Laws and rules

• The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going 'Beep-Beep!'
• No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products.
• The Coyote could stop anytime — if he were not a fanatic. ('A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.')
• No dialogue ever, except 'Beep-Beep!'
• The Road Runner must stay on the road — otherwise, logically, he would not be called a Road Runner.
• All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters — the southwest American desert.
• All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences, must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.
• Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote's greatest enemy.
• The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.