Nit-witty Kitty

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Nit-witty Kitty
series = Tom and Jerry


caption = The title card of "Nit-witty Kitty"
director = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
story_artist = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
animator = Ray Patterson
Ed Barge
Kenneth Muse
Irven Spence
voice_actor = Lillian Randolph (as Mammy Two Shoes, uncredited)
musician = Scott Bradley
producer = Fred Quimby
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
release_date = October 6, 1951
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 6 min 33 secs
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0043857
preceded_by = Slicked-up Pup
followed_by = Cat Napping

Nit-witty Kitty is a 1951 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 61st "Tom and Jerry" cartoon. It was released to theaters on October 6, 1951 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

Plot

The cartoon opens with Tom chasing Jerry around Mammy Two Shoes. Mammy is screaming out instructions on where to chase Jerry. She has a broom ready to hit Jerry but instead she accidentally hits Tom. This hit to the head causes Tom to forget who he is and he believes that he is a mouse. Mammy asks Tom if he is all right but he starts to squeak and chase her. Mammy then gets scared and runs away. Tom then heads over to the refrigerator and grabs a piece of cheese, before entering Jerry's mouse hole. Tom then moves into Jerry's small bed causing it to break underneath him. This makes Jerry angry and exasperated having to share with an oversized 'mouse.' Jerry then overhears Mammy on the phone talking to the doctor about Tom. It is revealed that Tom is suffering from amnesia. Mammy cuts her phone conversation short and runs away on stilts. Tom causes Mammy to crash on her stilts and he runs back into the mouse hole.

Jerry then runs to get the medical encyclopedia to learn more about amnesia. He learns that "memory can be restored by a sharp blow on the head". This gives Jerry an idea, to hit Tom on the head to return things to normal. Tom is shown sleeping on Jerry's bed. Jerry whistles and gets Tom's attention with a piece of cheese. Jerry then hides behind a curtain with a baseball bat. Tom starts searching for Jerry and every time Jerry swings to hit Tom, Tom conveniently moves out of the way. This makes Jerry exhausted. Jerry then tries dropping a bowling ball onto a piece of wood where a piece of cheese is sitting. Tom comes out of the mouse hole and eats the cheese. Jerry drops the ball, launching Tom headfirst into the ceiling. This cures him of his amnesia, but when Tom lands back onto the wood, the bowling ball is launched into the air and falls on his head, sending him back to his mouse-like state. Jerry then puts down a trail of cheese for Tom and he tries to drop a vase on his head. He misses. Jerry sets down another trail of cheese that leads under the piano. Jerry has tied a string to the piano leg and when Tom walks under the piano, Jerry pulls the leg out of the piano causing it to fall. But the piano misses Tom. Tom continues the trail through a door and an iron barely misses him as well. Tom reaches a big piece of cheese and Jerry cuts a rope tied to an anvil. But the anvil cuts off the back of his skin and crashes through the floor. Jerry sits down disgusted, he's tried everything.

Tom then gives Jerry a piece of cheese, but Jerry doesn't want it and throws it away. It lands in a small cup on the shelf, which rolls and knocks a dish, which rolls into a laundry basket and into the broom. The broom falls over and releases a door which holds the ironing board which hits Tom on the head curing him of his amnesia. Jerry lets out a happy scream and runs to his mouse hole. He kisses Tom and then lies down on his bed to relax. Tom also lies down right outside Jerry's mouse hole. Jerry looks outside and sees Mammy (who's unaware that Tom is back to normal) reading the medical book and holding a baseball bat. She says she is going to cure Tom of his amnesia with a blow to the head. Jerry tries to stop her but she hits Tom anyway, unknowingly bringing his amnesia back. Jerry returns to his mouse hole with Tom behind him now with and back to his mouse-like state. Tom kicks Jerry out of his bed, lies on the bed and breaks it once again, leaving Jerry frustrated.

Voice Dubbing

* In most versions, when Mammy plans on hitting Tom with the baseball bat, her voice has been dubbed out.