The Fables in Flicks

About the carrot-eating Bunny, the kinetic Road Runner and coy Tweety-bird, remember that their enemies, not themselves, were doomed, time and again, over and over. Even if Elmer Fudd’s rifle was raised and exploded, he never had a chance (and the rabbit outrageously knew it), nor did Wile E. Coyote (and the Road Runner smilingly knew it), nor did Sylvester the Cat (and the canary gleefully knew it). Life was directly reversed in the cartoons, where the little and weak were constant winners, always with a smirk on their faces: the know-it-all infallible rabbit, the wise guy whirligig Road Runner, the smart-aleck superior canary. After a while, if their enemies weren’t also so sure of themselves, we would have wanted all three taken down.
           
Moral: It isn’t all that charming being smug or snide, even if you’ve got the writers on your side.