Trivia

Here are some fun little extra bits that didn't fit in naturally on any other page in this shrine, but that I still wanted to share anyway.

Early character sheets refer to him as "Don Coyote," a play on the literary character of Don Quixote, an otherwise intelligent and learned man who chases imagined goals and adventures fueled by his obsession with knights and a chivalric code of conduct which has rotted his brain.

Despite being known as a silent character, the Coyote has had a multitude of different voice actors over the years. This includes Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, James Arnold Taylor, JP Karliak, Eric Bauza, and Kevin Michael Richardson.
- My favorite voice of his is actually from a Robot Chicken Sketch (gasp shock horror!) where he is voiced by Martin Starr of all people. (Flash warning for 1:28 in the video)
The pronounciation and "correct" form seems to be a point of contention. Mel Blanc himself inconsistently pronounces Coyote (sometimes pronouncing it "coyo-tAY"). On other occasions, his first name and middle initial are smushed together to be pronounced as "wily." I have come to the conclusion that this is a choice made because to just call him "Wile" feels a bit clumsy and awkward (unless you're me and are desensitized).
- This can be seen in Little Go Beep in which his father calls him "Wily" as though it is all one name.
- In Tiny Toons Looniversity Dean Granny also calls him "Wily" while scolding him.
- It's also, strangely, present in the file name for a wallpaper from the old Looney Tunes: Back in Action website, which I only mention because of how odd it is to see his name written "Wylie" like "Kylie."

Screnshot that shows Wile E. Coyote's name spelled incorrectly in the file as was downloaded straight from the official site.

Wile E. Coyote’s middle name is “Ethelbert,” a fact which was accidentally canonised by comic writer Mark Evanier in the 1970s as part of the Gold Key comic series “Beep-Beep the Road Runner”.
- He would later state on his blog in 2015 “I never imagined anyone would take it as part of the official "canon" of the character. If I had, I'd have said the "E" stood for Evanier.”

Coyote and Road Runner were illustrated as the star sign Sagittarius for a series of vending machine stickers in the early 2000s. Another vending machine set of Baby Looney Tunes keychains has the Coyote as Capricorn and the Road Runner as Scorpio.
- This is despite their shared birthday of September 17th (the release date for the very first Coyote/Road Runner cartoon), which would make them both Virgos
Chuck Jones' memoir Chuck Amuck has a list of rules allegedly followed by Jones and his animation teams when writing Coyote/Road Runner cartoons. On the other hand, co-creator Michael Maltese gone on the record stating that these so-called "rules" were never seen by him and his teams.
- This has not stopped the circulation of "The Rules" page from Chuck Amuck to circulate ad infinitum.
The correct taxonomic names for the coyote and road runner are "canis latrans" (barking dog) and "geococcyx californianus" (Californian cuckoo)
- The only short in which their actual binomial names were used is in Whizzard of Ow from 2003
- I feel like I should point out the irony in the fact that Coyote is famously mute, yet actual coyotes are incredibly loud animals known for their range and volume of vocalizations.

According to a Subway promotion going into the year 2000, the Coyote and the Road Runner share a favorite cookie (oatmeal raisin)

Another Looney Tunes character, Ralph Wolf, was created from the same model sheet as Wile E. Coyote. Despite their visual similarities, the two differ in their prey drive: The Coyote is a fanatic meanwhile Ralph is simply doing his job. Ralph is paired with Sam Sheepdog in these cartoons, and both Ralph and Sam were given their original voices by Mel Blanc.
- Sam Sheepdog is often depicted alone in larger projects, as so Ralph is not confused for Coyote by a more casual viewer.
A season 8 episode of the CW show Supernatural pays homage to the types of gags in Road Runner cartoons, including the fake taxonomic names, anvils, people being crushed by large falling objects, and talking animals.
- "Castiel tells Sam and Dean that he's decided to become a hunter like them. Sam and Dean aren't sold on the idea but agree to investigate a case Cas found where a man's heart literally burst through his chest. The guys discover there has been more than one odd murder in the small town and all of them resemble cartoon deaths." — Rahul Semwal