What does roadrunner say

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Performance Performance. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. Analytics Analytics. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. I say "Meep Meep. Is there any official source that answers this age old question? I will admit that when I was younger but not anywhere near as young as you would think I played the road runner in a kids play.

I said "Mee beep" because that is what it always sounded like to me. Might be dialect differences of course There's an episode called "To Beep or Not to Beep". Wikipedia also says: In Soup or Sonic, the "beep, beep" of the Road Runner is also given the pseudo-Latin name beepus-beepus.

There was a Roadrunner cartoon entitled Beep, Beep. I can't site it, but I'm pretty sure there was also a cartoon where he held up one of those cartoon signs that said "meep meep".

He might be saying "beep beep", but he pronounces it "meep meep. Response by poster: gjc, thank you! I'm overwhelmed by the beep beep answers. I know that he's beeping, but the words that come out sound like meep to me! I'd want to be with you, yellowbinder, but at of this clip , the caption is pretty definitive. My ears hear 'meep meep', regardless of captions and titles.

Maybe it depends if you're looking when he says it. M and B are both bilabial sounds eponysterical, I know!

So, in some places that don't use the M or the B in particular situations I am toooooo tired to do any real looking around for this one may replace the other without sounding "wrong. I totally hear "meep meep". No two ways about it. I'm certainly hearing a meep meep there. It would be interesting to play it to someone who had not read this nor the caption on the clip.

Even better would be to play it for someone who hadn't seen Road Runner before. What if we got something like Dragon Voice to take dictation from it and see what it said? Failing that, does anyone have any relatives of Mel Blanc or Chuck Jones in their rolodex? Not that unattributed Wikipedia is exactly the height of reliability, but: Although commonly quoted as "meep meep", Warner Brothers, the current owner of all trademarks relating to the duo, lists "beep, beep" as the Road Runner's sound.

When the "meep" people and the "beep" people begin slaughtering each other, I'll have to make my stand with the meep-ers - regardless of what the world's largest media conglomerate by market capitalization has to say about it. Beese agrees with me. I knew I married her for a reason. I'm with the meepers too, even though all the logical evidence I find says beep. Meepers are romantic fools. Meep Meep. My best friend's younger cousins didn't know that he was called Road Runner, and they always referred to him as "The Meep Meep.

Rokusan's YT clip puts it beyond dispute. It's there in black and white, meep-ists. There is no discussion, it's a matter of being correct or being in error. You might as well argue that salvation can only be attained through faith alone. Asked 5 months ago. Active 5 months ago.

Viewed 12k times. Improve this question. Here's a bit of history. He doesn't he says: "Meep meep". Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. As explained on Wikipedia : Chuck Jones, the creator of the Road Runner, has stated that this sound, the only way the Road Runner can harm the Coyote, was inspired by hearing a Doppler-like effect as background artist Paul Julian imitated a car horn when he could not see where he was going.

The source for this claim is a DVD commentary, in which Michael Barrier says: Actually the title is somewhat of a misnomer; the actual 'beep beep' sound you just heard the Road Runner make was made by a background painter named Paul Julian, who used to make it in the hallways at Warner Brothers when he was carrying a large painting along, so people would get out of his way.

Improve this answer. Also, it's a cost savings reason - per the Simpsons , they also only had to pay the voice actor once, for a single "beep". I always thought it was pretty obviously supposed to be like an old fashioned car or bicycle horn. Road Runner is essentially saying "Get out of the way! The story makes sense. For a few years I worked in a large engineering facility in a cube next to a main thoroughfare where mail carts would daily go by beeping a repeating tone to warn pedestrians from walking out in front of them.

After a while, I got to where I could mimic the sound, and I will now semi-reflexively make it myself if I have to cart something large around. FYI, the automatic beeps for trucks in reverse is a relatively recent addition. I have a friend who lost his father in the late 70's when he was run over by a backing up garbage truck before the warnings.