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Here Today, Gone Tamale is a 1959 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title[]

The title is a play on the saying "here today, gone tomorrow."

Plot[]

Several starving mice are near a dock, when the ship Dutch Treat arrives at the port with crates of cheese. As the mice runs towards the ship, they are forced off by Sylvester, the ship's guard. Seeing the shipment go into waste, one of the mice calls Speedy Gonzales to fight off the cat. Sylvester taunts Speedy that he won't get any cheese, but his attempts to stop the fast rodent is futile:

  1. After Speedy outpaces Sylvester and takes a slice of cheese from the ship, Sylvester uses a net to catch Speedy. However, Speedy runs throughout the ship, carrying Sylvester until the cat crashes into a fence.
  2. Speedy yeehaws behind Sylvester, slamming him into a pole. Grabbing a pipe, he tries to smash Speedy, but the mouse locks him inside a room full of limburger cheese where Sylvester nearly suffocates.
  3. Sylvester decides to trick Speedy into taking a cheese from him for free, and Speedy falls for it. However, Speedy quickly nabs the cheese from Sylvester's hand as he tries to smash the mouse with a mallet, which crushes his hand instead.
  4. Sylvester builds a guilotine at the front of the boat, although Speedy enters using a rope nearby. When Sylvester pursues Speedy, they run past the guillotine and Sylvester is nearly chopped in the back ("I forgot all about that silly thing!").
  5. Finally, Sylvester builds a pipe at the entrance and opens his mouth at the end of the pipe. Speedy runs inside of Sylvester's mouth and exits by the tail, all while still carrying cheese.

The mice has claimed all the cheese from the ship for themselves, and celebrate with a dance fiesta. Sylvester surrenders, and decides to join the fiesta, while Speedy calls him "muy loco en la cabeza".

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  • On Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, the scene of a famished Fernando putting a gun to his head and giving his sombrero hat to his friend (who asks him if he can have it when Fernando is dead), only to be spared from suicide after being told that Speedy Gonzales will save them is cut.[1][2]

Notes[]

  • This is the only Speedy Gonzales cartoon written by Michael Maltese.
  • Despite this cartoon starting with blue rings, it ends with red rings. It is the last cartoon to use the 1957-59 blue Color Rings and the first to use the 1959-64 red Color Rings.

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Speedy Gonzales Cartoons
1953 Cat-Tails for Two
1955 Speedy Gonzales
1957 Tabasco RoadGonzales' Tamales
1958 Tortilla Flaps
1959 Mexicali ShmoesHere Today, Gone Tamale
1960 West of the Pesos
1961 Cannery WoeThe Pied Piper of Guadalupe
1962 Mexican Boarders
1963 Mexican Cat DanceChili Weather
1964 A Message to GraciasNuts and VoltsPancho's HideawayRoad to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseCats and BruisesThe Wild ChaseMoby DuckAssault and PepperedWell Worn DaffyChili Corn CornyGo Go Amigo
1966 The AstroduckMucho LocosMexican MousepieceDaffy RentsA-Haunting We Will GoSnow ExcuseA Squeak in the DeepFeather FingerSwing Ding AmigoA Taste of Catnip
1967 Daffy's DinerQuacker TrackerThe Music Mice-TroThe Spy SwatterSpeedy Ghost to TownRodent to StardomGo Away StowawayFiesta Fiasco
1968 Skyscraper CaperSee Ya Later Gladiator
1979 Fright Before Christmas
1980 The Chocolate Chase
Sylvester Cartoons
1945 Life with FeathersPeck Up Your Troubles
1946 Kitty Kornered
1947 Tweetie PieCrowing PainsDoggone CatsCatch as Cats Can
1948 Back Alley OproarI Taw a Putty TatHop, Look and ListenKit for CatScaredy Cat
1949 Mouse MazurkaBad Ol' Putty TatHippety Hopper
1950 Home, Tweet HomeThe Scarlet PumpernickelAll a Bir-r-r-dCanary RowStooge for a MousePop 'Im Pop!
1951 Canned FeudPutty Tat TroubleRoom and BirdTweety's S.O.S.Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952 Who's Kitten Who?Gift WrappedLittle Red Rodent HoodAin't She TweetHoppy Go LuckyA Bird in a Guilty CageTree for Two
1953 Snow BusinessA Mouse DividedFowl WeatherTom Tom TomcatA Street Cat Named SylvesterCatty CorneredCats A-weigh!
1954 Dog PoundedBell HoppyDr. Jerkyl's HideClaws for AlarmMuzzle ToughSatan's Waitin'By Word of Mouse
1955 Lighthouse MouseSandy ClawsTweety's CircusJumpin' JupiterA Kiddies KittySpeedy GonzalesRed Riding HoodwinkedHeir-ConditionedPappy's Puppy
1956 Too Hop to HandleTweet and SourTree Cornered TweetyThe Unexpected PestTugboat GrannyThe Slap-Hoppy MouseYankee Dood It
1957 Tweet ZooTweety and the BeanstalkBirds AnonymousGreedy for TweetyMouse-Taken IdentityGonzales' Tamales
1958 A Pizza Tweety-PieA Bird in a Bonnet
1959 Trick or TweetTweet and LovelyCat's PawHere Today, Gone TamaleTweet Dreams
1960 West of the PesosGoldimouse and the Three CatsHyde and Go TweetMouse and GardenTrip for Tat
1961 Cannery WoeHoppy DazeBirds of a FatherD' Fightin' OnesThe Rebel Without ClawsThe Pied Piper of GuadalupeThe Last Hungry Cat
1962 Fish and SlipsMexican BoardersThe Jet Cage
1963 Mexican Cat DanceChili WeatherClaws in the Lease
1964 A Message to GraciasFreudy CatNuts and VoltsHawaiian Aye AyeRoad to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseCats and BruisesThe 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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