (1940)
* Tom Thumb in Trouble (1940)
* The Egg Collector (1940)
* Ghost Wanted (1940)
* Stage Fright (1940)
* Good Night Elmer (1940)
* Bedtime for Sniffles (1940)
* Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941)
* Sniffles Bells the Cat (1941)
* Joe Glow, the Firefly (1941)
* Porky's Ant (1941)
* Toy Trouble (1941)
* Porky's Prize Pony (1941)
* Inki and the Lion (1941)
* Snow Time for Comedy (1941)
* The Brave Little Bat (1941)
* Saddle Silly (1941)
* Porky's Midnight Matinee (1941)
* The Bird Came C.O.D. (1942)
* Porky's Cafe (1942)
* Conrad the Sailor (1942)
* Dog Tired (1942)
* The Draft Horse (1942)
* Hold the Lion, Please (1942)
* The Squawkin' Hawk (1942)
* Fox Pop (1942)
* The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942)
* My Favorite Duck (1942)
* Case of the Missing Hare (1942)
* To Duck or Not to Duck (1943)
* Flop Goes the Weasel (1943)
* Super-Rabbit (1943)
* The Unbearable Bear (1943)
* The Aristo-Cat (1943)
* Coming!! Snafu (1943)
* Wackiki Wabbit (1943)
* Spies (1943)
* The Infantry Blues (1943)
* Fin'n Catty (1943)
* Inki and the Minah Bird (1943)
* Point Rationing of Foods (1943)
* Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
* Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944)
* Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike (1944)
* The Weakly Reporter (1944)
* A Lecture on Camouflage (1944)
* Going Home (1944, unreleased)
* Gas (1944)
* Angel Puss (1944)
* Outpost (1944)
* From Hand to Mouse (1944)
* Lost and Foundling (1944)
* Hell-Bent for Election (1944)
* Odor-able Kitty (1945)
* Private Snafu in The Aleutians—Isles of Enchantment (Oh Brother!) (1945)
* Trap Happy Porky (1945)
* It's Murder She Says (1945)
* Hare Conditioned (1945)
* Fresh Airedale (1945)
* No Buddy Atoll (1945)
* Hare Tonic (1945)
* Secrets of the Caribbean (1945)
* Quentin Quail (1946)
* Hush My Mouse (1946)
* Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
* Fair and Worm-er (1946)
* Roughly Squeaking (1946)
* Scent-imental Over You (1947)
* Inki at the Circus (1947)
* A Pest in the House (1947)
* House Hunting Mice (1947)
* Little Orphan Airedale (1947)
* A Feather in His Hare (1948)
* What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948)
* Rabbit Punch (1948)
* Haredevil Hare (1948)
* You Were Never Duckier (1948)
* Daffy Dilly (1948)
* My Bunny Lies over the Sea (1948)
* Scaredy Cat (1948)
* So Much for So Little (1949)
* Awful Orphan (1949)
* Mississippi Hare (1949)
* Mouse Wreckers (1949)
* The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949)
* Long-Haired Hare (1949)
* Often an Orphan (1949)
* Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
* Frigid Hare (1949)
* For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)
* Bear Feat (1949)
* Rabbit Hood (1949)

1950s|

* The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
* The Ducksters (1950)
* Dog Gone South (1950)
* 8 Ball Bunny (1950)
* The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (1950)
* Homeless Hare (1950)
* Caveman Inki (1950)
* Rabbit of Seville (1950)
* Two's A Crowd (1950)
* Bunny Hugged (1951)
* Scent-imental Romeo (1951)
* A Hound for Trouble (1951)
* Rabbit Fire (1951)
* Chow Hound (1951)
* The Wearing of the Grin (1951)
* Cheese Chasers (1951)
* A Bear for Punishment (1951)
* Drip-Along Daffy (1951)
* Operation: Rabbit (1952)
* Feed the Kitty (1952)
* Little Beau Pepé (1952)
* Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
* Beep, Beep (1952)
* The Hasty Hare (1952)
* Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)
* Mouse-Warming (1952)
* Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
* Terrier Stricken (1952)
* Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952)
* Don't Give Up the Sheep (1953)
* Forward March Hare (1953)
* Kiss Me Cat (1953)
* Duck Amuck (1953)
* Much Ado About Nutting (1953)
* Wild Over You (1953)
* Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
* Bully for Bugs (1953)
* Zipping Along (1953)
* Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953)
* Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)
* Punch Trunk (1953)
* Feline Frame-Up (1954)
* No Barking (1954)
* The Cat's Bah (1954)
* Claws for Alarm (1954)
* Bewitched Bunny (1954)
* Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954)
* From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1954)
* My Little Duckaroo (1954)
* Sheep Ahoy (1954)
* Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)
* Beanstalk Bunny (1955)
* Ready, Set, Zoom! (1955)
* Past Perfumance (1955)
* Rabbit Rampage (1955)
* Double or Mutton (1955)
* Jumpin' Jupiter (1955)
* Knight-mare Hare (1955)
* Two Scent's Worth (1955)
* Guided Muscle (1955)
* One Froggy Evening (1955)
* 90 Day Wondering (1956)
* Bugs' Bonnets (1956)
* Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
* Rocket Squad (1956)
* Heaven Scent (1956)
* Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
* Barbary Coast Bunny (1956)
* Rocket-Bye Baby (1956)
* Deduce, You Say! (1956)
* There They Go-Go-Go! (1956)
* To Hare Is Human (1956)
* Scrambled Aches (1957)
* Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
* Go Fly a Kit (1957)
* Boyhood Daze (1957)
* Steal Wool (1957)
* What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
* Zoom and Bored (1957)
* Touché and Go (1957)
* Drafty, Isn't It? (1957)
* Robin Hood Daffy (1958)
* Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)
* Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958)
* To Itch His Own (1958)
* Hook, Line and Stinker (1958)
* Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958)
* Cat Feud (1958)
* Baton Bunny (1959)
* Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959)
* Wild About Hurry (1959)

1960s|

* Fastest with the Mostest (1960)
* Who Scent You? (1960)
* Rabbit's Feat (1960)
* Ready, Woolen and Able (1960)
* Hopalong Casualty (1960)
* High Note (1960)
* Zip 'N Snort (1961)
* The Mouse on 57th Street (1961)
* The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961)
* Lickety-Splat (1961)
* A Scent of the Matterhorn (1961)
* Compressed Hare (1961)
* Beep Prepared (1961)
* Nelly's Folly (1961)
* A Sheep in the Deep (1962)
* Zoom at the Top (1962)
* Louvre Come Back to Me! (1962)
* Martian Through Georgia (1962)
* I Was a Teenage Thumb (1963)
* Now Hear This (1963)
* Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)
* Mad as a Mars Hare (1963)
* Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
* To Beep or Not to Beep (1963)
* Tom and Jerry (cartoon shorts, 1963–1967)
* War and Pieces (1964)
* Zip Zip Hooray! (1965)
* Road Runner a Go-Go (1965)
* The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
* The Bear That Wasn't (1967)

1980s|

* Spaced Out Bunny (1980)
* Soup or Sonic (1980)

1990s|

* Chariots of Fur (1994)
* Another Froggy Evening (1995)
* Superior Duck (1996)
* Pullet Surprise (1997)
* From Hare to Eternity (1997)
* Father of the Bird (1997)

Television
specials|

* How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
* The Pogo Special Birthday Special (1969)
* Horton Hears a Who! (1970)
* The Cat in the Hat (1971)
* The Cricket in Times Square (1973)
* A Very Merry Cricket (1973)
* Yankee Doodle Cricket (1975)
* The White Seal (1975)
* Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)
* Mowgli's Brothers (1976)
* Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (1976)
* Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court (1978)
* Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper (1978)
* Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979)
* Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
* Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980)
* Daffy Duck’s Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
* A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)
* Peter and the Wolf (1995)

Feature films|

* Adventures of the Road Runner (1962)
* Gay Purr-ee (1962, screenplay)
* The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, animation consultant)
* Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, animation sequences)
* Stay Tuned (1992, animation sequence)
* Mrs. Doubtfire (1993, animation supervisor)

Television series|

* The Bugs Bunny Show (1960–1962, new animated sequences)
* Off to See the Wizard (1967–1968, animated sequences)
* Curiosity Shop (1971–1972)

Books|

* Daffy Duck for President (1997)

Characters|

* Bugs Bunny
* Charlie Dog
* Claude Cat
* Daffy Duck
* Elmer Fudd
* Gossamer
* Henery Hawk
* Hubie and Bertie
* Marc Antony and Pussyfoot
* Marvin the Martian
* Michigan J. Frog
* Nasty Canasta
* Penelope Pussycat
* Pepé Le Pew
* Porky Pig
* Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
* Sniffles
* The Three Bears
* Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
* Witch Hazel

Other works|

* Chuck Amuck: The Movie
* Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens – A Life in Animation

Related|

* Hare-abian Nights (1959)
* Really Scent (1959)
* A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959)
* The Iceman Ducketh (1964)

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