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|name = Cats and Bruises
 
|name = Cats and Bruises
 
|image = Cats_and_Bruises.jpg
 
|image = Cats_and_Bruises.jpg
|Director = [[Friz Freleng]]<br>[[Hawley Pratt]]
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|Director = [[Friz Freleng]] <br>[[Hawley Pratt]]
|producer = [[David H. DePatie]]<br>[[Friz Freleng]]
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|producer = [[David H. DePatie]] <br>[[Friz Freleng]]
 
|airdate = January 30, 1965
 
|airdate = January 30, 1965
 
|series = [[Merrie Melodies]]
 
|series = [[Merrie Melodies]]
 
|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]
 
|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]
|Starring = [[Speedy Gonzales (character)|Speedy Gonzales]]<br>[[Sylvester]]
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|Starring = [[Speedy Gonzales]] <br>[[Sylvester]]
 
|previous = [[It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House]]
 
|previous = [[It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House]]
 
|next = [[Roadrunner a Go-Go]]
 
|next = [[Roadrunner a Go-Go]]
 
|video =
 
|video =
|Writer = [[John W. Dunn]]
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|Writer = [[John W. Dunn|John Dunn]]
|Animators = [[Warren Batchelder]]<br>Lee Halpern<br>Bob Matz<br>[[Norman McCabe|Norm McCabe]]<br>[[Manuel Perez|Manny Perez]]<br>Don Williams
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|Animators = [[Warren Batchelder]] <br>[[Lee Halpern]] <br>[[Bob Matz]] <br>[[Norman McCabe|Norm McCabe]] <br>[[Manuel Perez|Manny Perez]] <br>[[Don Williams]]
|Layout-artist = Dick Ung
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|Layout-artist = [[Dick Ung]]
|Background-artist = Tom O'Loughlin
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|Background-artist = [[Tom O'Loughlin]]
|Sound effects = Lee Gunther
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|Sound effects = [[Lee Gunther]]
 
|Musician = [[William Lava|Bill Lava]]
 
|Musician = [[William Lava|Bill Lava]]
 
}}'''Cats and Bruises''' is a [[1965]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]] and [[Hawley Pratt]].
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[[File:189998 10150128898773926 223597233925 6423251 5523742 n.jpg|thumb|Lobby card]]
 
'''Cats and Bruises''' is a 1965 ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon that stars Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester J. Pussycat.
 
   
==Gallery==
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== Title ==
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The title is a play on the phrase "cuts and bruises".
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== Plot ==
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[[Sylvester]] spies on the Cinco De Mayo festival where [[Speedy Gonzales]] and his friends are dancing and partying. Sylvester then dons a mouse disguise consisting of only a pair of mouse ears, and gatecrashes the festival. When two of Speedy's friends mistake Sylvester in the mouse disguise as a giant mouse, Speedy points out to them that it's a cat (el gato), not a mouse, and all the mice then retreat and run for their lives.
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Speedy then lures Sylvester to the dog pound, where the cat gets attacked by numerous bulldogs. Sylvester escapes from the dog pound and continues chasing Speedy. When Sylvester successfully catches Speedy with a net, Speedy continues running inside the net, dragging Sylvester along until the cat crashes into a pole.
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Later, Speedy is serenading his girlfriend on a boat on the lake. Sylvester goes after Speedy in an inflatable raft, but Speedy throws a dart into the raft, puncturing it and causing Sylvester to sink underwater into the lake.
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Next, Sylvester drags a box, a plank and a 500-pound weight to the point at the base of the apartment building that is in a direct vertical line with the window where Speedy and his girlfriend are. He supports the plank with the box in the middle, stands on one end of the plank and heaves the weight onto the other end. This propels him up to Speedy's level and enables him to snatch the mouse. However, as he runs off, the weight lands hard on his head.
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Finally, Sylvester builds himself a hot rod racing car and chases Speedy with it. As the chase continues, Sylvester realizes that he forgot to put brakes on the car, and drives off a cliff and into the lake in the middle of the desert.
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With Sylvester out of the way, Speedy then tells his friends that the party continues. Speedy's triumph is however short-lived, as an injured Sylvester in a wheelchair then chases Speedy at slow speed, so slow that Speedy lightly jogs away saying, "This is the only way to run."
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== Availability ==
 
* (1982) VHS - ''[[The Looney Tunes Video Show]]'', Volume 2
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== Notes ==
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* This cartoon contains reused animation from "[[Here Today, Gone Tamale]]", "[[The Pied Piper of Guadalupe]]" "[[Dog Pounded]]", "[[A Pizza Tweety-Pie]]" and "[[Canary Row]]".
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* The mouse ears [[Sylvester]] wears at the start of the cartoon are the same ones as in the end of "Here Today, Gone Tamale", except here they are all black, resembling those of Mickey Mouse's ears from Disney.
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* This cartoon marks one of the last pairings of [[Speedy Gonzales]] and Sylvester ("[[The Wild Chase]]" would be their last pairing) and the last cartoon in The Golden Age of American Animation where Sylvester speaks (in his final two appearances, "The Wild Chase" and "[[A Taste of Catnip]]", Sylvester does not speak).
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== Goofs ==
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* When Sylvester starts chasing one of Speedy's friends, his mouse ears disappear from the shot permanently.
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* During a brief shot showing the bulldogs in the dog pound, the bulldog's mouths do not move to the barking sounds.
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* When Sylvester is driving his rod racing car to chase Speedy, one of his arms is missing.
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* Inconsistency issues, at one point, Sylvester's neck becomes black and white in different shots.
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== Gallery ==
 
<gallery widths="95">
 
<gallery widths="95">
 
Cat's And Bruises SS 1.jpg
 
Cat's And Bruises SS 1.jpg
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Cat's And Bruises SS 18.jpg
 
Cat's And Bruises SS 18.jpg
 
Cat's And Bruises SS 19.jpg
 
Cat's And Bruises SS 19.jpg
Cat's And Bruises SS 20.jpg| "I forgot to put brakes on this silly thing!"
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Cat's And Bruises SS 20.jpg|"I forgot to put brakes on this silly thing!"
 
Cat's And Bruises SS 21.jpg
 
Cat's And Bruises SS 21.jpg
 
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Sylvester dropping Cactus Plant on Bulldogs.jpg
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
   
==TV Title Cards==
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=== TV Title Cards ===
 
<gallery>
 
<gallery>
lt cats and bruises tbbats.jpg|''[[The Bugs Bunny Show|The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show]]''
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lt cats and bruises tbbats.jpg|''[[The Bugs Bunny Show|The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (Final Season)]]''
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
 
==Availability==
 
*VHS - ''[[The Looney Tunes Video Show]]'', Volume 2
 
   
 
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[[Category:Cartoons animated by Norman McCabe]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons animated by Norman McCabe]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams]]
[[Category:Cartoons animated by Manuel Perez]]
 
 
[[Category:Cartoons animated by Warren Batchelder]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons animated by Warren Batchelder]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons with music by Bill Lava]]
 
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[[Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Tom O'Loughlin]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Tom O'Loughlin]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons with film editing by Lee Gunther]]
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[[Category:Cartoons that reuse footage from earlier cartoons]]

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Cats and Bruises
Cats and Bruises
Directed By: Friz Freleng
Hawley Pratt
Produced By: David H. DePatie
Friz Freleng
Released: January 30, 1965
Series: Merrie Melodies
Story: John Dunn
Animation: Warren Batchelder
Lee Halpern
Bob Matz
Norm McCabe
Manny Perez
Don Williams
Layouts: Dick Ung
Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
Film Editor: Lee Gunther
Voiced By: Mel Blanc
Music: Bill Lava
Starring: Speedy Gonzales
Sylvester
Preceded By: It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
Succeeded By: Roadrunner a Go-Go

Cats and Bruises is a 1965 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt.

Title

The title is a play on the phrase "cuts and bruises".

Plot

Sylvester spies on the Cinco De Mayo festival where Speedy Gonzales and his friends are dancing and partying. Sylvester then dons a mouse disguise consisting of only a pair of mouse ears, and gatecrashes the festival. When two of Speedy's friends mistake Sylvester in the mouse disguise as a giant mouse, Speedy points out to them that it's a cat (el gato), not a mouse, and all the mice then retreat and run for their lives.

Speedy then lures Sylvester to the dog pound, where the cat gets attacked by numerous bulldogs. Sylvester escapes from the dog pound and continues chasing Speedy. When Sylvester successfully catches Speedy with a net, Speedy continues running inside the net, dragging Sylvester along until the cat crashes into a pole.

Later, Speedy is serenading his girlfriend on a boat on the lake. Sylvester goes after Speedy in an inflatable raft, but Speedy throws a dart into the raft, puncturing it and causing Sylvester to sink underwater into the lake.

Next, Sylvester drags a box, a plank and a 500-pound weight to the point at the base of the apartment building that is in a direct vertical line with the window where Speedy and his girlfriend are. He supports the plank with the box in the middle, stands on one end of the plank and heaves the weight onto the other end. This propels him up to Speedy's level and enables him to snatch the mouse. However, as he runs off, the weight lands hard on his head.

Finally, Sylvester builds himself a hot rod racing car and chases Speedy with it. As the chase continues, Sylvester realizes that he forgot to put brakes on the car, and drives off a cliff and into the lake in the middle of the desert.

With Sylvester out of the way, Speedy then tells his friends that the party continues. Speedy's triumph is however short-lived, as an injured Sylvester in a wheelchair then chases Speedy at slow speed, so slow that Speedy lightly jogs away saying, "This is the only way to run."

Availability

Notes

Goofs

  • When Sylvester starts chasing one of Speedy's friends, his mouse ears disappear from the shot permanently.
  • During a brief shot showing the bulldogs in the dog pound, the bulldog's mouths do not move to the barking sounds.
  • When Sylvester is driving his rod racing car to chase Speedy, one of his arms is missing.
  • Inconsistency issues, at one point, Sylvester's neck becomes black and white in different shots.

Gallery

TV Title Cards

Speedy Gonzales Cartoons
1953 Cat-Tails for Two
1955 Speedy Gonzales
1957 Tabasco RoadGonzales' Tamales
1958 Tortilla Flaps
1959 Mexicali ShmoesHere Today, Gone Tamale
1960 West of the Pesos
1961 Cannery WoeThe Pied Piper of Guadalupe
1962 Mexican Boarders
1963 Mexican Cat DanceChili Weather
1964 A Message to GraciasNuts and VoltsPancho's HideawayRoad to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseCats and BruisesThe Wild ChaseMoby DuckAssault and PepperedWell Worn DaffyChili Corn CornyGo Go Amigo
1966 The AstroduckMucho LocosMexican MousepieceDaffy RentsA-Haunting We Will GoSnow ExcuseA Squeak in the DeepFeather FingerSwing Ding AmigoA Taste of Catnip
1967 Daffy's DinerQuacker TrackerThe Music Mice-TroThe Spy SwatterSpeedy Ghost to TownRodent to StardomGo Away StowawayFiesta Fiasco
1968 Skyscraper CaperSee Ya Later Gladiator
1979 Fright Before Christmas
1980 The Chocolate Chase
Sylvester Cartoons
1945 Life with FeathersPeck Up Your Troubles
1946 Kitty Kornered
1947 Tweetie PieCrowing PainsDoggone CatsCatch as Cats Can
1948 Back Alley OproarI Taw a Putty TatHop, Look and ListenKit for CatScaredy Cat
1949 Mouse MazurkaBad Ol' Putty TatHippety Hopper
1950 Home, Tweet HomeThe Scarlet PumpernickelAll a Bir-r-r-dCanary RowStooge for a MousePop 'Im Pop!
1951 Canned FeudPutty Tat TroubleRoom and BirdTweety's S.O.S.Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952 Who's Kitten Who?Gift WrappedLittle Red Rodent HoodAin't She TweetHoppy Go LuckyA Bird in a Guilty CageTree for Two
1953 Snow BusinessA Mouse DividedFowl WeatherTom Tom TomcatA Street Cat Named SylvesterCatty CorneredCats A-weigh!
1954 Dog PoundedBell HoppyDr. Jerkyl's HideClaws for AlarmMuzzle ToughSatan's Waitin'By Word of Mouse
1955 Lighthouse MouseSandy ClawsTweety's CircusJumpin' JupiterA Kiddies KittySpeedy GonzalesRed Riding HoodwinkedHeir-ConditionedPappy's Puppy
1956 Too Hop to HandleTweet and SourTree Cornered TweetyThe Unexpected PestTugboat GrannyThe Slap-Hoppy MouseYankee Dood It
1957 Tweet ZooTweety and the BeanstalkBirds AnonymousGreedy for TweetyMouse-Taken IdentityGonzales' Tamales
1958 A Pizza Tweety-PieA Bird in a Bonnet
1959 Trick or TweetTweet and LovelyCat's PawHere Today, Gone TamaleTweet Dreams
1960 West of the PesosGoldimouse and the Three CatsHyde and Go TweetMouse and GardenTrip for Tat
1961 Cannery WoeHoppy DazeBirds of a FatherD' Fightin' OnesThe Rebel Without ClawsThe Pied Piper of GuadalupeThe Last Hungry Cat
1962 Fish and SlipsMexican BoardersThe Jet Cage
1963 Mexican Cat DanceChili WeatherClaws in the Lease
1964 A Message to GraciasFreudy CatNuts and VoltsHawaiian Aye AyeRoad to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseCats and BruisesThe 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