The Pied Piper of Guadalupe

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Airdate:	Runtime:
19 August 1961	6 min. 17 sec.

Series:

Looney Tunes

MPAA Number:	Production Number:
19772	1554

Copyright Renewed:

4 April 1989

Starring:

Sylvester
Speedy Gonzales
Pablo
Fernando
Hector the Bulldog

Crew

The Pied Piper of Guadalupe is a 1961 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt.

Title[]

The title is a pun on The Pied Piper of Hamlin.

Plot[]

Sylvester can't seem to catch the mice in his small Mexican town. As he paces outside a bookshop, he notices a copy of a Mexican Version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin and hatches an idea. He takes flute lessons from J.C. Melendez, then sets up a music stand and a jug outside a mousehole. The mice all laugh at him, but when he plays his flute, one of them gets a funny look on his face and dances toward the cat. When the mouse is close enough, Sylvester whacks it with his flute and drops it into the jug. He continues playing and a second mouse is similarly overcome by the music. When Armando Mouse begins dancing toward the cat, his friend grabs his tail to hold him back, but he is dragged outside and Sylvester gets the pair with one whack.

This continues until Sylvester thinks he has caught every mouse, but Speedy Gonzales announces there is one more. He demands that Sylvester put his friends back or he'll take them back. Sylvester tells him to try it, and uncorks the jug, thinking that when Speedy goes in for a rescue he'll catch him too, but Speedy's too fast for the cat and manages to drag one of the mice to safety. Sylvester plays his flute again and Speedy dances towards him, but instead of a funny look on his face, he wears a big grin. When Sylvester tries to whack him, he whacks the cat first, then rescues another of his friends.

Sylvester hides in a barrel with a dynamite stick, waiting to blow up Speedy when he passes. However, Speedy does not pass, he hops up on the barrel and starts it rolling. It rolls down a series of steps, then upends onto a sleeping bulldog. When the barrel explodes, the charred bulldog chases the singed cat through town.

Speedy rescues two more mice, but then Sylvester chases him on a motorcycle. He inexplicably drives the motorcycle off a cliff and into a lake. Then he restarts the bike while underwater, drives it back up the cliff, and resumes chasing Speedy. Speedy tricks him into driving the wrong way down a one-way street and he crashes into a bus.

Sylvester leaves the Cat Hospital on crutches, with many bandages and a cast on his leg. Speedy runs after him saying he forgot his flute, but he tells Speedy to keep it. When Speedy starts to play it, Sylvester's broken leg is overcome by the music and it dances after the mouse, causing him pain with every step. Instead of the pied piper leading the mice out of town as in the original story, the mouse leads the pied piper.

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Notes[]

This cartoon was used in Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales, but only showed a few small scenes such as Sylvester doing his Pied Piper routine trick to lure the mice out, Speedy coming to save the mice and then later used the ending scene in which Bugs did narration. A bit of new animation was used in the middle of the story so that it would lead up to another Speedy cartoon, "Mexican Boarders".
This was the first Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short to be written by John W. Dunn who would go on to write many of the cartoons of both series afterwards until 1965.
On the cartoon's 1985 Golden Jubilee VHS master as seen on VHS and on TV airings, despite using dark red borders in the opening Color Rings, the colored borders used for the rest of the opening credits seem to rapidly change color in tune to the opening title card music like disco lights. ^[1]^[2]^[3] The effect was achieved by moving a knob left and right on a video switcher changing the borders' hue as the master was being recorded. The colors flash from green, red, blue, and back to green first, and then they flash in the reverse order. This continues until the opening credits fade to black.

Music[]

"The Mexican Hat Dance"

Gallery[]

References[]

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

Sylvester Cartoons
1945	Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946	Kitty Kornered
1947	Tweetie Pie • Crowing Pains • Doggone Cats • Catch as Cats Can
1948	Back Alley Oproar • I Taw a Putty Tat • Hop, Look and Listen • Kit for Cat • Scaredy Cat
1949	Mouse Mazurka • Bad Ol' Putty Tat • Hippety Hopper
1950	Home, Tweet Home • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row • Stooge for a Mouse • Pop 'Im Pop!
1951	Canned Feud • Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Who's Kitten Who? • Gift Wrapped • Little Red Rodent Hood • Ain't She Tweet • Hoppy Go Lucky • A Bird in a Guilty Cage • Tree for Two
1953	Snow Business • A Mouse Divided • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered • Cats A-weigh!
1954	Dog Pounded • Bell Hoppy • Dr. Jerkyl's Hide • Claws for Alarm • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' • By Word of Mouse
1955	Lighthouse Mouse • Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Jumpin' Jupiter • A Kiddies Kitty • Speedy Gonzales • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned • Pappy's Puppy
1956	Too Hop to Handle • Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • The Unexpected Pest • Tugboat Granny • The Slap-Hoppy Mouse • Yankee Dood It
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety • Mouse-Taken Identity • Gonzales' Tamales
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Cat's Paw • Here Today, Gone Tamale • Tweet Dreams
1960	West of the Pesos • Goldimouse and the Three Cats • Hyde and Go Tweet • Mouse and Garden • Trip for Tat
1961	Cannery Woe • Hoppy Daze • Birds of a Father • D' Fightin' Ones • The Rebel Without Claws • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	Fish and Slips • Mexican Boarders • The Jet Cage
1963	Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather • Claws in the Lease
1964	A Message to Gracias • Freudy Cat • Nuts and Volts • Hawaiian Aye Aye • Road to Andalay
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase
1966	A Taste of Catnip
1980	The Yolks on You
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	Father of the Bird
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

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