A mouse in the House 1947

A mouse in the House

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, Richard Bickenbach and Don Patterson, and was released to theatres on August 30, 1947. The title of this cartoon is an appropriate play on "a guest in the house."Mammy Two Shoes 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 "'cause I ain't! There's a mouse in the house, and there's two cats. But there's only gonna be one cat in this house in the morning and that's the cat that catches that mouse. Now, get going!"

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.