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	'''Speedy Gonzales''' is an ] character in the ] '']'' and '']'' series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all ]" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast, being quick-witted and heroic while speaking with an exaggerated ].<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Lenburg \|first1=Jeff \|title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons \|date=1999 \|publisher=Checkmark Books \|isbn=0-8160-3831-7 \|access-date=6 June 2020 \|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/137/mode/2up \|page=137}}</ref> He usually wears a yellow '']'', white shirt and trousers (which was a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages), and a red ], similar to that of some traditional Mexican attires.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Puebla: trajes típicos\|url=http://www.profesorenlinea.cl/Paisesmundo/Mexico/Puebla/Puebla_Trajes_Tipicos.html\|access-date=23 March 2014}}</ref> ~~To date, there~~ have been 46 theatrical shorts made either starring or featuring the character.		'''Speedy Gonzales''' is an ] character in the ] '']'' and '']'' series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all ]" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast, being quick-witted and heroic while speaking with an exaggerated ].<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Lenburg \|first1=Jeff \|title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons \|date=1999 \|publisher=Checkmark Books \|isbn=0-8160-3831-7 \|access-date=6 June 2020 \|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/137/mode/2up \|page=137}}</ref> He usually wears a yellow '']'', white shirt and trousers (which was a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages), and a red ], similar to that of some traditional Mexican attires.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Puebla: trajes típicos\|url=http://www.profesorenlinea.cl/Paisesmundo/Mexico/Puebla/Puebla_Trajes_Tipicos.html\|access-date=23 March 2014}}</ref> There have been 46 theatrical shorts made either starring or featuring the character.

	==History==		==History==
	]'' (animated by ]).]]		]'' (animated by ])]]
	Speedy's first appearance was in 1953's '']'' though he appeared largely in name (and super speed) only.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Rovin \|first1=Jeff \|title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals \|date=1991 \|publisher=Prentice Hall Press \|isbn=0-13-275561-0 \|access-date=8 April 2020 \|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc00rovi/page/246/mode/2up/ \|page=246}}</ref> It would be two years before ] and layout artist ] redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for ]. The cartoon features ] guarding a cheese factory at the international border between the United States and Mexico from starving Mexican mice. The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy (voiced by ]) to save them. Amid cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! Yeehaw!" (] for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although "Ándale arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up"), Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The cartoon won the 1955 ].		Speedy's first appearance was in 1953's '']'' though he appeared largely in name (and super speed) only.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Rovin \|first1=Jeff \|title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals \|date=1991 \|publisher=Prentice Hall Press \|isbn=0-13-275561-0 \|access-date=8 April 2020 \|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc00rovi/page/246/mode/2up/ \|page=246}}</ref> It would be two years before ] and layout artist ] redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for ]. The cartoon features ] guarding a cheese factory at the international border between the United States and Mexico from starving Mexican mice. The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy (voiced by ]) to save them. Amid cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! Yeehaw!" (] for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although "Ándale arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up"), Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The cartoon won the 1955 ].

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	Freleng and McKimson soon set Sylvester up as Speedy's regular nemesis in a series of cartoons, much in the same way ] had paired ] in his Road Runner cartoons (and indeed, all four characters ended up competing with each other in the short "The Wild Chase"). Sylvester (often called "''El ] Pussygato''" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of ] ]. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, ], the "slowest Mouse in all Mexico." Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him—but one cat in '']'' says that as if to compensate for his slowness, "he pack a gun!"<ref name="gun">{{cite web \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe_bG4VFmU \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019110535/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe_bG4VFmU\| archive-date=2013-10-19 \| url-status=dead\|title=Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez in Mexicali Shmoes \|website=YouTube \|access-date=April 11, 2010}}</ref> In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main rival and second nemesis became ], whom Speedy usually referred to as "the ] duck."		Freleng and McKimson soon set Sylvester up as Speedy's regular nemesis in a series of cartoons, much in the same way ] had paired ] in his Road Runner cartoons (and indeed, all four characters ended up competing with each other in the short "The Wild Chase"). Sylvester (often called "''El ] Pussygato''" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of ] ]. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, ], the "slowest Mouse in all Mexico." Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him—but one cat in '']'' says that as if to compensate for his slowness, "he pack a gun!"<ref name="gun">{{cite web \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe_bG4VFmU \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019110535/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe_bG4VFmU\| archive-date=2013-10-19 \| url-status=dead\|title=Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez in Mexicali Shmoes \|website=YouTube \|access-date=April 11, 2010}}</ref> In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main rival and second nemesis became ], whom Speedy usually referred to as "the ] duck."

	Speedy has the reputation of being a hit with the female mice. In many cartoons, when the mice decide to get Speedy to help them, one ~~mouse will say words to~~ the ~~effect~~ of "Speedy Gonzales is friend of my sister". Another mouse ~~will~~ ~~say~~ "Speedy Gonzales is friend of ~~everyone~~'s sister".		Speedy has the reputation of being a hit with the female mice. In many cartoons, when the mice decide to get Speedy to help them, one of the mice mentions that "Speedy Gonzales is friend of my sister". Another mouse adds that, "Speedy Gonzales is friend of ''everybody's'' sister", which earns a big laugh from the other mice.

	===Notable cartoon appearances===		===Notable cartoon appearances===
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	* '']'' (1968) – final theatrical appearance.		* '']'' (1968) – final theatrical appearance.

			==Controversy==
	==Concern about stereotypes==
	Feeling that the character presented an offensive Mexican stereotype, ] shelved Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999 (as a subsidiary of ], Cartoon Network is a corporate sibling to Warner Bros.). In an interview with ] on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, "It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ]."<ref name="caged">{{cite web \|url=~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/story/~~0,2933,48872,00.html~~ \|title=Speedy Gonzales Caged by Cartoon Network \|access-date=July 7, 2009 \|last=Park \|first=Michael Y. \|date=March 28, 2002 \|publisher=] \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116073419/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48872,00.html \|archive-date=January 16, 2012 \|url-status=~~dead~~ }}</ref>		Feeling that the character presented an offensive Mexican stereotype, ] shelved Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999 (as a subsidiary of ], Cartoon Network is a corporate sibling to Warner Bros.). In an interview with ] on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, "It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ]."<ref name="caged">{{cite web \|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/speedy-gonzales-caged-by-cartoon-network \|title=Speedy Gonzales Caged by Cartoon Network \|access-date=July 7, 2009 \|last=Park \|first=Michael Y. \|date=March 28, 2002 \|publisher=] \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116073419/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48872,00.html \|archive-date=January 16, 2012 \|url-status=live}}</ref>

	The Hispanic-American rights organization ] called Speedy a ], and thousands of users registered their support of the character on the hispaniconline.com message boards. Fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air resulted in the return of the animated shorts to ] in 2002.<ref>{{cite news \|last=Emling \|first=Shelly \|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=070aAAAAIBAJ&pg=6719,566640&dq=speedy+gonzalez+cartoon+network&hl=en \|title=A Speedy return: Cartoon Network putting Mexican mouse back in the lineup \|access-date=November 6, 2010 \|date=June 21, 2002 \|newspaper=] \|page=10B }}{{Dead link\|date=December 2021 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>		The Hispanic-American rights organization ] called Speedy a ], and thousands of users registered their support of the character on the hispaniconline.com message boards. Fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air resulted in the return of the animated shorts to ] in 2002.<ref>{{cite news \|last=Emling \|first=Shelly \|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=070aAAAAIBAJ&pg=6719,566640&dq=speedy+gonzalez+cartoon+network&hl=en \|title=A Speedy return: Cartoon Network putting Mexican mouse back in the lineup \|access-date=November 6, 2010 \|date=June 21, 2002 \|newspaper=] \|page=10B}}{{Dead link\|date=December 2021 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

	Speedy Gonzales remained a popular character in Latin America. Many Hispanic people remembered him fondly as a quick-witted, heroic Mexican character who always got the best of his opponents, at a time when such positive depictions of Latin Americans were rare in popular entertainment.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Epstein \|first1=Adam \|title=Looney Tunes' most racially stereotypical character is about to get his own movie \|url=https://qz.com/655010/looney-tunes-most-racially-stereotypical-character-is-about-to-get-his-own-movie/ \|access-date=30 December 2020 \|work=Quartz \|date=5 April 2016}}</ref>		Speedy Gonzales remained a popular character in Latin America. Many Hispanic people remembered him fondly as a quick-witted, heroic Mexican character who always got the best of his opponents, at a time when such positive depictions of Latin Americans were rare in popular entertainment.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Epstein \|first1=Adam \|title=Looney Tunes' most racially stereotypical character is about to get his own movie \|url=https://qz.com/655010/looney-tunes-most-racially-stereotypical-character-is-about-to-get-his-own-movie/ \|access-date=30 December 2020 \|work=Quartz \|date=5 April 2016}}</ref>

	In 2006, ] licensed Speedy Gonzales for a series of Spanish-language commercials for the ], using footage from the ].<ref name="Indiacar.net">{{cite web \|url=http://www.indiacar.net/news/n26151.htm \|title=Arriba! VW Turns to Speedy Gonzales To Push GTI \|access-date=July 7, 2009 \|date=March 20, 2006 \|publisher=Indiacar.net \|archive-date=September 3, 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903231817/http://www.indiacar.net/news/n26151.htm \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		In 2006, ] licensed Speedy Gonzales for a series of Spanish-language commercials for the ], using footage from the ].<ref name="Indiacar.net">{{cite web \|url=http://www.indiacar.net/news/n26151.htm \|title=Arriba! VW Turns to Speedy Gonzales To Push GTI \|access-date=July 7, 2009 \|date=March 20, 2006 \|publisher=Indiacar.net \|archive-date=September 3, 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903231817/http://www.indiacar.net/news/n26151.htm \|url-status=dead}}</ref>

	In a March 2021 essay, '']'' columnist ] wrote, “I love Speedy so much, I keep a large painting of him in my home office. His kind smile and brown skin takes me back to my childhood — and reminds me of where we as Mexicans exist today.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Arellano\|first=Gustavo\|date=2021-03-17\|title=Column: Why do so many Mexican Americans defend Speedy Gonzales?\|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-17/speedy-gonzales-cancelled-hollywood-mexican-americans\|access-date=2021-03-18\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>		In a March 2021 essay, '']'' columnist ] wrote, “I love Speedy so much, I keep a large painting of him in my home office. His kind smile and brown skin takes me back to my childhood — and reminds me of where we as Mexicans exist today.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Arellano\|first=Gustavo\|date=2021-03-17\|title=Column: Why do so many Mexican Americans defend Speedy Gonzales?\|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-17/speedy-gonzales-cancelled-hollywood-mexican-americans\|access-date=2021-03-18\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>
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	==Other appearances==		==Other appearances==
	{{main\|List of Speedy Gonzales cartoons}}		{{main\|List of Speedy Gonzales cartoons}}
	In 1983, he co-starred with Daffy Duck once again in '']''. He also made a cameo appearance in the finale sequence of the 1988 film '']''.<ref name="Montilla 141">{{cite book\|last=Montilla\|first=Patricia M.\|title=Latinos and American Popular Culture\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nW6jAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA141\|date=10 October 2013\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|isbn=978-0-313-39223-8\|page=141}}</ref> He had one appearance in the '']'' episode segment "The Acme Acres Summer Olympics", as the coach, and serving as the mentor of ]. He had a minor role in the 1996 film '']''.<ref name="Montilla 141" /> He made a cameo appearance alongside ] in the 2003 film '']'',<ref name="Montilla 141" /> making fun of his ] status. At around the same time, he made a non-speaking cameo in an episode of '']'' titled "Lucha, Rinse and Repeat".		In 1983, he co-starred with Daffy Duck once again in '']''. He also made a cameo appearance in the finale sequence of the 1988 film '']''.<ref name="Montilla 141">{{cite book\|last=Montilla\|first=Patricia M.\|title=Latinos and American Popular Culture\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nW6jAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA141\|date=10 October 2013\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|isbn=978-0-313-39223-8\|page=141}}</ref> He had one appearance in the '']'' episode segment "The Acme Acres Summer Olympics", as the coach, and serving as the mentor of ]. He had a minor role in the 1996 film '']''.<ref name="Montilla 141" /> He made a cameo appearance alongside ] in the 2003 film '']'',<ref name="Montilla 141" /> making fun of his ] status. At around the same time, he made a non-speaking cameo in an episode of '']'' titled "Lucha, Rinse and Repeat".

	Volume 4 of the '']'' DVD series, released on November 14, 2006, has an entire disc of Speedy shorts, although some of his other shorts had previously been released on Volumes 1 and 3. Speedy is mentioned in one '']'' episode, after ] sits on Dodgers, prompting him to say, "I knew I should've chosen Speedy Gonzales as a sidekick!"		Volume 4 of the '']'' DVD series, released on November 14, 2006, has an entire disc of Speedy shorts, although some of his other shorts had previously been released on Volumes 1 and 3. Speedy is mentioned in one '']'' episode, after ] sits on Dodgers, prompting him to say, "I knew I should've chosen Speedy Gonzales as a sidekick!"
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	Speedy Gonzales appeared occasionally in '']'', often as the leader of a gang of mice that also includes Hubie and Bertie, Sniffles, and "Minnesota Rats" (originally Minniesoda Fats; an aborted 1970s character revived and fleshed out in this series). He seems to have reverted to his personality from '']''.		Speedy Gonzales appeared occasionally in '']'', often as the leader of a gang of mice that also includes Hubie and Bertie, Sniffles, and "Minnesota Rats" (originally Minniesoda Fats; an aborted 1970s character revived and fleshed out in this series). He seems to have reverted to his personality from '']''.

	Speedy ~~was~~ ~~featured~~ in ~~an episode of~~ '']'' ~~titled~~ "Speedy", voiced by Raul Ceballos. In the ~~episode~~, he is a professional soccer player and hired the Looney Builders to fly to Mexico and build a soccer stadium for his soccer game with his four teammates.		Speedy Gonzales appeared in the '']'' episode "Speedy", voiced by Raul Ceballos. In the show, he is a professional soccer player and hired the Looney Builders to fly to Mexico and build a soccer stadium for his soccer game with his four teammates.

			==Inspiration of the character's name==
			Though Speedy Gonzales is purely a fictional character, the name was inspired by Frank Gonzales, an assistant animator who was working at Warner Bros. at the time. These facts were described by another Warner Bros. employee, ], who was present during the event.<ref>{{Cite AV media \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAGZAqnVpFs \|title=How Speedy Gonzales got his name \|date=2010-04-06 \|last=Bob Sigall \|access-date=2024-10-21 \|via=YouTube}}</ref>

	==In other media==		==In other media==
	In 1962, pop singer ] scored a top 10 hit in the United States with the song "]" which featured Mel Blanc ] as Speedy. It was ~~also~~ ~~sung~~ by ] and several other artists.		In 1962, pop singer ] scored a top 10 hit in the United States with the song "]" which featured Mel Blanc ] as Speedy. It was ] by ] and several other artists.

	In 1965, the movie '']'' included the song "Little Speedy Gonzales" which was written by Stan Ross and Bobby Beverly and performed by ].<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059913/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd \|title=IMDB Wild on the Beach, soundtracks \|website=IMDB \|access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref>		In 1965, the movie '']'' included the song "Little Speedy Gonzales" which was written by Stan Ross and Bobby Beverly and performed by ].<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059913/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd \|title=IMDB Wild on the Beach, soundtracks \|website=IMDB \|access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref>
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	Speedy Gonzales starred in several video games: '']'' for the ], ], and ], '']'' for the ], ''Speedy Gonzales'' for the ] and '']'' for the ]. He also appeared as an enemy in '']'', and '']'' as both a ] and ].		Speedy Gonzales starred in several video games: '']'' for the ], ], and ], '']'' for the ], ''Speedy Gonzales'' for the ] and '']'' for the ]. He also appeared as an enemy in '']'', and '']'' as both a ] and ].

	In the 2018 film ], ] has a tattoo of Gonzalez.		In the 2018 film ], ] has a tattoo of Gonzalez.

	== Film adaptation ==		==Film adaptation==
	In 2010, ] and ] announced a new Speedy Gonzales live action / animated feature film. ] was attached to voice the character.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Fernandez \|first1=Jay A. \|title=New Line making Speedy Gonzales film; George Lopez to voice character \|url=http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/speedy-gonzales-george-lopez-film-new-line-jerry-weintraub.html\|work=The Hollywood Reporter\|date=February 23, 2010 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227082731/http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/speedy-gonzales-george-lopez-film-new-line-jerry-weintraub.html \|archive-date=February 27, 2010}}</ref> In December 2015, it was reported that an animated film is in development at Warner Bros.<ref>{{cite web \|first=Josh \|last=Lyons \|title=(Exclusive) Warner Bros. running with "Speedy Gonzales" animated feature \|url=http://www.tracking-board.com/exclusive-warner-bros-running-with-speedy-gonzales-animated-feature/ \|publisher=The Tracking Board \|access-date=January 25, 2016 \|date=December 11, 2015}}</ref> In April 2016, it was announced that ] will voice the character.<ref>{{cite web\|title='Speedy Gonzales' Eyed As Animated Feature At Warner Bros.\|first=Anita\|last=Busch\|url=https://deadline.com/2016/04/speedy-gonzales-animated-movie-eugenio-derbez-warner-bros-1201730245/\|website=]\|access-date=April 4, 2016\|date=April 4, 2016}}</ref>		In 2010, ] and ] announced a new Speedy Gonzales live action/animated feature film. ] was attached to voice the character.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Fernandez \|first1=Jay A. \|title=New Line making Speedy Gonzales film; George Lopez to voice character \|url=http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/speedy-gonzales-george-lopez-film-new-line-jerry-weintraub.html\|work=The Hollywood Reporter\|date=February 23, 2010 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227082731/http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/speedy-gonzales-george-lopez-film-new-line-jerry-weintraub.html \|archive-date=February 27, 2010}}</ref> In December 2015, it was reported that an animated film is in development at Warner Bros.<ref>{{cite web \|first=Josh \|last=Lyons \|title=(Exclusive) Warner Bros. running with "Speedy Gonzales" animated feature \|url=http://www.tracking-board.com/exclusive-warner-bros-running-with-speedy-gonzales-animated-feature/ \|publisher=The Tracking Board \|access-date=January 25, 2016 \|date=December 11, 2015}}</ref> In April 2016, it was announced that ] will voice the character.<ref>{{cite web\|title='Speedy Gonzales' Eyed As Animated Feature At Warner Bros.\|first=Anita\|last=Busch\|url=https://deadline.com/2016/04/speedy-gonzales-animated-movie-eugenio-derbez-warner-bros-1201730245/\|website=]\|access-date=April 4, 2016\|date=April 4, 2016}}</ref> In April 2024, during an interview, Eugenio Derbez said that he doubts that the movie will happen saying “I feel that the studios are afraid that, nowadays, it's so politically incorrect. I've been telling them constantly that we love Speedy Gonzales in ]” <ref>{{Cite web \|last=Topel \|first=Fred \|date=2024-04-12 \|title=Eugenio Derbez: 'Speedy Gonzales' movie fell apart because 'studios are afraid' \|url=https://www.upi.com/amp/Entertainment_News/Movies/2024/04/12/Eugenio-Derbez-Speedy-Gonzales-movie/7191712949196/ \|access-date=2024-04-12 \|website=UPI \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	==Voice actors==		==Voice actors==
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	* ] ("]" in '']'')<ref name="Blue Peter">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyn4KJzbL3c\| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Kyn4KJzbL3c\| archive-date=2021-12-11 \| url-status=live\|title=Banana Boat Song with Bugs Bunny and Speedy Gonzales\|publisher=YouTube\|access-date=May 14, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>		* ] ("]" in '']'')<ref name="Blue Peter">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyn4KJzbL3c\| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Kyn4KJzbL3c\| archive-date=2021-12-11 \| url-status=live\|title=Banana Boat Song with Bugs Bunny and Speedy Gonzales\|publisher=YouTube\|access-date=May 14, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
	* ] (''You Rang?'' answering machine messages,<ref name="You Rang">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jIsuSu8NSA&t=332s\|title=You Rang? Answering Machine Messages Bugs Bunny\|publisher=YouTube\|access-date=July 7, 2022}}</ref> '']'', ] commercial<ref name="MetLife">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEZ4cXFohQ&t=9s\| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/DzEZ4cXFohQ\| archive-date=2021-12-11 \| url-status=live\|title=MetLife Cartoon Super Bowl Commercial Old-School Cartoons Star In New Ad\|publisher=YouTube\|access-date=February 24, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>)		* ] (''You Rang?'' answering machine messages,<ref name="You Rang">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jIsuSu8NSA&t=332s\|title=You Rang? Answering Machine Messages Bugs Bunny\|publisher=YouTube\|access-date=July 7, 2022}}</ref> '']'', ] commercial<ref name="MetLife">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEZ4cXFohQ&t=9s\| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/DzEZ4cXFohQ\| archive-date=2021-12-11 \| url-status=live\|title=MetLife Cartoon Super Bowl Commercial Old-School Cartoons Star In New Ad\|publisher=YouTube\|access-date=February 24, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>)
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Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character This article is about the cartoon character. For the film, see Speedy Gonzales (film). For other uses, see Speedy Gonzales (disambiguation).

Fictional character

Speedy Gonzales
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies character

First appearance	Cat-Tails for Two (August 29, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-08-29)) (preliminary version) Speedy Gonzales (September 17, 1955; 69 years ago (1955-09-17)) (official version)
Created by	Robert McKimson
Voiced by	Mel Blanc (1953–1989) Noel Blanc (1990, 2012) Jeff Bergman (1990, 2002) Joe Alaskey (1991–2008) Greg Burson (1994–1995, 1998) Eric Goldberg (2003) Billy West (2003) Bob Bergen (2006–2008) Fred Armisen (2011–2015) Tim Dadabo (2011, 2014) Eric Bauza (2014–present) Dino Andrade (2018) Gabriel Iglesias (2021) Raul Ceballos (2023–present) see below)
In-universe information
Species	Mouse
Gender	Male
Family	Slowpoke Rodriguez (cousin)
Nationality	Mexican

Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast, being quick-witted and heroic while speaking with an exaggerated Mexican accent. He usually wears a yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers (which was a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages), and a red kerchief, similar to that of some traditional Mexican attires. There have been 46 theatrical shorts made either starring or featuring the character.

History

A still of an early version of Speedy Gonzales as appeared in *Cat-Tails for Two* (animated by Charles McKimson)

Speedy's first appearance was in 1953's Cat-Tails for Two though he appeared largely in name (and super speed) only. It would be two years before Friz Freleng and layout artist Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short of the same name. The cartoon features Sylvester the Cat guarding a cheese factory at the international border between the United States and Mexico from starving Mexican mice. The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy (voiced by Mel Blanc) to save them. Amid cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! ¡Epe! Yeehaw!" (Spanish for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although "Ándale arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up"), Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

While Speedy's last name was given as Gonzalez in Cat-Tails (on a printed business card shown in the cartoon), it was spelled with an 's' from Speedy Gonzales onward. Today, the earlier spelling is sometimes used.

Freleng and McKimson soon set Sylvester up as Speedy's regular nemesis in a series of cartoons, much in the same way Chuck Jones had paired Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner in his Road Runner cartoons (and indeed, all four characters ended up competing with each other in the short "The Wild Chase"). Sylvester (often called "El Gringo Pussygato" by Speedy) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of Tabasco hot sauce. Other cartoons pair the mouse with his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, the "slowest Mouse in all Mexico." Slowpoke regularly gets into all sorts of trouble that often require Speedy to save him—but one cat in Mexicali Shmoes says that as if to compensate for his slowness, "he pack a gun!" In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main rival and second nemesis became Daffy Duck, whom Speedy usually referred to as "the loco duck."

Speedy has the reputation of being a hit with the female mice. In many cartoons, when the mice decide to get Speedy to help them, one of the mice mentions that "Speedy Gonzales is friend of my sister". Another mouse adds that, "Speedy Gonzales is friend of everybody's sister", which earns a big laugh from the other mice.

Notable cartoon appearances

Cat-Tails for Two (1953) – Early version
Speedy Gonzales (1955) – Debut, official, Academy Award-winner, 28th (1955) – Short Subject (Cartoon)
Tabasco Road (1957), Academy Award-nominated
Mexicali Shmoes (1959), Academy Award-nominated
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961), Academy Award-nominated
A Message to Gracias (1964) – One of the rare Speedy Gonzales cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965) – first appearance with Daffy Duck.
See Ya Later Gladiator (1968) – final theatrical appearance.

Controversy

Feeling that the character presented an offensive Mexican stereotype, Cartoon Network shelved Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999 (as a subsidiary of Time Warner, Cartoon Network is a corporate sibling to Warner Bros.). In an interview with Fox News on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, "It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ethnic stereotypes."

The Hispanic-American rights organization League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy a cultural icon, and thousands of users registered their support of the character on the hispaniconline.com message boards. Fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air resulted in the return of the animated shorts to Cartoon Network in 2002.

Speedy Gonzales remained a popular character in Latin America. Many Hispanic people remembered him fondly as a quick-witted, heroic Mexican character who always got the best of his opponents, at a time when such positive depictions of Latin Americans were rare in popular entertainment.

In 2006, Volkswagen licensed Speedy Gonzales for a series of Spanish-language commercials for the Volkswagen Golf, using footage from the cartoon of the same name.

In a March 2021 essay, Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano wrote, “I love Speedy so much, I keep a large painting of him in my home office. His kind smile and brown skin takes me back to my childhood — and reminds me of where we as Mexicans exist today.”

Other appearances

Main article: List of Speedy Gonzales cartoons

In 1983, he co-starred with Daffy Duck once again in Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island. He also made a cameo appearance in the finale sequence of the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He had one appearance in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode segment "The Acme Acres Summer Olympics", as the coach, and serving as the mentor of Lightning Rodriguez. He had a minor role in the 1996 film Space Jam. He made a cameo appearance alongside Porky Pig in the 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, making fun of his politically incorrect status. At around the same time, he made a non-speaking cameo in an episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! titled "Lucha, Rinse and Repeat".

Volume 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, released on November 14, 2006, has an entire disc of Speedy shorts, although some of his other shorts had previously been released on Volumes 1 and 3. Speedy is mentioned in one Duck Dodgers episode, after Cadet sits on Dodgers, prompting him to say, "I knew I should've chosen Speedy Gonzales as a sidekick!"

Speedy Gonzales appears in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas. He is an employee at the Lucky Duck Superstore for the greedy Daffy Duck where he confuses Daffy with the Feliz Navidad comment.

Speedy Gonzales also appeared occasionally on The Looney Tunes Show. He is seen living with Bugs and Daffy as their "mouse in the wall" and running the pizza parlor Pizzarriba. Speedy is shown to act as Daffy's conscience, which is a far cry from the antagonistic relationship they had in the old days. The episode "Sunday Night Slice" showed that Bugs bought his favorite restaurant, Girardi's, to prevent it from being closed and hired Speedy to help him. When Bugs decides he does not want to own a restaurant anymore, he hands ownership of it to Speedy. In "The Black Widow", Speedy Gonzales answers Daffy Duck's call and races to Tacapulco to convince his cousin Sheriff Slowpoke Rodriguez to let Daffy Duck and Porky Pig out of jail.

Speedy Gonzales appeared in the 2015 direct-to-video movie Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run. He is seen as Lola Bunny's landlord.

An elderly Speedy Gonzales (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) was "interviewed" by Al Madrigal for Madrigal's one-hour comedic documentary special Half Like Me (currently available on YouTube and formerly on Hulu).

Speedy Gonzales appeared occasionally in New Looney Tunes, often as the leader of a gang of mice that also includes Hubie and Bertie, Sniffles, and "Minnesota Rats" (originally Minniesoda Fats; an aborted 1970s character revived and fleshed out in this series). He seems to have reverted to his personality from Merrie Melodies.

Speedy Gonzales appeared in the Bugs Bunny Builders episode "Speedy", voiced by Raul Ceballos. In the show, he is a professional soccer player and hired the Looney Builders to fly to Mexico and build a soccer stadium for his soccer game with his four teammates.

Inspiration of the character's name

Though Speedy Gonzales is purely a fictional character, the name was inspired by Frank Gonzales, an assistant animator who was working at Warner Bros. at the time. These facts were described by another Warner Bros. employee, Martha Goldman Sigall, who was present during the event.

In other media

In 1962, pop singer Pat Boone scored a top 10 hit in the United States with the song "Speedy Gonzales" which featured Mel Blanc samples as Speedy. It was covered by Manolo Muñoz and several other artists.

In 1965, the movie Wild on the Beach included the song "Little Speedy Gonzales" which was written by Stan Ross and Bobby Beverly and performed by The Astronauts.

In 1995, he appeared in a video game, Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

In 2006, Volkswagen licensed Speedy Gonzales for a series of Spanish-language commercials for the Volkswagen Golf, using footage from the cartoon of the same name.

Speedy Gonzales starred in several video games: Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring Speedy Gonzales for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, and Game Gear, Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Speedy Gonzales for the Game Boy and Speedy Gonzales: Aztec Adventure for the Game Boy Color. He also appeared as an enemy in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and Looney Tunes: Marvin Strikes Back! as both a miniboss and playable character.

In the 2018 film Overboard, Eugenio Derbez has a tattoo of Gonzalez.

Film adaptation

In 2010, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema announced a new Speedy Gonzales live action/animated feature film. George Lopez was attached to voice the character. In December 2015, it was reported that an animated film is in development at Warner Bros. In April 2016, it was announced that Eugenio Derbez will voice the character. In April 2024, during an interview, Eugenio Derbez said that he doubts that the movie will happen saying “I feel that the studios are afraid that, nowadays, it's so politically incorrect. I've been telling them constantly that we love Speedy Gonzales in Mexico”

Voice actors

Mel Blanc (1953–1989)
Malcolm McNeill (Spin a Magic Tune)
Stan Freberg ("Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" in Blue Peter)
Noel Blanc (You Rang? answering machine messages, Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball, MetLife commercial)
Jeff Bergman (Tyson Foods commercial, Toon Biography: Speedy Gonzales)
Joe Alaskey (Tiny Toon Adventures, Looney Tunes River Ride, Yosemite Sam and the Gold River Adventure!, Sunsoft commercial, The Looney Tunes Kwazy Christmas, Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor)
Greg Burson (Acme Animation Factory, Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos, Bugs Bunny's Learning Adventures, Quest for Camelot promotion)
Keith Scott (Canon commercials, The Looney Tunes Radio Show, Looney Rock)
Eric Goldberg (Looney Tunes: Back in Action)
Billy West (Looney Tunes: Back in Action – The Video Game)
James Arnold Taylor (Drawn Together)
Seth Green (Robot Chicken)
Bob Bergen (Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, A Looney Tunes Sing-A-Long Christmas, Volkswagen commercials)
Kerry Shale (Virgin Media commercials)
Fred Armisen (The Looney Tunes Show, Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run)
Tim Dadabo (singing voice in The Looney Tunes Show, speaking voice in Scooby Doo and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe)
Carlos Alazraqui (Half Like Me)
Eric Bauza (Looney Tunes Dash, Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem)
Dino Andrade (New Looney Tunes)
Gabriel Iglesias (Space Jam: A New Legacy)
Raul Ceballos (Bugs Bunny Builders)

References

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"You Rang? Answering Machine Messages Bugs Bunny". YouTube. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
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External links

Media related to Speedy Gonzales at Wikimedia Commons

Speedy Gonzales at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 29, 2017.
The Tex(t)-Mex Galleryblog an archive for the second edition of the University of Texas Press (2007) book on stereotypes.
Moreno, Carolina (April 7, 2016). "Is Speedy Gonzales A Mexican Hero Or A Stereotype In Cartoon Form?". HuffPost. Retrieved January 17, 2018.

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies

Studios

Harman-Ising Productions (1930–1933)
Leon Schlesinger Productions (1933–1944)
Warner Bros. Cartoons (1944–1964)
DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (1964–1967, 1979–1980)
Format Films (1965–1967)
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (1967–1969)
Chuck Jones Enterprises (1976–1980, 1994–1997)
Warner Bros. Animation (1980–present)

People

Characters

Major

Secondary

Shorts

Feature films

Compilations	The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island Daffy Duck's Quackbusters The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
Feature-length theatrical animated	The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Live-action/animation	Space Jam Looney Tunes: Back in Action Space Jam: A New Legacy Coyote vs. Acme
Direct-to-video	Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation Tweety's High-Flying Adventure Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam King Tweety Taz: Quest for Burger
Documentaries	Bugs Bunny: Superstar Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons Chuck Amuck: The Movie

Television
series

Compilations	The Bugs Bunny Show The Porky Pig Show The Road Runner Show The Merrie Melodies Show Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends Bugs 'n' Daffy
Originals	Tiny Toon Adventures Taz-Mania The Plucky Duck Show Animaniacs Pinky and the Brain The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain Baby Looney Tunes Duck Dodgers Loonatics Unleashed The Looney Tunes Show Wabbit/New Looney Tunes Looney Tunes Cartoons Animaniacs 2020 Bugs Bunny Builders Tiny Toons Looniversity

Television
specials

Music/songs

Attractions

Other

Category

Speedy Gonzales in animation

List of Speedy Gonzales cartoons

Short films

1950s	Cat-Tails for Two (1953; prototype) Speedy Gonzales (1955) Tabasco Road (1957) Gonzales' Tamales (1957) Tortilla Flaps (1958) Mexicali Shmoes (1959) Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959)
1960s	West of the Pesos (1960) Cannery Woe (1961) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) Mexican Boarders (1962) Mexican Cat Dance (1963) Chili Weather (1963) A Message to Gracias (1964) Nuts and Volts (1964) Pancho's Hideaway (1964) Road to Andalay (1964) It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965) Cats and Bruises (1965) The Wild Chase (1965) Moby Duck (1965) Assault and Peppered Well Worn Daffy (1965) Chili Corn Corny (1965) Go Go Amigo (1965) The Astroduck (1966) Mucho Locos (1966) Mexican Mousepiece (1966) Daffy Rents (1966) A-Haunting We Will Go (1966) Snow Excuse (1966) A Squeak in the Deep (1966) Feather Finger (1966) Swing Ding Amigo (1966) A Taste of Catnip (1966) Daffy's Diner (1967) Quacker Tracker (1967) The Music Mice-Tro (1967) The Spy Swatter (1967) Speedy Ghost to Town (1967) Rodent to Stardom (1967) Go Away Stowaway (1967) Fiesta Fiasco (1967) Skyscraper Caper (1968) See Ya Later Gladiator (1968)
1970s	The Fright Before Christmas (1979; cameo)
1980s	The Chocolate Chase (1980)

Feature films

Theatrical	Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982; archive footage) Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003; cameo) Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Direct-to-video	Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000; cameo) Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006; cameo) Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015)

TV series

The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2013)
New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)

TV specials

Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977)
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)

Looney Tunes video games

Bugs Bunny

Birthday Blowout Birthday Ball Rabbit Rampage Double Trouble Operation Carrot Patch Lost in Time Time Busters
Crazy Castle	Crazy Castle Crazy Castle 2 Crazy Castle 3 Crazy Castle 4