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The Slap-Hoppy Mouse is a 1956 Merrie Melodies short film directed by Robert McKimson. It stars Sylvester, his son Sylvester Jr. and Hippety Hopper.
Plot
Sylvester takes his son, Junior, on a mouse-hunting expedition in an old, broken-down, mouse-infested house near some railroad tracks. Baby kangaroo Hippety Hopper falls out of a passing train and turns up in the house. Sylvester and Junior, as usual, mistake him for a giant mouse, and Sylvester is obliged to fight the playful Hippety.
Trivia
This is the first Merrie Melodies short to feature the 1956-1957 orange rings with green background at the beginning, even though it still uses the 1955-1956 green rings with red background at the end. The orange rings with green background can also be seen in the openings or numerous Blue Ribbon re releases of shorts from 1949, but either with the 1946-1955 version of the Looney Tunes theme, or the 1945-1955 version of the Merrie Melodies theme.
Censorship
On ABC, the sequence in which Sylvester repeatedly attempts to load a rifle "frontier-style" (and gets blasted) was cut.