The Tomato Comes to Dinner

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**The Tomato Comes to Dinner** is the 18th Millward and Cavis short.

## Plot

Mammy Two Shoes is preparing a fancy dinner, with both Millward and Cavis observing. Cavis starts eating the cracker spread, but Millward knocks Cavis out by whacking him with a spoon and calls his girlfriend Mimi to invite her to dinner. Cavis is forced to perform menial duties for the cucumber and the girl, such as carrying food and blowing on Millward's soup. Annoyed, Cavis slurps the soup and spits it into Millward's face, causing Millward to put the spoon Cavis is standing on over a burning candle to make him hop and yelp in pain.

As Mimi offers Millward bread, Cavis sandwiches Millward's jacket between it. Unaware, Millward pours ketchup onto it and bites it, causing him to leap up in pain. Millward is then unaware again, trying to stay cool for his date, as Cavis puts a pineapple slice, cream and cherry onto it, and Millward leaps up after biting it again. Millward grabs Cavis and twists his jacket into a champagne-cork opener to make two drinks, launching Cavis into a glass of water.

Millward then tries to hug and kiss his girlfriend as she tries to eat her food, but Mimi impressively dodges each attempt. When Millward finally hugs Mimi, she takes out a "wolf pacifier" (a mallet) and wallops him with it. As Cavis mocks Millward, Millward puts a cigar into Cavis's mouth, whacks him and lights a cigar onto him, causing Cavis to launch a pie into Millward's face. Millward throws a pie in return, but Cavis ducks and the pie hits Mimi, causing a vengeful Mimi to throw three pies at Millward; Millward ducks them all, but Cavis stabs him with a fork, allowing Mimi to hit him on the fourth attempt.

Millward sits up as Cavis unawarely runs into his mouth. Millward goes to bite Cavis, but Cavis stretches Millward's tooth out and whacks the tray on Millward's head with a spoon. Cavis then hides in a turkey. As Millward sticks knives into it, Cavis escapes and mimics yowls of pain but blows his cover as he keeps screaming even when the bird isn't being punctured. Millward spots Cavis and pokes him with a knife, causing Cavis to bite Millward's bottom of his body, making Millward leap into the air, barely dodging the knife as Cavis sticks it underneath him.

As Millward chases Cavis, Cavis breaks a wine bottle and stabs Millward. As Millward retreats behind the punch bowl, Cavis throws dinner rolls into his face, much to Millward's delight. As Millward opens his mouth for another one, Cavis hides a salt shaker into a third roll and throws it into Millward's mouth. Cavis then hides in a candelabra and uses a candle to light Millward's jacket. Oblivious, Millward lights a cigarette from his jacket. As his jacket burns, he rushes off to sit on an ice bucket, but unawarely sits on an oil lamp as Cavis pushes the bucket away.

Millward sees Mimi shaking her head and smells burning, asking her "Say, what's cookin'?", to which she replies "You are, stupid." Millward refuses to believe her until he hears his bottom burning, prompting him to leap up through the ceiling and crash onto and break a plank from the table, knocking him out and wrecking the place settings. As the plank becomes an incline to the punchbowl and Millward's tie gets tangled with his jacket, Cavis writes S.S. Drip onto Millward's back with mustard and gives Mimi a bottle of champagne, and she smashes it onto Millward. Mimi then waves a napkin at Millward, and Cavis makes high-pitched whistling as Millward slides into the punchbowl and sinks into it.