I'm Just Wild About Jerry

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = I'm Just Wild About Jerry
series = Tom and Jerry


caption = Title card
director = Chuck Jones
Maurice Noble
story_artist = Michael Maltese Chuck Jones
animator = Ben Washam
Ken Harris
Don Towsley
Dick Thompson
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
musician = Eugene Poddany
producer = Chuck Jones
studio = Sib-Tower 12 Productions
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
release_date = flagicon|US 1965
color_process = Metrocolor
runtime = 6' 39"
preceded_by = "Haunted Mouse"
followed_by = "Of Feline Bondage"
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0059299

"I'm Just Wild About Jerry" is a 1965 Tom and Jerry cartoon, directed and produced by Chuck Jones. Chuck Jones also wrote the cartoon's plot with long-time collaborator Michael Maltese. The animation was provided by Dick Thompson, Ben Washam, Ken Harris and Don Towsley. The cartoon's title is a play-on-words of the popular 1920s song "I'm Just Wild About Harry."

Plot

Tom is shown in the shadows to be chasing Jerry down various flights of stairs down many flights of a high-rise while the credits roll.

Once they are finished, Tom and Jerry make it to the ground and continue the pursuit. Tom almost catches the mouse, but Jerry sees a roller skate just ahead and puts on a burst of speed and rolls across the pavement. He is vastly ahead of Tom in a short while. Jerry hides behind a wall and pushes the roller skate out; Tom steps on it and is carried onto train tracks, where a train is shown to be approaching him fast. Tom blindfolds himself and the train runs over the cat. Jerry is then seen running towards and through a mail slot. Tom revives himself, but is soon sighted and run over by a second train.

Jerry paces into the room and it is revealed to be a large department store. Tom pops in through the mail slot formed into a package shape, and then runs after the mouse, but the audience sees that Tom's tail has hooked onto the slot. Jerry runs around a pillar and Tom sticks to the side of it. He briefly sees his super-stretched tail and then he is pulled back into the door. Tom sees his tail curled up in long lengths and then sees the end of his tail hooked up to the mail slot. Realizing his mistake, Tom grins and ties his tail around himself and hops away, but is soon confronted with what appears to be the lights of a mini-version of the trains that ran him over twice. Tom is launched into the air by the assault and it is soon revealed that it is Jerry driving a noise-making fire truck. Tom is seen clutching the ceiling in fear until he sees Jerry waving at him. The cat slides down and soon sees the controls for the trucks.

Tom causes the fire truck to back up, launch forward and throw the mouse off it, and then draw back once again and prepare to ram the mouse. Jerry barely keeps up with the fire truck and Tom periodically stops the truck to "allow" Jerry time to breathe, but in reality he is only taunting his rival. Tom then fiddles with the controls some more and the truck comes alive, steps forward on its wheels, and tries to devour the rodent. The truck then chases Jerry across the floor until Jerry ascends a fixture and drops a bowling ball towards the truck. It creeps away in fear and watches the bowling ball be loaded onto an escalator.

The audience then sees that the bowling ball ascends to the second floor and bumps an oscillating statue, which bumps a piece of pottery down onto where Tom is sitting. Tom looks up and sees the pottery, then stands up nonchalantly and catches the pot at the last minute with a wink of his eyebrows. However, the bowling ball "also" falls off the balcony, and it crashes through the pot and onto Tom's head, creating a long sore.

Jerry descends and hides in the next room while Tom gives chase. He soon sees a whole platoon of toy mice that look just like Jerry on a podium. Tom pulls their tails until the real Jerry is caught because of his distinctive "YEOW!" of pain (the other mice say "MA-MA" in a baby voice). Tom then takes the mouse and a ping-pong paddle and plays ping-pong with Jerry by himself. Eventually, Jerry stretches the net across to the other side and grabs a croquet mallet before he is shot back at the cat. Tom prepares to dash to the other side and then sees the mallet approaching, but can do nothing about it. Jerry uses the fire truck to speed across the floor and open a pipe such that Tom squeezes through it. The cat snakes through the plumbing and is ejected into the opening elevator doors. Tom falls down the shaft until he meets a spring placed by Jerry, and bounces off it and through the mail slot.

Tom rolls back out onto the train tracks, and a "third" train approaches the cat. However, Jerry switches the tracks at the last minute and the train speeds harmlessly past. Jerry grows a set of wings and a halo and flies off into the moonlight.