Fraidy Cat Scat

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"Fraidy Cat Scat" is the eleventh sub-episode of Tom and Jerry Tales.

[edit] Episode Summary

Jerry lives in a dusty haunted mansion in this episode. Tom moves in and cleans everything up, not noticing Jerry lives in his new estate as well. Tom turns his TV on and switches the channel to one that has a flaming skull currently on-screen. Jerry turns his head and finds a skull that looks remarkably like it, so he decides to scare Tom out his house.

[edit] Trivia

• This episode marks the first time Tom's habit to read magazines of attractive female cats is shown.
• The writer, Charles Schneider, was inspired by the short story The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford, originally from Wandering Ghosts (1911) which he read as a youth. It was adapted into a film with the same name. Other inspirations were THE SKULL, adapted from - Robert Bloch's short story THE SKULL OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Schneider also edited the retro-men's mag tribute ,CAD (Feral House), which explains the cheesecake referenced above.
• The skull bit also recalls a scene from a Three Stooges short, also set in a spooky house that was being renovated, involving a parrot climbing inside a discarded skull and walking about, scaring the Stooges.