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The Cat's Me-Ouch! is a 1965 cartoon in the Tom and Jerry series, directed by the late Chuck Jones.While emerging from his mouse hole, Jerry is almost sliced in half by Tom wielding a cleaver. He manages to escape from the cat in a magazine about dogs and falls down the stairs, and upon seeing an ad in the magazine for a bulldog, he decides to order the canine in order to scare off Tom. However, when the delivery finally arrives, the bulldog turns out to be a diminutive puppy, much to Tom's amazement and Jerry's confusion. But when Tom picks up the puppy and makes fun of him, the little canine then proves to be surprisingly strong by shearing off some of the cat's fur with his razor-sharp teeth. From that point on, the tiny bulldog then becomes Jerry's pet and guardian.
Tropes:
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Jerry pats the bulldog puppy's head after the latter scares off Tom by shredding some of his fur off.
- Attack the Tail: The bulldog puppy shreds some of the fur on Tom's tail off, revealing that it is shaped like a string of sausages. Then, at the end of the cartoon, Tom unwraps the bandage covering the tip of his tail to reveal Jerry biting onto it.
- Agony of the Feet: Tom's right foot gets flattened by the head of the axe, and while in the hospital, has the doctor unwrap the bandages on his other foot to reveal the bulldog biting onto it.
- Axe Before Entering: When Tom realizes that he is outside the house and the bulldog is inside, he brandishes an axe and chops his way through the door just as the dog is freeing Jerry from his jar prison. Acting instinctively, the bulldog then shreds the handle of the axe with his teeth, leaving behind the blade to fall on Tom's foot.
- Badass Adorable: The tiny bulldog puppy that can shred things like a piranha … like any part of Tom.
- Bait-and-Switch: Jerry's delivery has arrived, and as Tom grows increasingly worried and scared, Jerry opens the massive crate and whistles for the dog to come out. The canine then emerges from the crate... revealing himself to be a really pint-sized pup, which relieves Tom's fear. Temporarily.
- Big Ball of Violence: The bulldog mauls Tom near the end of the cartoon, and their tirade is surrounded by a Taz-like tornado.
- The Door Slams You: When the tiny bulldog prepares to charge into the house to confront Tom, who has imprisoned Jerry in a jar, the cat shuts the door at the last moment, only for the canine to effortlessly slam it down onto him. Tom then flips the door so that the dog is beneath the door, yelling "Aha!", and the dog does the same so that Tom is underneath the door. The process then repeats and shifts to the walls until the door is back where it originally was, with Tom outside and the bulldog inside.
- "Eureka!" Moment: When Jerry sees the ad in the magazine for the bulldog and has a flashback of Tom being chased by one in "Tom-ic Energy", he suddenly gains the idea to order that bulldog so he can have someone to protect him from Tom.
- Flashback: A scene from "Tom-ic Energy" is played when Jerry comes up with a plan to scare Tom away.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Jerry nearly comes close to being sliced by Tom's cleaver at the start, and only his back fur has been chopped clean off.
- Hollywood Healing: Semi-averted. The fur on Tom's tail grows back after it has been shredded off by the bulldog puppy, but not the fur on his arms.
- I Have Your Wife: When the bulldog is unable to find Jerry and sees that Tom has captured him, he goes into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge to rescue him.
- Inconvenient Itch: At one point, the tiny bulldog senses a flea on his rear end and tries to scratch at it like how a dog normally would. When the flea doesn't come off, the pup then resorts to using his buzzsaw teeth, causing the flea to fall off while screaming and die.
- Infantilization Retaliation: Tom picks Jerry's mouse-sized bulldog and tosses him up playfully like a toy, which the dog isn't happy with. Then he has the audacity to point and laugh at his size while holding him, which prompts the little dog to become a hurricane with teeth that shaves his arms.
- Instant Bandages: Tom has bandages wrapped around his head, left foot and tail as he walks to the hospital. The doctor then unwraps the bandages on his foot to reveal the bulldog clutching onto it with his jaws, and Tom does the same with his tail to reveal Jerry biting on it.
- Later-Installment Weirdness: The dog, who effectively serves the same purpose as Spike - Neutral until he is disturbed.
- Misleading Package Size: The crate is big enough to hold a medium-sized dog, yet it contains a mouse-sized bulldog puppy that's even smaller than a Chihuahua.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The dog.
- Pun-Based Title: Of the phrase, "the cat's meow".
- Staircase Tumble: Jerry manages to escape from Tom by taking refuge in a dog magazine, but as he runs off after sensing the coast is clear, he ends up falling down a nearby flight of stairs and lands face-first on a page with a bulldog on it.
