[2] Wile E. Coyote, apparently famished, wads up a bunch of mud to make a lookalike chicken.

He shovels it in an adobe oven, then once he is done roasting it, he sits down to "eat" it, with less than perfect results (a tooth falls off his mouth in the process).

Its name and mock Binomial nomenclature in Dog Latin appear as Roadrunner (dig-outius tid-bittius).

Wile E. uses his frequent idea: swing from a high place armed with a javelin, looking to spear the Road Runner.

The Coyote stuffs a gun on a spring into a ground compartment and locks it with a safety lock, hoping to shoot his enemy, but due to the excessive spring force, the gun does a 180 and ends up on the opposite side of the Coyote, pointed in his face upside down.

He posts a detour and bridges a crevasse with a ladder that he has sabotaged with a cut in the structure, which will make it collapse if passed over.

The angry Coyote uses his own broken ladder to climb up to the top, with predictably disastrous results.

The final gag in this cartoon involves a pack of rocks from high, ready to fall on the Road Runner when the trap door opens.

But when Wile E. opens the trap door, the rocks remain intact because they're too densely packed.

(Also used in Chariots of Fur) Too late; Wile E. drops the long thin stick and raises a tiny parasol to prepare for the resulting impact of huge rocks, and after the impact, Coyote puts up his stick through the rocks with a white flag making it the flagpole.