A Mouse, Said the Mouse

A mouse who has terrorised a lion into insanity scratches his head. “There’s one thing that still bothers me,” he confides in the audience watching The Slap Happy Lion as the camera pulls back and another mouse scampers into the scene. “How could anyone be afraid of a mouse?|



The little mouse goes “Boo!” just as the big one did to the lion all through the cartoon.



Anticipation and take.



The big mouse now becomes as afraid of a mouse as the lion did and runs out of the cartoon.



The little mouse doesn’t get a chance to give us a reaction line to end the cartoon. The iris closes as the other mouse runs into the distance.

Walt Clinton, Ray Abrams and Bob Bentley animated this 1947 MGM release by director Tex Avery. Heck Allen assisted with the story.