Love Me, Love My Mouse
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| Love Me, Love My Mouse | |
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| File:Love Me Love My Mouse.jpg Title Card | |
| Directed by | Chuck Jones Ben Washam |
| Produced by | Chuck Jones |
| Animation by | Phil Roman Ben Washam Don Towsley Dick Thompson |
| Layouts by | Robert Givens |
| Backgrounds by | Robert Inman |
| Color process | Metrocolor |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Running time | 6:02 |
Love Me, Love My Mouse is a 1966 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed and produced by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Ben Washam. The title Love Me, Love My Mouse is a play-on-words of the phrase "Love me, love my dog." Unlike most other cartoons this one shows Jerry in a deliberately malicious light with Jerry frequently framing Tom so that Tom is in trouble.
This cartoon is one of the rare ones in which Tom is triumphant over Jerry.
Plot
Tom is in love with Toodles Galore and flies to her house, carrying Jerry in a ring box. Tom presents Jerry to his love interest. Jerry then pretends to be frightened of Tom and cuddles up to Toodles, who instantly sympathises with him, now taking sides with Jerry, as it was.
Jerry then makes efforts to work his way into Tom's mouth, leading to Toodles to come to Jerry's "rescue". Realising Jerry is milking the sympathy for all its worth, Tom grabs the conniving rodent and tries to do away with him once and for all, unfortunately for Tom, Toodles storms in and rescues Jerry. Tom accidentally then releases the rope of the concrete block that he was using to defeat Jerry, the block soon comes crashing down on Tom.
A bandaged Tom hobbles to the dinner table to find his love interest repeatedly kissing Jerry. Toodles soon realises something else when kissing Jerry: aside from being cute, Jerry is also quite tasty. She has a change of heart, and attempts to eat Jerry while Tom cheers his victory. When Toodles is about to eat Jerry, she sees that he has escaped and chases after him. Jerry hops out the door, Toodles pursues him and Tom limps out, following her.
