Snowbody Loves Me

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Snowbody Loves Me Tom and Jerry series
Title card of Snowbody Loves Me
Directed by	Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director)
Produced by	Chuck Jones Les Goldman (executive producer)
Story by	Chuck Jones Michael Maltese
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Eugene Poddany
Animation by	Dick Thompson Ben Washam Ken Harris Don Towsley Tom Ray
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1964
Color process	Metrocolor
Running time	8 minutes
Preceded by	Much Ado About Mousing
Followed by	The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse
IMDb profile

Snowbody Loves Me is a 1964 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The cartoon contains much music arranged from familiar Chopin pieces; notably, the Revolutionary Étude; the Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat major; and the Fantaisie-Impromptu.

[edit] Plot

The title cards are shown as Jerry, out in the cold Swiss Alps, is caught up in a snowball and rolls all the way into a pillar. The inclement and wintry weather was also summed-up in an arrangement of Frédéric Chopin's Revolutionary Étude played as Jerry rolls down the steep, snowy mountain.

Jerry rolls himself around on the ground to warm himself up until he runs into another pillar and spots a sign for a cheese shop. Jerry then draws two eyes and a mouth and, when he sees the cheeses, shows a grin. He raps on the door and wakes up Tom, who promptly opens the door, only to find no one there. He walks out into the cold; however, Jerry sneaked in under the cat and now shuts the door closed on Tom. The tables are now turned.

Tom soon starts chattering and does everything he can to relieve it. Tom then peeks through the window and sees Jerry making a fire. His grin is invidious. He attempts to enter through the chimney, but Jerry happened to have chosen that moment to light the fire. Jerry hears Tom being thrown around, yelling in pain, and falling off the edge of the building. The camera cuts for a second to Tom's fall from a duct and then returns to the puzzled Jerry.

Jerry surveys the large array of cheeses and walks in the air towards a large wheel of Emmentaler. He starts to dive in and out of the holes in the cheese as Tom manages to open the door. Only his tail remains unfrozen, and Tom uses it to push himself and to light a fire.

Jerry starts to eat the Emmentaler and yodels as the camera cuts to different areas of the wheel. Amazingly, Jerry has already sculptured the cheese into furniture fit for a mouse to live in. Tom hears and sees Jerry through the holes and pumps out the mouse with a fireplace blower, but he falls back in before Tom can grab him. The cat tries this again and again before he comes up with another plan. He hammers corks into all of the holes (hitting Jerry on the head) and drops a giant weight on top of a giant blower, which causes the cheese to burst and the corks to hit Tom. Tom recovers form the storm to see much of the cheese gone and Jerry with a cheese-tutu. Jerry walks out, and seeing the tutu, does a brief dance. Tom claps as he approaches the mouse and then smacks Jerry between his paws, stunning the mouse and drops him outside in the snow. The entire scene was accompanied in the background with music culled from an arrangement of Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu.

Tom goes back to sleep, but his conscience got the better of him and soon has a change of heart which is similar to a scene from The Night Before Christmas. Tom brings the frozen mouse back in and revives him with a shot of 150-proof Schnapps. Jerry wakes up and jumps into a pile of dolls and puts on a Swiss outfit.

The cartoon ends with Tom playing piano while Jerry, dressed in the Swiss outfit, dances.