Honeymousers Short Review: “Mice Follies”:

[Frank Gannucci]

Short #3
Air Date: Sat. 8/20/60

Morton and Ralph leave their lodge later than planned. Morton peeps through a mail slot and spies a sleeping cat. Morton, being stupid, somehow is able to lasso the cat's tail and pull it through the mail slot. Man, is that Morton the mouse a strong mouse. Ralph grabs the rope and the cat pulls Ralph through the slot. The two mice continue home.

The cat exits through a side window and follows them. When the mice reach their mousehole, the cat jumps into the house through an open window and puts its mouth against the other side of the hole and Ralph and Ned walk in. They don't realize that they are inside the cat. Because it is dark, Ralph strikes a match. You can guess what happens here. The cat, due to the lit match, spits the mice out.

The mice try to be quiet so their wives won't hear them coming home so late. The cat sneaks into the crawlway where they live and, in the dark. Ralph mistakes the cat for Alice. He feels the cat's fur and gets amd thinking she bought a new fur coat so he rips it off and walks back to Ned. Take one guess what the cat does. The cat slices Ralph but since this is a Looney Tunes cartoon, he survives. Ned goes to talk to his wife and the cat attacks him too. They run all the way into the street and decide to sleep in the park.

What they don't know is that the wives decided to take in a late movie. They feel bad telling their husbands to be home earlier. They arrive home and the cat attacks them too. They too decide to sleep in the park and unknowingly seat themselves on the same bench that Ralph & Ned are on. Since this is a cartoon, there is a bench for mice. They don't realize that they are on the same bench.

Unfortunately, there were only three Honeymousers shorts made. Why, who knows. Maybe Jackie Gleason had something to do with it.