The Two Mouseketeers: Difference between revisions

 

== Plot ==

[[Image:Twomouseketeers2.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Tom looks around for Jerry and Nibbles.]]

In the cartoon, Jerry and Nibbles are two [[The Three Musketeers|mouseketeers]] who decide to help themselves to a lavish [[banquet]], which Tom has been ordered to guard from the King's Mouseketeers with his very life; failure to do so, and "off comes ze head." Jerry and Nibbles enter the castle hall through a stained glass window and a suit of armor and parachute down to the table. They unsuspectingly catch Tom's attention by hitting the cat in the face with a champagne cork.

 

Later, Nibbles is helping himself to some of the food while singing [[Alouette (song)|Alouette]] to himself, when Tom emerges behind him and pokes him with his sword. The little mouse yells angrily "Hey, attention-la! Vous pourriez faire mal a quelqu'un, Monsieur pussycat! ... ''Pussycat''?! Au secours! Au secours! Le pussycat! ''Le pussycat!" (''Hey! Watch it! You could hurt someone with that, Mister Pussycat. ''Pussycat''!? Help! Help! The pussycat!'')

 

Before Nibbles can get away, Tom impales the little mouse's cape to his sword. Jerry manages to stab Tom and rescue Nibbles, launching a swashbuckling fencing display against Tom. While this goes on, Nibbles brings along a cannon and stuffs it completely full with food, in fact, everything that is on the banquet table. He lights the cannon and it explodes.

As the smoke disappears, we see Jerry and Nibbles walking triumphantly down the street. Suddenly, in an unusually morbid ending, they see a [[guillotine]] blade coming down, strongly suggesting that Tom was actually executed, though off-screen. Nibbles sighs, "Pauvre, pauvre, pussycat," (''Poor, poor pussycat'') and shrugs: "C'est la guerre." (''That's war.'') Then the two Mouseketeers march off into the distance.