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{{Infobox Hollywood cartoon
|name=His Mouse Friday
|image=HisMouseFridayTitle.JPG
|caption=His Mouse Friday reissue title card
|director=]<br>]
|story=William Hanna<br>Joseph Barbera
|animator=Kenneth Muse<br>Irven Spence<br>Ray Patterson<br>Ed Barge
|starring=]
|music=]
|producer=]
|studio=]
|distributor=]
|released={{Film date|1951|07|7}} {{Film date|1958|07|25}} (re-issue)
|color_process=]
|runtime=6:46
|language=English
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'''''His Mouse Friday''''' is a 1951 one-reel ] and is the 59th '']'' cartoon directed by ] and ] and produced by ] for ]. It was animated by Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ray Patterson and Ed Barge and released in theatres on July 7, 1951. The title is a pun combining references to the film '']'' and the character of Friday from the novel '']''.


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'His Mouse Friday' was re-issued into theatres on July 25, 1958.
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July 1951 was the year before ] released his thirteenth animated feature film, '']''.

And in 1966, ] and ] released a live-action comedy feature starring ], '']''.

==Plot==
Tom is first seen being ship-wrecked and lost at sea in a parody of '']''. He only has his old shoes to eat in order to survive. Tom though soon spots a distant tropical island and is catapulted there by a wave. After Tom finds it tough to eat a ] and a ] he finds Jerry and decides to eat the mouse instead. Tom has Jerry on a frying pan but the rodent escapes and Tom chases him into a native village.

Using soot from a cooking pot Jerry disguises himself as a black native complete with a deep voice and talks gibberish to Tom. He presumably tells Tom he has to be cooked to death and orders him "up in pot". Then he gives him vegetables to cut but to "hold the onions". Tom, accepting his fate, cooperates, and he soon feels the heat after Jerry lights a fire underneath the pot. Tom, however, then notices Jerry's loincloth has come loose exposing his brown fur. Discovering he has been played for a sap the cat taunts Jerry, who uses a bone tied to his head to fly away. Tom gives chase, but soon ends up stopping at the feet of a group of real cannibals, with their leader licking his lips delightfully and fancying barbecued cat. Tom runs away in horror with the cannibals in hot pursuit. Jerry believes himself safe now but is immediately confronted by a shorter and thicker-lipped cannibal who also licks his lips in delight, fancying barbecued mouse. The terrified Jerry runs off with the cannibal in pursuit as the cartoon ends.

==Voice cast==
*] as Jerry and The Cannibals

==Production==
*Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
*Animation: Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ray Patterson, Ed Barge
*Story: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
*Layout: Dick Bickenbach
*Music: Scott Bradley
*Produced by: Fred Quimby

==References==
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==External links==
*{{bcdb title|3121}}
*{{IMDb title|43644}}

{{The Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry shorts}}

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