Professor Tom
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Tom, complete with mortarboard, is teaching a kitten the basics: “cats chase mice.” But Jerry keeps subverting this lesson at every opportunity, adding his own phrases, like “cats and mice are chums.” Eventually, Jerry gets Tom locked out of the house; he runs back in and gets slingshotted into the mailbox.
★★★☆☆
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Tom attempting to teach a kitten how to catch mice, with Jerry systematically discrediting every lesson. The teaching-format short recurs across the series in both directions — sometimes Tom is the professor, sometimes Jerry — and it always works, because a lesson gives the film a structure to demolish.