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3	''Touché, Pussy Cat!'' is a 1954 animated short film (6 1/2 minutes) directed by [[Creator/HannaBarbera William Hanna and Joseph Barbera]].
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5	It is a Franchise/TomAndJerry short. Jerry is a "Mouseketeer". He receives the young son of his friend François Mouse (the little kid gray mouse referred to in other Tom and Jerry shorts as "Nibbles" or "Tuffy"), along with a letter from François asking Jerry to train Nibbles as a Mouseketeer. Nibbles proves a pretty poor student, slashing up Jerry's house and nearly getting the two of them killed by Tom, who is a rival Royal Guardsman. But later, when Tom ambushes Jerry in the street, Nibbles saves the day.
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7	A quasi-prequel to "WesternAnimation/TheTwoMouseketeers", another Tom and Jerry cartoon with Jerry and Nibbles as Mousketeers and Tom as their rival.
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10	!!Tropes:
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12	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Nibbles' rapier can easily lop off the tip of Tom's tail.
13	* AlcoholHic: Happens to Nibbles after he whacks open a wine cask to stop Tom, and is then carried down the alley in a flood of wine.
14	* BilingualBonus: All of Nibbles' lines are in French.
15	* BloodlessCarnage: A hallmark of Tom and Jerry short, and an extreme example in this one, where there's no blood after Tom is chopped in half by an axe or getting his tail tip sliced off.
16	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Tom's tunic flips up like a rolled-up window shade to reveal he wears frilly purple underwear.
17	* ComedicSpanking: Ends with Jerry giving Nibbles a spanking after Nibbles stabs him in the butt again.
18	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Tom is sliced neatly in half lengthwise after Jerry tips over an axe.
19	* MustacheVandalism: Nibbles using an artist brush to paint a caricature of Tom on a wall. When Nibbles realizes that Tom is glaring at him, Nibbles paints spectacles and a mustache on Tom's face.
20	* PuddleCoveringChivalry: Jerry falls face-first into a puddle. When a lady mouse shows up, Nibbles flips Jerry's cape over his head. The lady mouse then avoids the puddle by walking over the cape and over Jerry.
21	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Jerry and Nibbles meet two different lady mice with the long eyelashes that are cartoon code for "female".
22	* TitleDrop: Nibbles says "Touché, pussy cat!" to Tom a couple of times, like when he lops off the tip of Tom's tail.

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