I Dream Of Meanie

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"I Dream Of Meanie" is the forty-fourth sub-episode of Tom and Jerry Tales.

[edit] Episode summary

In the episode, Tom is a sultan who is being weighted on hand and foot by servants. After he finishes a melon, he is handed a huge piece of cake. But before he can eat it, Jerry who is dressed as a beggar pops from underneath the cherry and eats the cake himself. After chasing after him, Tom finally catches Jerry by rolling him in a carpet. He then blows into the other end and Jerry is shot across the palace landing in a corner with old junk in it including an old brass lamp.

A stereotypical lump appears on Jerry's head and he looks at the lamp and polishes it slightly to see his reflection. He is startled when the lamp shakes and smoke shoots out of the spout and takes the form of a genie that looks like Spike. Jerry backs away in fear but Spike tells him he is at Jerry's command. At this moment Tom runs in the room and Jerry orders Spike to stop him. Spike immediately obeys and holds up his hand to stop him. It works but the rest of Tom's body continues running but still attached. Also immediately the legs run back to his body.

Spike then squeezes Tom into the shape of a ball. He then conjures a golf tee and then a golfclub and places Tom on the golf tee. He then hits Tom with the golf club and shouts Fore! as Tom sails out of the window. Tom bounces across the shades and forms back to his normal shape. He is about to land on a flying carpet when it moves and whacks him back toward the palace. Spike and Jerry are in one of the rooms, the lamp is now on the table as is Jerry and Spike is floating next to him. Tom shoots past them and takes the lamp in his mouth by accident as he passes and crashes into a wall.

Tom spits the lamp out of his mouth and curious, he polishes it. Spike looks at Jerry apologetically and cringes slightly and vanishes in a flash of magic and reappears by Tom and bows to him indicating Tom is now his master. Tom grins and sniggers and points at Jerry or at least where he was. Eventually a cushion moves indicating where he is and Tom points at it. In a less enthusiastic mood than before, Spike floats after the cushion and picks it up. He is confused to see Jerry is not underneath. Tom looks underneath the cushion to see Jerry grabbing onto it. He rips the cushion causing feathers and dust to spill out and Tom sneezes from the impact.

Jerry then runs into another room and Tom gives chase. He rubs the lamp and it turns into a vacuum cleaner and chases after him sucking up alot of things along the way and eventually sucks up Jerry. The vacuum cleaner turns back into a lamp and Spike floats to his side. Tom waves his hand to dismiss him and Spike turns into smoke which pours back into the lamp and in a flash of light, the smoke is gone and Spike reappears this time with legs instead of a smoky wisp. He yawns, takes off his turban and walks off. Jerry moves a pile of carpets and stands on the floor of the room in the lamp. He then sees a table lined with all kinds of foods but goes for the cheese.

Meanwhile Tom looks into the lamp through the spout and sees Jerry taking a wedge of cheese and placing an olive in one of the holes. He is about to eat it when Tom clears his throat. Jerry is not amused and chucks it at him. It spits out of the lamp and hits him in the eye. Tom shakes it off and sticks his arm in the lamp to grab him. Jerry quickly finishes what he managed to get to eat when he sees Tom's hand coming and manages to dodge his paw. After a few failed attempts to grab him, Tom's finger lands in Spike's turban and Tom is sucked into the lamp and it expels a small amount of smoke and clatters to the floor.

Inside the lamp, smoke swirls around and takes the form of Tom who when he put the turban on his finger had become a genie. He cackles and grows in size intimidating Jerry and the now mortal Spike. With a flick of his paw, Jerry and Spike are spat out of the lamp and smoke spews out of it to form Tom. He grows in size and cackles once more and Jerry and Spike run out the palace only to be chased by Tom who easily floats in front of them to block their path and cackles once again. They then run back into the palace and to the balcony. Just as they seem to reach it, Tom's head pops up in front of them and pulls out his head and reaches in his enormous hand.

Jerry and Spike shiver in fright but Jerry suddenly realises that Tom is now a genie and as such can be controlled by rubbing the lamp. He rubs it vigourously causing Tom to be sucked forcibly through the window and down into the lamp leaving only head sticking out of the spout. Jerry ignores the look of innonence on Tom's face and jumps onto his head three times to force it into the lamp and smiles contentedly.

The scene cuts to the main room of the palace. Jerry is now the sultan with appropriate attire, Spike is the formidible bodyguard and Tom (now at his normal size) is the unwilling genie. Jerry orders Tom to bring him food and unceremoniously conjures a bunch of grapes, a wedge of cheese and an apple. The grapes fall into his mouth one by one, the cheese he swallows whole as he does the apple. He sighs contentedly now as round of the apple he swallowed and the sub-episode ends by a usual circle fade.

[edit] Notes

• The episode name is a reference to the 1960's sitcom I Dream Of Jeannie.
• This episode is based on the story of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp from The Arabian Nights but most prominently the Disney version released in 1992.