Rube Goldberg in Space

I've never been much on John Dunn's writing or Chuck Jones' Tom and Jerry cartoons, but I kind of like a Rube Goldberg-inspired gag in "O-Solar-Meow" (1966).

It takes place on a space station. Jerry, in some kind of mechanical mouse-mobile, drives over a fuse which sets off a rocket and, well, you can see the rest. The girl cat calendar is pure Jones. The face on the punching bag that feels the pain is a nice touch, too.



Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Tom Ray, Don Towsley and Dick Thompson animated this with Abe Levitow directing.