Cartoon Network - The Big Game XXVIII Pregame (Roadrunner vs. Coyote)

From 2000, a special presentation of Cartoon Network Sports. This is the Slate Rock and Quarry Pregame Show for The Big Game XXVIII: Roadrunner vs. Coyote. Announcer Harry Kalas runs down the list of topic to be discussed, then we go into the majestic open. Then it's to the studio, where Len Dawson, Nick Buoniconti, Cris Collinsworth and Jerry Glanville are our studio analysts and break down how the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote got to where they are today. Thus begins the two to three hours of intense coverage of the Big Game.

As you've probably guessed by now, this is completely fake - essentially classic Roadrunner cartoons edited together, with dubbed-over football sound effects and commentary. It is also a ridiculously brilliant, perfect satire of TV sports broadcasting in general and the Super Bowl in particular, complete with over the top graphics and music, fake event commercials, and "expert" commentary (here provided by no less than Pat Summerall and John Madden). The whole thing was produced not by Williams Street, but Cartoon Network's promo department and, in my mind, is the best example of the quality of the work they were churning out at the time.

There were four of these events - Tom vs. Jerry (1998), Sylvester vs. Tweety (1999), this one (2000), and Bugs vs. Daffy (2001). Tom vs. Jerry was simply little more than the game itself, supplemented with a "game film" marathon beforehand. Sylvester vs. Tweety built upon this, adding a pregame show interspersed with the old cartoons, an ersatz halftime show and fake commercials. Bugs vs. Daffy - which aired the year after this - used the Sylvester vs. Tweety format but was scaled back from this one. That was the last one; in lieu of a 2002 Big Game the promo department decided to spoof an award show instead, with the "Fancy Anvils" (which I do not have on tape).

The 2000 edition, Roadrunner vs. Coyote, is by far the most elaborate. The total run time of this was four hours - encompassing a brilliant "Look Back" retrospective on the history of the Big Game (which I will probably post), the old cartoons, an uninterrupted pregame show, the game itself, and the Spacely Sprokets Halftime Show Spectacular. EVERYTHING that characterizes a modern Super Bowl telecast is here - from the endless pregame show to the overhyped halftime show to the over the top graphics - it is all here.

I'm going to post the most brilliant bits from the Big Game XXVIII so stay tuned...

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Big
• Game
• XXVIII

[ChristianKidsShowFan]

Once they stopped doing these, I think that marked the BEGINNING of the end for the golden age of Cartoon Network. I have the Tom & Jerry, Sylvester & Tweety and Bugs & Daffy ones on tape, and may upload parts of them on my Market42Fan channel.

[ThePhantasm90]

somebody upload all the CN big game specials in their entirety i beg you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sonicandlaytonfan]

Fellow youtube users I issue a challenge

Since it is only 6 days till the actual super bowl lets try to get any or even all the big games posted on youtube before or during the actual game.

Thumbs up if you either accept or agree to this challenge

(PS I dont actually have any of the big games so dont ask me to upload them. Sorry)

[EMaster2006]

You're awesome! I could still remenber the opening of the pre-game show of this special and that was 12 years ago! these Super Bowl spoof specials were one of the best things to air on CN right next to the WW2 special of Toon Heads.

[ukhistorian]

@TaraGothGirl Suprised nothing, I was shocked.

[KivaMarieTurbo1]

@ukhistorian do you know where I can find the link to Big Game 29 bugs vs daffy on megavideo

[naganofan1]

we had high hopes

[chib1]

I remember watching this one with my grandma while she was at the hospital. Good times :) I think when they stopped making these was when the decline of the network really started. The era of good programing really ended officially when Jim Samples resigned after the '07 Boston bomb scare with the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. RIP Old Cartoon Network. I'll miss you.

[ukhistorian]

@KivaMarieTurbo1 Send me link? 

[KivaMarieTurbo1]

@ThePhantasm90 Big Game 29 is at mega video

[thedude19766]

RIP Harry Kalas

[crazypackersfan]

I love this theme song, I wish I could find a clean version of it somewhere. These were awesome! (I'm still upset I wasn't allowed to stay up late enough to watch the Tom vs. Jerry one.)