"Farewell, Sweet Mouse" is the first episode of The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show written by Jack Hanrahan and Steve Clark. It was originally broadcasted on September 6, 1980.
Synopsis[]
On a rainy night, while being disrupted by Jerry, Tom throws him out. Believing him to be dead, Tom is tricked into thinking Jerry is a ghost.
Plot[]
It's a dark and stormy night, Tom looks at the window and as he falls asleep in the music room, he decides to move to another spot after feeling a rain drop. He moves to his bed to sleep. On top of the bookshelf, Jerry feels a rain drop and use a flying disc to cover himself from the rain and one of the raindrops fell to Tom he climbed up a ladder and throw the disc into a room and came back to Tom hitting him to the floor as Jerry laughs a rain drop fall in his head again he uses a xylophone Tom hears the instrument and comes up a with ladder and grabs the xylophone as he came down the ladder and slip on the water drops on the ladder and gets in his face as the rain drops drop down. Rain drops fall Jerry watches and another one falls him, and Jerry decided to get a bucket for the leak awhile Tom hides in a drum to sleep. Tom snores loud and Jerry comes down to blow trumpets at Tom springing him out of the drum set, the trumpet landed on Tom's mouth and Jerry blows on it, he climbs the string, Tom pulls on it and the bucket landed on his head. Tom burrowed some long sticks to get Jerry up the bookshelf, stick gets tangled in the ladder, Tom corners Jerry the stick trips, Tom falls down inside a jack-in-the-box and lunched backed on the shelf and continues to chase Jerry, the mouse hops to a plane for Jerry to fly, he on homes through Tom. The cat gets to back to chase awhile up the bookshelf, he falls down in a bucket of water, Jerry goes in his mousehole. Tom notices and puts a Croquet mallet to block Jerry's hole with a Croquet ball. Tom uses water hose to flood Jerry's mouse hold, with Jerry's quick thinking, he blows a balloon float so he could float in the water, with some much water inside the wall, it breaks and relases water in floor. Tom runs to a door for the water to go out, Jerry is swept away into the town, unfortunely for him his balloon float pops making Jerry fall into the body of water and starts drowning, Tom follows the trail of water and sees water with Jerry goes into the sewer hole. Tom believes Jerry is gone and returns to the house, as Jerry looks at him. Tom heads back to bed in a rug.
Thunder starts to strike again, He looks at picture frame of him and Jerry as he thinks Jerry is an angel, Jerry manages to return to the house, Tom prays and looks at a clock that looks like an angry Jerry face, he hears hail sounds caused by ball falling in the floor. Jerry disguises as a ghost to scare Tom. The flashes from the lighting gets to him thinking there was ghost, Tom runs Tom to another room under the table, he hears a radio plays, he turns it off after not agreeing to its statment, Tom then hears the piano playing by itself so he jumps to the keys, that resulted in Tom's hands getting flatten, he quickly ran to the window to reach his hand to the rain to heal his injury.
Tom pounce inside as Jerry is already away. Jerry attaches instruments to invisble balloons, Tom sees out the piano, Jerry uses a noisemaker to make him believe that the insturments are playing and floating by themselves. Tom looks at Jerry's shadow behind the curtains thanks to the flashes from the lightning revealing Jerry, Tom also finds out the floating instruments were attached to balloons. Jerry runs away from Tom appearing from the curtains, Tom chase mouse around the room, Tom manages to catch awhile Jerry was inside the rug. Tom gives Jerry a glare. Trick-or-treaters come to the door scaring both protagonists to the rug, then they realized that the scary figures were trick-or-treaters, Jerry raspberry at Tom, the cat chases the mouse under the rug until the episode ends.
Characters[]
Starring[]
Featuring[]
Cast[]
- Lou Scheimer - Tom, Jerry, Trick-or-Treaters
- Linda Gary - Trick-or-Treaters
Notes[]
- This is the first episode of the The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show.
- The animation of Tom chasing Jerry towards the viewer's left with Tom falling and getting back up was reused.
- Some clips from the episode were reused in the closing credits.
- Tom and Jerry neither win nor lose at the end as they both continue chasing each other under the rug.
- This episode takes place on Halloween, as indicated by the trick-or-treaters at the end. Both Tom and Jerry mistake them as actual monsters and ghosts until they say "trick-or-treat".
Errors[]
- Tom's cheeks disappear for a second after he walks away in the rain.
- The scene where Tom is sleeping in the rug, then in the next scene, Tom's size reduces.
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Gallery[]
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Video[]
The Tom and Jerry comedy show - Farewell. Sweet Mouse - Episode 1