This article is about the cartoon character. For the cartoon, see. For other uses, see. Speedy Gonzales character First appearance (early version) August 29, 1953 (official version) September 17, 1955 Created by (prototype), (official) Voiced by (1953–1986) (1991–2008) (2003) (2003) (2006) (2011–2015) (2014) (2014) (2018–present) () Information Species Gender Male Family (cousin) Nationality Speedy Gonzales is an character in the and series of cartoons.
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He is portrayed as 'The Fastest Mouse in all ' with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast, speaking with an exaggerated and also speaking. 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.
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[ ] To date, there have been 46 cartoons made either starring or featuring this character. Speedy Gonzales from the 1955 of the same name. 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 had paired in his Road Runner cartoons. 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!' In the mid 1960s, Speedy's main rival became. Notable cartoon appearances [ ] • (1953) - Debut, prototype • (1955) - Debut, official, • (1957), Academy Award-nominated • (1959), Academy Award-nominated • (1961), Academy Award-nominated • (1965) - first appearance with Daffy Duck. • (1968) - final theatrical appearance. 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.' Despite such controversy over potentially offensive characterizations, Speedy Gonzales remained a popular character in Latin America.
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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. On the DVD box sets, when the DVD is first loaded, it will be introduced by a disclaimer which states: The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time.
They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were false then and are still false today. While the following does not represent the WB view of society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim these prejudices never existed.
Mexican American tennis great was at the peak of his fame in the years coming up to Speedy's first appearance, and in one cartoon Speedy is seen playing tennis with himself. Cultural theorist states that the name may have been derived from one of the jokes about a Mexican man nicknamed 'Speedy Gonzales' either because of his or of his ability to quickly grab a chance for copulation, though the name of the character was not intended to be derogatory.
Other appearances [ ]. Main article: In 1983, he co-starred in. In 1988, he made a cameo appearance in the ending scene of. He had one appearance in the episode segment 'The Acme Acres Summer Olympics', as the coach, and serving as the mentor of. In 1996, he made a short appearance in film. In 2003, he made a cameo appearance alongside in the film, 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 2009, he made a cameo appearance on in 'The Kat Whisperer'.