Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (1947) — watch this eight-minute Tom and Jerry short online on iFILM, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Tom has decided that patience is finished: Jerry keeps drinking his milk, and the solution is a poison brewed in the basement from whatever chemicals come to hand.

The poison does not kill the mouse. It makes him enormous. Hanna and Barbera take Stevenson's Jekyll-and-Hyde premise and give it to the smaller character — Jerry goes through the transformation, and the dynamic that has governed every previous chase flips completely. The worse Tom's situation gets, the more he deserves it. Stream Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (1947) online on iFILM.