The Midnight Snack

The Midnight Snack
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera Rudolf Ising (uncredited)
Produced by	Fred Quimby (unc. on original issue) Rudolf Ising (uncredited) William Hanna (co-producer)
Story by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Starring	Lillian Randolph (1941 original version) (unc.) Thea Vidale (1989 redubbed version) (unc.)
Music by	Scott Bradley (unc. on original issue)
Animation by	Bill Littlejohn Cecil Surry Irven Spence Jack Zander George Gordon Carl Urbano Peter Burness Ray Abrams (all uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Joseph Smith
Color process	Technicolor Perspecta (re-released in 1958)
Production company	MGM Cartoons
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	July 19, 1941 (1941-07-19)
Running time	8:40
Language	English

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The Midnight Snack is a 1941 Tom and Jerry cartoon produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley. It is the second cartoon in the series and the first in which the characters have their familiar names.

Plot

The cartoon takes place in a kitchen at midnight. Jerry pokes his head out of the refrigerator door and steals some cheese, unaware that Tom is watching him. Tom weighs the mouse down enough such that he can no longer see in front of him. After Jerry falls off from a rolling pin, Tom emerges from his hiding place with a smug face.

Jerry "salutes" the cat and returns the slice of cheese to the refrigerator. He then proceeds to steal just a tiny bit of cheese, but Tom stomps on his tail with one of his hind paws and replaces the cheese as if to say, "Leave it alone". However, the cat soon realizes that he has the free run of the refrigerator, so he traps Jerry's tail with an iron and begins eating. Jerry frees himself, but is soon caught by Tom and returns himself to the iron.

Tom then presents Jerry with the wedge of cheese, but the iron attached to Jerry's tail prevents him from reaching the cheese. Tom then smells the cheese, but soon sees that it is the wedge of cheese, much to his nose's displeasure, and tosses it away. Unfortunately, the cheese smashes some crockery and wakes up Tom's owner Mammy Two Shoes, who goes downstairs. Tom quickly shoves Jerry into the refrigerator and hides. Mammy rushes in and opens the fridge, screaming in terror when she spots Jerry. Leaping onto a stool and comically hiking up numerous, patterned layers of underclothes, Mammy calls Tom who emerges and pursues Jerry. In the midst of the chase, Mammy leaves the room.

Tom surprises Jerry behind a trash bin, but Jerry tricks Tom into looking over the bin and jumps on the pedal, sending it to crash into Tom's face. Jerry then jumps into the toaster and Tom starts it. Jerry pops up, his rear end smoking, and cools it in a sink full of water, only to be chased again by Tom. Tom ends up losing his grip and gets his tail caught up in an ironing board, with his body facing the refrigerator. Jerry climbs down the blind, picks up a fork with his tail and stabs Tom with the fork, causing Tom to slide down the board and eventually crash into the fridge just as Jerry had planned.

Mammy re-enters the room on the belief that Tom has caught Jerry and disposed of Jerry. Then she opens the refrigerator door to get Tom a bowl of cream, only to find Tom in the refrigerator, covered in food. Jerry overhears Mammy shouting at Tom and kicking the screeching cat out of the house while munching on his wedge of cheese and feeling very pleased with himself.

Notes

• This cartoon featured the second appearance of Tom and Jerry, and was the first in which the characters were given their familiar names; the first cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot had the cat named Jasper and the mouse without a name, though animation model sheets referred to the latter as "Jinx".

Production

• Directed by: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Rudolf Ising
• Story: Joseph Barbera, Williams Hanna
• Animation: Cecil Surry, Irven Spence, Bill Littlejohn, Jack Zander, George Gordon, Carl Urbano, Peter Burness, Ray Abrams
• Backgrounds: Joseph Smith
• Production Manager: Carman Maxwell
• Music: Scott Bradley
• Co-Producer: William Hanna
• Produced by: Fred Quimby, Rudolf Ising

Voice cast

• Lillian Randolph as Mammy Two Shoes (1941 original version) (uncredited)
• Thea Vidale as Mammy Two Shoes (1989 dubbed version) (uncredited)

Availability

DVD

• Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Volume One, disc one
• Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection, Volume Two, disc one

VHS

• Starring Tom & Jerry

External links

• The Midnight Snack at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Midnight Snack on IMDb Search this movie on
• The Midnight Snack Game

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