Here Today, Gone Tamale
| Here Today, Gone Tamale | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | August 29, 1959 |
| Run time | 6:20 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Daws Butler Tom Holland |
| Producer(s) | John W. Burton |
| Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Art Davis Virgil Ross |
| Director(s) | Friz Freleng |
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Here Today, Gone Tamale is the three hundred and ninety-eighth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on August 29, 1959. It was written by Michael Maltese, and directed by Friz Freleng.
In the harboring docks of Mexico, all of the mice are starving. But when a ship full of cheese arrives, the mice must rely on Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all of Mexico, to help them get all the cheese from the ship and outwit the guard cat, Sylvester.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
José's partner: Hey, José. You want to wish to talk 'bout this cheese famine. Eh, José?
José: No! My stomach's is always telling me 'bout this cheese famine, so shut up your cheese trap!
Sylvester: And stay off, ya miserable, little, thsneakin' crooked cheese theivesth!
Mouse #1: All this cheese and no crumb to eat.
Fernando: We're gonna starve! I think I'll kill myself. Hold my sombrero, amigo.
Mouse: Could I have your sombrero after your gun, Fernando?
Mouse #2: Hold it, hold it, hold it! Don't shoot! Why don't we get that Speedy Gonzales to get this cheese? He's the fastest mouse of all Mexico.
Mouse #1: Speedy Gonzales? Can you get him?
Mouse #2: Sure I can! He likes my sister.
Fernando: I like his sister too! (clicks tongue) Heh-heh...
Speedy: Hello, pussycats! I'm coming up for the cheese!
Sylvester: Oh yeah? I like to thsee you try it!
Speedy: Are you nervious, pussycat?
Sylvester: Yep...
Sylvester: Hey, Speedy! I've been thinkin' it over. I shouldn't be so greedy, thso I decided to let you and your friendsth have thsome of the cheese, thso come and get it!
Speedy: You see, amigos? He's really a nice pussycat.
(Speedy approaches closer to Sylvester, whose hiding a mallet from behind)
Speedy: Are you sure you don't want it?
Sylvester: Sure, you can have it, little friend. Go on! Take it! Go on! Go ahead! Go on!
Speedy: Okay!
(Speedy outmaneuvers Sylvester and takes the cheese, causing him to smash his hand by accident)
Speedy: Gracias, senior pussycat!
Sylvester: Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I alwaysth thsay.
(Sylvester puts on fake mouse ears and joins the fiesta)
Speedy: I like that pussycat fellow. He's muy loco en la cabeza. (giggles) Loco.
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Pistol
- Cheese
- Butterfly net
- Mallet
- Metal piping
- Metal wire
- Guillotine
- Wooden board with mouse hole
Vehicles
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: August 29, 1959
Behind the scenes
- The title is a combination of the phrase "here today, gone tomorrow" and tamale.
- The MPAA certificate number is 19268.
- It is the only Speedy Gonzales cartoon to be written by Michael Maltese.
- This short reuses animations from the 1955 short Speedy Gonzales and also reuses a gag from another 1955 short, Stork Naked, when Sylvester sets up a guillotine on the boarding entry of the ship.
Errors
- While the intro sequence of this cartoon uses blue rings, the outro of this cartoon uses red rings. The reason for this error was because that starting with the Merrie Melodies short Bonanza Bunny, all of the intro and outro sequences for both Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies would use the red rings palette up until the 1964 short False Hare.
Legacy
- This short would have most of its animations reused for the 1965 short Cats and Bruises, and the 1966 short Go Go Amigo.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- November 14, 2006: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 on DVD.
