[4] It was an Academy Award nominee for best short subject but it lost out to Birds Anonymous (a Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Tweety and Sylvester, the latter of whom is also often paired with Speedy Gonzales).
After a couple of them toast to him being the fastest mouse in all Mexico, Speedy confronts his two friends, Pablo and Fernando, and tells them they've had enough tequila to drink, but after he returns to his dancing, they retrieve two full glasses they had hidden under their sombreros and continue to get drunk.
A few hours later, the cantina closes as the lights are turned off, and in the mouse cantina, the drunk guests begin to head home for the night, with Pablo and Fernando leaving together as they drunkenly sing "La Cucaracha" as they walk home, unaware of a large Mexican cat seeing them approach and waits in ambush from a trash can.
Back at the cantina, Speedy is leaving, but asks Manuel, the mouse resting against the wall next to the door, if he has seen Pablo and Fernando.
After Speedy leaves, however, Fernando climbs out of his house through the open front window, and staggers back to the alley to find Pablo.