![]() It turns out, there are actually poisonous birds too, like the hooded pitohui, native to the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. But if you thought poisonous creatures were just limited to the conventional 'culprits', like bugs and snakes, you're dead-wrong. While a good majority of the ones we tend to come across are pretty harmless, some of them can be quite poisonous or venomous. The imdb page is here.We're all too familiar with creepy crawlies here in Southeast Asia. Nevertheless we have the vampire bat (and the further bats in the episode) plus Jerry acting as a vampire. Overall isn't a bad little cartoon, but it really isn't the classic days of Tom and Jerry. ![]() There is a gag around the garlic, and a fairly obvious gag in which Tom produces a steak rather than a stake. Tom uses a mirror to direct the new morning Sun, managing to dust several bats can happen to fly into the cottage at daybreak as well as destroy a witches broom and spell book. The newt tells Tom how to deal with vampires with sunlight, garlic or a stake through the heart. He then chases Tom around the cottage until Tom meets a newt (as in eye of). Jerry, amused by the reaction, breaks a comb to make fake fangs, dons a cape and daubs two red dots on his neck. Worried for his neck, and the blood within, Tom scurries from the bat. Having annoyed the weird sisters, both Tom and Jerry end up on the cottage roof, re-entering through the attic. It is an episode of all the standard Tom and Jerry shenanigans, set in a witch's cottage with Tom as the witch's cat and he starts the episode collecting a mouse's whisker for the transformation potion that the witches are brewing. ![]() The episode in question was episode seven, directed by Darrell Van Citters, and featured two stories: Birds of a Feather and Vampire Mouse. That is not our concern on TMtV, rather we are interested in the appearance of a vampire in one of the episodes. I have read criticisms of both the animation style and the writing, though truth be told a new take of a classic was always going to attract detractors. In 2014 a new incarnation of Tom and Jerry was produced. ![]()
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