The Mouse on 57th Street

The Mouse on 57th Street is a 1961 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the 1933 film The House on 56th Street.
== Plot ==
An unnamed mouse in a yellow hat helps himself to a 100-proof rum cake, which has made him more than a little drunk. The mouse staggers away, hiccupping.
The next morning, he has a severe hangover, and sounds of drilling at a nearby construction site give him excruciating pain. He grabs the nearest piece of ice he can find to apply to his head; the ice is the Sunflame Diamond from Spiffany's, and two policemen, one of them a lunkhead, are assigned to investigate the "theft" of the jewel. They bungle all their attempts to catch the mouse, who has the jewel tied to his head, with the running gag consisting of the idiotic Muldoon getting distracted over the jewel (followed on with the repeated quote "Oh de boy! The diamond!") which causes his fellow police partner to get all the bad luck due to Muldoon's stupidity.
As the chase intensifies, the jewel falls off the mouse's head and lands on the fellow policeman's head, causing Muldoon to continuously clobber him in the head, thinking its the diamond. The mouse observes this from the inside of the bakery, and seeks refuge in the exact same rum cake he ate the previous day.
== Availability ==
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=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
* The jewelry store, Spiffany's, is a play on the Tiffany's jewelry stores. There is also a department store called Lacy's, which is based on the Macy's department stores. The Looney Tunes short "A Waggily Tale", features a department store called Stacy's.
* The "New York Graphic", one of the newspapers reporting on the diamond "theft", contains an article announcing the resignation of producer John W. Burton, Cartoon Division G.M., and his successor, David H. DePatie, former head of Warner Bros. Commercial Films Company.
** Another paper, the "New York Journal" contains an article titled "What’s Up, Doc?", although it has nothing to do with Bugs Bunny.
* This is the last Looney Tunes short that Michael Maltese wrote in the Golden Age of Animation.
* MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on "Toon In with Me".
== Gallery ==
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=== TV Title Cards ===
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==References==
Category:1961
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Cartoons that contain excerpts from "Powerhouse"
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons animated by Richard Thompson
Category:Cartoons animated by Bob Bransford
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Owen Fitzgerald
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by John W. Burton
Category:Cartoons produced by David H. DePatie
Category:One-Shot Cartoons