New Mouse in the House

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New Mouse in the House is the third episode of The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show. It was aired on September 6, 1980. It was written by Jack Hanrahan.

Synopsis[]

Tom uses a remote control female mouse as a decoy to lure Jerry to capture, while needing to avoid causing a mess or else his owner will kick him out of the house.

Plot[]

Tom is sleeping and dreaming about food on the couch. After waking up wanting something to eat, he decides to go finding some food inside the fridge. Upon seeing Jerry who is relaxing inside the fridge, he roars However the mouse is distured as the mouse then starts running the turntable, causing the food to flying out of the fridge in which one gets on Tom's face. As Jerry escaped, Tom's owner asks who made this mess, and Tom tries to explain that the mouse who did, until he has proof the owner decides to throw him outside where he lands into a trashcan.

Upon emerging out the trash bin, Tom spots a salesman selling robotic female mice as Tom gets himself some in order to lure Jerry. Tom attempts to put together the robot mice to then one works. Tom then uses a controller to move the robot mouse. He then leads the decoy to knock on the Jerry's door, soon the mouse opens the door and instantly becomes infatuated with the decoy as soon he interacts with her. The first attempt: The robot mouse demands Jerry for food, so Jerry goes to slice cake on the table. Tom then chases him from the window, but soon fails as Tom runs into the cake while Jerry blows a raspberry runs off. Tom's owner returns and asks again: who's responsible for this mess. Tom tries to convince the owner, but the owner kicks him out of the house again.

The second attempt: Tom looks at the inside from out the window spotting gelatin. He then decides to make a bucket of gelatin disguising it as pool with a diving bar, for the purpose that Jerry would be hardened in gelatin and Tom would eat it. Jerry and the girl mouse decoy walk in. Jerry decides to jump into the gelatin pool, but somewhat, he doesn't get stuck as the girl robot mouse applauds him. The mice walk away; Tom tests it himself but gets stuck as intented. Tom ends up bouncing with the gelatin outside into the trash bin.

The third attempt: The robot mouse asks Jerry to dance together. While Tom is still has a hold of the controller, Jerry turns on the music in the CD player. His robot girlfriend demands to play it faster. After Jerry increases the rotation speed of the disc, many discs start flying out of out of it, one of which causes the window Tom is leaning on to falling onto his back trapping him then one flies into his mouth. Jerry plays the disc on Tom's mouth by turning on tunes with Tom's whiskers to start back the music. His girlfriend is dancing, while Jerry is shaking his hips; Tom then crunches the disc into pieces and gets the remote to make the robot mouse to throwing Jerry into a lamp to fly off outside after Tom opens the window. Tom boarded the window so Jerry would not reenter the house.

As Jerry is airborne through the neighborhood he flies over a city dump in which he collides with a trash bin in which gets the attention of an different cat from one of trash bins. As Jerry contines flying with a trash bin gets thrown back by power lines towards the curious cat who narrowly avoids it. The brown cat peaks witnessing Jerry riding on the trash bin. While in the house the robot mouse is used to clean up the floors controlled by remote Tom has to himself as he lounges. Suddenly Tom becomes at shocked upon spotting incoming trash bin coming through the window with it causing a catastrophe in the whole kitchen. Tom's owner hears the commotion to seeing the huge mess in the room making the bewildered owner having enough of Tom's mouse stories thinking he making excuses.

The scene then transition to night where Tom is left outside in the rain as a punishment. From outside the window Tom watches Jerry dancing with his robot girlfriend happily with loud CD music playing. Tom then cries from the window and the screen iris out as the episode ends.

Characters[]

Cast[]

Lou Scheimer - Tom, Jerry
Frank Welker - Tom's Owner, Female mouse, Salesman

Errors[]

In the title card and in the scene where Tom tries to control the robot mouse, his eyes are painted white instead of yellow.
The part where Jerry flies out of the window looks like he fell in the ground, but is shown flying off through the neighborhood instead.

Trivia[]

The episode's plot was used in Tom and Jerry Tales episode "Hi, Robot".
The title of this episode is similar to A Mouse in the House except it has "New" replacing the "A".
This is the first episode where Tom's owner appears in this series.
The animation of Tom getting kicked out before landing in the trash can was reused.