Cat and Mouse Burglars is the forty-first episode of Tom and Jerry in New York.
Synopsis[]
A perky – and thieving – pop star checks into the Hotel!
Plot[]
A famous pop star, Riva McDiva will be going to New York City to staying in the Royal Gate Hotel, as Spike, Tom and Jerry see it from the TV, Spike criticizes her while Jerry is her biggest fan with Tom only giving a scowl towards him. Riva McDiva enters the Royal Gate Hotel as the paparazzi take pictures of her as she enters. Riva checks in the hotel, Jerry falls for her as for his obsession. Spike however doesn't understands, Tom soon develops affections for the pop star.
Armand checks a room for her to stay in, when he asks about her bags, she only has brought one carriage which was a crate. Jerry then lies in her box to get her attention, but Tom also wants Riva's attention with Jerry underneath him in the process. She adores Tom and ask if he want to be her "snuggle kitty", he accepts. Jerry then get out from underneath Tom. Riva soon then noticed the Jerry and calls him adorable. Riva then decides both of them to be part of her entourage. Her luggage gets open launching the duo, Spike noticed it was opened and looks at it, Riva quickly closes it before heading to her room.
She lies down in bed with Tom and Jerry until she becomes hungry and wants a eat a burger. Tom and Jerry go to the kitchen to get a burger which they succeed until Spike stops them from proceeding and return it to the kitchen. When it seems dire for the duo, Jerry gets an idea. and disguised themselves as profession chefs and set a steak dinner for Spike. After they serve him the steak, the duo sneak the burger with Tom hiding it behind his back. Spike notices, but is unsure because of Tom's suit.
The duo return to the room, and give Riva McDiva the burger, Riva McDiva theb devours the burger in a matter of seconds. After she was done. She looks at her room and decides that she wants to do her own cleaning. Riva asks for the key card for the maid's room, Tom fetches for a key card and gives it to Riva. After Riva wears a maid outfit and cleans her room as she finishes. She decides that to clean the rest of the other rooms as well. Tom gets the key cards for them roons so they can could do that. They clean all the rooms with her cleaning as Tom and Jerry are doing their usual highjinks by messing with one another awhile still cleaning the rooms. After they done cleaning, she moves on along with Tom and Jerry sitting on her luggage, they bump into Spike causing the luggage to open up revealing all the expensive treasures including jewelry and vice versa. The trio see that Riva has been stealing from the hotel and guest's valuables. She closes it, and quickly dashes inside elevator with trio following her. Jerry convinces Tom to fling him to Riva to make it inside with her and unties Riva's shoes, when she makes it to the front, she soon trips on her shoelaces. Armand then appears and requests for an explanation, Spike shows him that the hotel expensive items and jewelry were in Riva's luggage. When she was find out to be the thief, she was send to jail for theft which ended her career, thanks to Spike, Tom and Jerry as they watched the news. Afterwards the trio soon shred every poster of Riva in a paper shredder. Before shredding another one, Jerry takes a selfie of himself (like Riva McDiva) shredding a picture of Riva in the shredder as the episode ends.
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Trivia[]
- The episode features a famous pop star who is also a thief.
- A new take of the soundtrack from the classic soundtrack is heard in this episode.
- The scene part of Tom and Jerry zipping their mouths closed was cut off in the Boomerang UK version.
- Spike is no fan of Riva McDiva, probably because he does not even prefer pop music.