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Blue Cat Blues

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Blue Cat Blues	label	Blue Cat Blues
Blue Cat Blues	page	BlueCatBlues
Blue Cat Blues	comment	Blue Cat Blues is an animated short released by MGM in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley, starring the iconic duo of Tom and Jerry.Unusual for a Tom and Jerry short, Jerry "speaks" by narrating the story in a voiceover (supplied by Paul Frees); however, since said narration comes via Inner Monologue, the short doesn't break the "cardinal rule" of not having Tom and Jerry physically speaking on screen.Also unusual for a T&J short is that while pretty much all other shorts for the series have a comical storyline and usually a happy ending (or at least a funny ending), this short is surprisingly sad and the only one to have a truly tragic ending.Because of this—along with the very heavy implications that the iconic duo ends up committing suicide at the end—this short (which did air a few times in the late 1980s into the 1990s, back when TBS and TNT aired animated shorts, older movies, and general audience programming) rarely, if ever, airs on television (American and otherwise). Good luck trying to find it.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Blue Cat Blues / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Probably the darkest Tom & Jerry short ever, considering it literally ends with the duo completely depressed and waiting for a train to run them over.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_15492124	type	Too Gruesome for Cartoon Physics
Blue Cat Blues / int_15492124	comment	Too Gruesome for Cartoon Physics: Opens with Tom sitting on a railroad bridge, eyes bloodshot, and fur matted, for reasons unknown. Jerry then offers a Whole Episode Flashback explaining that Tom fell in love with a beautiful white cat that demanded expensive presents, leading him to repeatedly borrow more and more money until he literally sold himself into slavery to appease her, only for the white cat to dump him for someone else. He's now at the end of his rope, and Jerry muses to himself that he'd never allow that to happen to him; and then immediately sees his own mouse girlfriend driving around with another guy. Jerry's appearance becomes just as haggard as Tom's, and he goes and sits next to the cat, with both staring wordlessly off into the horizon. And why are they sitting on the bridge? They've been Driven to Suicide. The final moments of the short have a train's whistle gradually getting louder and louder... and then we cut to black. Talk about your Downer Ending.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Blue Cat Blues / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: As bad as Jerry feels for Tom, he at least takes comfort in the fact that his girlfriend would never leave him, right? Unfortunately, that's not the case, as she seemingly turns out to be just as much a gold digger as Tom's girlfriend, marrying another mouse instead of Jerry.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Blue Cat Blues / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: A multi-layered one that overlaps with Visual Metaphors. When the white cat is first seen, Tom goes through the exact motions that Jerry describes to refer to his love for her — literally flipping his lid, sliding towards her like an object being pulled by a magnet when he mentions a "Magnetic Attraction", etc. — and when she is seen affectionately stroking Tom's face near the beginning of the short, Jerry muses that he was "Putty in her hands"... at which point, she sculpts and stretches his headnote Like putty, no less. into one of a jackass.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_26130259	type	Drunk on Milk
Blue Cat Blues / int_26130259	comment	Drunk on Milk: This quite literally happens to Tom when he starts drinking to dull the pain of being rejected by the white cat in favor of Butch, skulling glasses of milk like they're hard liquor. It ultimately gets him intoxicated and miserable enough to try drowning himself in a flooded rain gutter.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Blue Cat Blues / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Butch running over Tom's jalopy (with him on it) with his Absurdly-Long Limousine. Later, when Jerry has just rescued Tom from drowning in the gutter and is in the process of resuscitating him, Tom wakes up... only for Butch's limousine to drive by the two at high speed again and soak them with gutter water. He and the veil-clad white cat can be seen in a luggage-laden car on the way to their honeymoon, with a "JUST MARRIED" sign on the back. This is what ultimately pushes Tom over the edge. The white cat shows absolutely zero regard or remorse toward Tom sacrificing literally everything for her, to the point where he ends up spending his entire life's savings and willingly selling himself into slavery to afford his gifts for her. She doesn't even flinch when Tom is driven over by Butch's limousine. Worst of all, it doesn't extend to when Tom is on the brink of ending his own life — and likewise, suffers no consequences for driving him to it — which is one of the reasons she ends up being such a loathsome Hate Sink.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Blue Cat Blues / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: In the words of Cracked: "Tom & Jerry Get Depressed, Kill Themselves".
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Blue Cat Blues / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Blue Cat Blues / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When Jerry's girlfriend Toots drives by with another mouse after Jerry started talking about how his own girlfriend has seemingly remained faithful to him. Unlike Tom, though, Jerry knows better than to spend vastly to win her back. Tragically though, like Tom, Jerry knows he has no hopes of winning her heart, especially since Toots already got married to the other mouse; and decides to join Tom on the tracks.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_4eb5691c	type	Squashed Flat
Blue Cat Blues / int_4eb5691c	comment	Butch running over Tom's jalopy (with him on it) with his Absurdly-Long Limousine. Later, when Jerry has just rescued Tom from drowning in the gutter and is in the process of resuscitating him, Tom wakes up... only for Butch's limousine to drive by the two at high speed again and soak them with gutter water. He and the veil-clad white cat can be seen in a luggage-laden car on the way to their honeymoon, with a "JUST MARRIED" sign on the back. This is what ultimately pushes Tom over the edge.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Blue Cat Blues / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: This is what Tom does after the white cat ultimately chooses Butch over him.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_5dbafc71	type	PerpetualExpression
Blue Cat Blues / int_5dbafc71	comment	Perpetual Expression: The female cat, appropriately enough, has a completely still face the entire short.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Blue Cat Blues / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The train whistle that can be heard as the cartoon fades out, when Jerry joins Tom on the railroad tracks. With that, you know exactly what's about to happen.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Blue Cat Blues / int_658f7193	comment	The white cat shows absolutely zero regard or remorse toward Tom sacrificing literally everything for her, to the point where he ends up spending his entire life's savings and willingly selling himself into slavery to afford his gifts for her. She doesn't even flinch when Tom is driven over by Butch's limousine. Worst of all, it doesn't extend to when Tom is on the brink of ending his own life — and likewise, suffers no consequences for driving him to it — which is one of the reasons she ends up being such a loathsome Hate Sink.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_6967bd03	type	Comically Lopsided Rivalry
Blue Cat Blues / int_6967bd03	comment	Comically Lopsided Rivalry: Replacing "Comically" with "Dramatically". Tom loses literally everything — to the point of selling himself into slavery — trying to obtain things that Butch can top a million-fold in the blink of an eye, and decides to kill himself once it's clear it was All for Nothing.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_6aab3ca0	type	Shockingly Expensive Bill
Blue Cat Blues / int_6aab3ca0	comment	Shockingly Expensive Bill: The crappy Jalopy that Tom buys to try and impress the white cat is ridiculously expensive for what it is; with Jerry noting that its cost included 312 monthly payments at 112% interest. And that's at the low end of what we see, going by the contracts Tom is seen signing.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Blue Cat Blues / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: After their girlfriends leave them for wealthier men, it's very strongly implied that Tom and Jerry end up dying through suicide-by-train at the end of the short. Even worse, Tom knows just from one look why Jerry has come to join him, and sympathetically shifts to one side to make room.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_6e5da6fe	type	UngratefulBitch
Blue Cat Blues / int_6e5da6fe	comment	Ungrateful Bitch: The white cat, who doesn't react in the slightest to Tom sacrificing literally everything he has — to the point of spending his life savings and selling himself into slavery — to appease her. For that matter, she barely even reacts to Butch's much larger, more extravagant gifts, either.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_743ad340	type	Absurdly-Long Limousine
Blue Cat Blues / int_743ad340	comment	Tom's final gift to the white cat was a car that he literally had to give his arm, his leg and had sold himself into slavery for, but the car was an old, outdated jalopy that's ultimately flattened when Butch runs his much longer and more luxurious coupe over it.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Blue Cat Blues / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The cartoon ends with the duo sitting depressed on the train track awaiting their fate. The train whistle blows in the distance just as the cartoon fades out.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Blue Cat Blues / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The cartoon opens with an utterly miserable Tom sitting on train tracks, waiting for a train to come and end his life. Jerry, feeling bad for his Friendly Enemy, explains how Tom became the wreck he is now.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_829aeb5d	type	Mad Love
Blue Cat Blues / int_829aeb5d	comment	Mad Love: Tom does everything — and we do mean everything — to win back the white cat. He spends everything he has and willingly sells himself off to slavery to win her over. The episode makes it clear that the white cat was never really interested in him, and he learns this the hard way when she marries a richer guy.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Blue Cat Blues / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: In one of the rare shorts where Tom and Jerry both lose, this happens to them in arguably one of the saddest depictions of this trope in animated history. Especially since it ends with them losing all hope — and in Tom's case, everything else — and joining each other on a railroad bridge as the train approaches.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Blue Cat Blues / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The white cat stroking Tom's face at the beginning of the short while they're dating — and accordingly molding it into the shape of a jackass — gives an early hint to her true nature as a Manipulative Bitch, as well as to how easily Tom would ultimately be taken in by her.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Blue Cat Blues / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: A short, minor-key rendition of Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March accompanies the two big Wham Shots of the duo's respective girlfriends marrying other suitors and driving them to despair.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Blue Cat Blues / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The already melancholy story takes a really dark twist when Jerry discovers his gal has been cheating on him too. In a meta-sense, watching this short alongside pretty much any other short in the Tom & Jerry canon can provoke this in spades.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Blue Cat Blues / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The white cat faces no consequences for driving Tom to ruin his life in trying to please her.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
Blue Cat Blues / int_ac0827be	comment	Jerry narrates the short through a Private Eye Monologue (though neither he nor Tom are shown physically speaking).
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Blue Cat Blues / int_b5bd58a3	type	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
Blue Cat Blues / int_b5bd58a3	comment	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: This is Played for Drama. Tom's the poor suitor to Butch's rich suitor for the affections of the white cat — whose name has never been revealed, but is confirmed to not be Toodles Galore — and because of his vast wealth, Butch is able to casually get the white cat much larger and more extravagant versions of the gifts that Tom sacrificed literally everything to obtain for her: While Tom gave her a single purple flower, Butch gave her a large — as in as big as her — pink-and-red floral wreath with "Love From Butch" written on it in yellow. After Tom gave her a single (and rather small) bottle of perfume, an enormous tanker truck full of perfume (with a "Love From Butch" note attached to it) drove up to the white cat's house. When Tom presented her with a diamond ring (but one with a diamond so small that you needed a magnifying glass just to see it), the white cat revealed that Butch had already given her a diamond ring of his own, but one with a diamond so big and shiny that you couldn't even look at it without eye protection of some kind; in this case, Tom and the white cat wore welding masks to look at the ring. Tom's final gift to the white cat was a car that he literally had to give his arm, his leg and had sold himself into slavery for, but the car was an old, outdated jalopy that's ultimately flattened when Butch runs his much longer and more luxurious coupe over it.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_b7403860	type	Enormous Engagement Ring
Blue Cat Blues / int_b7403860	comment	When Tom presented her with a diamond ring (but one with a diamond so small that you needed a magnifying glass just to see it), the white cat revealed that Butch had already given her a diamond ring of his own, but one with a diamond so big and shiny that you couldn't even look at it without eye protection of some kind; in this case, Tom and the white cat wore welding masks to look at the ring.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Blue Cat Blues / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Between Tom, Butch, and the white cat. Being a Gold Digger, the white cat chooses Butch over Tom. Another triangle is revealed to have occurred between Jerry, his girlfriend, and another male mouse. Jerry only learns this when he learns said girlfriend and the other mouse have gotten married.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Blue Cat Blues / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Tom first attempts to kill himself when he gets black-out drunk and allows himself to drift down a storm drain to drown, but Jerry rescues him. When it becomes clear that Tom does in fact want to die and goes to the train tracks to kill himself, Jerry is seen sadly contemplating the situation from above... and then ultimately joins him down there when his own girlfriend runs off with another mouse.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Blue Cat Blues / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Butch is seen as constantly one-upping Tom to impress the white cat. But considering that the narrative paints the white cat as the real trouble as a Gold Digger, Butch turns out to be the lesser evil, a potential victim of being dumped by the cat once he fails to impress in the future and most likely even more unaware of his fate since he doesn't even have a Jerry figure advising him.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Blue Cat Blues / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Jerry very clearly feels bad for the sorry state his old Friendly Enemy is left in, to the point that he tries to help him at the lowest of times and rescues him from his first suicide attempt.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Blue Cat Blues / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: By the time Tom has spent literally his entire life savings and sold himself into slavery to appease someone who was never really interested in him in the first place, he's well over the line, to the point that when we see first see him, he's already waiting for a train. Ultimately, Jerry goes through a similar — but much faster — process when he sees his own girlfriend has married someone else behind his back.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Blue Cat Blues / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: This is Tom's default expression (complete with bloodshot and baggy eyes) as he's sat silently on the railroad tracks, clearly well over the Despair Event Horizon and waiting for the train to come. Jerry gains a similar expression upon finding out his own girlfriend, Toots, has married someone else behind his back, and ultimately joins his long-time Friendly Enemy on the bridge.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Blue Cat Blues / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The white cat is clearly written with the allegory of "Beware of Gold Diggers, because they will ruin your life", and even Jerry is aware she's bad news; thus, she is the villain of the short, not Butch, despite him one-upping Tom all the time. She got away with driving Tom to suicide.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Blue Cat Blues / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: While it's not Butch's fault that the white cat prefers richer suitors, he goes out of his way to humiliate Tom when he calls him out on stealing his date, closing his parasol on him and running him over with his limousine, all with a smug smirk on his face.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_f068cba	type	Oddball in the Series
Blue Cat Blues / int_f068cba	comment	Oddball in the Series: Jerry narrates the short through a Private Eye Monologue (though neither he nor Tom are shown physically speaking). There's little slapstick to be found, and the plot's opening premise is that Tom and Jerry have always been friends; Tom doesn't chase Jerry once! Also out of the ordinary is that Butch is portrayed as being an extremely wealthy playboy cat, whereas almost all his other appearances have shown him to be an alley cat.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Blue Cat Blues / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Between Tom, Butch, and the white cat. Being a Gold Digger, the white cat chooses Butch over Tom.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
Blue Cat Blues / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: Part of the reason why the white cat is a Karma Houdini is that love in this episode has made Tom incredibly dumb. Then crazy. And finally, suicidal.
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Blue Cat Blues / int_fc4f3b4f	type	Friend Versus Lover
Blue Cat Blues / int_fc4f3b4f	comment	Friend Versus Lover: In the beginning, the cat and mouse were friends — sharing a glass of lemonade together and Tom allowing Jerry to have more after accidentally sucking him into his mouth — that is until Tom falls madly in love with the white cat and ignores Jerry throughout the cartoon. Even when Tom has given up hope trying to win over the white cat, he still pushes Jerry away despite his pleas and his saving him from his suicide attempt.
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