Goldimouse and the Three Cats

Goldimouse and the Three Cats is a 1960 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Plot ==
In a cottage live the Three Cats: Sylvester (father cat), Mrs. Sylvester (mother cat), and Sylvester Junior (baby cat). Sylvester finds his porridge is too hot and Mrs. Sylvester finds her porridge too cold, but Sylvester Junior complains on why they are having to eat porridge instead of mice like other cats. Sylvester suggests that they go for a walk in the woods to wait for the porridge to cool down (commenting "Now where have I heard that before?").
While they are away, Goldimouse (a mouse with curly blonde locks) enters the house through a tiny door, spies the porridge, and eats it. Afterwards, Goldimouse feels sleepy and tries all three beds and finds Sylvester Junior's just right, so Goldimouse takes it and goes to sleep.
Later on, Sylvester and his family return from their walk and discover Goldimouse's handiwork. While going through the whole "Somebody's been eating my porridge" and "Somebody's been sleeping in my bed" bit, Sylvester Junior is relieved that his porridge is all gone and that the intruder in his bed is a mouse. When he says this, Goldimouse wakes up, freaks out at the sight of Sylvester Junior and turns to Sylvester for help, but then notices that he, too, is a cat and escapes out the tiny door.
At his son's insistence, Sylvester tries to get Goldimouse out of the mousehole, but she thwarts his multiple attempts. After Sylvester's latest failure to rid Goldimouse with explosives, a scorched Sylvester brings Junior his breakfast, consisting of a bowl of porridge. He dumps it on Junior's head, indicating that he has had enough of Junior's spoiled attitude.
== Availability ==
lt wince.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc Wince Upon a Time: Foolhardy Fairy Tales and Looney Legends
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc Two
Lt spotlight 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 5, Disc 2
LooneyTunesSuperStars SylvesterAndHippetyHopper.jpg|(2013) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
lt spotlight df2.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 4-5 Repack
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 - )
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - )
== Censorship ==
* On ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show, the scene of Goldimouse beating Sylvester with a mallet was shortened by replacing most of the beatings with recycled footage of Sylvester Junior.https://web.archive.org/web/20240224055637/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-g.aspx
== Notes ==
* This is one of the few cartoons that Sylvester Junior appears in that does not feature Hippety Hopper (though many of the later cartoons in the series did not have Hippety). It is also one of the few not directed by Robert McKimson, making this the only Sylvester Junior short directed by Friz Freleng.
* This is one of the only two cartoons where Sylvester has a spouse; the other is "A Mouse Divided". It is also the only time Sylvester Junior is present with his mother.
* This is one of the few cartoons where Michael Maltese wrote the storylines for cartoons from the Freleng unit for the first time since the late 1940s (presumably due to the departure of Freleng's top screenwriter, Warren Foster, from the studio at the time).
* This is the first cartoon to credit "Warner Bros. Pictures Inc." instead of "The Vitaphone Corp." The closing sequence would not show the "A VITAPHONE/VITAGRAPH RELEASE" byline until "From Hare to Heir".
* This cartoon was later featured in the compilation feature Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales, but the ending was cut out for time.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:1960
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Sylvester Junior Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by June Foray
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons produced by John W. Burton
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 music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn