This starts off with Tom trying to build the "Better Mouse Trap"; designing it on a drafting board and finishing the drawing just before he goes off to bed. Then something different... the stick-figured mouse on the drawing board comes to life, runs off the board and warns Jerry of Tom's calculations. Irv Spence must have had fun animating this one as the stick-cat comes to life and terrorizes both Jerry and stick-mouse. The cat's mouth gets erased and his legs shortened before he uses his tail as a lasso to capture Jerry. Stick-cat then gets punctured and rolled up like spaghetti before he finally gets sucked up by an ink pen. Stick-mouse and Jerry then change a 10 to a 12 on the drawing board just as the real Thomas wakes up. The cat then builds the contraption (very elaborate) and as Jerry sets it off, Tom waits for a safe to crush the mouse. It crushes Tom instead.
notes:
Music - "Love That Pup" (Bradley)
Some parts of this are used again in "Shutter Bugged Cat" in 1967
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