First released and shown as a featurette in theaters along with the full-length Warner Bros. live-action film Lad: A Dog.
In 2004, the complete 26-minute short was released as a bonus feature on the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 2" DVD set.
This short was originally produced as a television pilot for an ABC series, The Road Runner Show, which ultimately did not sell, thus was reformatted as a theatrical short.
This was re-edited and split into two separate shorts, Zip Zip Hooray! and Roadrunner a Go-Go. The footage that had since been left on the cutting room floor was unseen for decades until some of this appeared in Cartoon Network's "Toonheads" special Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons. This short had not been seen in its original 26-minute form since its original theatrical release, but has now been released on the DVD collection "Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 2".
Wile E. Coyote has a chart on his wall at home labeled "Genius Chart". Positions 1-4 are occupied by Wile E. Coyote, 5 is Albert Einstein, 6 is Sir Isaac Newton, 7 is Galileo and 8 is Leonardo Da Vinci.