The Spy Swatter is a 1967 Looney Tunes short directed by Rudy Larriva.
Plot[]
A scientist mouse invents a secret strength formula that can give a mouse the strength of ten cats. After testing the formula against a robotic cat, Speedy Gonzales is tasked with bringing the formula to a cheese factory. Unfortunately, Daffy Duck has been sent by a cat rival agency hosted by Sam Cat to stop him.
Daffy flies out of the agency using a jetpack and to where Speedy is, but the jetpack runs out gas and Daffy crashes down a manhole. Daffy uses a spymobile to ram after Speedy, but he eventually crashes into a cement truck. Using the remains of his car, Daffy uses a machine gun against Speedy, but misses until he gets crushed and electrocuted by a telephone pole. When Speedy makes it to the cheese factory, Daffy tries to ambush him with a hand gun until Daffy blasts himself. The final plan, a mouse-seeking missile, is changed by Speedy to a duck-seeking missile; Daffy frantically returns to his base and it blows up there, destroying the office while Sam is still in there. Speedy pops in the door, "I want to tell you a secret. Us good guys always win!"
Censorship[]
- On CBS, the following parts are cut:
- Daffy crashing his car into a telephone pole and getting electrocuted by a falling wire.
- Daffy and Sam getting blown up by the mouse-seeking missile.
Notes[]
- This was the last of the three "buffer cartoons" produced by Format Films in between Warner Bros. ending its contract with previous Looney Tunes producers DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and re-establishing its own cartoon studio. Likewise, it is also the last short Rudy Larriva directed.
- Sam Cat, who previously appeared in "Mouse and Garden", returns in this short, he would make one last appearance in "Merlin the Magic Mouse".
Gallery[]
TV Title Cards[]
Speedy Gonzales Cartoons | ||||
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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 |