Hop, Look and Listen is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
Title[]
The title is a play on the railroad safety phrase "stop, look, and listen."
Plot[]
Hippety Hopper and his mother Gracie resides at a zoo. While his mother is rocking the young kangaroo, Hippety slips out and hops away from the zoo, wandering around the city until he lands into Sylvester's house. Sylvester practices his fishing skills to catch mice from a mouse hole, and reels one back in. When he measures the mouse, he finds it too small, and complains that he is tired of eating non-succulent mice.
Hippety finds an open basement door and enters, hopping about until he finds the fishing rod and tugs on it. Sylvester pulls out Hippety from the mouse hole, and tries to measure it to realize that he has caught a "king-sized" mouse. However, the cowardly cat runs out of the house and into a bulldog. He tries to tell the bulldog that he found a muscular mouse inside the house, but the bulldog states he has no professional pride and forces him to catch the mouse.
Sylvester attempts to catch his prey, but the playful kangaroo proves to be difficult for Sylvester to handle. Hippety hops over a ramming attempt from Sylvester. Sylvester tries to bag Hippety, but the kangaroo hops around until he kicks Sylvester out of the house. The bulldog gives Sylvester an axe and throws him back in. Hippety hides behind a door, repeatedly socking Sylvester when he tries to whack Sylvester. Eventually after a chase, Hippety gets the axe and whacks Sylvester out of the mouse hole.
Thinking he might be too weak, Sylvester works out in order to get Hippety. The kangaroo effortlessly knocks Sylvester out of the house again, all while his mother comes into the house, looking for Hippety. The upset mother asks Hippety to hop back into his mother's pouch. Meanwhile, the bulldog goes inside to catch the mouse himself, but when he sees the kangaroo mother and her joey, the bulldog flees and he and Sylvester moves out of the house by riding a water wagon.
Availability[]
(Associated Artists Productions print)
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 2, Side 9: Best Supporting Players
Streaming[]
Goofs[]
- The axe has a red back in most scenes, but in the scene where Sylvester states that being a cat could be so complicated, the axe has a gray back.
Notes[]
- The cartoon was reissued in the 1954–55 season. Unlike most other reissued Looney Tunes, the original closing sequence was kept. This is one of four pre-1948 Looney Tunes to keep the original closing.
- In 1995, Turner Entertainment restored the original opening and credits for the cartoon's "dubbed version". It was later restored with the original titles when the cartoon was released on DVD on 23 April 2013 on Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem.
- The song playing on the opening titles is "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There", which had been sung by Sylvester earlier in "Back Alley Oproar". The same song is played on the opening titles of "Hippety Hopper" the following year.
- Coincidentally, all three of the cartoons were reissued in the Blue Ribbon program.
- This marks the debut of Hippety Hopper, who would be Sylvester's main foe in the shorts directed by Robert McKimson.
Gallery[]
_-_Spin.jpg "Hop, Look and Listen (1948) - Spin.jpg (338 KB)")
_-_Surprised.png "Hop, Look and Listen (1948) - Surprised.png (983 KB)")
_-_Mama.png "Hop, Look and Listen (1948) - Mama.png (1.04 MB)")
External links[]
References[]