{"id":242,"date":"2015-07-08T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:46:46","slug":"2015-7-8-tabasco-road-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Tabasco Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hola gato! You wanna fight?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83c\udf36 Speedy Gonzales Saves His Amigos from Danger! | Looney Tunes E101 Tabasco Road\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x9on1zm&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/56a93a0169492e8908d709bd\/56a9407c04acd38b178c1bb7\/56a9407c04acd38b178c1d1a\/1453933917479\/tabasco.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Robert McKimson. Released in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>This short is another nominee for best animated short. It lost to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2014\/06\/03\/2014-6-3-birds-anonymous-html\/\">Birds Anonymous<\/a>&#8221; (At least that&#8217;s a good short to lose to.)<\/p>\n<p>At night in Mexico (maybe City or maybe some other place, I don&#8217;t know) the mice are having a great time at the cantina. They&#8217;re celebrating Speedy. (Is it his birthday? The fact they depend on him for survival? It&#8217;s not important.) Two mice known as Pablo and Fernando are already muy loaded on the Tequila, but ignore Speedy&#8217;s warnings and continue to drink up. At 3:00 A.M. the place clears out. Those two aren&#8217;t dead despite all the alcohol they have no doubt consumed, and tipsily head home. (I agree with them. They make a fine &#8220;trio.&#8221;) Speedy is well aware that they are in trouble and sets off to find them.<\/p>\n<p>They meanwhile have attracted the attention of an alley gato. (&#8220;I think I saw un pussy gato.&#8221; &#8220;You did! You did see un pussy gato!&#8221;) Drunk as they are, they don&#8217;t recognize the danger and instead put up their dukes. The cat prepares for a feast, but Speedy arrives in the nick of time and saves Pablo; putting him in a sardine can for safekeeping. When he goes back for Fernando, he only finds his sombrero. He assumes the worst, but finds him in the can also. (Drunken mice have teleporting powers.) Speedy runs Ferny home telling Pablo to stay put. Once he gets his friend home, he rushes back for the other one. Unaware that Fernando climbed out of his window and is still stumbling about.<\/p>\n<p>The gato meanwhile has found Pablo and puts him in his mouth. (Grey nose.) Speedy has seen all this and runs over. The cat screams, we hear a snap and then he kind of explodes. Ummm&#8230; what? Speedy apologizes for his&#8230; well speed, and does the whole gag again in slow motion. We see that he hammers the cat&#8217;s foot causing him to scream. Speedy grabs Pablo and sets him down on a set mousetrap. He quickly gets him off and puts him in a glass bottle, then he lights a firecracker and puts that in the cats mouth. Bad luck though, the bottle was broken and Pablo got out. Fernando meanwhile finds his way into the cats mouth himself. Speedy redoes the fast gag again and this sends the gato running for the &#8220;Ceety Leemits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two drunkards are safe now, right? That&#8217;s how a Disney short would end. To Speedy&#8217;s surprise, the two have found an alley full of dozens of gatos, challenging them to a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 4<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hola gato! You wanna fight?&#8221; Directed by Robert McKimson. Released in 1957. This short is another nominee for best animated short. It lost to &#8220;Birds Anonymous&#8221; (At least that&#8217;s a good short to lose to.) 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