Hoppy-Go-Lucky

Hoppy-Go-Lucky is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the phrase "happy-go-lucky."
== Plot ==
Sylvester and his large and dimwitted friend Benny, the latter of who constantly calls Sylvester "George", sets out to find a mouse in the warehouse so Benny can keep the mouse as a pet. Sylvester will be hunting the mice inside the warehouse while Benny bags out the entrance. Sylvester happens to find an obese mouse inside a cheese crate, who quickly flees inside of a crate containing Hippety Hopper. Opening the crate, Sylvester is surprised to see the small mouse transform into a "giant mouse". Sylvester flees in fright, only to run out of the entrance and get bagged by Benny.
Sylvester tries to tell Benny the mouse is a king-sized mouse, but Benny does not believe him and threatens to "stroke his fur the wrong way" if he does not come back with a mouse. As Benny launches Sylvester back in, Hippety kicks the cat back, while Benny blocks the entrance with a trash can lid when he realizes it isn't a mouse. Angered at Benny for hitting him with a trashcan lid, Sylvester tries to get back at Benny by slamming him with a sledgehammer, but fails when the hammer doesn't harm Benny and disintegrates instead. With no other option, Sylvester attempts to attack Hippety, and the baby kangaroo easily socks Sylvester out the entrance to be bagged by Benny again. Fed up with Sylvester's failures, Benny goes in to get the mouse while Sylvester is forced to bag the entrance.
Finding it too dark inside, Benny lights a firework stick, thinking it is a candle. However, he throws the dynamite towards the entrance when he hears the sizzling from the fuse. Benny later comes out of the warehouse hanging on to Hippety's tail, stating that he finally caught the mouse as a pet. Sylvester wonders what he actually got in the bag, and he peers just as the firework stick explodes on him. "Yep, I'm left holding the bag," a dazed Sylvester states.
== Caricatures ==
* Lon Chaney Jr.
== Availability ==
LooneyTunesSuperStars SylvesterAndHippetyHopper.jpg|(2013) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
=== Streaming ===
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== Censorship ==
* In the ABC airing of this cartoon, the very end where Sylvester is shown disheveled and dazed after the dynamite in his burlap sack explodes is cut with a fake iris-out and ending music before the explosion cloud settles.https://web.archive.org/web/20240224055638/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-h.aspx
* In the CBS airing of this cartoon, the part where Sylvester hits Benny over the head with a sledgehammer (with the sledgehammer crumbling and Benny feeling no pain from being hit) was cut.
== Notes ==
* Starting with this cartoon, Robert McKimson redesigned Sylvester to be slimmer and more streamlined to closely resemble how his original creator Friz Freleng drew him, as opposed to his original "plump Sylvester" version of the character he previously used from "Crowing Pains" (1947) up until "Who's Kitten Who?" (1952).
* The short takes inspiration from the book Of Mice and Men.
* It marks the debut of Benny, who makes one more appearance in the short "Cat-Tails for Two" the following year.
* Like other 1968 Blue Ribbon reissues, the opening rings and opening titles were not altered.
== Gallery ==
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Hoppy-Go-LuckyLobbyCard1.jpg|Lobby card
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Hoppy Go Lucky Who's Kitten Who Pop 'Im Pop! Lead Sheets.jpg|Part of the animator draft along with two other drafts for "Who's Kitten Who?" and "Pop 'Im Pop!"
== References ==
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:1952
Category:Shorts
Category:Hippety Hopper Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons animated by Charles McKimson
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist