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Matinee Mouse is a 1966 Tom and Jerry cartoon, acting as a wrap-around short, featuring clips from a number of older cartoons from the Hanna-Barbera era.
Plot[]
Tom chases Jerry all over the house (reusing footage from Love That Pup, The Flying Cat, Professor Tom, and The Missing Mouse) until Jerry gets back at Tom by beating him up in the closet (a clip from Jerry and the Lion). Both call a truce, and while walking happily down the street, they stop by the local cinema, where they notice a poster advertising their cartoons (implying that Tom and Jerry have occupations as actors). The man who was standing by the wall noticed this cat and mouse. He looks up at the poster, then shrugs.
They walk in to watch the feature (clips from Love That Pup, Jerry's Diary, The Flying Sorceress, and The Truce Hurts), but cannot help laughing at each other every time the other is hurt onscreen. Mild annoyance soon turns to violence in the seats, where Tom and Jerry continually slam the seats on each other. Eventually, Jerry tears apart his flag (with Tom following suit) before hitting Tom with a xylophone mallet. The fighting scene in The Truce Hurts stops as the onscreen characters pause their fight to watch the ongoing fight in the seats.
Notes[]
- This cartoon and Shutter Bugged Cat are the only two Tom and Jerry shorts from the Chuck Jones-era where the cat and mouse duo are designed more like the Hanna-Barbera-era character designs of the mid-1950s, as opposed to Chuck Jones' new redesigns from 1963's Pent-House Mouse, due to both cartoons using re-used footage from the original Hanna-Barbera era cartoons, perhaps for design consistency reasons.