The Mansion Cat
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Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat is a 2000 animated special for television starring cat-and-mouse superstars, Tom & Jerry. It is notable for being the first Tom and Jerry television special in sixty years. The characters' co-creator, Joseph Barbera provided the voice of Tom's owner for this production.
[edit] Plot
The owner of Tom and a large house tells Tom he is going away for a while, the house is in perfect shape, and that he does not want Tom blaming "the mouse" (who's a family pet, in a habitrail) for any destruction this time. Of course, this means Tom will spend most of the picture chasing Jerry around the house, causing extensive damage. First, Tom throws the habitrail out of the mansion, sits on the sofa, eats a lot of food stolen from the refrigerator, watches TV. Then traditional chase and damage happen. Among the sequences: Jerry shoves Tom into a VCR, then shelves the resulting cassette-sized cat; Tom traps Jerry in a coffeemaker; Jerry traps Tom in a refrigerator, and he comes out again in ice cubes; Jerry sucks Tom and half the living room into a vacuum cleaner; Tom chases Jerry through the yard and into the house on a riding lawn mower. At the end, he crashes the mower into his owner's returning car, who tells Tom he " make[s] a better hood ornament than a house cat".
[edit] Cultural references
- The mansion features photos of the duo's creators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
- During the film, Tom can be seen watching a VHS cassette of Muscle Beach Tom, a clip from the classic 1950s Tom & Jerry short.
- When Jerry sucks the curtain in the living room into a vacuum cleaner, Spike makes a cameo appearance.
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