Not to be confused with The Year of the Mouse.
Year of the Mouse is the thirty-ninth episode of Tom and Jerry in New York.
Synopsis[]
A musical visit to Chinatown spells romance for Jerry – and fireworks for Tom.
Plot[]
Jerry is walking during the lunar Chinese event in china town, he sense the smell of noodles, Tom noticed Jerry passing by him, the scent leads him to a female mouse wearing a cheongsam who gives him a bowl of noodles, as Jerry enjoys the bowl, the female mouse comes to Jerry but couldn't as Jerry retreated from people with new yorkers with firecrackers. Jerry is stopped in the tail by Tom, Jerry pulls off his tail that fringed Tom to the shoe rack, Tom then grabs Jerry with the mouse messing with his whiskers. The cheogsma wearing mouse comes to Jerry rescue, by hitting Tom with a sandal that launches him to the clog shoe that rings his ear. The Chinese mouse helps Jerry escape from Tom. the two mice then meet eye to eye with one another.
Tom then comes to his senses and charges at them. Jerry and the cheogsma mouse hide in seashells and Tom searches through like if he was playing the shell game, when he did found them, they jump on find on box of shells on Tom's face as he get struggles to get the seashells off his face and also finds a crab that snips his arm, the two mice run inside cafe to get chase by Tom equipped with a Chinese spirit Dragon as he gives throws bites with the dragon, Tom chase them both mice around a pole that gets him tied up, as he almost corners the two of them, he is pulled back and flown into a Pagoda that is filled with fireworks. Then all the fireworks go out and launch Tom into the sky and he is blown up to death along with them. With Tom out of the way, Jerry and the female mouse sit on the shell as they both watch the fireworks and when she smiles at Jerry, he gets out a pearl as a nice gift to her, she gives him a good kiss on the cheek and they both nestle on each other and continue watching the fireworks together.
Characters[]
- Jerry Mouse
- Cheogsma Mouse
- Tom Cat (main antagonist)
- Crab
Trivia[]
- The episode takes place around the Lunar New Year.
- The crab that snipped Tom's arm is a reference to "Salt Water Tabby", "Cat Napping" and "Smitten Kitten".
- Another 4th of July episode where Tom is blasted into the sky and death on a firecracker like in Suitable For Framing, The Yankee Doodle Mouse and Safety Second.