Pet Peeve - (6 min. 35 sec.) 1954

While Spike is eating a large ham and Tom is drinking milk from the milk bottle they overhear their owners complaining about bills. They say the dog and cat eat too much and one has to go. It's the lady's cat and the guy's dog. Tom rubs against her legs and plays with yarn while Spike licks his master. Tom vacuums and dusts while Spike Irons the clothes... all the while Jerry is watching and eating. The owner's decide that the one who catches a mouse can stay and the fighting begins quickly. Tom grabs Jerry and Spike hits Tom with his fist, and then Tom slams Spike in a sliding door. Spike detours the cat and clobbers him with a golf club and then Tom pulls the dog through a furnace grate... each time Jerry changes hands. They duel with swords and the furniture starts to get wrecked and when Jerry gets away and they roll him up in a rug, they chop it to bits... along with their master's shoes (with him still in them!). They both have to pack but are allowed to take what is theirs... they take the refrigerator and run off down the street.

notes:

Music - "Love That Pup" (Bradley)
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Touche', Pussy Cat! - (6 min. 45 sec.) 1954

Tuffy arrives in Paris and goes to the mouseketeers' headquarters. Captain Jerry reads the letter of recommendation from his friend Francois Mouse, about his young son Tuffy. Jerry supervises Tuffy’s training, but the impetuous Tuffy breaks everything he touches and sticks Jerry with his sword. Tuffy pays court to a young lady mouse who steps over Jerry in order to avoid dirtying herself in a mud puddle. Tuffy provokes Tom, and Jerry cuts the cat's tail into circles. Jerry writes to Francois Mouse that his son will never make a real mousketeer. Tuffy leaves, dejected. Tom catches up with Jerry and they fight a duel... and Jerry is losing! Tuffy flies to the aid of Captain Jerry. He cuts Tom's tail, then draws a cat on the wall, singing "Frere Jacques" as he works. Tom appears and Tuffy draws a pair of glasses on Tom's face. Tuffy fires at Tom with a cork from a champagne bottle and opens a barrel that washes Tom away into the nearest sewer. "Poor, poor pussy cat," says Tuffy ironically. Jerry makes Tuffy a mousketeer but the little mouse again sticks him with his sword and gets a spanking from Jerry. "C’est la guerre!" Tuffy says in French.

notes:

Music - "We're on Our Way" (Brown-Brent)
The film was nominated for an Academy Award. This was the last nomination that the series received.
This film was remade in wide-screen format.
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