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Mouse-Placed Kitten

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Mouse-Placed Kitten is a 1959 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot[]

A kitten in a sack is dropped out of a car and rolls down a hill to arrive at the door of Clyde and Matilda Mouse. Matilda thinks the kitten is heaven-sent, names him Junior, and wants to keep him, but Clyde doesn't want to bother taking care of a newborn cat. Eventually, Clyde reluctantly tucks Junior to bed. When the kitten doesn't want to eat cheese, Clyde finally declares that he needs human companionship. Clyde sends the kitten to the doorstep of the nearby house, where the woman homeowner adopts him.

A year later, on their "son's" birthday, Clyde and Matilda decide to visit him at his new home. Sneaking inside the house, they scare the homeowner in the kitchen, while the homeowner calls Junior to catch the rodents. Junior quickly nabs the two, but after sniffing the two, the fully-grown cat remembers his adoptive rodent parents. However, his mistress doesn't like the presence of two mice in her home, and when she sees Junior kissing the rodents, she is disgusted before Junior hides his parents in his mouth.

Junior decides to gift some cheese from the refrigerator to the mice, but he is quickly caught by his mistress while Clyde and Matilda retreats. After seeing the homeowner gone, Clyde tries to reach the fridge using a jug of hard cider, but he ends up falling through the lid and gets drunkenly soaked. When Junior asks where his father went, he spots the drunken Clyde walking through a mousetrap unharmed and to his master's vacuum cleaner. Junior rescues his father by turning off the power in the house and hides him back in the mousehole, just in time for his mistress to threaten to kick him out of the house permanently if he keeps up his charade. The two mice decide to head back home, only for a sack containing a baby skunk to roll down a hill and arrive at their home. Despite Clyde's disgust, he puts on a clothespin on his nose and asides, "Here we go again!"

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Notes[]

  • The working title was "Baby Dull".
  • A matchbox labeled "Don Foster's Cafe" can be seen in the background, a reference to artist Don Foster.
  • The baby skunk at the end of the cartoon resembles Pepé Le Pew. Coincidentally, an actual baby version of Pepé would appear in Baby Looney Tunes over forty years after this short released.

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