Chili Weather
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date | August 17, 1963 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | David H. DePatie |
| Music composed by | Bill Lava |
| Story by | John Dunn |
| Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Bob Matz Lee Halpern Art Leonardi |
| Director(s) | Friz Freleng |
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Chili Weather is the four-hundred and eighty-sixth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 17, 1963. It was written by John Dunn, produced by David H. DePatie, and directed by Friz Freleng.
When the mice of Guadalajara want to eat all of the food from a processing plant, they rely on Speedy Gonzales to get the food for them. But his plan is thwarted by Sylvester, who then chases him throughout the factory.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Speedy: Hello, pussycat. You looking for me?
Sylvester: YEEEEK! A GIANT MOUSTHE! (laughs maniacally)
Speedy: I think this pussycats needs one of them... Uh, what do you call 'em? A psy-cholo.. psy-choli... chi-ligo... Psee-cho-la-go-lo... Psee-cho-lo-ki-li... Eh, you know, one of those head-shrinking fellows.
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- Mexico
- Guadalajara
- Food processing plant
- Guadalajara
- Mexico
Objects
- Chili sauce tank
- Tomato sauce tank
- Tomatoes
- Tomato sauce bottles
- Cheese
- Carrots
- Potatoes
- Grease bucket and brush
- Tabasco sauce
- Ice Freezer
- Hot tamale
- Pepito bottles
- "Dapper Capper" cap machine
- Monkey wrench
- Knife
- Cork screw
- Wrench pliers
- Screwdriver
- Bottle opener
- Bat
- Gomez piledriver
- Dehydrator vag
- Gomez dehydrator machine
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Bill Lava, while the "Merrily We Roll Along" title themes were composed by Milt Franklyn.
Crew credits
- Film editor: Lee Gunther
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: August 17, 1963 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun on "chilly weather."
- This is the first Merrie Melodies cartoon in which the editing was done by Lee Gunther instead than Treg Brown, who would eventually do the editing for the shorts when DePatie-Freleng Enterprises got the rights to make Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts until 1967.
- Most of the factory footage and machinery are recycled from I Gopher You
Errors
- The end card has the Looney Tunes branding, though the 1955-64 version of "Merrily We Roll Along" theme plays over it. This is likely a mistake on the part of the film editors before its original theatrical release.
- It happened again in the Looney Tunes short Nuts and Volts, meaning that these outro sequences might have been mixed up.
