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The Original Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products

The Funny Site of the Day -- For all your Female Road Runner Costume, Disintegrating Pistol, Atom Re-Arranger, Rocket-Powered Roller Skates, Strait-Jacket Ejecting Bazooka, and Giant Rubber Band needs.

"ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ('Buddy's Bug Hunt'/1935) to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence," curator G.P. Markham proudly and rightfully boasts. "For the first time ever, information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services (from 1935 to 1964) are gathered here, in one convenient catalog."

Screen shots from the classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons adorn each entry, complete with annotations designating the films which contain the clever ACME product placements.

And now I must go test my new Jet-Propelled Pogo Stick...

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Pictured: Wile E. Coyote, ACME user. Photo credit: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images.
Sunday August 5, 2007 | comments (2)

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