The Mouse Comes to Dinner

The Mouse Comes to Dinner is the eighteenth animated theatrical short of the Tom and Jerry series. It was released on May 5, 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby, and written and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Tom asks Toots out when he takes advantage of the prepared dinner made by his owner, and gets Jerry to act as a waiter.

Memorable quotes
Tom: Hey, What's cooking? Toots: You are, stupid.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mammy Two-Shoes
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Lillian Randolph
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jerry Mouse
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Cat
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toots
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Sara Berner
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toots
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Sara Berner
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Sara Berner

Locations

 * Mammy Two-Shoes's residence

Objects

 * Wolf pacifier

Vehicles

 * None

Music
The music is composed by Scott Bradley.

Release
It was originally released in theaters on May 5, 1945, then released on January 19, 1952.

Behind the scenes

 * Tom and Jerry talk.

Everlasting influence

 * Jerry is reminded of this short in another subsequent short Smitten Kitten.
 * E.T. watches the scene where Tom's tail is set on fire in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.