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Tabasco Road

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Tabasco Road is a 1957 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title[]

The title is a play on the 1932 novel, 1933 play, and 1941 film Tobacco Road.

Plot[]

At a Mexican nightclub, Speedy Gonzales and his mice friends are socializing at a bar in a mouse hole. Speedy is dancing around a sombrero while two of his friends, Pablo and Fernando, drink until they are "muy loaded." At three in the morning, the two friends exit the bar into an alley, which has a large macho alley cat. The inebriated friends try to fight with the cat while Speedy tries to desperately find them. However, the two mice are easily captured and only saved by Speedy, who smashes the cat's tail with the butt of an axe. Speedy tries to hide Pablo and Fernando in a sardine can, but the two are still drunkenly singing and confuse Speedy for the cat. Speedy takes Fernando back home, but Pablo is caught and eaten. Speedy saves Pablo again by smashing the cat's foot with a hammer, and when the cat screams, Speedy grabs Pablo from his mouth and replaces him with a lit firecracker.

Fernando has left his house to also find Pablo. He falls for a trap in the cat's mouth, and Speedy repeats the hammer and firecracker tactic again. The cat is now scared of fighting Speedy and runs away past the city limits. As Speedy laughs after the cat, he sees Pablo and Fernando, still intoxicated, going after a whole group of alley cats for fights. Speedy asides, "Grab your sombreros, amigos. Here we go again."

Television[]

  • Warner Bros. Syndicated Package (1964–1990)
  • Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon (1988–1995)
  • The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2002–2004)
  • Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003–2005)

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Notes[]

  • This is the final Speedy Gonzales cartoon to receive a Blue Ribbon reissue, replacing the large orange Looney Tunes titles and rings with "A Vitaphone Release".
  • This cartoon was nominated for the 30th Academy Awards for "Best Short Subject (Cartoon)", but it lost to "Birds Anonymous". Both shorts were reissued as Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies cartoons.[2]
  • In September 2021, a 35mm print sold on eBay had the original opening and closing titles.
    • Although the original opening and closing titles are known to exist, it was restored with the Blue Ribbon titles.

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. ↑ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media, page 186. 
  2. ↑ https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1958

External links[]

Speedy Gonzales Cartoons
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
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