2015 $30 2oz Fine Silver Coin Looney Tunes Classic Scenes: Fast and Furry-ous

• Country:Canada
• Collection:Silver Commemorative $30
• Metal:Silver
• Year:2015
• Denomination:$30
• Finish:Proof
• Weight (oz):2.015
• Purity:0.9999
• Mintage:4877
• Product type:Coin

They've become a pop culture reference: an antagonist that tries repeatedly to capture the protagonist, but fails spectacularly. In the minds of generationsof fans, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner are foreverlocked in an endless chase-one in which the luckless Wile E. creates elaborate schemes to capture the speeding bird as it zooms by without much sense of the danger it could have been in. It all started with the Looney Tunes cartoon titled Fast and Furry-ous, which is depicted on the coin's reverse.

Released on September 17, 1949, Fast and Furry-ous marked the first ever appearance of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. The animated short began as a parody ofthe "cat-and-mouse" chase capers that were so predominant at the time, but it quickly evolved into one of the most renowned chases of all time. Yet all the classic gags are featured from the start; except for the famous dropped anvil, Fast and Furry-ous featured a fall off a cliff, a misfiring rocket, a painted tunnel that miraculously allows the prey to pass through but stops the pursuer cold, and even a scene where one character runs into an obstacle head-on-as was about to occur in the image featured on the coin's reverse.

In all Coyote/Road Runner cartoons, the storylines generally stick to these concepts: there is no dialogue, save for the expression of pain and Road Runner's iconic "beep, beep" vocalization; Coyote could only be harmed by his own failings or that of the various ACME products he'd resort to, and his humiliation was always greater than the pain. Although there were a few exceptions, Road Runner always travelled along a road.

A wonderful collectible for those with a passion for animation and its history. Order today!