The Mansion Cat

Name: The Mansion Cat
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Released: 2001-04-08
Duration: 7 min
Rating: 4.6
Cast: Joseph Barbera

TV Short
2001
Approved
7m

IMDb RATING

4.6/10

198

YOUR RATING

Animation Comedy Family Short

The owner of a large house tells Tom he's going away for a while, the house is in perfect shape, and that he doesn't want Tom blaming "the mouse" (who's a family pet, in a cage) this time. O... Read allThe owner of a large house tells Tom he's going away for a while, the house is in perfect shape, and that he doesn't want Tom blaming "the mouse" (who's a family pet, in a cage) this time. Of course, this means Tom will spend most of the picture chasing Jerry around the house, ca... Read allThe owner of a large house tells Tom he's going away for a while, the house is in perfect shape, and that he doesn't want Tom blaming "the mouse" (who's a family pet, in a cage) this time. Of course, this means Tom will spend most of the picture chasing Jerry around the house, causing extensive damage. Among the sequences: Jerry shoves Tom into a VCR, then shelves the... Read all

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IMDb RATING

4.6/10

198

YOUR RATING

5User reviews

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Trivia
This is the first Tom and Jerry cartoon short to be produced by Warner Bros. Animation, whom would take over the rights for its franchise from this point on. As William Hanna was still alive at the time this short was made, it was credited under the Hanna-Barbera brand name (as H-B was being folded into Warner Bros. Animation during this time), before Time Warner retired it out of respect for William Hanna (and the Cartoon Network Studios division would revive their own name for their own productions).

Connections
Featured in Dave Lee Down Under's Cartoon Evolution: Evolution of Tom and Jerry (1940-2020) (2019)

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Featured review

1/10

Horrible.... splash sulfuric acid in your eyes instead!

Who told Karl Toerge he was funny? This question will keep me up nights. He and Diana Ritchey, J. Eric Schmidt, Jay Bastian, Andy Lewis, Linda Simensky, Chuck Harvey and Alan Zegler will please keep 1000 yards away from any Tom and Jerry material for the rest of their lives.

I can only assume Joe Barbera did his line readings from a reclining position, in bed at his home, after being handed a five-figure check. And then Karl Toerge kissed the feet of the master, backed out of the room reverently, and sped away in his Beemer. Of course, after finishing his work I am sure he made (successful) Herculean efforts to keep Joe from seeing this filmic feces until he died in 2006.

This is the anti-Tom-and-Jerry. If you have this recorded, toss it into a lake of fire where it belongs.