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Mice Follies

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Mice Follies is a 1954 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 85th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Plot[]

Jerry and Nibbles flood the kitchen and freeze the water, turning the room into a skating rink. The two mice go about their own business, skating and sliding across the frozen floor - until Tom is woken up. He pursues the two mice, but is not as mobile on ice as he thought. As he skids across the "rink", he crashes into a closet and comes across a pair of ice skates. Equally matching the skating prowess of the mice, the chase resumes as Tom crashes into, bangs into, stumbles across and dodges many kitchen obstacles, including an ironing board, a door and some stools, before sliding up a table plank-turned-ramp made by the mice and falling down into the cellar.

Tom emerges from the cellar and just as he is about to catch Jerry after banging the shovel in his hand on the mouse's head, Nibbles wisely defrosts the ice, causing Tom to slip over on the watery floor and having to adjust to the changes. Using a seltzer water dispenser, Tom scares Jerry into climbing up a shelf, which leaves the mouse with nowhere else to run and hide. As the cat was ready to spray again, Nibbles sets the freezer to 'Quick Freeze', re-freezing the floor, with Tom standing on it; just as he sprays the seltzer water, he becomes nothing more but an icy display while the water makes a bridge for Jerry to skate across. Jerry gives Tom a satisfied look as the cat is now motionless. Jerry and Nibbles resume their ice dancing, skating around the frozen cat who can do nothing but move his eyes around and follow the mice as they skate across the floor.

Availability[]

Notes[]

  • The title is a play on the Ice Follies, a touring ice show founded in 1936.
  • This was the last Tom and Jerry cartoon to use the 1952 red and blue MGM Cartoon title, it was also one of the only two cartoons to use the first version of the 1954 blue Tom and Jerry title card, the other being Baby Butch.

References[]

  1. ↑ http://www.whataboutthad.com/mgm-cartoon-filmography-by-production-number/
Tom and Jerry Cartoons
1940 Puss Gets the Boot
1941 The Midnight Snack • The Night Before Christmas
1942 Fraidy Cat • Dog Trouble • Puss n' Toots • The Bowling Alley-Cat • Fine Feathered Friend
1943 Sufferin' Cats! • The Lonesome Mouse • The Yankee Doodle Mouse • Baby Puss
1944 The Zoot Cat • The Million Dollar Cat • The Bodyguard • Puttin' on the Dog • Mouse Trouble
1945 The Mouse Comes to Dinner • Mouse in Manhattan • Tee for Two • Flirty Birdy • Quiet Please!
1946 Springtime for Thomas • The Milky Waif • Trap Happy • Solid Serenade
1947 Cat Fishin' • Part Time Pal • The Cat Concerto • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse • Salt Water Tabby • A Mouse in the House • The Invisible Mouse
1948 Kitty Foiled • The Truce Hurts • Old Rockin' Chair Tom • Professor Tom • Mouse Cleaning
1949 Polka-Dot Puss • The Little Orphan • Hatch Up Your Troubles • Heavenly Puss • The Cat and the Mermouse • Love That Pup • Jerry's Diary • Tennis Chumps
1950 Little Quacker • Saturday Evening Puss • Texas Tom • Jerry and the Lion • Safety Second • Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl • The Framed Cat • Cue Ball Cat
1951 Casanova Cat • Jerry and the Goldfish • Jerry's Cousin • Sleepy-Time Tom • His Mouse Friday • Slicked-up Pup • Nit-Witty Kitty • Cat Napping
1952 The Flying Cat • The Duck Doctor • The Two Mouseketeers • Smitten Kitten • Triplet Trouble • Little Runaway • Fit to Be Tied • Push-Button Kitty • Cruise Cat • The Dog House
1953 The Missing Mouse • Jerry and Jumbo • Johann Mouse • That's My Pup! • Just Ducky • Two Little Indians • Life with Tom
1954 Puppy Tale • Posse Cat • Hic-cup Pup • Little School Mouse • Baby Butch • Mice Follies • Neapolitan Mouse • Downhearted Duckling • Pet Peeve • Touché, Pussy Cat!
1955 Southbound Duckling • Pup on a Picnic • Mouse for Sale • Designs on Jerry • Tom and Chérie • Smarty Cat • Pecos Pest • That's My Mommy
1956 The Flying Sorceress • The Egg and Jerry • Busy Buddies • Muscle Beach Tom • Down Beat Bear • Blue Cat Blues • Barbecue Brawl
1957 Tops with Pops • Timid Tabby • Feedin' the Kiddie • Mucho Mouse • Tom's Photo Finish
1958 Happy Go Ducky • Royal Cat Nap • The Vanishing Duck • Robin Hoodwinked • Tot Watchers
1961 Switchin' Kitten • Down and Outing • It's Greek to Me-ow!
1962 High Steaks • Mouse into Space • Landing Stripling • Calypso Cat • Dicky Moe • The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit • Tall in the Trap • Sorry Safari • Buddies Thicker Than Water • Carmen Get It!
1963 Pent-House Mouse
1964 The Cat Above and the Mouse Below • Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? • Much Ado About Mousing • Snowbody Loves Me • The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse
1965 Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life • Tom-ic Energy • Bad Day at Cat Rock • The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off • Haunted Mouse • I'm Just Wild About Jerry • Of Feline Bondage • The Year of the Mouse • The Cat's Me-Ouch
1966 Duel Personality • Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary • Jerry-Go-Round • Love Me, Love My Mouse • Puss 'n' Boats • Filet Meow • Matinee Mouse • The A-Tom-Inable Snowman • Catty-Cornered
1967 Cat and Dupli-cat • O-Solar-Meow • Guided Mouse-ille • Rock 'n' Rodent • Cannery Rodent • The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. • Surf-Bored Cat • Shutter Bugged Cat • Advance and Be Mechanized • Purr-Chance to Dream
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