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''Pet Peeve'' is the 88th one-reel animated ''Tom and Jerry'' short, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse Ed Barge and Irven Spence, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It was released on November 20, 1954 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the first ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon to be released in CinemaScope and the second to be produced in the format (the first was ''Touché, Pussy Cat!'', released a month later), which widened the cinema screen to a more expansive aspect ratio to compete against the growing popularity of television. The CinemaScope process required thicker and more defined ink lines around the characters, giving them a slightly more "modern" and less detailed appearance. The cartoon is also the first to feature an owner of the house that is not Mammy Two Shoes, the African-American maid voiced by Lillian Randolph from the first cartoon ''Puss Gets the Boot'' (1940) up to and including 1952's ''Push-Button Kitty.'' Instead, Mammy was replaced with a white married couple. == Plot == Tom and Spike, living together as friends, happily, Spike is eating a club sandwich while Tom makes a sandwich with a cat food. Tom drops a piece of bread and Jerry tries to steal it. Tom steps on his tail and pops him back into his hole. They overhear an argument taking place between the owners of the house named Joan and George. Joan and George decide that the food costs are far too high and that the dog and cat eat too much. George reads all of the costs saying ''Dog food'' and ''Cat food''. The argument is now saying that they get rid of Tom or Spike. The ensuing argument ends with the conclusion that only one pet can stay in the house. When both Tom and Spike prove to be as helpful as each other in cleaning the house and providing good company, George and Joan make a deal: the first to catch Jerry stays in the house. The race begins. Tom grabs Jerry and Spike is standing and punches him. Then, Spike is going to a shortcut and his hands were stuck and Tom grabs Jerry. Spike gets a door closed on him. Spike then erects a sign that says "DETOUR" and turns Tom into the closet with him. Tom gets walloped with a golf club. Spike is pulled into the floor grate and flattened into the likeness of a nail. Tom presents Jerry to George's chair, but instead of George, Spike leaps out and grabs Jerry. Tom shakes Spike's hand in a gesture of surrender, packs up his possessions and sets out for the door. Spike follows him to comfort the cat, and Tom slyly gives "his" possessions to Spike and ushers him out the door. Spike falls for it until he's about to leave the yard. He then realizes he has been tricked, and his head turns into a Jackass. Enraged, he runs back towards the house. Tom laughs at his victory until Spike busts through the door and flattens him. Spike starts chasing Jerry as Tom frees himself. He is compressed into a cylinder. Spike grabs Jerry and is flipped judo-style by Tom. Tom and Spike then duel with swords, destroying a lot of the house. They see Jerry run across a carpet, and they roll it up and cut it up until Tom slices off George's slippers. When he realizes his mistake, George gets angry and demands that Tom and Spike both leave (meaning they both lose by default). George decides that Jerry, who apparently doesn't "eat" much, will be their pet (they don't know that inside his mouse hole, he has in there lots of food and does eat a lot like Tom and Spike). Pretending he doesn't eat too much, Jerry happily eats his cheese. George then asks Tom and Spike if they finished packing, which they nod in agreement. He tells them to take their belongings and leave. Hearing George say this, Tom and Spike attempt to sneak out of the house with the fridge, but are spotted by him who demand they return the fridge back in the kitchen. Panicking, they flee with the fridge and runs away in the sunset. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pet Peeve (1954 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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