''The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R.'' is a 1967 ''

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'' short directed by

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and produced by

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. The title's a pun on ''

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''. Tom Thrush is a parody of Turk Thrust from '' A Shot in the Dark''. It also references THRUSH, the enemy of U.N.C.L.E.

Plot

Jerry, a secret agent, drives a micro dragster through the street of a town (the buildings in the opening shot suggest

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) and enters his secret headquarters through a

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. His mission is to infiltrate the mansion of Tom Thrush and recover a refrigerator with a large amount of cheese. Before taking the operation out, he checks all of the weapons inside his coat. But when he tightens the belt, they fire, creating several holes on the coat as he comically grins at the "audience". After the opening credits, Tom (with a noticeable gap in his front teeth in this cartoon, similar to

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) sets some traps for Jerry, including an exploding robot female mouse, as he drives to Tom's mansion, outside of the city. These prove mostly ineffective at stopping Jerry. Tom manages to reach the safeguarded room and sets even more traps, such as mines, blades, cannons, and barbed wire. Jerry plays a tape-recorder; it sounds as if he is walking through the room. Tom waits a few seconds, then says "Boom!" Not hearing the explosions that should result from the walking, Tom runs in and gets attacked by his own traps as a result. After that, Tom "helps" Jerry by opening the safe that keeps the refrigerator as he has lost his sanity and self-control (due to the traps that he ran over). Jerry thanks Tom by lifting his

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up as he now has the refrigerator. Jerry straps the refrigerator to his micro-dragster and Tom crawls out the front door, in a very bad way following the incident. His hand lands on the "Play" button of Jerry's tape player, and the song " Taps" starts to play. Tom picks a flower and lays it on his chest, indicating that he is dying from the incident. The words "THE END" are seen on Jerry's number plate ("JERRY-AKIN 00 1/7", a pun on both

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and

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) before Jerry drives off.

Crew

*Animation: Philip Roman,

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, Don Towsley,

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& Dick Thompson *Layouts:

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*Backgrounds: Bob Inman *Design Consultant:

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*Vocal Effects:

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*Production Manager:

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*Story:

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*Music:

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*Graphics: Don Foster *Production Supervised by Les Goldman *Produced by

*Directed by

References

External links

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