what does ACME when you see it in the cartoons like the roadrunner?

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The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that exists in the Looney Tunes universe. It made its first appearance in a Buddy cartoon (Buddy's Bug Hunt), and it also appeared in the Egghead cartoon Count Me Out in which Egghead purchases a "Learn How To Box" kit from Acme. The Acme Corporation was featured most prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons.

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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.The name is ironic since the word acme actually means the best or pinnacle. Generally, the products from the fictional Acme Corporation are very generic and fail.

The company name is never clearly defined, but one explanation is that it exists as a version of the conglomerate which produces everything and anything imaginable (leading to the backronym "A Company that Makes Everything"), no matter how elaborate or extravagant. Another explanation is simply that the cartoons' creators capitalized on the popular early twentieth century trend of real companies using Acme in their name (to create name recognition, and so that they would appear at the front of the phone book).

In Warner Bros. cartoons, Acme products were most commonly purchased (by mail order) by Wile E. Coyote who ordered many weapons in his failed attempts to catch the Road Runner. They were also commonly seen in Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons. Acme products usually tend to backfire in a comedic fashion; the National Lampoon magazine ran a feature in which a fictitious "lawsuit" against Acme catalogued the repeated failure of Acme products and Coyote's frequent resulting physical injuries (an online version is listed in the external links below).

The Tiny Toons Adventures series expanded on Acme's influence, with the entire setting of the show taking place in a city called "Acme Acres". The show's young protagonists attended "Acme Looniversity." Calamity Coyote often bought products from the fictional Acme company in his quest to catch the road-runner Little Beeper. In one episode, the company revealed its slogan, "For fifty years, the leader in creative mayhem."

In the cartoon Pinky and the Brain, the duo lived in "Acme Labs."

The 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit attempted to explain Acme's inner workings in greater detail. The movie's plot is centered on the murder of Marvin K. Acme, the multi-millionaire founder and CEO of Acme Incorporated. His motto was, "If it's Acme, it's a gasser!" Many of the film's scenes involve Acme products, and much of the film is set in the Acme factory.

In an episode of Animaniacs, Albert Einstein was having trouble coming up with his E=mc² equation, and Yakko, Wakko and Dot came in and wrote the word "ACME" backwards (Wakko wrote the "A" in "ACME", which looked like a "2") and Einstein proceeded to include an "=" between the "M" and the "E", ending up with "E=mc²".

Most recently, the 2003 movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action showed the head offices of Acme, revealed to be a multinational corporation whose executive officers were led by a Bond-esque supervillain called "Mr. Chairman."

At one time, Acme was an in-house brand name used by Sears-Roebuck to sell, among other things, anvils.

Acme is also a brand of supermarkets in the Philadelphia area.

There is also a London-based vendor of computer cases and accessories named Acme Technology.

There is also a Fort Worth based brick company called Acme Brick Company (well known for having three holes running through the bricks, supposedly to give added thermal insulation), now owned by the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.