Chili Weather

“All these foods and not a crumb to eat.”

Directed by Friz Freleng. Released in 1963

There’s a food plant, and where there’s edible goods, you’re bound to attract mice. Good thing whoever owns the place has Sylvester on guard duty. Speedy almost immidiately comes by and offers to help the mice get some grub. He actually manages to run in and out the first time, without Sylvester noticing. When he does become aware, he chases the mouse onto one of the conveyer belts. While Speedy compliments how much easier it is running this way, (and barely misses being chopped up) Sylvester is chopped up. Speedy greases the floor and Sylvester slips into a vat of tobasco sauce. Sitting on ice cools him down somehow. (He’s not even licking it, not that it would help, was the sauce being cooked?) While Speedy looks at some soda bottles, (I don’t know what’s in there, but they say “es bueno” on the side. That’s good enough for me) Sylvester comes back and actually grabs him. (2 posts in a row? New record!) But the bottlecap machine caps him and blinds him simultaneously. (He must be really small) He manages to get it off with a bottle opener, but Speedy surprises him and he jumps back up into it. Speedy’s inner troll emerges and he takes it away. Sylvester blindly swings a bat around and doesn’t notice he’s running into the dehydrator. (It appears to belong to a someone named Gomez. Or maybe that’s the machine’s name? We’ve found Selena’s dad!) He shrinks and is now able to get the cap off. Seeing Speedy, he runs off in fear. (After years of chasing Hippety Hopper, he’s finally found a real giant mosue)