Here Today, Gone Tamale

Here Today, Gone Tamale is a 1959 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the saying "here today, gone tomorrow."
== Plot ==
Several starving mice are near a dock, when the ship Dutch Treat arrives at the port with crates of cheese. As the mice runs towards the ship, they are forced off by Sylvester, the ship's guard. Seeing the shipment go into waste, one of the mice calls Speedy Gonzales to fight off the cat. Sylvester taunts Speedy that he won't get any cheese, but his attempts to stop the fast rodent is futile:
#After Speedy outpaces Sylvester and takes a slice of cheese from the ship, Sylvester uses a net to catch Speedy. However, Speedy runs throughout the ship, carrying Sylvester until the cat crashes into a fence.
#Speedy yeehaws behind Sylvester, slamming him into a pole. Grabbing a pipe, he tries to smash Speedy, but the mouse locks him inside a room full of limburger cheese where Sylvester nearly suffocates.
#Sylvester decides to trick Speedy into taking a cheese from him for free, and Speedy falls for it. However, Speedy quickly nabs the cheese from Sylvester's hand as he tries to smash the mouse with a mallet, which crushes his hand instead.
#Sylvester builds a guilotine at the front of the boat, although Speedy enters using a rope nearby. When Sylvester pursues Speedy, they run past the guillotine and Sylvester is nearly chopped in the back ("I forgot all about that silly thing!").
#Finally, Sylvester builds a pipe at the entrance and opens his mouth at the end of the pipe. Speedy runs inside of Sylvester's mouth and exits by the tail, all while still carrying cheese.
The mice has claimed all the cheese from the ship for themselves, and celebrate with a dance fiesta. Sylvester surrenders, and decides to join the fiesta, while Speedy calls him "muy loco en la cabeza".
== Availability ==
W UK10552 LooneyTunesVideoShowNo17The.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 17
Lt sgff.jpg|(1985) VHS Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies
ClassicCollection.jpg|(1995) VHS Classic Collection (WHSmith Exclusive Video)
Ags4h4sertyj5t.jpg|(1996) VHS Looney Tunes Collection - Speedy Gonzales
LTCE VOL 9 A LOONEY LIFE.jpg|(2000) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Vol. 9: A Looney Life
4A898C28-3AD1-4E03-A946-C5E6DBB8EB11.jpeg|(2003) VHS Speedy Gonzales (2003)
Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner Speedy Gonzales UK VHS.jpg|(2003) VHS Wile E Coyote & Road Runner Speedy Gonzales
LTGC Vol.4.jpg|(2006) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Disc Three (Not included in the Region 2 version)
=== Streaming ===
Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* On Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, the scene of a famished Fernando putting a gun to his head and giving his sombrero hat to his friend (who asks him if he can have it when Fernando is dead), only to be spared from suicide after being told that Speedy Gonzales will save them is cut.082959 Here Today Gone Tamale LT CN CENSORED (Censored version as shown on Cartoon Network)http://web.archive.org/web/20160515231022/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/h
== Notes ==
* This is the only Speedy Gonzales cartoon written by Michael Maltese.
* The guillotine gag is recycled from "Stork Naked"; both cartoons were directed by Friz Freleng.
* Despite this cartoon starting with blue rings, it ends with red rings. It is the last cartoon to use the 1957-59 blue Color Rings and the first to use the 1959-64 red Color Rings.
== Gallery ==
Herelobby2.JPG|Lobby card
Herelobby1.JPG|Lobby card
== References ==
== External links ==
* "Here Today, Gone Tamale" at the SFX Resource
Category:1959
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Speedy Gonzales Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Tom O'Loughlin
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 Daws Butler
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by John W. Burton