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| Confused mouser |
Sylvester was a mouser as well as a bird chaser, and he never quite caught on to the fact that the character Hippety Hopper was a baby kangaroo, not a giant mouse. Cat and kangaroo first appeared together in the 1952 cartoon Hoppy Go Lucky.
Poor Sylvester was as unsuccessful in capturing the bouncing Hippety as he was in catching the bird Tweetie. Adding to his humiliation was the fact that his son was a witness to his failure in capturing the “giant mouse.” He had no more luck with a real mouse, the infamous “fastest mouse in all Mexico,” Speedy Gonazales.
