Sugar and Spies


Sugar and Spies is a 1966 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon. The short was released on November 5, 1966, and stars Wile E. Coyote and [the Road Runner]. It is the second of two Road Runner shorts directed by Robert McKimson and the only one to feature music by Walter Greene. It is also the final appearances of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote during the Golden age of American animation.
The title of the cartoon is a play on the term "sugar and spice".

Summary

During one of his many chases with the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote is hit with a briefcase, thrown from an enemy agent's car that is evading the police. The briefcase is actually a spy kit containing several gadgets, along with a black coat and spy hat that Wile E. wears throughout the cartoon. The gadgets Wile E. attempts to use on the Road Runner, include:
  1. Sleeping gas: Road Runner dodges the gas and blows it back at Wile E., who sleepwalks off a cliff.
  2. Do-it-yourself time bomb that Wile E. mails to the Road Runner, but is returned to the Coyote by Road Runner for insufficient postage. As Wile E. takes the package back into his cave for an extra stamp... BOOM!!!
  3. Explosive putty which is applied under a huge boulder with a mound of bird seed placed nearby. Wile E. hides behind another boulder further away and lights the fuse, only to be crushed by the launched boulder.
  4. Model T jalopy Spy car equipped with machine guns, ejection seat and cannon: The bullets from the machine guns ricochet off a boulder and blow away the car top, the Coyote ejects himself from the car while suspended upside down and the force from the cannon sends the car backwards, running over the Coyote who then fails to dodge the cannonball.
  5. Remote control flying bombs: Wile E. tests the first bomb on a cactus, then sets the remote control for the next bomb to follow Road Runner, who hides under the Coyote's stool and escapes in time for Wile E. to take the explosion. When the smoke clears, the dazed Coyote has the bomb's wings attached to his arms, prompting the Road Runner to set the remote control for the Moon. As Wile E. is sent flying away, the Road Runner triumphantly beeps and runs off the screen, leaving a trail of smoke that spells out the words "The End".