The Two Mouseketeers

The Two Mouseketeers

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = The Two Mouseketeers
series = Tom and Jerry


caption = The title card of "The Two Mouseketeers"
director = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
story_artist = William Hanna (unc.)
Joseph Barbera (unc.)
animator = Ed Barge
Kenneth Muse
Irven Spence
voice_actor = Nibbles: Francoise Brun-Cottan
musician = Scott Bradley
producer = Fred Quimby
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
release_date = March 15, 1952
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 min
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0044157
preceded_by = The Duck Doctor
followed_by = Smitten Kitten

"The Two Mouseketeers" is a 1952 one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the "Tom and Jerry" series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on March 15, 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse and Irven Spence. The character of Nibbles was voiced by Francoise Brun-Cottan, then six years old. "The Two Mouseketeers" won the 1951 . Such was the cartoon's success, that Hanna and Barbera created a total of four adventures in the "Mouseketeers" series, the second of the tetralogy, 1954's "Touché, Pussy Cat!" also getting an Oscar nomination (though unlike "The Two Mouseketeers", it did not win the award).

Plot

In the cartoon, Jerry and Nibbles are two mouseketeers who decide to help themselves to a lavish banquet, which Tom has been ordered to guard from the King's Mouseketeers with his very life; failure to do so, and "off comes ze head." Jerry and Nibbles enter the castle hall through a stained glass window and a suit of armor and parachute down to the table. They unsuspectingly catch Tom's attention by hitting the cat in the face with a champagne cork.

Later, Nibbles is helping himself to some of the food while singing Alouette to himself, when Tom emerges behind him and pokes him with his sword. The little mouse yells angrily "Hey, attention-la! Vous pourriez faire mal a quelqu'un, Monsieur pussycat! ... "Pussycat"?! Au secours! Au secours! Le pussycat! "Le pussycat!" ("Hey! Watch it! You could hurt someone with that, Mister Pussycat. "Pussycat"!? Help! Help! The pussycat!")

Before Nibbles can get away, Tom impales the little mouse's cape to his sabre. Jerry manages to stab Tom in the bottom and rescue Nibbles. Then Jerry puts custard in Tom's face launching a swashbuckling fencing display against Tom. Then Tom catches Jerry. Then Nibbles launches an axe toward Tom and it slices off half of Tom's back. Then Nibbles hides in some fruit and runs away and falls into a drink. Jerry saves him by hurling a tomato at Tom. Then he hurls lots of food at him and Tom impales all of them with his sabre, heats them up and eats them like a barbecued shishkebab. Nibbles comes out of the drink, drunk and pokes Tom in the bottom saying, "Touche, pussy cat!" Then he runs away and Tom catches him. Then Jerry makes the save by hitting Tom on the head so much that Tom falls through the table. Then Jerry has a sword fight with Tom. While this goes on, Nibbles brings along a cannon and stuffs it completely full with food, in fact, everything that is on the banquet table. He lights the cannon and it explodes. As the smoke disappears, we see Jerry and Nibbles walking triumphantly down the street. Suddenly, in an unusually morbid ending, they see a guillotine blade coming down, strongly suggesting that Tom was actually executed through decapitation, though off-screen. Nibbles sighs, "Pauvre, pauvre, pussycat", ("Poor, poor pussycat") and shrugs: "C'est la guerre." ("That's war.") Then the two Mouseketeers resume their victorious march off into the distance.

Goofs

*On the Latin American dubbing of this cartoon, after Tom is "off with his head", Nibbles says "Buenos dias señor gatito" (" "Good Morning, pussycat" " in English).

Censorship

*Some TV prints of this cartoon edit out the shot of the guillotine rising and falling, implied that Tom had been beheaded.


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