Planet of the Mice is the forty-ninth episode of Tom and Jerry in New York.
Synopsis[]
Tom has a nightmare about human sized mice take over New York.
Plot[]
Tom chases after Jerry who has his paws on an ice cream, with them passing by Armand, Jerry runs under the couch that makes him loses the two other scopes and finds hair in his cone, Tom laughs at him, with Jerry replying to throwing the cone at Tom's face with Jerry laughing now. The chase then resumes with Tom gets two suitcases and uses them as skates. He then outruns and gets in front of Jerry, but is launched by a row of chairs that act as a ramp to hit the vent tunnels to falling a chest with a stack of books landing on him, with chest closing and the suitcases landing on the chest. After sometime later, the bellhop girl Molly sees the chest to see that the chest that the tag has no name on it, where she asks Armand. He then tells her to put it in lost in found. Molly takes it that is close to the 10 year high school reunion sign. She also takes it to the lost and found and places it inside.
After sometime inside the chest, he finally gets out and sees "the sign is changed with the "20 year high school reunion", like if he was he is 10 years in the future. Tom looks around, but could not put his finger to it. He walks around the lobby to the hotel is themed with cheese, as he in the futuristic environment he is in. Suddenly, a tall hotel manager appears, and it turns out to be a male Human sized mouse, the head looks just like Jerry. Tom is handled by an angry Mouse Concierge that is suppose to be Armand. He then calls the real Jerry as a Human sized mouse filling the role of the bellboy, the Concierge request him to kick Tom, as he does so. Tom is thrown out with Mr. Piper as the Human sized Mouse closing the door.
Tom sees that there are flying cars now. He then noticed that the city is with place now unfriendly with alley cats with Meathead being chased by a human sized mouse to a couple of alley cats being taken in cat catcher van. Tom then runs to the police and see that the cops were Human sized mice too. There, Tom runs to an alley to hide to find Butch as an old age cat as Tom is happy to see he is still here. Butch noticed that Tom is still his youthful self, wishing to be his age. Tom points that the place is filled with human sized mice. As a result, Butch told him what happen awhile Tom was in his slumber. However, it started with humans experimenting with on the mice like Jerry, that made them super intelligent. They became big and strong, so powerful that human fled out in a rocket, and the mouse took over earth as there nothing they can do. As Butch admits the defection, Tom refuses back marches in the hotel, by the human sized mice people. Tom gets food from the table with a female Human sized mouse lady her head looks just like Tuffy. After she gets caught off guard, she chases him, untill they encounters Human sized mouse version of Armand, who tells Human sized Jerry the bellboy to throws Tom out the exit. Butch tries to convince Tom not to try any further, any give up by giving him a pizza from the trash, however, he declines and does not accept his defeat.
Despite this, Tom sneaks back in the hotel in the club, he gets as many fish as he finds in the table, until he is spotted by the Human sized Jerry. Horrified, Tom throws the plate of fish on Human sized Jerry's face. He then chases him to the end of the table until they fence with fish, which Tom slams on human sized Jerry. Tom jumps on the Human sized mouse drummer's drum set. The jazz music becomes more lively. He then snatches the trumpet from the musician, who chases after him for it. the musicians and human sized Jerry chases Tom around musician with the brass and escapes the scene, The musicians play faster, as well as the guest. Tom then jumps on a Human sized mouse trumpeter to snatches the trumpet from the musician, Tom plays the trumpet. Human sized Jerry then gets the fish off his head and joins the chase with trumpeter around the violin player. After a while, they go around the violin player eventually Tom leaves the chase. They all freezes for Tom blows the trumpet and runs away. However, Human sized Jerry then chases after him. Tom then pass by the Human sized mouse repairman and grabs the grinder to cut himself a cat-sized mouse hole. Human sized Jerry gets stuck in Tom's mouse hole, because he is too big. Tom then dances on his head. Afterwards, the Human sized Jerry sets up traps for Tom with mouse traps (or cat traps) with fish on them. Tom then uses fish rod to get all the fish from the mousetraps. He places all the big mouse trap on a seesaw platform. He then uses cheese to lures Human sized Jerry to trigger the trap, he wakes up and is suddenly covered with mouse traps.
After Tom finished all of the fish, Human sized Jerry lures him out with a rifle that has a laser-pointer and can shoot out nets. He attempts to catch Tom with it, but instead of getting him, he gets the a lot of the guests. Spike's cameo as a maid, then all the other Human sized mice people in the lobby. Human sized mouse version of Armand insist on catching the cat himself with the human sized mice guests wanting to catch him instead. The other Human sized mice people chase after Tom. At the same time, Butch and the other alley cats look out the door to seeing Tom revolting. this inspires Butch and the others (including Meathead, Dollface etc) to also revolt. They all goes inside the hotel that scares the guests inside the hotel by there presence, all the Human sized mice people run out the building. Shortly thereafter, the health inspector comes for a visit and sees the place is infested with alley cats, he closes down the hotel.
The alley cats have prove to be victorious, they celebrate by lifting up Tom to hit a sign from above him, with that bonk in the head, he is awoken from the dream, he gets out of chest in and exit out to closet to sees the place is back to normal, Tom then expresses that he misses the place by hugging the Human Molly and kissing the Human Armand in the forehead, leaving him puzzled as he looks at the screen.
Characters[]
Out of Dream[]
- Tom Cat (also in dream)
- Jerry Mouse (also in dream as an evolved human-sized mouse)
- Armand (also in dream as a human-sized mouse)
- Molly
In Dream[]
- Human sized Mice People
- Butch Cat (old)
- Meathead Cat (does not speak)
- Dollface (does not speak)
- Lightning Cat (does not speak)
- Spike Bulldog (cameo as a maid)
- Mr. Piper (cameo as a human sized mouse)
- Unnamed Cat (does not speak)
- Unnamed white cat (does not speak)
Notes[]
- Butch is depicted as old, despite other characters such as Meathead, Lightning, and Dollface looking like their youthful selves.
- This episode is a parody of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes.
- This is the second time the film was parodied, with the first being in The Tom and Jerry Show (1975) episode, Planet of the Dogs.
Errors[]
- The beige cat is depicted off-model at one point in this episode.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Planet of the Mice/Gallery