Jerry's Cousin
| Jerry's Cousin | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
Theatrical poster
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| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by | Paul Frees |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Ray Patterson Ed Barge Kenneth Muse Irven Spence |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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| Color process |
Technicolor Perspecta (reissue) |
| Running time | 6:39 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Jerry and the Goldfish |
| Followed by | Sleepy-Time Tom |
Jerry's Cousin is a 1951 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 57th Tom and Jerry short on April 7 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the cartoon was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby, scored by Scott Bradley, and animated by Ray Patterson, Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse and Irven Spence. Paul Frees provided the voice of Jerry's cousin, Muscles. Working titles for this particular cartoon included City Cousin and Muscles Mouse before settling for Jerry's Cousin.
Jerry's Cousin was nominated for the 1950 Academy Award for Best Short Cartoon, the duo's eighth consecutive nomination and tenth overall, but lost to Gerald McBoing-Boing, a UPA production.
At Hogan's Alley, Jerry's cousin Muscles,, a mouse with super strength was dispatching all of his feline enemies before receiving a mail from Jerry, who begging for help in serious trouble dealing with Tom. Muscles packs a bag and leaves to Jerry's home, when he comes up the block, the remaining cats hide in fear while Butch digs himself a grave.
At the house, Tom throwing sticks of dynamite into Jerry's mouse hole in attempts to destroy it and kill Jerry. Muscles arrives with no introduction, grabs a stick and shoves it into Tom's mouth and closes it, causing Tom's head to explode. Tom, thinking "Who's that guy?". He grabs him, but Muscles easily grabs Tom and issues him an ultimatum will better to leave Jerry alone and not to do this anymore while Muscles is around or else he will make Tom suffer the consequences (just like to do the same is being warned by Spike in the 1944's film The Bodyguard and 1949's film Love That Pup). As Muscles reminds to warn him, he throws Tom into a vase with such a force that Tom is shaped into the vase as a Muscles spits at him.
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