Mice Follies (1960 film)

Not to be confused with Mice Follies (1954 film).

Mice Follies
Looney Tunes series
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	John W. Burton, Sr.
Voices by	Daws Butler Ginny Tyler (uncredited)
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Warren Batchelder Ted Bonnicksen George Grandpre Tom Ray
Layouts by	Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds by	Bob Singer
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	August 20, 1960
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

Mice Follies is a 1960 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. It was the third and last of his parodies of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners, following The Honey-Mousers (1956) and Cheese It, the Cat! (1957).

It was the first Warner cartoon to feature the "A Vitagraph Release" byline.

It was the most recent Warner cartoon in a package of selected shorts made available by Warner Bros. to local television stations from the late 1960s into the early 1990s.

Plot

Ralph Crumden and Ned Morton go out for a walk from Ned's house to Ralph's house. Ned stops to lasso a cat, but when Ralph grabs the cord, he gets dragged in and pounded the cat.

The cat enters the house next to Ralph's house, finding a chance to grab the mice. The cat puts his mouth against the mousehole so that Ralph and Ned enter the cats body. Ralph lights a match in the darkness making smoke and the cat regurgitates the mice. The mice walk on thinking they entered the wrong place. The cat goes into Ralph's house through a grate. Ralph and Ned cautiously enter the house thinking their wives are sleeping sound. Ralph greets "Alice" and grabs her new fur coat, ripping a piece of fur of the cat. In response the cat slices Ralph. Ned tries to talk with "Trixie", but the cat massacres Ned. Both mice march in to confront their "wives", but the cat beats them up and the two mice go to sleep at park to get away from their "aggressive wives".

Alice and Trixie return from the movies to Ralph's house cautiously entering, but the cats beats them up as well. Both ladies go to sleep at park to get away from their "aggressive husbands". Unknown to them their husbands are asleep on the other side of the same bench.

External links

• Mice Follies (1960 film) at the Internet Movie Database