Hush My Mouse

Hush My Mouse is a 1946 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones. 
== Title ==
The title is a play on the phrase "hush my mouth".
== Plot ==
At Tuffy's Tavern, the waiter receives a call from his mouse catching owner, Tuffy, that he is unable to catch any mice for the "mouse knuckles" special. Noticing that tough gangster cat Edward G. Robincat is about to come, he sends his dimwitted assistant, Filligan, to catch up a mouse right away.
Filligan finds the mouse hole home of Sniffles. The talkative mouse consistently tricks the cat to let him escape. Sniffles first blindfolds Filligan and spins him around constantly as he flees. When Filligan realizes he has been tricked, he catches Sniffles again, and Sniffles convinces him that he has some bigger mouse knuckles in the back. Using a paper bag, Sniffles places the bag on the cat's hand and tells him that is the mouse knuckles.
As Edward is now enraged and constantly beats up the waiter for not having his food, Filligan returns with the "mouse knuckles", and when Edward tries to get a bite from the empty bag, he bites his own foot. Sniffles uses a bone and lets Filligan take it from behind a fence. This angers a bulldog, who follows back to the tavern and beats up Edward and the waiter for "cat knuckles". Meanwhile, Filligan receives a call that Tuffy finally can ship the mouse knuckles, but Filligan states that the waiter would rather have brass knuckles in the meantime.
== Caricatures ==
* Ed Gardner
* Edward G. Robinson
* Charles Cantor
== Availability ==
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4, Side 5: Radio Daze
lt mouse chronicles blu.jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection (original opening and closing titles restored)
L.T.M.C..jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection (original opening and closing titles restored)
=== Streaming ===
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - )
== Notes ==
* Among the names and numbers written the wall by the phone are "Eddie" and "Bob G", references to producer Eddie Selzer and background artist Robert Gribbroek.
* This is the last cartoon to feature Sniffles.
* This is the only Sniffles cartoon in the Looney Tunes series. All of his other cartoons were released as part of the Merrie Melodies series.
** This cartoon was a Merrie Melodie during production, but released as a Looney Tune.https://www.whataboutthad.com/wb-production-number/ However, the lobby cards were never updated with the Looney Tunes name.
* Both the Tuffy's Tavern cats Tuffy and Filligan bear striking resemblances to Claude Cat. 
* This cartoon is the last to feature the "Porky in a Drum" closing titles (which first started with "Rover's Rival") due to the end of the 1945–46 season which used the red Color Rings, black background. The next cartoon "Hair-Raising Hare", would feature a new background scheme.
* The beginning where the camera moves down to an alley was reused in the Turner Classic Movies series Cartoon Alley.
== Gallery ==
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D5ceacfa6acc820af5c5fcb82fff383f.jpg|Lobby card
File:Hush my Bouse.jpg|Lobby card
== References ==
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Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
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Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
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Category:Cartoons with layouts by Earl Klein
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