Goldimouse and the Three Cats

Goldimouse and the Three Cats
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	March 19, 1960
Starring	Mel Blanc Julie Bennett
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Virgil Ross Art Davis Gerry Chiniquy
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Goldimouse and the Three Cats is the four hundred and fourth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was published by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on March 19, 1960. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Friz Freleng.

While Sylvester, his wife and Sylvester Jr. go out for a walk to let their porridge cool down, a young mouse by the name of Goldimouse enters the cat's cottage. Jr., wanting a mouse for dinner, prompts his father to catch the mouse for him.

Memorable quotes

Sylvester Jr.: Yecch!! Porridge?! What a father!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Sylvester Jr.	Mel Blanc
Mrs. Sylvester	Julie Bennett
Goldimouse	Julie Bennett

Locations

• Earth
  • Forest
    • Three Cats' cottage
      • Bomb shelter

Objects

• Porridge bowls
• Mallet
• Bow and arrow
• Cheese
• Dynamite
• Dart and blowpipe
• TNT canister

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: March 19, 1960 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title's pun and cartoon's plot are based on the Goldilocks and the Three Bears fairy tale.
• It is the only Friz Freleng-directed cartoon to include Sylvester Jr. While Robert McKimson didn't direct this cartoon, it is one of the few cartoons that doesn't feature Hippety Hopper.
• This is one of the only two cartoons where Sylvester has a wife; the other being the 1953 Merrie Melodies short, A Mouse Divided. This is also the only instance where Jr. has had his mother present with him.
• Junior, likely inheriting a trait from his mother, does not talk in a lisp like Sylvester in this short.
• This is one of the few shorts where Michael Maltese wrote for cartoons at the Freleng unit, and the first time since Warren Foster's departure in the late-1940s.
• This is the first short to use the "Warner Bros. Pictures Inc." copyright text, instead of the "The Vitaphone Corp." text. However, the closing sequence wouldn't have the "A Vitaphone/Vitagraph release" byline until the Merrie Melodies short From Hare to Heir.
• When the short was broadcasted on ABC, the scene where Goldimouse hits Sylvester with a mallet was replaced with an earlier scene of Sylvester Jr.

Legacy

• This cartoon, while edited and having the last scene cut for time, was used in Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars: Sylvester and Hippety Hopper - Marsupial Mayhem