Editions Quartz. More from Quartz About Quartz. Follow Quartz. These are some of our most ambitious editorial projects. By Adam Epstein Entertainment reporter. Read more. Topics Animation in film Warner Bros news. Reuse this content. When Bugs decides he doesn't want to own a restaurant anymore, he hands ownership of it to Speedy. He is seen as Lola Bunny 's landlord.
Quintanilla's Kumbia All Star], whose music video featured Speedy. Henry Mancini borrowed the character's name for the title of an instrumental composition, first featured on his album Mr. Lucky Goes Latin. Speedy cartoons were not shown on Cartoon Network from to , due to the character being canceled for a brief time. However, at the insistence of fans, He was restored to the core characters, with his cartoons being put on the service in late In , Volkswagen licensed Speedy Gonzales for a series of Spanish-language commercials for the Volkswagen Golf, using footage from the cartoon of the same name.
Speedy also serves as the current mascot for Virgin Media, a double reference to his own speed and to that of the company's fibre optic broadband. Speedy briefly appears in the Robot Chicken episode Werewolf Vs. Unicorn when he penetrates Sylvester's fence.
Speedy Gonzales is also a name for a third-party cheat to the popular Indie-game, Minecraft. It enables users to travel at a faster speed than normal. But with recent news that an animated film featuring "the fastest mouse in all of Mexico" could be on the horizon, we wondered if the little Mexican mouse has a place in an industry that's trying to eradicate Latino stereotypes. Speedy Gonzales may have been a mouse with a heroic heart, often helping his fellow mice in need, but his exaggerated thick accent and portrayal of Mexicans eventually caused Cartoon Network to take the show off the air in We're not about pushing the boundary.
We're not HBO. We have a diverse audience and we have an impressionable audience.
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