What if: Wile E Coyote sued the Acme Corporation

[JCAll]

They settle out of court for a generous sum because ACME realizes that Wile E is the natural enemy of a big corporation: a hard luck case that any jury would side with. Especially when the prosecution proves that the faulty merchendise they knowingly and willfully sold him was causing him to slowly starve.

Because in every Roadrunner short, he lives in a barren desert where the only source of food is the Roadrunner (and birdseed, but Wile E is a carnivour and can't survive on birdseed). And their dangerously malfunctioning wares that he bought resulted in him not gaining his food, thus causing him to starve.

Wile E Coyote uses the money to start a chain of highly successful restaurants.

It's ACME Birdseed anyway. Would you eat it?

[Wjowski]

See, he wouldn't be having this problems if he switched to KrebStar products.

[OverMaster]

I clearly remember him using AJAX products a few times. They worked just as bad as the ACME ones.

[Zoochan]

Theres a humor article about this but what do you think would go on if this really happened.

Even if Wile E Coyote did lose his case against Acme he can still try and sue Warner Bros. They are the ones who hired Acme for Wile E Coyote's cartoons.

[Guy Smiley]

He might have some trouble if they find out he was using those ACME products to defy a previous court order:

[big_adventure]

He might have some trouble if they find out he was using those ACME products to defy a previous court order:

Eh, that's all going to depend on the court-of-the-day. Remember, this is the US, where a dude breaking into another person's house tripped on the roof, crashed through the skylight, then proceded to sue the owner for negligence and P&S and win. Where a woman spills coffee into her lap and takes millions off McDonald's because it was too hot.*

* Yes, I know all about the case, I know that they found evidence where McDo specifically upped the coffee temperature to make it last longer in the urns, still, she spilled it on herself.

[Rum Runner]

Didn't a morbidly obese woman also sue McD's because she became morbidly obese after eating McD's every single day?

[The MunchKING]

It's ACME Birdseed anyway. Would you eat it?

Roadrunner does.

[MichaelChen]

He uses the settlement to get quality materials, and then this happens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINi1WV7JP4

[shades of eternity]

is Wile E Coyote the most sympathetic of the loony tune villains?

Usually when there is a reinterpretation, he usually ends up as a hero?

[MichaelChen]

He probably is, simply because he's the most outpowered by his foe. Elmer Fudd occasionally gets a victorious moment even in episodes where he ultimately loses. He even gets to humiliate Buggs on occasion. Of course, it's promptly followed by Buggs going into, "of course you know, this means war" mode and humiliating him tens times as bad, but that doesn't change the fact that Fudd had a little victory there.

But Wile E always looks horrifically outpowered by the speed-demon with reality-warping powers. Whereas other villains look like bullies, Wile E comes across as a regular guy trying to fight Chthulu.

[Jerry W. Loper]

Theres a humor article about this but what do you think would go on if this really happened.

I suspect that Acme Corporation's contraptions actually work - just not for Wile E. Coyote when he tries to use them on the Roadrunner. So if he tried to demonstrate the devices in court, they'd operate perfectly, then it'd be just his word vs. Acme's.

[big_adventure]

I suspect that Acme Corporation's contraptions actually work - just not for Wile E. Coyote when he tries to use them on the Roadrunner. So if he tried to demonstrate the devices in court, they'd operate perfectly, then it'd be just his word vs. Acme's.

With RR going "meep-meep" from the back row of the court as the verdict (against the plaintiff) is handed down.

[HectorP]

There was an episode or sequence about this, I just don't remember where.

Basically it was proven in court that the devices actually work, the Coyote just doesn't use them the way they're meant to.

Edit: clarified up in the thread, God it's 3 years old (older in Internet time).

[shades of eternity]

the thing is also, wiley seems like an industrious type and very polite when he speaks, which is a in stark contrast to his end goal.