The ultimate test: can Tom keep a house clean for 24 hours? Spoiler: absolutely not.
Mammy Two-Shoes threatens to throw Tom out of the house if he makes a mess. Jerry sees an opportunity to rid himself of his feline nemesis.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn destruction physics that CGI still can't replicate
Editing
Perfect comic timing at 24 frames per second
Director
William Hanna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lillian Randolph's Mammy Two-Shoes was later redubbed in the 1960s to remove her accent, then restored in the 1990s, making this cartoon exist in three historical versions.
This 8-minute short contains zero dialogue yet spawned an entire visual language of cartoon violence that influenced everything from Looney Tunes to Itchy & Scratchy.
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