Who is speedy gonzalas?

Question

I was on my driving lesson today and i ws going dead fast and i said oohh speedy gonzalas. Then my instrucotr said do you actually know who that is? and its made me think i dont actually lol. Does anyone know ?

Answer 1

The fastest mouse in the world (an animated character).
According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales
"Speedy debuted in 1953's Cat-Tails for Two, directed by Robert McKimson. This early Speedy was a meaner, skinnier, rattier-looking creation with a sizable gold front tooth. It would be two years before Friz Freleng and animator Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short, Speedy Gonzales. The cartoon features Sylvester the cat menacing a group of mice. The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy to save them, and amid cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!" (Spanish for Up! Move!) courtesy of Mel Blanc, Sylvester soon gets his painful comeuppance. The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons)."

He is a famous character from the Merry Melodies Cartons who was Mexican and loved to speak strange Spanish expletives; usually with "Ahrebia" mixed in: "the small amount of Spanish that peppers the dialogue consists of basic greetings, goodbyes, exclamations, and misplaced references to popular Mexican foods. This criticism prompted Cartoon Network largely to shelve Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999. However, fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air, as well as lobbying by The League of United Latin American Citizens, who argued that Speedy's cleverness and personality was a positive depiction of Mexicans, turned the tide in his favor, and in 2002 the shorts were allowed to re-air on Cartoon Network."

Merry Melodies was created by Warner Brothers and originally introduced to put before a film in a theater. When television was invented the cartoon was imported to there where it has found its home ever since. Later Merry Melodies was replaced by Looney Tunes.

"Volume 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, released on November 14, 2006, has an entire disc of Speedy shorts.

Speedy Gonzales has appeared in a couple of video games, similar in design to the Sonic the Hedgehog games (some were even transformed into pirate Sonic games), for Super NES and Game Boy, as well as the short lived Game Gear."

Answer 2

Speedy Gonzalez is the fastest mouse in all Mexico, according to Warner Brothers studios. He was a regular on "Looney Tunes" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, etc. They usually put Sylvester the cat opposite him -- Sylvester would be guarding cheese and Speedy would zip right past him to get it.

P.S.: Speedy has a cousin -- Slow-Poke Rodriguez, the slowest mouse in all Mexico.

Answer 3

He was a funny Looney Tunes character, like a Mexican mouse or something who always eluded Sylvester the Cat. 2 bad some PC or ACLU guys thought he was offensive to Mexicans & wanted him kicked 2 the curb. I thought he was pretty cool, as did a few Mexican fans.

Answer 4

Speedy Gonzales is a cartoon character from WB's Looney Toons. You've probably seen him before.

Answer 5

The fastest mouse in Mexico from the Merry Melodies cartoons.

Answer 6

He is a little cartoon mouse of Mexican descent who used to speed arround yelling "arriba" arriba". In the old cartoons, like Looney Tunes, not the newer ones.

Answer 7

Speedy is a catoon mouse. He is the fastest mouse this side of the pecos! Look up episodes of his toon on the net. He was cool.

Answer 8

He's a Loony Tunes character. Do a Google Search and you'll find him. A little mexican stereotype mouse who was really fast.

Answer 9

As far as I'm concerned he's always been a mexican mouse who's very speedy. He's got a cousin named slowpoke Rodriguez I think. ARRIBA ARRIBA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjJ-tStj0l4

Answer 10

speedy gonzalas is a cartoon character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzalez