Tom and Jerry in: The Mansion Cat
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| Directed by | Karl Toerge |
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| Presented by | Hanna-Barbera Turner Entertainment |
| Voices of | Joseph Barbera |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Diana Richey |
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| Original channel | Cartoon Network |
| Original airing | 2000 |
Tom and Jerry in: The Mansion Cat is an animated seven minute TV short first aired in 2000 on Cartoon Network starring, Tom and Jerry. It is notable for being the first and only Tom and Jerry short made especially for the Cartoon Network. Even though it does attempt to recapture the format of the original theatrical shorts, fans have criticised this outing for dumbing down the Tom and Jerry series to simply robotic violence and fighting, whereas the famous classic shorts always had a story as a trigger for the duo's rivalry, and generally characterized them much more nuanced. H-B co-founder and co-creator Joe Barbera provided the voice of Tom's owner for this production. This was the last short produced by William Hanna before his death and the last short produced by Hanna-Barbera before its absorption into Warner Bros. in 2001.
[edit] Plot
The owner (voiced by Tom and Jerry creator Joseph Barbera) of Tom and a large house tells Tom he is going away for a while, the house is in perfect shape, and that he does not want Tom blaming "the mouse" (who's a family pet, in a habitrail) for any destruction this time. Of course, this means Tom will spend most of the picture chasing Jerry around the house, causing extensive damage. First, Tom throws the habitrail out of the mansion, sits on the sofa, eats a lot of food stolen from the refrigerator, watches TV. Then traditional chase and damage happen. Among the sequences: Jerry shoves Tom into a VCR, then shelves the resulting cassette-sized cat; Tom traps Jerry in a coffeemaker; Jerry traps Tom in a refrigerator, and he comes out again in ice cubes; Jerry sucks Tom and half the living room into a vacuum cleaner; Tom chases Jerry through the yard and into the house on a riding lawn mower. At the end, he crashes the mower into his owner's returning car, who tells Tom he " make[s] a better hood ornament than a house cat".
[edit] Cultural references
- The mansion features photos of the duo's creators, William Hanna and Joe Barbera.
- During the short, Tom can be seen watching a VHS cassette of Muscle Beach Tom, a clip from the classic 1950s Tom and Jerry short.
- When Jerry sucks the curtain in the living room into a vacuum cleaner, Spike makes a cameo appearance.
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