Pent-House Mouse

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Pent-House Mouse Tom and Jerry series
The title card of Pent-House Mouse.
Directed by	Chuck Jones
Produced by	Chuck Jones/Sib Tower 12 Productions
Music by	Eugene Poddany
Animation by	Ken Harris Tom Ray Dick Thompson Ben Washam
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	July 27, 1963
Color process	Metrocolor
Running time	7 min 08 secs
Preceded by	Carmen Get It! (final Gene Deitch cartoon)
Followed by	The Cat Above and the Mouse Below
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Pent-House Mouse is the first of thirty-four Tom and Jerry shorts directed by Chuck Jones, released in 1963.

[edit] Plot

In the cartoon, Tom is seen living the high life in a penthouse, while Jerry is seen with an empty stomach looking for food. Jerry sees a lunchbox at a construction site and jumps into it to have a meal, but the steel beam on which the lunchbox sits is lifted into the air, then slides off, landing (along with Jerry and the food) on Tom's patio. Tom grabs the food and uses it to make a Jerry sandwich, but Jerry escapes while Tom is eating it. Tom gives chase, which ultimately leads to Tom falling off the penthouse patio and tumbling across the construction site into a building hosting a dog show. The cartoon ends with Jerry now in Tom's penthouse, enjoying the high life as Tom was at the start of the cartoon.

[edit] Trivia

While all the later Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry's (with the exceptions of "Haunted Mouse" and "Guided Mouse-ille") had the same ending with a two-toned, lower-case "The End" on a black background. Pent-House Mouse had a different ending card, the same two-toned "The End" on the same background but in upper-case and in a Boxy type with the "The" sitting atop the "End".