{"id":37,"date":"2017-12-10T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T05:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:37:41","slug":"2017-12-10-hippety-hopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Hippety Hopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA mouse as big as me!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sylvester Ep 15 Hippety Hopper 1949\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x58fi5f&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Robert McKimson; Story by Warren Foster; Animation by Pete Burness, John Carey, Charles McKimson, and Phil DeLara; Layouts by Cornett Wood; Backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas; Voice Characterization by Mel Blanc; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Merrie Melody released in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>I just love how many shorts titles were just a characters name. It wasn&#8217;t even their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=554\">first<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=558\">appearance<\/a> when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a mouse is about to commit suicide. Since it&#8217;s not being treated as a joke, it&#8217;s not funny. Luckily for him, he is saved. Hippety may be young, but he knows that ending yourself is never the answer. The mouse (Who needs a name. I&#8217;ll call him Mini. Mini the mouse. Completely origina.l) asks his new friend (who he thinks is a giant mouse) to help him get even with the one who caused his depression in the first place: Sylvester the cat. Hippety agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Mini wakes Sylvester up and threatens to take vitamins and grow to match his size. Sylvester laughs at this, but soon sees the joey and freaks out. Mini kind of ruins things by coming back to say he warned him. I guess mice just fluctuate in size? Is that what rats really are? Whatever. Sylvester tries to fight off the &#8220;mouse&#8221; anyway and it goes about as well as you&#8217;d expect. A bulldog witnesses this and refuses to let Sylvester be treated as such. If the dog has a job of protecting the house, the cat has to do his job of mousing. Sylvester is thrown back in.<\/p>\n<p>He tackles Hippety and goes for a bumpy ride before once again ending up outside. He tries to explain that a giant mouse is doing this to him. The dog sends him back with some glasses to prove he&#8217;s seeing things. Besides, no one hits a guy with glasses on. Oh wait, Australians have no qualms about such things. (Or at least babies don&#8217;t.) The dog finally decides to take care of things himself. He sees Sylvester wasn&#8217;t kidding, but refuses to let a &#8220;mouse&#8221; kick him out. Hippety tries, but the dog has some great upper body strength and doesn&#8217;t budge. It takes a bite from Mini to get him to lose his footing and become kick-able.<\/p>\n<p>Mini threatens to pin his ears back if he comes back in. Despite what just happened, the dog calls his bluff and says he&#8217;ll take up ballet the day a mouse pins his ears back. And then he ends up with pinned ears. He does keep his word, but the jerk is so insecure that he forces Sylvester to do it with him. The two dance off into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA mouse as big as me!\u201d Directed by Robert McKimson; Story by Warren Foster; Animation by Pete Burness, John Carey, Charles McKimson, and Phil DeLara; Layouts by Cornett Wood; Backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas; Voice Characterization by Mel Blanc; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Merrie Melody released in 1949. 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