WHYFOR YOU BURY ME IN COLD COLD GROUND?
Over at Tim Blair, there's a hilarious discussion of cartoons. The classics. Often a tongue in cheek high brow analysis of the same (look for the argument about old, individualist cartoons versus new collectivist ones). Lileks sparked the conversation

Who is the Road Runner, anyway? An idiot bird blessed with speed, he personifies not ingenuity but luck. You can’t tell me that he somehow figured out how to avoid triggering the Coyote’s various traps. If anything, he didn’t set them off because he was light and / or fast, and I concede that the Coyote should have taken those things into consideration. But. But. We’re talking about a dog here, a canine capable of constructing explosive devices one day, pantomiming elaborate deceptions the next, to say nothing of operating – however inexpertly – complex machinery. If he’d been up against something stupid and slow, he would have been fat and happy.

And here's one of my favorite posts among Tim Blair's commenters on pursuits of one Wile E. Coyote, Genius.

Wile E. Coyote is a mythic fusion of Sisyphus and Tantalus. He is doomed to labor eternally at a task that he can never complete, tormented all the while by the presence of the sustenance he craves (the Road Runner) just outside his reach, but close enough to see, hear, and even smell. He is continually subjected to agonizing pain and massively crippling injuries, but he can never die; instead, he heals instantaneously and is forced to continue his hopeless efforts.
In short, Wile E. Coyote is in Hell -- a Hell as cruel and sadistic as anything that Dante envisioned. Is it any wonder that the students at Tim's party were traumatized by being forced to watch video footage of the Coyote's unending torment? Who wouldn't beg for it to stop?

Go over there and read, but first, let me go on record.

Looney Toons - Genius.
Disney Toons (Mickey, Goofey, Donald, etc.) - Sucks.
Scooby Doo - Sucks. Scrappy Doo - Double suckage.
Tom and Jerry - Fine.
Most every 80s cartoon - Suck.