Going! Going! Gosh! (1952) User Reviews

Poor Wile E. Coyote; At Least He Never Gives Up

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 14 April 2007]

It's amazing the number of ploys that Wile E. Coyote tries - and has backfire - in just a s six- and-a-half half minute cartoon. The beating the poor guy takes each time is unbelievable, but have you seen a more determined character in a cartoon? One that doesn't let defeat discourage him? I'd like to see him win, just one time.

In this cartoon, he gets blasted by not just one, but two big trucks, along with an assortment of other things including the ever-present anvil.

For some reason, I laughed loudest at the quick-drying cement routine.

This cartoon is part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2, and can be seen on disc 2.

Has the invigorating feel of a series coming to life

[phantom_tollbooth · 8/10 · 1 October 2008]

Chuck Jones's 'Going! Going! Gosh!', the third cartoon in the Road Runner series, has the invigorating feel of a series coming to life. 'Fast and Furry-ous' established the characters and 'Beep Beep' experimented with different forms and lengths of joke but 'Going! Going! Gosh!' feels like the first classic Road Runner. The quality of gags has risen significantly in this outing and the animation is also a cut above. There are a couple of reused gags even at this early stage but the sheer vivaciousness of the animation and direction breathe new life into them. This may be my favourite example of the oft used logic-defying painted landscape gag, for instance. This is Road Runner as it is most fondly remembered: quick fire, fast paced and very funny, even when you can see the punch line coming a mile away. 'Going! Going! Gosh!' provides an equal amount of gags where you go "I knew that was going to happen" and ones where you go "Oh, I didn't see that coming". It keeps the viewer on their toes, ensuring there's never a chance to get bored. It's the thrilling moment that the Road Runner series really found its feet.

Fun enough, if not entirely exceptional

[TheLittleSongbird · 8/10 · 22 June 2010]

This is not the best Roadrunner vs. Coyote cartoon, but it is not the worst as there is fun to be had. The ending is not the best there is I admit, but there is enough to enjoy. Also while there are one or two predictable gags, there are some that do completely take you by surprise. The animation quality is colourful and crisp, the music doesn't fall into the danger of being repetitive and annoying, the pacing is fine and Coyote is once again devious and cunning.

Overall, it isn't a masterpiece of a cartoon, but it works well enough and has enough interest to maintain possible re watches.

8/10 Bethany Cox

Give up, Wile E.!

[slymusic · 26 May 2009]

"Going! Going! Gosh!" is another fine Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Lots of luck, Coyote! You're gonna need it.

My favorite sequence in this cartoon occurs at the very end of a high mountain road, where the Coyote paints a picture on a huge canvas to make it appear as if the road still continues. But, as is always the case, the Road Runner runs right through the painting. Then a big truck emerges from the painting and runs over the frustrated Coyote, who then tries to run through the painting and falls off a cliff. The smoke trails from his fall form the words "OH, NO!" I also like how the Coyote disguises himself as a lady hitchhiking while the song "Carry Me Back to Old Virginy" plays in the background. Of course, the Road Runner merely runs him over and snatches his wig.

Contemporary cartoonist Matt Groening ("The Simpsons", "Futurama") had the right idea about the background desert paintings in these Road Runner cartoons: They look so great that you'd want to be there!

Again, entertaining enough

[rbverhoef · 6/10 · 26 April 2004]

This Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote cartoon is another decent entry in the series. The Coyote, or the Carnivorous Vulgaris, chases the Road Runner, introduced as Accelarti Incredibius, again. This time he paints a road where the real road is ending. Of course the Road Runner is able to walk that fake road and after him a truck as well. Coyote also dresses up as a woman and tries to drop an anvil on the Road Runner, of course every attempt without any success.

Another nice cartoon this is, although a Road Runner cartoon can never disappoint me. This is not the best from the series, especially the animation is not that great, but I had my smiles and some laughs.

Carnivorous Vulgaris

[utgard14 · 8/10 · 18 July 2016]

Early Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short, directed by Chuck Jones with a story by Michael Maltese. As you might expect from this series, there isn't much of a plot, just Coyote trying and failing to capture Road Runner over and over. The gags are funny, though. Some of the methods used by Coyote this time include a dynamite arrow misfire, quick-drying cement that isn't quite quick enough, and the old standby "fun with boulders." But the best and my absolute favorite bit from the whole cartoon (and one of my faves from ANY Road Runner cartoon) is when the Coyote dresses up in drag as a female hitchhiker. The animation is beautiful, with well-drawn characters and backgrounds and exciting action scenes. Really love the colors in this, too. Carl Stalling's music is energetic and fits the action perfectly. A fun cartoon that will surely please fans of the series. The gags are great and the animation is creative, which is all you can ask for from a Road Runner and Coyote short.

Roadrunner cartoons never have been more timely . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 17 May 2016]

. . . than in 2016 America. GOING! GOING! GOSH! is just another in a long line of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes animated short tributes to Wile C. Coyote (a.k.a., "Carnivorus Vulgaris," a.k.a. Donald Trump). Just as The Donald always is scheming to order Mexican Walls from Acme Corp. (probably a Trump subsidiary), C.O.D., or to supply Japan, South Korea, and the 117 NATO nations with their own Nukes (from Acme, of course), Mr. Coyote is continually diagramming his plans to Eat Roadrunner Steak Again. True, Wile's blueprints are far more sophisticated than any of the Trial Balloons Trump has tried to pump up to date, but there's a lot to be said for The Donald's K.I.S.S. Principle (that is, the dates with witch he's been pictured on various "Kiss Cams" down through the years). In a few ill-advised later Coyote Cartoons, Wile actually speaks--and he sounds EXACTLY like Mr. Trump. "I am a Genius. My brain is Soooo Huuuuge, because that's the kind of brain that we Geniis have. Even my business card says 'I am a Genius.'" This is a direct quote from one such short. Hopefully, Wile will run this year on the True Blue Conservative Party ticket, so that he can debate The Donald. Then everyone will know what an Echo Chamber sounds like!

Even less than stellar Wile E./Road Runner shorts are still HIGHLY watchable

[movieman_kev · 8/10 · 30 October 2005]

The third pairing of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner is still good and features many gags that work, including the Coyote dressing up as a woman hitch-hiker, a hot-air balloon, and the old paint a road gag. The ending is a tad too much like the ending to the first cartoon, but I can simply watch ANY cartoon with the pairing of these two and be endlessly entertained every single time. It's something that I can't truly explain to anyone who isn't a fan. But those who get it know what I'm talking of. This animated short can be seen on Disc 2 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.

My Grade: A-

they make each other feel like natural women

[lee_eisenberg · 10/10 · 25 November 2006]

Yet another litany of Wile E. Coyote maiming himself while trying to trap Road Runner. One of the funniest gags involves Wile E. dressing up as a woman (sure enough, Road Runner is already ahead of him). Sometimes, I wonder why Wile E. doesn't just give, knowing what always happens to him, but I realize that if that happened, the cartoons couldn't exist.

All in all, "Going! Going! Gosh!" is one of the many classic Looney Tunes cartoons showing why their cartoons from that era really set the standards. They'll always be marvellous, and you can watch them time and again and still laugh. Just great.

Wile E Coyote is in Over His Head

[nlathy-839-300677 · 9/10 · 24 February 2022]

Still this is why he watch. Review of this cartoon from 16 comparing Coyote to Trump hasn't aged well. Rush Limbaugh was right Coyote is like never Trumpers trying to stop Trump. Even out of the White House Trump still commands tremendous support. I feel bad for Coyote getting trapped in manhole with grenade. Yet the futility of his chase parallels with unworkability of Globalism. Great music too.

Coyote

[Michael_Elliott · 2 May 2009]

Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)

*** (out of 4)

Third in the series has the Coyote using all sorts of extremes to try and capture the Road Runner. This time out we get a hot air balloon, a cliff falling and even cross dressing. My one complaint for this series is that the same stuff just keeps happening over and over and perhaps this isn't as noticeable in only the third film but it is something that has kept this duo off my favorites list. Even with that said this is still en enjoyable cartoon that manages to fly by because you just can't help but feel sorry for Wile E. Coyote. No matter how dumb he is or how many times he fails, you can't help but admire him for the effort. The highlight has to be the two scenes where he meets a truck head on.

Going! Going! Great!!

[DaniGirl1969 · 9/10 · 19 August 2010]

The third episode of Chuck Jones' wonderful Road Runner series, this is by far the best of the three, and the one that really made this cartoon something special and unique. Jones and writer Michael Maltese allowed their imaginations to run wild, and the result is lots of fun for everyone. Everyone, of course, except poor Wile E Coyote, who must feel the entire universe is against him! *SPOILER ALERT -- WATCH THE CARTOON FIRST BEFORE READING ANY FURTHER.* He has to contend with the crazy laws of cartoon physics, which allow the Road Runner to speed right into a painting placed at the edge of a deep, deep canyon, while the confused and enraged Coyote can only hurl himself right through it and plummet to the ground far below, leaving a dust cloud spelling out "OH NO!" in his wake. His expressions throughout this scene (and the rest of the cartoon) are priceless. These same goofy laws of physics allow him to outrace an anvil he'd dropped several seconds before to the bottom of yet another canyon -- and we all know where that anvil will land. Carl Stalling's musical score is also the best thus far, especially the flute which sweetly plays as the rope around Wile E's hot-air balloon unravels. My only complaint is the ending is disappointingly similar to the previous two episodes (vehicles just can't seem to resist running him down, can they? -- but this time, we discover why!) Overall, though, a great cartoon, and one of the best in the entire series!

Coyote will never learn!

[ShelbyTMItchell · 10/10 · 30 March 2013]

Coyote needs to buy food with the money he has or finds. Instead of the Acme products that fail to catch the Roadrunner as he does day in and day out.

Plus he will never, ever learn to catch the fast and clever bird. You do have to give him credit for keeping on trying no matter what and for always being at it.

Gags like the cement gag which the Roadrunner goes right on through, and trying to get the Roadrunner a blonde date. By going in drag as they all end up failing him.

Still it is sad and funny at the same time where the Coyote is smart but not that smart in capturing the one thing that will always keep eluding him no matter what...THE ROADRUNNER!