11/29/2023 0 Comments Traditional smile now cry later tattoo![]() ![]() In many cartoons, when the mice decide to get Speedy to help them, one mouse will say words to the effect of "Speedy Gonzales is friend of my sister". Speedy has the reputation of being a hit with the female mice. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the "slowest Mouse in all Mexico." Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him-but one cat in Mexicali Shmoes says that as if to compensate for his slowness, "he pack a gun!" In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main rival and second nemesis became Daffy Duck, whom Speedy usually referred to as "the loco duck." Sylvester (often called " El Gringo Pussygato" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of Tabasco hot sauce. Coyote and the Road Runner in his Road Runner cartoons (and indeed, all four characters ended up competing with each other in the short "The Wild Chase"). Today, the earlier spelling is sometimes used.įreleng and McKimson soon set Sylvester up as Speedy's regular nemesis in a series of cartoons, much in the same way Chuck Jones had paired Wile E. ![]() While Speedy's last name was given as Gonzalez in Cat-Tails (on a printed business card shown in the cartoon), it was spelled with an 's' from Speedy Gonzales onward. Speedy Gonzales in the 1955 short film of the same name The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). Amid cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! Yeehaw!" ( Spanish for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although "Ándale arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up"), Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy (voiced by Mel Blanc) to save them. The cartoon features Sylvester the Cat guarding a cheese factory at the international border between the United States and Mexico from starving Mexican mice. It would be two years before Friz Freleng and layout artist Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short of the same name. Speedy's first appearance was in 1953's Cat-Tails for Two though he appeared largely in name (and super speed) only. History An early version of Speedy Gonzales in Cat-Tails for Two To date, there have been 46 theatrical shorts made either starring or featuring the character. He usually wears a yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers (which was a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages), and a red kerchief, similar to that of some traditional Mexican attires. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast, being quick-witted and heroic while speaking with an exaggerated Mexican accent. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Speedy Gonzales (September 17, 1955 67 years ago ( )) (official version) Cat-Tails for Two (August 29, 1953 69 years ago ( )) (preliminary version) ![]()
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