Purr-Chance to Dream
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| Purr-Chance to Dream | |
| Tom and Jerry series | |
 Title card of Purr-Chance to Dream |
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| Directed by | Ben Washam |
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| Story by | Irv Spector |
| Animation by | Dick Thompson Ken Harris Don Towsley Tom Ray Philip Roman |
| Music by | Dean Elliott |
| Produced by | Chuck Jones |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date | 1967 |
| Format | Metrocolor, 6 min 05 secs |
| Language | English |
| IMDb page | |
"Purr-Chance to Dream" is a 1967 Tom and Jerry cartoon short directed by Ben Washam and produced by Chuck Jones. It was the last Tom and Jerry short released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the last of the Chuck Jones shorts in Tom and Jerry series. The title is a play-on-words of "perchance to dream" a famous quotation from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, though the plot of this cartoon bears no resemblance to the play. Like several Chuck Jones-produced Tom and Jerry shorts, this one arguably tends to focus more on poses and personality than on storyline and plot.
[edit] Plot
Tom wakes up after a nightmare of being pounded into the ground by a giant bulldog. When he sees Jerry catching a bone, he grabs him but Jerry wallops him on the head with it and runs off, stopping at the giant bulldog's house. When Tom approaches it, he is reminded of his dream and runs off in horror. Instead, a tiny little bulldog (first seen in The Cat's Me-Ouch!) comes out. When Tom grabs Jerry, the bulldog grabs his tail and rapidly eats away at Tom's fur, spinning in a blur, and pounding his face to the ground. Tom has several attempts at catching Jerry, including stuffing an oversized bone with dynamite, spraying himself with dog repellent, or playing fetch with the dog by throwing a stick into a safe, and hurling the safe into a deep pit. However, every time, the miniscule pup manages to eat away at Tom until he is literally several pieces of hair on the ground. In the end, it turns out that all this was a dream. We see Tom taking some medicine and playing music before going back to sleep and calmly dreaming of being pounded once again into the ground.
