Stooge for a Mouse

A mouse finds a block of cheese, which is being guarded by Sylvester and his bulldog friend Mike. Wanting to get the two pests out of the way, the mouse takes advantage of the canine and feline sleeping to ruin their relationship:

The mouse hangs a phone from the ceiling and tries to communicate to Mike while he is asleep. The mouse tells the bulldog that Sylvester thinks he is a sissy and he only sleeps with him for his fur. Annoyed, the bulldog moves away, plopping Sylvester into the ground, but Sylvester is quick to budge back.
The mouse places a knife in Sylvester's hands and then heads back to the phone, stating that the bulldog shouldn't stay asleep, otherwise Sylvester would cut his throat. The bulldog wakes up and is enraged at Sylvester, forcing the cat to scram to the other side of the room.
Sylvester sneaks back to Mike. The mouse hits Mike with a hammer and gives the hammer to Sylvester, framing the cat once more.
The mouse smokes an exploding cigar on Mike's mouth while making Sylvester hold a sign saying "April Fool". The mouse sneaks inside of the cat, avoiding being caught while Sylvester gets another pummeling while Mike declares the friendship is over.
When the bulldog resumes sleeping, the mouse cuts a hole where he sleeps, causing him to fall in the basement. He sees Sylvester with the saw yet again placed in his hands, and another beating ensues.
The final trick, using a boxing glove with horseshoes inside of it, the mouse attaches the glove to Sylvester's hand, while using a magnet to forcefully make Sylvester repeatedly punch Mike. When the dog punches Sylvester to the back of the room, the mouse moves the magnet back towards the dog.

Eventually, Sylvester and Mike are too bruised to patrol the kitchen. As the mouse heads to the table with cheese, the magnet inadvertently attracts a chandelier onto the ground where the mouse is walking, collapsing the mouse onto where Sylvester and Mike was.

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Several of the gags that were used here were later recycled in "Bugsy and Mugsy".
This cartoon and "Rabbit Every Monday" were written by Friz Freleng while he was in-between writers.^[2]
This marks the final short reissued in the Blue Ribbon program to show a production number.
This marks the final short animated by Gerry Chiniquy until "By Word of Mouse".

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"Stooge for a Mouse" on the SFX Resource

Sylvester Cartoons
1945	Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946	Kitty Kornered
1947	Tweetie Pie • Crowing Pains • Doggone Cats • Catch as Cats Can
1948	Back Alley Oproar • I Taw a Putty Tat • Hop, Look and Listen • Kit for Cat • Scaredy Cat
1949	Mouse Mazurka • Bad Ol' Putty Tat • Hippety Hopper
1950	Home, Tweet Home • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row • Stooge for a Mouse • Pop 'Im Pop!
1951	Canned Feud • Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Who's Kitten Who? • Gift Wrapped • Little Red Rodent Hood • Ain't She Tweet • Hoppy Go Lucky • A Bird in a Guilty Cage • Tree for Two
1953	Snow Business • A Mouse Divided • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered • Cats A-weigh!
1954	Dog Pounded • Bell Hoppy • Dr. Jerkyl's Hide • Claws for Alarm • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' • By Word of Mouse
1955	Lighthouse Mouse • Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Jumpin' Jupiter • A Kiddies Kitty • Speedy Gonzales • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned • Pappy's Puppy
1956	Too Hop to Handle • Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • The Unexpected Pest • Tugboat Granny • The Slap-Hoppy Mouse • Yankee Dood It
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety • Mouse-Taken Identity • Gonzales' Tamales
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Cat's Paw • Here Today, Gone Tamale • Tweet Dreams
1960	West of the Pesos • Goldimouse and the Three Cats • Hyde and Go Tweet • Mouse and Garden • Trip for Tat
1961	Cannery Woe • Hoppy Daze • Birds of a Father • D' Fightin' Ones • The Rebel Without Claws • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	Fish and Slips • Mexican Boarders • The Jet Cage
1963	Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather • Claws in the Lease
1964	A Message to Gracias • Freudy Cat • Nuts and Volts • Hawaiian Aye Aye • Road to Andalay
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase
1966	A Taste of Catnip
1980	The Yolks on You
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	Father of the Bird
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

[1] ttps://archive.org/details/1977motionpictur3311213libr/page/286/mode/1up?view=theater

[2] rtoonlogic

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