Mice Anonymous

Mice Anonymous is a 2022 Tom and Jerry animated short, directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone, produced by Warner Bros. Animation for Turner Entertainment Co. and animated overseas by TMS Entertainment. It stars Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse, Tuffy Mouse and Tim Cat (Tom and Jerry Kids) with their voices performed by Jeff Bennett, Stephanie Nadolny (Dragon Ball), Kath Soucie (Space Jam) and Jason Marsden (A Goofy Movie).
The film is a lighthearted reference of 1950's melodramas about the sufferings of substance abuse and drug recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, and is a spoof-parody adaptation of the Merrie Melodies cartoon Birds Anonymous.
The short will be released on April 10, 2022, attached to Tom and Jerry Meet Curious George.
== Summary ==
Twin brother Tim (Jason Marsden) invites Tom (Jeff Bennett) and Jerry (Stephanie Nadolny) to a Mice Anonymous federation who helped cats to stop eating mice and make friendships with them. But the time to be friend with Jerry, and despite the two having their families, Tom was absolutely addict to eat his former mousy enemy along with his entire family.
== Plot ==
One day at the apartment of the new Starling Enterprise headquarters in New York City, while Robyn and her father are away for a medical appointment, Tom is once again chasing and attempting to catch and eat Jerry along with his nephew Tuffy, this time succeeding and closing the blinds to hide the evidence. Before he can eat Jerry first, however, he is interrupted by his cab-wearing twin brother Tim (a young kitten from Tom and Jerry Kids, who is now grown-up and still resembling Tom), who tells him that his constant cravings for Jerry and Tuffy are a sign of profound personal weakness, and that the only way for him to overcome this weakness is to kick the habit for good. Believing that he is in need of help, Tom proudly joins "Mice Anonymous", a group of cats who have banded together to overcome their addictions to mice. Tom lives by this motto: "Mice is strictly for the mice!"
== Characters ==
* Thomas "Tom" Cat: A grayish-blue cat.
* Jerry Mouse: A brown mouse.
* Toodles Galore: A white cat who is Tom's wife.
* Chérie Mouse: A light-brown mouse with a purple scarf, who is Jerry's wife and Tuffy's aunt.
** Tom and Jerry's Children: A group of kittens and little mice whose fur colors are based on the rainbow.
*** Slats: A purple kitten.
*** Jackie: A blue kitten.
*** Coffee: A green kitten.
*** Tanner: A yellow mouse.
*** George: An orange mouse.
*** Leo: A red mouse.
*** Dorothy (mouse): A pink mouse.
* Nibbles "Tuffy" Mouse: A little grey mouse who wears his white diaper.
* Timothy "Tim" Cat (Tom and Jerry Kids, grown-up): Tom's twin brother and resemblance, who is is Slats, Jackie and Coffee's uncle.
* Robyn Starling (mentioned): Tom and Jerry's friend, and Mr. Starling's daughter.
* Mr. Starling (mentioned): Robyn's father, and the leader of Starling Enterprises.
* Aunt Pristine Figg (mentioned):
* Lickboot (mentioned:):
* George Cat (also known as Cousin George) (cameo): Tom's cousin who also looks like Tom.
* Muscles Mouse (also known as Cousin George) (cameo): A super-strong mouse with white shirt and green bolder hat who looks like Jerry.
* Olive Mouse (The Tom and Jerry Show) (cameo): Muscles' girlfriend.
* Butch Cat (cameo): A black alley cat.
* Meathead Cat (cameo)
* Lightning Cat (cameo)
* Topsy Cat (cameo): A kitten.
* Uncle Pecos (cameo): A cowboy mouse.
* Harry Mouse (The Tom and Jerry Show) (cameo): A dark-brown mouse with a boater and a Hawaiian shirt.
* Thomasina Cat (Tom and Jerry Tales) (cameo): Tom and Tim's little sister, the mother of Baby Booties and Slats, Jackie and Coffee's aunt.
* Baby Booties (Tom and Jerry Tales) (cameo):
* Geraldine Mouse (Tom and Jerry Tales) (cameo): Jerry's sister, Tuffy's mother and Tanner, George, Leo and Dorothy's aunt.
* Droopy (cameo)
* Red (radio voice-over) (cameo)
== Cast ==
* Jeff Bennett - Tom Cat, Cousin George
** William Hanna - Tom Cat (vocal effects/uncredited)
* Stephanie Nadolny - Jerry Mouse
* Grey DeLisle - Toodles Galore
* Tara Strong - Chérie Mouse, Dorothy Mouse
* Reece Thompson - Slats Cat
* Chantal Strand - Jackie Cat
* Michelle Ruff - Coffee Cat
* Robert Martin Klein - Tanner Mouse
* Mona Marshall - George Mouse
* Benjamin Diskin - Leo Mouse
* Jason Marsden - Tim Cat
* Kath Soucie - Tuffy Mouse, Red
* Maurice LaMarche - Muscles Mouse
* Cathy Weseluck - Thomasinia Cat
* Nicole Oliver - Baby Booties
* Russi Taylor - Geraldine Mouse
* Ellen Kennedy - Geraldine Mouse
* Clancy Brown - Butch Cat
* E.G. Daily - Topsy Cat
* Frank Welker - Meathead Cat
* Jeff Bergman - Droopy, Lightning Cat
* Scott McNeil - Uncle Pecos
* John Michael Higgins - Uncle Harry
== Staff ==
* Directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone
=== Company Credits ===
* Distribution: Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
* Production: Warner Bros. Animation, Turner Entertainment Co.
* Voice Casting Facilities - Studiopolis, Inc. (Los Angeles, California), OkraTron 5000, Inc. (Dallas, Texas), Voice Box Productions, Inc. (Vancouver, Canada)
* Animation Services: TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan)
* Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Effects Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan)
== Production ==
==== Development ====
==== Story ====
==== Concept Art ====
==== Character Designs and Model Sheets ====
Tom and Jerry (without background).png|Tom and Jerry (without going with Tuffy) for the main title of the short.
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==== Animation and Sound Effects ====
==== Music ====
== Trivia ==
* Suggested Running Times: 12 minutes (NTSC), 8 minutes (PAL).
* Rated G for General Audience due to mild threat, violence, rude humor, infrequent mild bad language.
== Character Quotes ==
=== Tom Cat ===
* [examining and reading the Mice Anonymous certificate given to him by Tim:] Hmm... "Mice Anonymous. Headquarters: Holgan's Hallway." [To Tim, confused:] Mice Anonymous?
* Members of M.A., from now, on my motto is "mice is strictly for the mice." [To Jerry and Tuffy] Jerry? Tuffy? Isn't that right.
* [Walking into the kitchen for breakfast with Toodles, Slats, Jackie and Coffee, sees Jerry reading his morning newspaper with Chérie, Tanner, George, Leo, Dorothy and Tuffy eating:] Good morning, Mouse family members. Guess what?
* I still got it beat. My willpower is dominant.
* Exactly, Toodles, Jerry and Chérie. Now if you excuse, my must fix my breakfast sandwich and coffee while you guys finish your meal.
* My New York-style breakfast sandwich, featuring egg, sausage patty, ham and bacon, completed. [to Toodles:] Want a half, Toodles?
* Thanks. Now let's see what's happening on television.
* (thinking:) What's wrong with me?
* (groans after finishing his breakfast sandwich and his cup of coffee, thinking to himself:) Feeling strange... I gotta get mice-fondness out of my brain. I know! I'll play the radio! Some of Red's songs will drain my mind of all madness.
* Wrong station.
* [Thinking to himself:] How about a good morning newspaper? [To Slats, Jackie and Coffee:] Kids? Any newspaper?
* Thanks, kittens.
* The New York Film Festival. That couldn't be too bad, right?
* (thinking to himself:) I gotta stop myself, or Robyn and her dad will kill me if they find me eating Jerry and his family!
* There! Now I won't be able to get those mice buddies of mine!
* But of course, I do. I like you both, really! Well, secretly?
* I think... I think... (panting) I think you're all... (resumes panting) I think you're all... DELICIOUS!
* Sure I did, but you'll be my morning sweets, ready to finish the rest of my appetite.
* [To Tim:] Yes, Tim, I did weaken. Thanks a lot, twin brother [To Toodles, Slats, Jackie and Coffee:] And I'm sorry, my wife and kids.
* (mocking Gollum from The Lord of the Rings) Ooh, my precious!
* Never!
* One little mouse. Just one. No! Maybe two, or all of them. No one will know the difference, no one, no one. Not even Robyn and Mr. Starling. You will let me just eat you guys, members of the Mouse family, and then I'll quit. I'll quit after eating you. This won't scare both father and daughter. Yes! (evil giggling)
* You first, Jerry!
* [To Tuffy and his cousins:] Oh, yes! Just him first! First, first, first!
* (crying) I can't stand it! I got to have Jerry and his family! I'm weak, I'm weak! But I don't care! I can't help it! After all, they're just mice, and I'm just a pussycat! (crying)
* Stop it, Tim!
* Just control yourself!
=== Jerry Mouse ===
* What's the matter, Tom?
* Come on, Tuffy, time to get your diaper changed.
* [Jerry:] Yeah, you're right, Tuffy. [To Tom:] Tom, don't you realize that we've all eaten breakfast!
* HEY! Get a hold of yourself, Tom, and put my family down!
=== Tuffy Mouse ===
* Don't you like us anymore?
* How do you think we are?
* This is worse than getting chased by Spike all the time.
* Uncle Jerry, this should be better than that!
* But you can't, Tom! What about the Mice Anonymous?
* Uh-oh! Here we go again! Uncle Jerry, wake UUUUUUP!
* Wrong stories. (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)
=== Tim Cat ===
* I wouldn't do that if I were you, Tom.
* [To Jerry and Tuffy] Me? I'm his twin brother, Timothy. But you could just call me Tim for short.
* Now, Tom, If I were you, I'd ungrab Jerry and his nephew, put them down and return them back to his mouse hole with no harm.
* [To Tuffy] What's your name, little guy?
* [To Tom] Anyway, as long as your fond of mice get the best of you, it can only lead to self destruction...and death. It only takes one mouse to start you, and before you know it, it's two birds, then three. Suddenly, without realizing it, you're a victim. Then one day... the end of the road, and your nine lives.
* Relax, my twin brother. If you really want to beat this odd, take a look at this certificate.
* Yep, Mice Anonymous, founded by me, our little sister Thomasina, and Jerry's sister Geraldine in honor of the late Dr. Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith. Not to be confused with their company Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio. We can help you for the sake of Robyn and her family.
* My fellow cats and mice, our new M.A. members: my twin brother Thomas, and his two friend Jerry and Tuffy has come from Starling Enterprises to seek our help. Their families live there with them, so keep this in mind. Would somebody volunteer to tell us what M.A. has done for Tom, so he may continue to be a harmless friend of Jerry, and not to cause any more cat-and-mouse chases and fights in their own house, especially whenever Robyn and her dad had gone out of their home?
* I'm sorry I had to do that to you, twin brother. But I was afraid you might be weakening.
* Oh, come now, Tom. There's no need for this demonstration. Cats and mice can live together with brotherly love, the same as you, Toodles, Jerry and Chérie had with kids including my one niece and two nephews. Watch this.
* Come here, Jerry and Tuffy. I'm not gonna hurt you like my brother would.
* There, you see, twin brother? Since our time when we were all kittens, I secretly and really love mice. (kisses Jerry, and then Tuffy)
* Oh, yes, fellas. And it's time.
* (laughing maniacally) LET ME GO, LET ME GO! I-I GOTTA HAVE THEM, TOM AND TOODLES! THE MOUSE FAMILY! JUST THE MOUSE FAMILY! IT'S BEEN SO LONG! SO LONG! OH, PLEASE, FELLAS, LET GO OF ME! LET ME GOOOOOOOOOO!
=== Butch Cat ===
* My buddies and I were each a three-mice-a-day pussycat, until M.A. helped us.
=== George Cat ===
* Being a referee of Muscles' martial arts championships cost me five vacation properties to pay and book for. M.A. helped me solve my problem by giving the lucky chance of letting Jerry's cousin win every match and share his prize fortune with me.
== Script ==
=== Scenes ===
==== Opening Logos and Credits ====
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Category:2020s American animated films
Category:Animated short films
Category:Buddy films
Category:Tom and Jerry
Category:Turner Entertainment films
Category:Warner Bros. Animation