Cats and Bruises
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| Production company | DePatie–Freleng Enterprises |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date | January 30, 1965 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng |
| Music composed by | Bill Lava |
| Story by | John Dunn |
| Animation | Bob Matz Norm McCabe Don Williams Manny Perez Warren Batchelder Lee Halpern |
| Director(s) | Friz Freleng |
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Cats and Bruises is the four hundred and ninety-seventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on January 30, 1965. It was written by John Dunn, produced by Friz Freleng and David H. DePatie, co-directed by Hawley Pratt and directed by Freleng.
When Sylvester infiltrates a Cinco De Mayo celebration hosted by the mice, Speedy gets wise to his trick and after all the mice flee, he attempts to catch Speedy in retaliation!
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Speedy: Ok, you win! I give up! I stop!
Sylvester: (passing Speedy) Holy mackerel! I forgot to put brakesth on this sthilly thing!
Speedy: (calmly) This is the only way to run.
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Fake mouse ears
- Dart
- Teeter board and weight ton
Vehicles
- Rubber raft
- Acme Rocket-Powered Go-Kart
- Wheelchair
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was scored by Bill Lava.
Crew credits
- Co-Direction: Hawley Pratt
- Layouts: Dick Ung
- Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
- Film Editor: Lee Gunther
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: January 30, 1965 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun on "cuts and bruises." You're welcome.
- It contains reused animation from the following cartoons:
- Canary Row (1950)
- Dog Pounded (1954)
- Tugboat Granny (1956) and A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958) (mainly the rubber raft animations)
- Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959)
- The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961)
- The mouse ears Sylvester wears at the start are the same ones used in the end of Here Today, Gone Tamale, except colored black. Incidentally, the ears resemble those of Disney's Mickey Mouse.
- This is one of the last pairings of Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester in the golden age of American animation; the next Merrie Melodies short, The Wild Chase, would be their last pairing, not counting Sylvester's cameo in 1966's A Taste of Catnip.
- It is the last cartoon in the golden age where Sylvester speaks.
- This is also the last Sylvester and Speedy cartoon to have both characters speak, although while Sylvester remained mute for the rest of his final appearances from the Golden Age of American Animation, Speedy resumed having speaking roles when paired against Daffy Duck, starting in Moby Duck. In his final two appearances, The Wild Chase and A Taste of Catnip, Sylvester does not speak.
- While he ends up chasing Speedy in the end, this is the only cartoon where Sylvester wins in the end.
Errors
- The restoration on the titles has a brief error where the abstract lines do not fully disappear before the title card, an error that also occurs with the Mexican Mousepiece restoration.
- When Sylvester starts chasing one of Speedy's friends, his mouse ears disappear from the shot permanently.
- During a brief shot showing the bulldogs in the dog pound, the bulldogs' mouths do not move to the barking sounds. Although they could be growling.
- While Sylvester is driving his racing car to chase Speedy, one of his arms is missing at a certain point.
- Throughout this cartoon, Sylvester's neck becomes black and white in different shots.
