"Cannery Woe" (1961, Looney Tunes)
The only two directors at Warner cartoons to ever create Spoeedy Gonzales cartoons, Robert McKimson and Friz Freleng, loved to cast the character as a heroic good samaritan. This one is a great example. Two mice, Jose and Manuel, are homeless and hungry. They visit Mayor Raton's re-election campaign to get some of the free cheese, but the mayor kicks them out. The mayor then realizes that there is no cheese; the cheese shop up the road has gotten a new cat! Jose knows what to do, and with the mayor's agreement to give the two vagrants some of the cheese, he calls his amigo Speedy Gonzales. Speedy is happy to help out, and gets to work speeding right by the cat, Sylvester, and bringing back the cheese. (The same concept of Sylvester guarding cheese was used by Friz Freleng in "Speedy Gonzales" and "Here today, Gone Tamale") Tacks, a cannon, and mousetraps prove futile to Sylvester, and in the end Jose and Manuel are given the job of 'inspecting' the cheese for the fiesta. Speedy, however, thinks he has the best job of all...."chick inspector"!!
