Guided Mouse-ille
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Guided Mouse-ille is a 1967 Tom and Jerry
cartoon, produced by Chuck Jones
and directed by Abe Levitow
. It was the second of three space-age Tom and Jerry shorts to be released in the Chuck Jones era (along with O-Solar Meow
and Advance and Be Mechanized
), though taking a look at the MPAA code at the beginning of the cartoon would suggest that Guided Mouse-ille (or Science on a Wet Afternoon) was the first of the three cartoons to be produced. According to episode number, It is the last Tom and Jerry cartoon to feature music by Eugene Poddany (both regarding ones produced by Chuck Jones/Sib Tower 12, and also regarding Tom and Jerry cartoons altogether). However, O-Solar Meow could be the last specific cartoon according to the MPAA code. producced in the The cartoon was animated by Don Towsley, Tom Ray, Dick Thompson, Ben Washam, Ken Harris and Philip Roman, with music by Eugene Poddany and backgrounds by Thelma Witmer. The title is a pun of "Guided missile
", which is a weapon
. Chuck Jones had previously used a pun of guided missile for "Guided Muscle
", a Warner Bros.
cartoon in the Looney Tunes
series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
.
facility as the title cards are shown. The year is shown to be 2565.
Jerry
pushes levers on his control panel and an image of a wheel of cheese materializes on the screen. Jerry calls in robot-Jerry (which looks like a truncated yellow pencil) and gives him his mission. Robot-Jerry speeds through the hallways and ends up breaking an electric eye; this is Tom
's signal for a "law-breaker" invasion. Lights and sound activate, but Tom is still sleeping. An alarm clock pops out and rings; this wakes the cat up. Tom sees robot-Jerry and calls in robot-Tom, a blue, jet-powered, but still resembling Tom, machine. Tom gives the robot-cat his mission and it speeds off.
Jerry sees the robot-cat on the screen and frantically messes with the control panel. Robot-Jerry stops, sniffs, and turns around before robot-Tom can eat him. Both of them speed through the hall. Robot-Tom attempts to eat robot-Jerry again, but robot-Jerry levitates himself into the air. Robot-Tom extends his legs up and tries again, but then robot-Jerry drops himself. Robot-Tom crouches to avoid a large fixture, and then extends himself high to avoid a second one. Robot-Tom lowers himself a tiny bit and grins, but soon runs into an overhang. Robot-Jerry speeds through while robot-Tom is left fuming. Robot-Jerry speeds past and this reactivates robot-Tom, who chases the robot-Jerry again. Jerry pulls a lever and robot-Jerry starts moving at superspeed, leaving robot-Tom astonished. Tom then pulls one of his levers and returns robot-Tom to superspeed. Tom sees robot-Jerry approaching the screen and coming out of the bottom of his computer, and looks at the disappearing machine. He turns his eyes back to the screen to see robot-Tom crashing through the screen and causing destruction in the room. A dazed Tom whacks the still-active head of robot-Tom.
Tom has repaired his computer and the screen shows Jerry victorious, having secured his cheese. Tom suddenly gets an idea and steps into a cylinder-like room. He presses a button, which renders the cat invisible
. Tom walks towards Jerry's hole with a space weapon and knocks on the wall. Jerry, however, darts out in a space vehicle and squirts the cat with ink, turning Tom red, leaving him visible and vulnerable to attack again. Tom tries to shoot the mouse, but Jerry shoots the cat first and then renders him invisible again. Paramedic
s come out and load the invisible Tom onto a stretcher.
Tom then directs robot-Tom wielding a gun to take care of the mouse. He knockes on the mousehoule and Jerry comes out in his vehicle. Before robot-Tom can get the chance to pull the trigger, Jerry plugs the gun and blackens his head, causing his head and rear to burst out of their sockets. Robot-Tom cries for a moment and returns by creeping up behind Tom in anger. Tom sees only the gun in the screen before he gets shot. Tom takes the weapon and tries to shoot his mechanical counterpart for his insubordination. However, the shot comes out the wrong end, hits Tom again, and knocks the cat out. Robot-Tom laughs himself silly.
Jerry is now traveling across the floor in his vehicle, his eyes on a large wheel of cheese on the counter. Tom comes from behind in a magnetic crane and attracts Jerry's vehicle up to a magno-pad. Jerry exits his vehicle in a parachute. Jerry unplugs the crane and then Tom comes out with a hammer, ready to squash the mouse. Jerry then plugs the crane back in and the hammerhead comes off the handle and sticks to the pad, and then he unplugs it and it falls on Tom's head. Tom brims with anger as a bump forms on his head, but then Jerry plugs the crane back in and the head squeezes off the bump and re-attaches itself to the pad. Before Tom can throttle Jerry, the head falls back down on Tom's head. Jerry then plugs it back in, and Tom pleads with the mouse not to follow through, but Jerry unplugs the pad anyway and Tom gets bumped again. Jerry continues to plug and unplug the crane until Tom is seen crushed to the floor, 1/3 of Jerry's height, and crying at the mouse' feet. Jerry lets the cat go, and then shrugs.
A large and complex mathematical-chemical equation is shown on a blackboard and Tom is seen making a large quantity of explosive potion based on it, hoping that it will annihilate Jerry once and for all once installed into the bomb. The camera cuts to Jerry, who sees Tom on his screen, and is compressing the wheel of cheese into a tiny amount of a highly volatile liquid. He fills a projectile with it, flies above Tom in a gunboat, and drops the microbomb into the potion. Tom quizzically points into the vat....and then everything blows up. When the smoke clears, a prehistoric world is seen, the Earth having been reduced to the stone age because of Jerry's intervention of the highly explosive liquid.
Tom walks out of a cave with a club and soon sees Jerry licking a bone. He attempts to whack the mouse, but Jerry shows him the bone and they both share it - until Tom wants a taste of mouse instead. The two chase around the barren Earth as "THE END" is shown, and then three question marks pop up as if to say, "...or only the beginning?"
Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...
cartoon, produced by Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...
and directed by Abe Levitow
Abe Levitow
Abraham "Abe" Levitow was an American animator who worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
. It was the second of three space-age Tom and Jerry shorts to be released in the Chuck Jones era (along with O-Solar Meow
O-Solar Meow
O-Solar Meow is a 1967 cartoon featuring Tom and Jerry. It was the first of three outer space-related shorts to be released in the Chuck Jones era...
and Advance and Be Mechanized
Advance and Be Mechanized
Advance and Be Mechanized, released in 1967, was the penultimate Tom and Jerry cartoon. It was directed by Ben Washam and produced by Chuck Jones, and is the third and last of the outer space themed shorts from the Chuck Jones era, the first two being O-Solar Meow, and Guided Mouse-ille both in 1967...
), though taking a look at the MPAA code at the beginning of the cartoon would suggest that Guided Mouse-ille (or Science on a Wet Afternoon) was the first of the three cartoons to be produced. According to episode number, It is the last Tom and Jerry cartoon to feature music by Eugene Poddany (both regarding ones produced by Chuck Jones/Sib Tower 12, and also regarding Tom and Jerry cartoons altogether). However, O-Solar Meow could be the last specific cartoon according to the MPAA code. producced in the The cartoon was animated by Don Towsley, Tom Ray, Dick Thompson, Ben Washam, Ken Harris and Philip Roman, with music by Eugene Poddany and backgrounds by Thelma Witmer. The title is a pun of "Guided missile
Guided Missile
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", which is a weapon
Weapon
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. Chuck Jones had previously used a pun of guided missile for "Guided Muscle
Guided Muscle
Guided Muscle is a 1955 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.- Plot :Introduction: Wile E. Coyote is cooking some food in a tin bucket over a fire. He adds pepper and a drop of a brown liquid, and Wile stirs the bucket and fishes out what is...
", a Warner Bros.
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cartoon in the Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes
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series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
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.
Plot
The camera zooms right towards a Space AgeSpace Age
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facility as the title cards are shown. The year is shown to be 2565.
Jerry
Jerry Mouse
Jerry Mouse is a fictional animated character, one of the main characters in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic mouse, who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss...
pushes levers on his control panel and an image of a wheel of cheese materializes on the screen. Jerry calls in robot-Jerry (which looks like a truncated yellow pencil) and gives him his mission. Robot-Jerry speeds through the hallways and ends up breaking an electric eye; this is Tom
Tom Cat
Thomas "Tom" Cat is a fictional character and half of the academy-award winning Tom and Jerry cartoon cat-and-mouse duo. He is a blue/grey anthropomorphic cat who first appeared in the 1940 animated short Puss Gets the Boot...
's signal for a "law-breaker" invasion. Lights and sound activate, but Tom is still sleeping. An alarm clock pops out and rings; this wakes the cat up. Tom sees robot-Jerry and calls in robot-Tom, a blue, jet-powered, but still resembling Tom, machine. Tom gives the robot-cat his mission and it speeds off.
Jerry sees the robot-cat on the screen and frantically messes with the control panel. Robot-Jerry stops, sniffs, and turns around before robot-Tom can eat him. Both of them speed through the hall. Robot-Tom attempts to eat robot-Jerry again, but robot-Jerry levitates himself into the air. Robot-Tom extends his legs up and tries again, but then robot-Jerry drops himself. Robot-Tom crouches to avoid a large fixture, and then extends himself high to avoid a second one. Robot-Tom lowers himself a tiny bit and grins, but soon runs into an overhang. Robot-Jerry speeds through while robot-Tom is left fuming. Robot-Jerry speeds past and this reactivates robot-Tom, who chases the robot-Jerry again. Jerry pulls a lever and robot-Jerry starts moving at superspeed, leaving robot-Tom astonished. Tom then pulls one of his levers and returns robot-Tom to superspeed. Tom sees robot-Jerry approaching the screen and coming out of the bottom of his computer, and looks at the disappearing machine. He turns his eyes back to the screen to see robot-Tom crashing through the screen and causing destruction in the room. A dazed Tom whacks the still-active head of robot-Tom.
Tom has repaired his computer and the screen shows Jerry victorious, having secured his cheese. Tom suddenly gets an idea and steps into a cylinder-like room. He presses a button, which renders the cat invisible
Cloaking device
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. Tom walks towards Jerry's hole with a space weapon and knocks on the wall. Jerry, however, darts out in a space vehicle and squirts the cat with ink, turning Tom red, leaving him visible and vulnerable to attack again. Tom tries to shoot the mouse, but Jerry shoots the cat first and then renders him invisible again. Paramedic
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s come out and load the invisible Tom onto a stretcher.
Tom then directs robot-Tom wielding a gun to take care of the mouse. He knockes on the mousehoule and Jerry comes out in his vehicle. Before robot-Tom can get the chance to pull the trigger, Jerry plugs the gun and blackens his head, causing his head and rear to burst out of their sockets. Robot-Tom cries for a moment and returns by creeping up behind Tom in anger. Tom sees only the gun in the screen before he gets shot. Tom takes the weapon and tries to shoot his mechanical counterpart for his insubordination. However, the shot comes out the wrong end, hits Tom again, and knocks the cat out. Robot-Tom laughs himself silly.
Jerry is now traveling across the floor in his vehicle, his eyes on a large wheel of cheese on the counter. Tom comes from behind in a magnetic crane and attracts Jerry's vehicle up to a magno-pad. Jerry exits his vehicle in a parachute. Jerry unplugs the crane and then Tom comes out with a hammer, ready to squash the mouse. Jerry then plugs the crane back in and the hammerhead comes off the handle and sticks to the pad, and then he unplugs it and it falls on Tom's head. Tom brims with anger as a bump forms on his head, but then Jerry plugs the crane back in and the head squeezes off the bump and re-attaches itself to the pad. Before Tom can throttle Jerry, the head falls back down on Tom's head. Jerry then plugs it back in, and Tom pleads with the mouse not to follow through, but Jerry unplugs the pad anyway and Tom gets bumped again. Jerry continues to plug and unplug the crane until Tom is seen crushed to the floor, 1/3 of Jerry's height, and crying at the mouse' feet. Jerry lets the cat go, and then shrugs.
A large and complex mathematical-chemical equation is shown on a blackboard and Tom is seen making a large quantity of explosive potion based on it, hoping that it will annihilate Jerry once and for all once installed into the bomb. The camera cuts to Jerry, who sees Tom on his screen, and is compressing the wheel of cheese into a tiny amount of a highly volatile liquid. He fills a projectile with it, flies above Tom in a gunboat, and drops the microbomb into the potion. Tom quizzically points into the vat....and then everything blows up. When the smoke clears, a prehistoric world is seen, the Earth having been reduced to the stone age because of Jerry's intervention of the highly explosive liquid.
Tom walks out of a cave with a club and soon sees Jerry licking a bone. He attempts to whack the mouse, but Jerry shows him the bone and they both share it - until Tom wants a taste of mouse instead. The two chase around the barren Earth as "THE END" is shown, and then three question marks pop up as if to say, "...or only the beginning?"