The Mouse Comes to Dinner

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The Mouse Comes to Dinner
Tom and Jerry series
The title card of The Mouse Comes to Dinner
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Story by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Animation by	Irven Spence Kenneth Muse Pete Burness Ray Patterson
Voices by	Lillian Randolph (uncredited)
Music by	Scott Bradley
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	May 5, 1945
Format	Technicolor, 7 min 18 secs
Language	English
Preceded by	Mouse Trouble
Followed by	Mouse in Manhattan
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The Mouse Comes to Dinner is a 1945 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby.

[edit] Plot

Mammy Two Shoes is setting up for a fancy dinner. Jerry appears from under the table and climbs on the tablecloth, observing the room as Mammy sets out more plates. She leaves the room, hoping nothing goes wrong before the company arrives. Tom appears from underneath a houseplant and rushes to the phone to call his girlfriend who answers and happily exclaims that she'd love to come to dinner.

At the meal, Jerry is forced into performing menial duties for the two cats, such as carrying food over and blowing Tom's soup for him. Frustrated at being made Tom's slave, Jerry drinks some of Tom's soup, steps onto his spoon, and proceeds to spit the soup into Tom's face. Tom retaliates by placing the spoon (with Jerry on top of it) directly above a candle's flame, causing Jerry to burn his feet, and then his bottom, before shooting off the spoon and landing onto some butter, which melts on contact.

Jerry sandwiches Tom's tail in between two slices of bread, causing Tom to bite himself. The trick is repeated when Jerry dollops some cream onto Tom's tail, which he unsuspectingly bites, once again. Pies are thrown, desserts are hurled, bodies are poked with knives, and to top it all off, Tom ends up getting his tail burned when Jerry pulls his tail into a candelabra and uses another candle in the candlestick to light up Tom's tail. After Tom realizes that his tail is burning, he rushes off to sit on an ice bucket to cool himself down. Moments later, Jerry replaces the ice bucket with an oil lamp. Tom suddenly smells burning and asks his girlfriend, "Hey, what's cooking?," to which she replies "You are, stupid." The heat eventually becomes so painful, that Tom is sent straight up through the ceiling and comes crashing down onto the table, wrecking it. Out cold, Tom is christened the "S.S Drip", smashed with a bottle of champagne, and launched straight into a punchbowl, in which he drowns.