"Melancholy Cat".
Blue Cat Blues is one of the few episodes with a spoken character and an oppressive atmosphere, and it is so different from the cat and mouse that it is the darkest reality.
Melancholy Cat is only the 103rd episode of the Cat and Mouse series, and if you look at the timeline alone, it is not actually the last episode to be produced and aired.
In 1957, MGM announced that it would no longer make animation because MGM Pictures felt that the original cat and mouse pair of "Tom" and "Jerry" could not make money.
Hannah Barbera was forced to leave. For the first time, the cat and mouse stopped production. MGM ordered Hannah and Barbera's business manager to shut down the animation department, and directly gave a call to every member of the entire department to lay off, and so the episode appeared.
This episode is full of tragedy. A flashback is used to describe the haggard, disillusioned Tom, who has his paws on his cheeks, his body is limp, and his eyes are bloodshot. On the beam above the railroad stands Jerry, his lifelong nemesis and lifelong friend. Jerry looked at Tom, who was bent on death, helplessness written on his face. All this is the fault of love, originally Tom and Jerry had a happy and carefree life, but with the appearance of the ** female cat Puth, Tom's soul was captured by the other party, and he launched a fanatical love offensive, but the black cat Butch is rich and powerful, and Tom is like a clown in front of Butch. Is a man without money destined to have no love?
Tom began to be desperate for love, loans, storage tanks, and everything, and he had lost his mind.
Jerry rescues Tom at a critical moment. Tom slumped. Drinking heavily all day. Forgotten (except for Jerry).
While Jerry is giving Tom first aid, they are both splashed with water from the rushing boat. On closer inspection, it turns out that Butch took the she-cat to get married.
Jerry looked at his girlfriend's ** and drove away with another mouse.
At this moment, the rumbling sound of a train was heard in the distance.
The end of the full episode
The whole article is a metaphor, a mockery, is more money the truth, can more money sell the cat and the mouse? The author may have been working on this episode when the cat and mouse were dead.