comicfan
05-16-2001, 11:51 PM
Hi. This is my first time posting on this board, but I poasted a couple of times on the first TTTP board.
I was wondering about a gag that pops up in a couple of MGM "Tom and Jerry"s, that of Tom uttering a long, mournful, echoing "Don't you believe it!" [or rather "Doooon't youuuuu believe it!"] As far as I can remember, it's occured twice: In "Mouse Trouble"[1944], Tom reads in his mouse catching book that "A cornered mouse never fights". He tests that theory, only to be beaten up by Jerry. Tom then utters the line to the audience. The same line occurs after Tom is blow up by the explosive white mouse in "The Missing Mouse."[1953] [After the radio informs him the explosive mouse is no longer a danger]
Is the "Don't you believe it" [said in that specific manner] a original creation of the T&J writers, or is it taken from somewhere else [ala Lou Costello's "I'm a baaad boy" that appears in several Warner 'toons in different variations] If there's another board where I should discuss Tom and Jerry, sorry to bother you folks. But this board seems like a general classic toons discussion group, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
I was wondering about a gag that pops up in a couple of MGM "Tom and Jerry"s, that of Tom uttering a long, mournful, echoing "Don't you believe it!" [or rather "Doooon't youuuuu believe it!"] As far as I can remember, it's occured twice: In "Mouse Trouble"[1944], Tom reads in his mouse catching book that "A cornered mouse never fights". He tests that theory, only to be beaten up by Jerry. Tom then utters the line to the audience. The same line occurs after Tom is blow up by the explosive white mouse in "The Missing Mouse."[1953] [After the radio informs him the explosive mouse is no longer a danger]
Is the "Don't you believe it" [said in that specific manner] a original creation of the T&J writers, or is it taken from somewhere else [ala Lou Costello's "I'm a baaad boy" that appears in several Warner 'toons in different variations] If there's another board where I should discuss Tom and Jerry, sorry to bother you folks. But this board seems like a general classic toons discussion group, so I thought I'd give it a shot.