Farewell, Sweet Mouse

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Farewell, Sweet Mouse
Season	1
Episode	1
Premiere dates
Air Date	September 6, 1980
Producers
Story by	Jack Hanrahan Steve Clark
Preceded by	Preceding to; The Great Motorboat Race
Followed by	Droopy's Restless Night

"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

During a stormy 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 is a dark and stormy night. Tom looked out the window, and as he fell asleep in the music room, he decided to move to another spot after feeling a raindrop. He moved to his bed to sleep. On top of the bookshelf, Jerry felt a raindrop and used a flying disc to shield himself from the rain. One of the raindrops fell on Tom, prompting him to climb up a ladder and throw the disc into the room. The disc came back, hitting Tom and sending him to the floor while Jerry laughed. Another raindrop fell on Jerry's head, so he grabbed a xylophone.

Tom heard the sound of the instrument and climbed up the ladder to grab the xylophone. However, as he descended, he slipped on the water droplets on the ladder, landing face-first as the raindrops continued to fall. When more raindrops fell, Jerry noticed another one and decided to get a bucket to catch the leak, while Tom hid in a drum to sleep.

Tom snored loudly, which made Jerry come down to blow a trumpet at him, startling him out of the drum set. The trumpet landed in Tom's mouth, and Jerry blew into it. Tom pulled on a string, and the bucket landed on his head. Tom borrowed some long sticks to lift Jerry up from the bookshelf, but the stick got tangled in the ladder. As Tom cornered Jerry, he tripped over the stick and fell into a jack-in-the-box, launching backward onto the shelf as he continued to chase Jerry. Jerry hopped onto a plane to escape from Tom.

The cat climbed back up to chase him but fell into a bucket of water. Jerry quickly retreated into his mousehole. Noticing this, Tom used a croquet mallet to block Jerry's hole with a croquet ball. He then used a water hose to flood Jerry's mousehole. Thinking quickly, Jerry inflated a balloon to float in the water. With so much water inside the wall, it broke, releasing water onto the floor. Tom ran to the door to let the water out, but Jerry was swept away into the town. Unfortunately for him, his balloon popped, causing Jerry to fall into a body of water and start drowning. Tom followed the trail of water and saw Jerry going into a sewer hole. Believing Jerry was gone, Tom returned to the house, completely unaware that Jerry was watching him. Afterward, Tom settled back into bed on a rug.

Thunder began to rumble again as Tom looked at a picture frame of himself and Jerry, thinking of Jerry as an angel. Meanwhile, Jerry managed to return to the house. Tom prayed while glancing at a clock shaped like an angry Jerry's face. Suddenly, he heard the sound of hail as balls fell to the floor. To scare Tom, Jerry disguised himself as a ghost.

Flashes of lightning made Tom believe there was a ghost in the house. He ran into another room and took shelter under a table. There, he heard a radio playing and turned it off after disagreeing with its statement. Then Tom heard a piano playing by itself. Startled, he jumped onto the keys, resulting in his hands getting flattened. He quickly ran to the window to reach his hand into the rain to heal his injury.

As Tom pounced inside to check if something was inside of it. To be unaware that Jerry had sneaked away from it. Jerry attached various instruments to invisible balloons. Peering out from behind the piano, Tom sees Jerry using a noisemaker to make it seem like the instruments were playing and floating by themselves. Thanks to the flashes of lightning, Tom noticed Jerry's shadow behind the curtains and realized that the floating instruments were attached to balloons.

Tom eventually see through Jerry's charades. Jerry then flees away from Tom, who emerged from behind the curtains. A chase ensued as Tom pursues after the mouse around the room, eventually managing to catch him while Jerry was inside a rug. Tom shot Jerry a glare. Just then, trick-or-treaters approached the door, scaring both characters under the rug. Once they realized that the scary figures were just trick-or-treaters, Jerry gave Tom a raspberry. The cat then chased the mouse under the rug as the episode closes.

Characters

Starring

• Tom Cat
• Jerry Mouse

Featuring

• Trick-or-Treaters

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.
• Neither Tom and Jerry win nor lose at the end as they both continue chasing each other under the rug ending in a draw.
• 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".
• This is the first episode to have the background from the wraparound be identical to the episode itself.
• The way how Tom’s paws look like after being smashed by a piano are the same as from Professor Tom, Saturday Evening Puss and Baby Butch.
• Jerry waking up Tom with a trumpet was later reused in Kitty Hawk Kitty and Get Along, Little Jerry.

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.
• Despite it being based around 31st October (Halloween), the grass is still green and the trees are not bare.
• When Tom gets the xylophone, the toys are seen on the top shelf. But when Tom slips on a puddle that was on the ladder, the toys (along with Jerry) disappear.
• When Jerry honks the trumpet when it falls on Tom’s face, the honk sound effect ends very late.
• When Tom climbs on ski sticks to catch Jerry, all of the toys on the cupboard are missing and his eyes are painted white.
• The Jack-in-a-Box disappears in one frame after Tom falls into it and gets flown back.
• When Jerry runs into his mouse hole, the balls and the hammer were next to it. But when Tom sees them, they are somehow located in a completely different location.
• When Jerry runs to the glue and the toy box, he is seen much bigger than as usual.
• When Tom is seen touching the piano keys inside it, his eyes are painted white instead of yellow.

Availability

Tom and Jerry in Matinee Mouse (VHS)

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