How can anyone confuse a baby kangaroo from Australia with a tiny American mouse?
It became a running joke in the course of 16 Hippety Hopper cartoons, produced between 1948-64. Hippety never had a short all to himself, although this next item bears his name. In it, a Brooklyn mouse, contemplating suicide, is saved by Hippety, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the rodent also mistakes Hippety for one of his kin. I guess it's because they have the same skin color. Anyway, inevitably, the mouse takes Hippety home with him to confront Sylvester. You can guess the rest.
Hippety never spoke---he was a baby, after all---so everyone else had to carry the action for him. Some folks must wonder why Sylvester drew the short straw to get embarrassed by Hippety every time.
Rating: A.
Easily one of my least favorite Looney Tunes series. The premise is too absurd, even by cartoon logic, plus it was the same thing every time.
ReplyDeleteA one trick pony, yes, but apparently WB was in need of new stars even at the end of the 40's. Poor Sylvester. He deserved better.
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