Warner Bros., Merrie Melodies · editorial
Speedy Gonzales
The cartoons call him the fastest mouse in all Mexico. They mean it as a title, the way a wrestler is called the champ, and they never time him.
Fiction
How?
Fiction
Fiction. The cartoons call him the fastest mouse in all Mexico. They mean it as a title, the way a wrestler is called the champ, and they never time him.
In the story
Speedy's introduction is the boast. He is the fastest mouse in all Mexico, he speaks in a rush, and the cats do not catch him. The 1955 Merrie Melodies short that carries his name is the one people point at. The boast is the canon. A stopwatch is not.
What is not a measurement
Title: “the fastest mouse in all Mexico.” No measurement. This page does not turn the story into miles per hour.
Warner Bros., Merrie Melodies
“Fastest in Mexico” is a superlative inside a cartoon nation of mice. It does not convert to kilometres per hour, and it does not lose to a Pixar car. On a qualitative list he belongs with Road Runner: a Warner Bros. animal who wins because the short says so.
The editorial order also includes Road Runner and Lightning McQueen. The order is about the scale each story claims. It is not a clock.
Speedy's introduction is the boast. He is the fastest mouse in all Mexico, he speaks in a rush, and the cats do not catch him. The 1955 Merrie Melodies short that carries his name is the one people point at. The boast is the canon. A stopwatch is not.
“Fastest in Mexico” is a superlative inside a cartoon nation of mice. It does not convert to kilometres per hour, and it does not lose to a Pixar car. On a qualitative list he belongs with Road Runner: a Warner Bros. animal who wins because the short says so.
Title: “the fastest mouse in all Mexico.” No measurement.
Sources
- Warner Bros.: Speedy Gonzales (Merrie Melodies, 1955)
The short's premise is the title. It is not a timing.