Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies

Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies is one of twelve releases in the Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection series of videos. It was originally released in the series' first wave on VHS and Betamax in 1985.

Description 

There have been some pretty famous mice in cartoon history, but only one boasts of Mexican heritage—and the unmistakable voice of Mel Blanc. He’s Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Me-hi-co.

You’ll get a chance to see the evolution of this character, as Cat-Tails for Two presents his first screen appearance—in a different form than we’re used to by now. In fact, it took two years for Speedy to get a face-lifting and reappear in a Warner Bros. cartoon. But when he sped off with an Academy Award in 1955, his destiny was sealed. Two of Speedy Gonzales’s subsequent films were nominated for Oscars and they’re both included here: Tabasco Road (1957) and The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961), co-starring Sylvester on a busman’s holiday from trying to capture Tweety.

Making a special guest appearance in Lumber Jerks are the Goofy Gophers, those elegantly polite but determined little characters who starred in a number of funny cartoons in the 1940s and ‘50s.

But Speedy Gonzales is the star—and he takes the spotlight with the greatest of ease—and the greatest of speed. Andale!

- Leonard Maltin

Shorts Included

1. "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" (red opening card border, flashing multi-colored title card border)
2. "Tortilla Flaps" (dark red title card border)
3. "Cat-Tails for Two" (yellow title card border)
4. "Cannery Woe" (dark orange title card border)
5. "Lumber Jerks" (dark blue-teal title card border)
6. "Gonzales' Tamales" (red title card border)
7. "Here Today, Gone Tamale" (blue title card border)
8. "Tabasco Road" (blue title card border)

Notes

• Stock number: 11509

Gallery

UK release

Back cover and spine