Designs on Jerry
| Designs on Jerry | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
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| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by |
Irven Spence Kenneth Muse Ed Barge |
| Backgrounds by | John Didrik Johnsen |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6:39 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Mouse for Sale |
| Followed by | Tom and Chérie |
Designs on Jerry is the 93rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, released in 1955, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge with backgrounds by John Didrik Johnsen. It was released on September 2, 1955 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Tom is busy designing a mousetrap in the attic, inspired by a quote stating that fortune will come to someone who designs an effective mousetrap. Tom creates a Rube Goldberg machine designed to capture Jerry, complete with a blueprint depicting stick figures of a cat and mouse. After finishing his blueprint, Tom goes to bed. While Tom sleeps, the stick-mouse suddenly comes to life and enters Jerry's mousehole, waking him up to warn him about Tom's plan. Jerry, stunned, goes back to sleep, so the stick-mouse promptly drags Jerry to the plan. As they look over it, the stick-cat also comes to life. Promptly, Jerry hands the stick-mouse an eraser to erase the cat's teeth, though it re-draws a bigger set before chasing them.
The stick-mouse draws a mousehole on the blueprint to help Jerry escape, but is then caught by the stick-cat. Jerry draws shorter legs on the cat and erases its bigger legs, causing the cat to fall down. Now unable to run fast, the cat uses its tail as a lasso to catch Jerry, but the stick-mouse draws a bow and arrow and shoots the cat with it to save Jerry and deflate the cat's torso. The mouse then camouflages itself as a flower and ladles the cat with a fork. Both mice then jump off the drawing board with the stick-mouse acting as a parachute, while the stick-cat jumps down and bounces akin to a pogo stick. The mice defeat the cat, firing water at it to erase it and sucking it into Tom's jar of white ink. As both mice celebrate, Tom wakes up. Just in time, they change a key measurement on the blueprint before returning to their original positions as an unaware Tom resumes his work.
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