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Cheese It, the Cat! is a 1957 Looney Tunes short, directed by Robert McKimson. It is the second of three parodying The Honeymooners along with 1956's "The Honey-Mousers" and 1960's "Mice Follies".
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Plot
Ralph Crumden drives home in a wind-up toy bus and carries a present inside. Since his wife Alice isn't home, he hides the present and goes to the people kitchen to get some cake for her surprise birthday party. He runs back through the door as a cat's paw tries to grab him. He remarks that there's never been a cat in the kitchen before, and strikes the paw with a large mallet.
Ralph travels through the walls, emerges on the kitchen counter, and travels down to the sink drain to enlist help from his friend Ned Morton, who works in the sewers. Ned shows Ralph his toy armored car with live ammo, and Ralph eagerly drives it up to the cat. The cat merely holds its thumb over the cannon barrel, blowing up Ralph when he fires it.
To get back at him for his dumb idea, Ralph paints Ned with invisible ink and pretends Ned is now invisible. However, Ned just strides confidently up to the cat and plucks one of its whiskers. While the cat shakes its head in disbelief, Morton retrieves some cake, but as he returns home he absent-mindedly eats it. Ralph gets mad at this stupidity and decides to try it himself. He makes Morton paint him with the invisible ink. Despite Morton's objection that he can still see him, Ralph charges boldly into the kitchen, then runs back screaming and disheveled.
Ralph then clings to a champagne cork as Morton pops it. Ralph sails across the kitchen, and into the cat's open mouth, then out through its tail! He does land at the fridge, but the cat immediately chases him back to his hole.
The mice then return through the walls to the kitchen counter. When the cat hops up to look for them, Morton pull its tail down into the garbage disposal and Ralph turns it on. The cat is sucked in and shaved nearly bald. As it pulls clumps of its hair from the drain, Ralph and Ned steal a cupcake from the fridge.
When Alice returns home, Ralph has Morton put candles on the cake while he gives her his present. Alice is surprised, but so is Ralph, because Morton put firecrackers on the cake instead of candles. They toss the cake to each other a few times before shoving it out the door, and right into the cat's face.
Censorship
- On CBS and FOX's The Merrie Melodies Show, there were two scenes cut:[1]
- The part where Ralph and Morton slam the door and the cat's body gets flattened
- The part where Morton feeds the cat's tail into the garbage disposal which sucks the cat inside and shaves off most of his fur, and the subsequent scene of the cat sadly picking his fur from the drain
Availability
- (2010) DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth
- (2020) Streaming - HBO Max
