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Hoppy-Go-Lucky is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

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The title is a play on the phrase "happy-go-lucky."

Plot[]

Sylvester and his large and dimwitted friend Benny, the latter of who constantly calls Sylvester "George", sets out to find a mouse in the warehouse so Benny can keep the mouse as a pet. Sylvester will be hunting the mice inside the warehouse while Benny bags out the entrance. Sylvester happens to find an obese mouse inside a cheese crate, who quickly flees inside of a crate containing Hippety Hopper. Opening the crate, Sylvester is surprised to see the small mouse transform into a "giant mouse". Sylvester flees in fright, only to run out of the entrance and get bagged by Benny.

Sylvester tries to tell Benny the mouse is a king-sized mouse, but Benny does not believe him and threatens to "stroke his fur the wrong way" if he does not come back with a mouse. As Benny launches Sylvester back in, Hippety kicks the cat back, while Benny blocks the entrance with a trash can lid when he realizes it isn't a mouse. Angered at Benny for hitting him with a trashcan lid, Sylvester tries to get back at Benny by slamming him with a sledgehammer, but fails when the hammer doesn't harm Benny and disintegrates instead. With no other option, Sylvester attempts to attack Hippety, and the baby kangaroo easily socks Sylvester out the entrance to be bagged by Benny again. Fed up with Sylvester's failures, Benny goes in to get the mouse while Sylvester is forced to bag the entrance.

Finding it too dark inside, Benny lights a firework stick, thinking it is a candle. However, he throws the dynamite towards the entrance when he hears the sizzling from the fuse. Benny later comes out of the warehouse hanging on to Hippety's tail, stating that he finally caught the mouse as a pet. Sylvester wonders what he actually got in the bag, and he peers just as the firework stick explodes on him. "Yep, I'm left holding the bag," a dazed Sylvester states.

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  • In the ABC airing of this cartoon, the very end where Sylvester is shown disheveled and dazed after the dynamite in his burlap sack explodes was cut with a fake iris-out and ending music before the explosion cloud settles.[1]
  • In the CBS airing of this cartoon, the part where Sylvester hits Benny over the head with a sledgehammer (with the sledgehammer crumbling and Benny feeling no pain from being hit) was cut.[1]

Notes[]

  • Starting with this cartoon, Robert McKimson redesigned Sylvester to be slimmer and more streamlined to closely resemble how his original creator Friz Freleng drew him, as opposed to his original "plump Sylvester" version of the character he previously used from "Crowing Pains" (1947) up until "Who's Kitten Who?" (1952).
  • This short takes inspiration from the book Of Mice and Men.
  • This short marks the debut of Benny, who makes one more appearance in the short "Cat-Tails for Two" the following year.

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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
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