Sugar and Spies | |
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Looney Tunes (Road Runner) series | |
Directed by | Robert McKimson |
Produced by |
David H. DePatie Friz Freleng |
Story by | Tom Dagenais |
Music by | Walter Greene |
Animation by |
Bob Matz Manny Perez Warren Batchelder Dale Case Ted Bonnicksen |
Layouts by | Dick Ung |
Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
Studio | DePatie-Freleng Enterprises |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date(s) | November 5, 1966 (USA premiere) |
Running time | 6 minutes |
Language | English |
Preceded by | Swing Ding Amigo |
Followed by | A Taste of Catnip |
Sugar and Spies is a 1966 Road Runner cartoon. 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 appearance of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote in the original theatrical Looney Tunes shorts.
The title of the cartoon is a play on the term "sugar and spice".
During one of his many chases with the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote is hit with a briefcase, thrown from a crook'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 on the Road Runner (which all result in failure as usual), include:
This cartoon was included in the Supergenius Hijinks DVD.