As with most cartoons of this era, the attention to background detail is amazing. Even the wooden interior of the mousehole is drawn accurately. Of course, cartoons were shown as part of a cinema feature, in the years before TV. So while kids liked the sight gags, adults appreciated the wonderfully furnished homes ,(with all the latest gadgets) that were shown.
This Hanna & Barbera short title is reminded, in Tex Avery's 1949 short, Bad Luck Blackie (1949) after a continuously trouble making bulldog to a kitten squeezed the kitten, that kept trying to find a hiding place from the dog. The kitten is in a bookcase, but the dog shoved the set of books together, causing the kitten to look like a book for approximately 5 seconds as KITTY FOILED. William Hanna, Joseph Barbera & Tex Avery were three animation directors at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). They gave and shared ideas to each other. MGM's longtime animation producer Fred Quimby (I)Fred Quimby was deeply disliked, as he accepted all of the credits of Hanna & Barbera's seven Academy award winning shorts, The Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943), Mouse Trouble (1944), Quiet Please! (1945), The Cat Concerto (1947), The Little Orphan (1948), The Two Mouseketeers (1952), and Johann Mouse (1953).
This is the only Tom and Jerry short to be animated by Irving Levine.
Model trains, as shown here, were hugely popular postwar toys (enjoyed by adults, too). Likewise, the rise of bowling happened at mid-century, with bowling alleys popping up in the new suburbs, and bowling leagues forming. Both pastimes feature prominently as part of the sight gags here.
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