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|runtime=8 min or 7 minutes' 49 seconds" |runtime=8:00
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'''''A Mouse in the House''''' is a ] one-reel ] and is the 32nd '']'' ] directed by ] and ] and produced by ]. It was animated by ], ], ] and Richard Bickenbach, with additional animation by ] (uncredited), and was released to theatres on ], ]. The title of this cartoon is an appropriate play on "a guest in the house." '''''A Mouse in the House''''' is a 1947 one-reel ] and is the 32nd '']'' ] directed by ] and ] and produced by ]. It was animated by ], ], ] and Richard Bickenbach, with additional animation by ] (uncredited), and was released to theatres on August 30, 1947.


==Plot== ==Plot==
] stumbles upon entering the kitchen, which has been ransacked by ], and berates the residents of the house, ] and ]. She warns them that the one who catches Jerry can stay, and the other will be kicked out. The two cats frantically search for Jerry, eventually realizing they were both unsuspectingly aided by him. They scramble to catch the mouse, but become tangled. They tiptoe across the floor until Jerry hits one of their feet (Butch) with a log.
{{Plot|date=November 2008}}
] stumbles upon the kitchen which has been ransacked by Jerry (who has had a jam session in the bread box, raided the refrigerator, and took bites out of Mammy's chocolate cake), and goes on a tirade against the residents of the house: Tom and Butch. She ventures into the living room, where she finds them lazing around and drinking cream. Sarcastically pleased that the cats are satisfied, she yells at them: "''cause I ain't! There's a mouse in the house, and there are two cats. But there's only gonna be one cat in this house in the morning -- and that's the cat that catches the mouse. Now, get moving along!''"


Tom and Butch then grab Jerry together and decide to have a gun duel. Tom turns around early and shoots Butch, but finds out he has a ], allowing Butch to chase Tom into the wall. Tom sees the same brand name on it and assumes it is another novelty gun, but Butch shoots, with Tom barely dodging the bullet. Jerry then enters an oven. Tom and Butch slam the door and turn on the gas, but Jerry sneaks out, lights a match and drops it in the oven, leaving Tom and Butch in ].
The two cats frantically begin their search for the mouse, and are unsuspectingly aided by Jerry, before realising the mouse was under their noses the whole time. They scramble to catch Jerry, but instead become entangled. On only one of their four feet, they tiptoe across the floor, until the mouse motions them to stop, at which point, he hits that foot with a fireplace log. This was Butch's left foot; he screams, jumping up and down, clutching Tom's left foot and eventually noticing he's got the wrong foot. He let's go of Tom's foot and grabs ''his'' foot, screaming approximately. The chase continues as Tom and Butch both grab Jerry together and decide to have a duel pair of ] they find lying around on the wall. As they begin to start, Tom turns around early and when Butch turns around at the right time, he got surprised as they pace across the room and tries to shoot Butch as he turns around, but instead he finds out it's a "[[Novelty item|novelty gun", which whacks Butch on the nose. Butch (who he thinks has the ''real'' gun angrily) and when Butch points his gun out, Tom screams abd ran in fear, assuming he has a real gun, chases after Tom and had him surrounded against the wall, until Tom sees the brand name on it (which is the same as the other one) and assumes it is probably another novelty gun. Tom threatens Butch to shoot him. He chuckles at this and snaps his fingers in victory. The gun goes off, and Tom has barely dodged the bullet, but it comes out of the wall, rolls down Tom's head, and hits Tom's nose.


The chase continues into the kitchen, where Jerry jumps into a gas oven. Tom and Butch slam the door and turn on the gas as Jerry sneaks out, lights a match, and drops it in the oven. Tom and Butch open the oven door, puzzled as to wondering why the oven hasn't exploded yet...and then it does and the oven explodes on them, leaving them all alone in ]. Jerry and the cats move into the living room, and the two cats hide to catch the mouse by stealth. The mouse looks both ways and slowly walks out, but is caught by both cats simultaneously when they dart out of hiding. Jerry squeezes out of their grip, but is then grabbed by Butch. Tom grabs his opponent's tail as he flees, and stops Butch, but meets his ire as well. Tom bops Butch on the head, and Butch slips the mouse into a box with a sliding cover, Butch then pulled Tom's whiskers which made him scream in pain and Tom angrily steps on Butch's foot, which made him scream in pain, before fighting it out themselves. Jerry escapes from the box and rings a boxing gong, ending the fight, and cleans up and coaches both cats to hit each other. Jerry rings the gong and both cats end up punching each other, as planned. They realize they've been suckered (tricked) and glance towards Jerry, who is mocking the fight and when Jerry stops and sees the cats looking at him, he smiles in fear. Both of them pull up on either side of the mouse, incensed at the idea of a mouse tricking them into bopping each other when they should be working together. Jerry is then caught by both cats simultaneously. Jerry squeezes out, but is grabbed by Butch. Tom grabs his tail as he flees and after Tom bops Butch on the head, Butch slips the mouse into a box before continuing the fight. Jerry escapes and rings a gong, ending the fight momentarily, and coaches Tom and Butch to hit each other. After Jerry rings the gong, both cats realise they have been tricked and glance towards Jerry. Realising he is trapped, the mouse chooses Butch via ] and sits down in his hand.


Eventually, seeing he is trapped between the two and thus also realizing that he pushes them around too far, Jerry plays Meeny Mine Mo, the mouse chooses Butch via Eeny Meeny Miny Mo, taunts Tom, and sits down in Butch's hand. Butch snaps his fingers in victory and threatens Tom to walk out in the morning, and Tom slumps down and walks away, then hides behind a curtain for a last-minute sneak attack. Butch is revealing in his victory until Tom reaches out and grabs Jerry directly out of the other cat's hand. Butch turns the corner and opens the curtain to only find Tom, who pretends to not know where the mouse is. Then, Jerry (underneath Tom) lifts up the cat and carries him around to reveal himself. Tom simply continues with the charade, and Butch grabs Tom, revealing the mouse underneath, who soon realizes Tom is missing. Butch stuffs Tom into the trash can and chases Jerry. Annoyed, Tom runs into the kitchen, dressing himself in Mammy's clothing in order to trick Butch. Butch enters the kitchen, with Jerry clenched in his fist, and offers him to Tom, thinking that he is Mammy. Tom wallops Butch over the head with a frying pan, dashes out of his disguise and runs off with Jerry. Butch regains consciousness and runs into the living room, wearing Mammy's clothing, while pretending to arrange the bookshelves. Tom walks into the living room with Jerry in his fist, and offers him to Butch, thinking that he is Mammy. Butch wallops Tom over the head with a chimney shovel, dashes out of his disguise and runs off with Jerry, until he runs straight into an ironing board and knocks himself out. Jerry escapes from Butch's clutches and runs off. When Butch wakes up and realized that Jerry had escaped from his hand, he grabs the pan and ran off when Tom regains consciousness and realized that he was tricked by Butch and has Jerry, he grabs the chimney shovel and runs off. Both cats pick up the weapons used against them and chase after the mouse hides inside some toy ] cars. Tom slumps down and walks away, but hides behind a curtain, grabbing Jerry out of Butch's hand. Butch turns the corner to find only Tom, who is sitting on Jerry, but Jerry gives him away by lifting the cat up. Butch dumps Tom into a trash can and chases Jerry, but Tom runs into the kitchen and dresses himself up as Mammy to trick Butch. Butch offers Jerry to Tom, thinking he is Mammy, but Tom wallops Butch over the head with a frying pan. Butch then does the same thing in the living room, Tom falls for the same trick, getting walloped over the head with a coal shovel. Butch runs off with Jerry, but runs into an ironing board and knocks himself out, allowing Jerry to escape. Both cats pick up the weapons they were knocked out by and chase after the mouse.


Just then, we see Mammy walking down the stairs. She says "''I think I'd better go peeking in on those two cats''". Tom approaches from one room, sees Mammy, and thinking that he's seen Butch in disguise, and refusing to be fooled again, hides behind the wall by the stairs. Then Butch approaches from another room, also sees Mammy, and again thinking that he's seen Tom in disguise, hides on the ''other'' side of the stairs. As Mammy peaks through a door, the two cats rushed from their hiding spots and hit her on the fanny bottom backside repeatedly with their weapons, both thinking that Mammy is the other cat. Mammy screams in pain and the cats heard the scream, look at each other, bewildered, and move her pant leg skirt to reveal where they have actually attacked. Realizing they are toast (in big trouble), they attempt to flee away, but an overly infuriated angry Mammy angrily grabs them by their tails ("''Hold on there, you crazy cats''"), attacks and nosily throws them out of the house when Jerry had opened the door. She throws Butch to a wall, then falls in the middle of the door and makes Tom slide into Butch's face. Jerry thinking he got the last laugh, watches and walks back into the house, but is met with Mammy tapping her foot, effectively giving the mouse the boot as well. Resigned, the mouse slowly walks back out the door, but stops for a few seconds, waves goodbye while smiling and shuts it as he dashes away as the cartoon irises out. Tom, seeing Mammy coming down the stairs, believes it to be a trap again and hides behind the stairs, with Butch doing the same on the other side. As Mammy peeks through, the two cats hit her repeatedly on the bum, thinking that she is the other cat in disguise. She wails in pain. Tom and Butch, bewildered, look at each other in bewilderment and under her dress. Knowing that Mammy might find out that they hit her, they attempt to flee, but Mammy angrily grabs their tails and noisily throws them out of the house when Jerry opens the door. Jerry then marches back joyfully but sees Mammy tapping her foot. She does it as if to say she wants him to get out as well. Resigned, the mouse starts to leave, walking back to the door while the cartoon irises out. The iris out stops on Jerry's sight and then Jerry waves at Mammy with a sheepish expression on his face and shuts the door as he dashes away.

==Notes==
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*This is one of the only three cartoons where Butch is shown as a house cat. The others are '']'' and '']''.

*This one of the eight cartoons in which Mammy Two Shoes attacks Tom. The others are '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''.

* Final Tom and Jerry cartoon with animation by ].

*This one of the five cartoons (the others are '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']'') in which Tom attacks ].

*This is one of the twelve cartoons in which Tom and Jerry both lose in the end. The others are being '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''.

*This is one of the four cartoons in which Mammy Two Shoes' head is shown. The others are '']'', '']'', and '']''.

*This scored the same number of viewers as ''].

*In the Region 2 DVD boxset, this episode is one of the few that keeps the original Lillian Randolph voice for Mammy Two Shoes.

*This is the only cartoon when Mammy Two Shoes isn't scared of Jerry,

*This is one of the few shorts where Tom losses with another cat. The others are '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''.

* Final Tom and Jerry cartoon with animations by ] and Richard Bickenbach. The first of two cartoons with animation by Richard Bickenbach and Don Patterson.

* The opening music is the same as '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''.

* In two scenes, Tom's eyes are white instead of the the usual yellow.

==Goofs==
* The scene where Jerry opens the door to let the cats out was animated by Ed Barge. But after Butch and Tom crashed outside, the animation was changed to Kenneth Muse.

* When Tom is surrounded on a wall by Butch, who is going to shoot him with his novelty gun, Tom's eyes turn white for a split second. They also turn white for a split second in scene where he uses a Mammy Two Shoes disguise. (Originally, Tom's eyes are yellow).

==Censorship/Deleted cut scene==
* On ], ], ], and ], and ], after Jerry drops the match in the oven, both Tom and Butch are shown in ] from the resulting explosion after sticking their head in the stove. This scene has been deleted at some versions of the cartoon, including the DVD versions and Turner Entertainment channels. On cut version, it cuts straight to when Jerry runs from the kitchen, but left intact on ].

* Because of Tom and Butch dressing up as Mammy, this cartoon is rarely seen on U.S. television.

* This cartoon rarely airs on television (although Cartoon Network aired a version of this cartoon and has been available, remained uncut on Volume 3 of the ''] Vol. 3'' DVD.

* Nowadays, this cartoon rarely sees the light of day on television, due to extensive Mammy-Two-Shoes scenes.


==Voice cast== ==Voice cast==
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==Availability== ==Availability==
DVD DVD
*'']'' Vol. 3, Disc One *] Vol. 3, Disc One
*'']'' Volume One, Disc Two *] Volume One, Disc Two


==References== ==References==
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Film
A Mouse in the House
File:AMouseInTheHouse.JPGA Mouse in the House title card
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Animation byKenneth Muse
Ed Barge
Richard Bickenbach
Don Patterson
Additional animation:
Michael Lah (unc.)
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn Mayer
Running time8:00

A Mouse in the House is a 1947 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 32nd Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Don Patterson and Richard Bickenbach, with additional animation by Michael Lah (uncredited), and was released to theatres on August 30, 1947.

Plot

Mammy Two Shoes stumbles upon entering the kitchen, which has been ransacked by Jerry, and berates the residents of the house, Tom and Butch. She warns them that the one who catches Jerry can stay, and the other will be kicked out. The two cats frantically search for Jerry, eventually realizing they were both unsuspectingly aided by him. They scramble to catch the mouse, but become tangled. They tiptoe across the floor until Jerry hits one of their feet (Butch) with a log.

Tom and Butch then grab Jerry together and decide to have a gun duel. Tom turns around early and shoots Butch, but finds out he has a novelty gun, allowing Butch to chase Tom into the wall. Tom sees the same brand name on it and assumes it is another novelty gun, but Butch shoots, with Tom barely dodging the bullet. Jerry then enters an oven. Tom and Butch slam the door and turn on the gas, but Jerry sneaks out, lights a match and drops it in the oven, leaving Tom and Butch in blackface.

Jerry is then caught by both cats simultaneously. Jerry squeezes out, but is grabbed by Butch. Tom grabs his tail as he flees and after Tom bops Butch on the head, Butch slips the mouse into a box before continuing the fight. Jerry escapes and rings a gong, ending the fight momentarily, and coaches Tom and Butch to hit each other. After Jerry rings the gong, both cats realise they have been tricked and glance towards Jerry. Realising he is trapped, the mouse chooses Butch via counting-out and sits down in his hand.

Tom slumps down and walks away, but hides behind a curtain, grabbing Jerry out of Butch's hand. Butch turns the corner to find only Tom, who is sitting on Jerry, but Jerry gives him away by lifting the cat up. Butch dumps Tom into a trash can and chases Jerry, but Tom runs into the kitchen and dresses himself up as Mammy to trick Butch. Butch offers Jerry to Tom, thinking he is Mammy, but Tom wallops Butch over the head with a frying pan. Butch then does the same thing in the living room, Tom falls for the same trick, getting walloped over the head with a coal shovel. Butch runs off with Jerry, but runs into an ironing board and knocks himself out, allowing Jerry to escape. Both cats pick up the weapons they were knocked out by and chase after the mouse.

Tom, seeing Mammy coming down the stairs, believes it to be a trap again and hides behind the stairs, with Butch doing the same on the other side. As Mammy peeks through, the two cats hit her repeatedly on the bum, thinking that she is the other cat in disguise. She wails in pain. Tom and Butch, bewildered, look at each other in bewilderment and under her dress. Knowing that Mammy might find out that they hit her, they attempt to flee, but Mammy angrily grabs their tails and noisily throws them out of the house when Jerry opens the door. Jerry then marches back joyfully but sees Mammy tapping her foot. She does it as if to say she wants him to get out as well. Resigned, the mouse starts to leave, walking back to the door while the cartoon irises out. The iris out stops on Jerry's sight and then Jerry waves at Mammy with a sheepish expression on his face and shuts the door as he dashes away.

Voice cast

Availability

DVD

References

External links

Hanna/Barbera Tom and Jerry shorts (1940–1958, 2001, 2005)
See also: Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry shorts (1961–1962) and Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry shorts (1963–1967)
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