Blue Cat Blues (1956)

Paul Frees: Jerry

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jerry : [narrating while watching Tom sitting on railway tracks for a train]  Poor Tom. In a few minutes, it'll all be over. And for the first time since he met her... he'll be happy. Poor, miserable, lovesick creature. I suppose people will say that I should have helped him. I know, but it's better this way. I'll never forget that first morning when it all started. If ever there where two true friends, that was us.

• [last lines] 

  Jerry : [narrating]  Well, that's the story. The story of a cat with a broken heart. Too bad everybody doesn't have a girl like mine.

  [Jerry admires a photo of Toots, which he kisses] 

  Jerry : A girl that loves me, and only me, with every bit of her true blue, ever-lovin' heart...

  [Toots passes by in a car driven by another mouse, with a sign reading "Just Married" on the boot] 

• [after Tom fails to win back his love interest from Butch] 

  Jerry : [narrating]  Tom went downhill fast after that. He started drinking.

  [Tom gets "drunk" on milk] 

  Jerry : The next step was the gutter.

  [Lying down, the "drunken" Tom is carried by rainwater into a gutter. Jerry pulls him out in time] 

• Jerry : [narrating]  When Tom first saw her, I thought he'd flip his lid. And he did.

  [Tom is love-struck at the sight of a white female cat. The top of his head "flips" around in his excitement. He runs up to get a closer look at her] 

  Jerry : From the very beginning there was a... strong magnetic attraction between them.

  [Tom is "magnetised", ie. he follows her without moving his legs] 

  Jerry : I tried to stop him, but it was no use. Poor, simple Tom; he was putty in her hands.

  [she makes him make a variety of expressions, including making him look like a donkey]