Chuck Jones wrote the rules for a crazy new world in 1948. These rules have successfully guided the Road Runner & the Coyote for the past 76 years:

RULE 1:
The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “BEEP-BEEP!”

RULE 2:
No outside force can harm the coyote – only his own ineptitude of the failure of the ACME products.

RULE 3:
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.” – George Santayana)

RULE 4:
No dialogue ever, except “BEEP-BEEP!” 

RULE 5:
The Road Runner must stay on the road – Otherwise, logically, he would not be called Road Runner.

RULE 6:
All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters – the Southwest American desert.

RULE 7:
All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the ACME corporation.

RULE 8:
Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy.

RULE 9:
The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.