Nicknamed "the fastest mouse in all of Mexico," Speedy Gonzales is an animated character in the Looney Tunes series by Warner Brothers. Its most important characteristic is its incredible speed, intelligence and cunning. Speedy Gonzales usually wears a yellow hat, shirt, and white shorts (which were and are traditional clothing for children and adults in rural villages in many northern Mexican states, especially near the border), and a red bandana, Which is mainly used in arid areas to dry sweat.
Speedy debuted in the 1953 short film Cat-Tails for Two, directed by Robert McKimson.1 In this first version, he presented some aesthetic differences, highlighting a large gold tooth and wearing only a red shirt. Two years later, Friz Freleng and animator Hawley Pratt redesigned the character to his current appearance, in a white suit, red scarf, and yellow hat. The new version debuted in Speedy Gonzales (1955). The cat Silvestre, who abused mice, participates in this short film. The animation won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1955, and it was also the first time Speedy had said his famous phrase "Go! Go! Go! Go!".
Freleng and McKimson put Silvestre as Speedy's nemesis, in a kind of "the Coyote and the Roadrunner". Silvestre is constantly humiliated and defeated by the mouse, and suffers a large number of accidents with mouse traps or hot sauce. In some chapters Speedy is in the company of his cousin, El Lento Rodríguez (also called Tranquilino), "the slowest mouse in Mexico". Although slow compared to Speedy, he defended himself with a pistol and was never seen to need Speedy's help. In the sixties Speedy's enemy became Lucas Duck, although there were episodes that did not show enmity between the two.
In 1999, with the creation of the Cartoon Network television channel, Speedy Gonzales' short films stopped being broadcast. According to spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg, this was due to the "ethnic stereotypes" they displayed.2 The move was criticized by fans of the character, who tried to convince the channel to re-air the short films. The League of United Latin American Citizens referred to Speedy as a "cultural icon." In 2002, Cartoon Network returned to show the episodes where the character appeared.
Curiosities
In 1962 a song dedicated to the mouse was recorded and performed by Pat Boone and achieved international success. The Spanish version was sung by Manolo Muñoz, a Mexican singer from the 1960s, who also had great success.
In 1996 Speedy González did not have a leading role with the Looney Tunes in the film that combines animation and real image Space Jam although he had a brief cameo in the scene where they are in the dressing room, when Michael Jordan motivates them to overcome the score of the basketball game what are you playing.
In 2003, he had a cameo appearance in the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action, as well as another appearance in a chapter of ¡Mucha Lucha !.
In 2006, he appeared as a battered and underpaid employee of a huge toy store run by Lucas the Duck in the movie Lucas and the Christmas Spirit.
In 1991 the Argentine group The Sacados made a version of the song that described this mouse in the sixties, which they called "Corre Gonzalez". Which in 2007, also did the Mexican group Kumbia All Starz.
Also in 2007 he appeared in the Episode "La Carrera Loca" of the Argentine Series Alejo and Valentina.
In the original version in English his name is spelled "Gonzales" and not "González", as is more common in Spanish, patronymic type surname.
He had a cameo on Drawn Together.
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