Hoppy-Go-Lucky

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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Lon Chaney Jr.

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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 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

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