Act I: The scene opens on a beautiful western landscape. A coyote tries with all his strength to jerk a sign out of the ground. The sign says, "Welcome to Westlake."
Bugs Bradley, a rabbit, strolls over. Munching a carrot, he asks, "Eh, what's up, doc?"
"Allow me to introduce myself," the coyote says. "My name is Wile E. Perote, and I own most of the land around here.
"Let's get down to business. You are a rabbit, and I am going to eat you for supper. Now don't try to get away. I'm more muscular, more cunning, faster and larger than you are. And I never lose."
Bugs Bradley looks bored, but he wears a slight smile on his face as he asks, "Is that so?"
As Bugs Bradley walks away, Wile E. Perote asks himself, "Why do they always want to do things the hard way?"
Act II
Wile E. Perote stands over a large box marked "Acme Land Disannexation Device." He sets up dynamite sticks around Westlake's borders and hides atop a big rock mountain, waiting for the rabbit.
Bugs Bradley sneaks in below Wile E. Perote. The rabbit removes the planted explosives and sets them up on the perimeter of the big rock mountain. Bugs Bradley then steps back and catches the gaze of Wile E. Perote.
"Eh, what's up, doc?" he asks.
Wile E. Perote answers by pushing hard on the detonator marked "TNT." The shock of the explosion crumples the rock mountain, sending Wile E. Perote hurtling high into the air.
Wile E. Perote falls from the sky into a large canyon. As he hits rock bottom, a large puff of white smoke wafts upward.
Act III
Wile E. Perote has pulled a large cannon out of a box marked "Acme Superlawyers." He is muttering under his breath about appeals courts, judges and "teaching that blasted rabbit a lesson he'll never forget."
Wile E. Perote lights the cannon and waits.
Unbeknownst to Wile E. Perote, Bugs Bradley has stuffed the cannon's front end with carrots. The cannonball is forced out the rear, where it sends Wile E. Perote flying backward toward Dallas.
Act IV
Wile E. Perote ties an anvil on a rope to a rocky overhang, scheming to drop the anvil on Bugs Bradley.
In the distance, a loud sound pierces the airy landscape.
BEEP! BEEP!
Roadrunner, decked out in a Fidelity Investments blazer, whizzes past Wile E. Perote, who instantly stops thinking about his struggle to capture the rabbit.
BEEP! BEEP!
Wile E. Perote sets the anvil aside and visits Bugs Bradley.
"Eh, what's up, doc?" Bugs Bradley asks.
Wile E. Perote tells him that he has decided that Roadrunner would make a better supper than rabbit stew.
"Let's bury the hatchet and catch this bird," Wile E. Perote suggests.
Bugs Bradley doesn't trust Wile E. Perote, but together they run off in pursuit of Roadrunner.
Wile E. Perote, always hungry for more, is thinking about his next meal. Bugs Bradley, happy that he might no longer be pursued by the coyote, goes along to see what he can catch.
Roadrunner is so fast, however, that there's no guarantee that the coyote and the rabbit will ever capture him.
BEEP! BEEP!
Fade-out
That's not all, folks!