Rodent to Stardom is a 1967 Looney Tunes short directed by Alex Lovy.
Title[]
The title is a play on "Rocket to Stardom", a TV show that aired locally in Los Angeles.
Plot[]
Daffy Duck is at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He sees a star for Speedy Gonzales, and states that Speedy isn't famous. Eventually, director Harvey Hassenpfeffer of Colossal Studios finds Daffy waiting for a ride and states that he has found an actor for his film. Daffy accepts the offer and heads to the studio to begin filming. However, Daffy doesn't realize that he is the stunt double for the picture The Nursery Rhyme Review. Worse, Speedy is the main star of the motion picture.
Speedy and Daffy take turns to recall different portions of the nursery rhymes, such as the sky is falling or falling from a cradle. However, Daffy's takes force him into dangerous situations, such as having bricks fall on him or falling down in a cradle from the top of the studio. Daffy realizes he needs to get rid of Speedy so he can have a safer role in the movie. Daffy asks for an autograph and traps Speedy in a book, which he deposits in a library. When Daffy returns, Harvey states that the star is back and will be part of a rescuing scene with Ducky Lamour. However, Daffy sustains even more injuries from the scenes, and just before the kiss, his part is cut short. Daffy is shocked to see that his stand-in is Speedy, who gets to take the kiss from Ducky Lamour. Speedy states that there is no business like show business, and a bruised and defeated Daffy angrily responds that Speedy can say that again.
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Notes[]
- It is the first cartoon to credit Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, although it still uses the 1963 "Abstract WB" titles.
- MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of this short on Toon In With Me.
- The MeTV restoration has a fake cutaway from the opening sequence to the title card, as with the other handful of 1960s cartoons' restorations.
- This cartoon is a remake of "A Star Is Bored", with Daffy wanting to be a movie star, only to be cast as a stunt double for the studio's main star (in this case, Speedy, who takes Bugs Bunny's role from the earlier short).
- This is the last short to feature the song "You Oughta Be in Pictures" in the Golden Age of Animation.
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TV Title Cards[]
Speedy Gonzales Cartoons | ||||
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1953 | Cat-Tails for Two | |||
1955 | Speedy Gonzales | |||
1957 | Tabasco Road • Gonzales' Tamales | |||
1958 | Tortilla Flaps | |||
1959 | Mexicali Shmoes • Here Today, Gone Tamale | |||
1960 | West of the Pesos | |||
1961 | Cannery Woe • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe | |||
1962 | Mexican Boarders | |||
1963 | Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather | |||
1964 | A Message to Gracias • Nuts and Volts • Pancho's Hideaway • Road to Andalay | |||
1965 | It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase • Moby Duck • Assault and Peppered • Well Worn Daffy • Chili Corn Corny • Go Go Amigo | |||
1966 | The Astroduck • Mucho Locos • Mexican Mousepiece • Daffy Rents • A-Haunting We Will Go • Snow Excuse • A Squeak in the Deep • Feather Finger • Swing Ding Amigo • A Taste of Catnip | |||
1967 | Daffy's Diner • Quacker Tracker • The Music Mice-Tro • The Spy Swatter • Speedy Ghost to Town • Rodent to Stardom • Go Away Stowaway • Fiesta Fiasco | |||
1968 | Skyscraper Caper • See Ya Later Gladiator | |||
1979 | Fright Before Christmas | |||
1980 | The Chocolate Chase |