 DATE: Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner and Speedy Gonzalez, who  appear in the toon crowd at the end of the film, did not appear in  any theatrical shorts before 1949, even though  Robert Zemeckis (qv) and Steven Spielberg (qv) insisted that all  of the cartoon characters be chronologically correct for the movies  setting of 1947. These two got into the film because they are in  fact Zemeckis favorite cartoon characters. On the other hand,  theyre not presented as known characters, but merely appear as Toon  Town residents in the finale, which is not inconsistent 