By Word of Mouse

Hans, a mouse from Germany, arrives in America to visit his cousin, Willie. Hans wants to know everything is there to know about the free market capitalist system. Willie takes Hans to see a mouse lecturer from a university, who talks to Hans about the capitalist system. All the while, the three mice are chased by Sylvester.

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When the ship is passing the Statue of Liberty, it is moving roughly west to east (or left to right across the screen) when it should be moving in the opposite direction.
Animator Ted Bonnicksen is credited as Ted Bonnickson.

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This is the only short from the Friz Freleng unit with Ben Washam as an animator.
This is the first short to use the 1954-56 pink color rings.
This is the first of three Looney Tunes shorts underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, followed by "Heir-Conditioned" and "Yankee Dood It".
The department store Stacy's is based on Macy's.
Hans says, "Ich tawt Ich taw ein pussycat," the German translation of Tweety's catchphrase "I tawt I taw a puddy tat".
A truck for "Foster's Eggs" is shown, referencing Warren Foster, the writer of this cartoon. Behind it is a truck for the "Fritz Transfer Co." one of many references to Friz Freleng.
This is the first cartoon Gerry Chiniquy worked on since 1950's "Stooge for a Mouse".

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Sylvester Cartoons
1945	Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946	Kitty Kornered
1947	Tweetie Pie • Crowing Pains • Doggone Cats • Catch as Cats Can
1948	Back Alley Oproar • I Taw a Putty Tat • Hop, Look and Listen • Kit for Cat • Scaredy Cat
1949	Mouse Mazurka • Bad Ol' Putty Tat • Hippety Hopper
1950	Home, Tweet Home • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row • Stooge for a Mouse • Pop 'Im Pop!
1951	Canned Feud • Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Who's Kitten Who? • Gift Wrapped • Little Red Rodent Hood • Ain't She Tweet • Hoppy Go Lucky • A Bird in a Guilty Cage • Tree for Two
1953	Snow Business • A Mouse Divided • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered • Cats A-weigh!
1954	Dog Pounded • Bell Hoppy • Dr. Jerkyl's Hide • Claws for Alarm • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' • By Word of Mouse
1955	Lighthouse Mouse • Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Jumpin' Jupiter • A Kiddies Kitty • Speedy Gonzales • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned • Pappy's Puppy
1956	Too Hop to Handle • Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • The Unexpected Pest • Tugboat Granny • The Slap-Hoppy Mouse • Yankee Dood It
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety • Mouse-Taken Identity • Gonzales' Tamales
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Cat's Paw • Here Today, Gone Tamale • Tweet Dreams
1960	West of the Pesos • Goldimouse and the Three Cats • Hyde and Go Tweet • Mouse and Garden • Trip for Tat
1961	Cannery Woe • Hoppy Daze • Birds of a Father • D' Fightin' Ones • The Rebel Without Claws • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	Fish and Slips • Mexican Boarders • The Jet Cage
1963	Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather • Claws in the Lease
1964	A Message to Gracias • Freudy Cat • Nuts and Volts • Hawaiian Aye Aye • Road to Andalay
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase
1966	A Taste of Catnip
1980	The Yolks on You
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	Father of the Bird
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat