History WesternAnimation / MouseTrouble

** One lost in the mist of antiquity for any viewer in later years--but the scene where a battered Tom looks to the camera and says "Don't you believe it" is a direct audio sampling from a contemporary radio show, ''Don't You Believe It''.

* TheToothHurts: After accidentally chewing up the wind up mouse, Tom ends up breaking most of his teeth.

[[caption-width-right:350:No sense in half-measures. And we do mean "[[ExplosiveStupidity no sense]]".]]]

** He sticks a bear trap into Jerry's mouse hole [[CartoonPhysics (don't ask how it fits in the hole)]], but Jerry pushes it out through ''another'' mouse hole behind Tom. Tom then sits down... on the bear trap. Cue the PainPoweredLeap.

[[caption-width-right:350:No sense in half-measures. And we do mean [[ExplosiveStupidity "no sense."]]]]

* DodgyToupee: After getting a bald spot thanks to a shotgun, Tom wears a ridiculous red toupee for most of the cartoon.

* StandardSnippet: A majority of the score quotes the song "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" from the Creator/MarxBrothers film ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Jerry stabs the gift box Tom hides in with large hat pins, with Tom going "ouch" each time. Then, Jerry [[SawAWomanInHalf saws the box in half]] for good measure.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The robotic female mouse that says "Come up and see me some time!" is based on Creator/MaeWest.

''Mouse Trouble'' is a 1944 cartoon directed by [[Creator/HannaBarbera William Hanna and Joseph Barbera]], starring WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry.

** Tom activates a female mouse toy to distract Jerry, but Tom ends up eating it. However, it still works... so Tom starts repeatedly hiccupping, followed by the toy saying "Come up and see me some time!" After this, [[VillainousBreakdown Tom becomes absolutely enraged, and tears the book to shreds]].

* PintSizedPowerhouse: With Jerry cornered, Tom consults his book and reads that "a cornered mouse NEVER fights". He gets beat up by him anyway.

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see what Tom looks like after Jerry perforated and slices up the box. Maybe it’s just as well.

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see what Tom looks like after Jerry perforated and slices up the box.

** Immediately after this, Jerry runs into a corner, panting. Tom pulls out the book again, and read that "A cornered mouse never fights." He then attacks Jerry... but he beats the crap out of him.

* CaughtInASnare: Per the book's advice Tom sets out a snare trap baited with cheese. Jerry switches out the cheese bait for a bowl of cream, [[TooDumbToLive which Tom promptly runs to.]]

** He tries to use a mouse trap, but it just...doesn't...work. A bewildered Tom tests the mouse trap with his own finger, and ''then'' it works.
** He tries a snare trap, but...see CaughtInASnare above.

** Immediately after this, Jerry runs into a corner, panting. Tom pulls out the book again, and read that "A cornered mouse never fights." He then attacks Jerry...but he beats the crap out of him.
--> '''Tom:''' ''(peeking around the wall with a severely beat up face)'' "Don't you believe it!"
** He tries to shoot Jerry with a shotgun...but shoots himself in the head, blowing his fur off.
** He sticks a bear trap into Jerry's mouse hole [[CartoonPhysics (don't ask how it fits in the hole),]] but Jerry pushes it out through ''another'' mouse hole behind Tom. Tom then sits down...on the bear trap. Cue the PainPoweredLeap.

** Tom "gives a gift" to Jerry (Read: he sits in a gift box and waits for Jerry to open it). Unfortunately for him, Jerry doesn't open the box through conventional means....he puts several pins through it as Tom groans in pain, and then saws it in half. Only then does Jerry bother to look inside and sees who's in there, to his horror.
** Tom activates a female mouse toy to distract Jerry, but Tom ends up eating it. However, it still works...so Tom starts repeatedly hiccupping, followed by the toy saying "Come up and see me some time!" After this, [[VillainousBreakdown Tom becomes absolutely enraged, and tears the book to shreds]].

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Jerry stabs the gift box Tom hides in with large hat pins, with Tom going "ouch" each time. Then Jerry [[SawAWomanInHalf saws the box in half]] for good measure.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The robotic female mouse that says, "Come up and see me some time!" is based on Creator/MaeWest.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Tom's final attempt to kill Jerry is to place dozens of explosives around his mouse hole, enough to blow up the whole house. Which it does... except for the hole, leaving Jerry unhurt while Tom goes to kitty heaven.

* SuddenlySpeaking: PlayedForLaughs. After getting thoroughly trashed by [[PintSizedPowerhouse Jerry]], Tom turns to the camera and eerily drones, "Don't you believe it!".

* {{iSophagus}}: Tom accidentally swallows the wind-up mouse. He winds up hiccuping "Come up and see me sometime" for the rest of the cartoon, even after the explosion at the end reduces him to an angel floating to Heaven.

* DodgyToupee: After getting a close shave from a shotgun Tom wears a ridiculous red toupee for most of the cartoon.

** He tries to let Jerry's curiosity get the better of him by pretending to laugh his ass off at the book. Jerry tries to look at the book, and [[ThrowTheBookAtThem Tom slams him inside it]]. [[ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine Jerry then pretends to do exactly what Tom was doing]], and [[EyeScream punches him in the eye]].

** His [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill final attempt at killing Jerry]] is to put a shit ton of explosives all around Jerry's hole, but he has trouble lighting the fuse. When he finally does activate the fuse, the bombs blow up instantly, killing him.

--> Tom (peeking around the wall with a severely beat up face): "Don't you believe it!"

--> Tom (peeking around the wall with a severely beat up face): "Don't you believe it?"