This cartoon is very funny, I guess. Although I'm not in USA, I still like it, Tom is suffer for the brain damage, he became like a mouse, I had to admit it was funny when Tom is deranged. Jerry, of course, very distressed, decided to bring Tom's amnesia, But fails. Mammy also thought of the idea,too! Still, It's one of my best TOM AND JERRY cartoon!
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The cartoon that proves brain damage can be funny!
BA_Harrison1 November 2014
Mammy Two Shoes clocks Tom on the head with her broom, scrambling his brain, making him think that he is a mouse.
A very silly but also very amusing short, Nit-Witty Kitty sees the usually cunning cat believing that he is a huge rodent: he becomes buck-toothed, squeaks, and hops around the house in the search for cheese. He also crams himself into Jerry's mouse hole (ooeerr!), which makes the mouse extremely fed up, especially when Tom breaks his bed. Reading up on the subject, Jerry discovers that another bang on the bonce might set Tom straight and reaches for his baseball bat. Unfortunately, Mammy also has the same idea
What follows is a series of attempts by Jerry to knock some sense into Tom using such items as a baseball bat, a flat iron, and a bowling ball, but to no avail; the one time he is successful at reverting Tom to his feline ways, Mammy enters and bashes Tom back into his mouse persona. It's all very daft, but also very funny.
A very silly but also very amusing short, Nit-Witty Kitty sees the usually cunning cat believing that he is a huge rodent: he becomes buck-toothed, squeaks, and hops around the house in the search for cheese. He also crams himself into Jerry's mouse hole (ooeerr!), which makes the mouse extremely fed up, especially when Tom breaks his bed. Reading up on the subject, Jerry discovers that another bang on the bonce might set Tom straight and reaches for his baseball bat. Unfortunately, Mammy also has the same idea
What follows is a series of attempts by Jerry to knock some sense into Tom using such items as a baseball bat, a flat iron, and a bowling ball, but to no avail; the one time he is successful at reverting Tom to his feline ways, Mammy enters and bashes Tom back into his mouse persona. It's all very daft, but also very funny.
This picture documents how cats struck on the head . . .
pixrox11 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
. . . are immediately transformed into felines behaving like large rodents. This NIT-WITTY KITTY principle holds true for humans, as well. As John Steinbeck wrote in his case study OF MICE AND MEN, people such as football players, military veterans, fire fighters, lumberjacks, construction workers and cops--that is, workers in concussion-prone occupations--are bound to suffer a metamorphosis into giant cockroaches before they hit the age of 40. Victims of this syndrome soon become self-appointed sects police, Freedom deniers, money hoarders, resource hogs, billionaire lackeys, household tyrants, specialists at disrupting school board meetings, conspiracy theorists, book burners, assassins and general thorns in Society's side. The best cure for them, NIT-WITTY KITTY illustrates, is to drop bowling balls and anvils on their noggins.
Are You A Cat Or A Mouse?
ccthemovieman-11 August 2007
Well, I have to give the writers credit for "originality" in this one, which plays better than it probably sounds in my review. When I read on the IMDb notes that Tom gets hit on the head and then thinks he's a mouse, it sounded kind of stupid. Maybe the premise was silly, but it turned out to be very funny.
I saw sights in here I would never find in any other Tom and Jerry cartoon, such as Tom squeezing into Jerry's mouse-hole and trying to sleep on his bed! Tom's squeaks are funny and it was fun to see him turn the tables on the maid, who was always giving him a hard time. It also was satisfying to see Jerry frustrated, for once, instead of the poor cat being flustered unable to get Jerry.
Overall, a more-than-solid Tom and Jerry effort.
I saw sights in here I would never find in any other Tom and Jerry cartoon, such as Tom squeezing into Jerry's mouse-hole and trying to sleep on his bed! Tom's squeaks are funny and it was fun to see him turn the tables on the maid, who was always giving him a hard time. It also was satisfying to see Jerry frustrated, for once, instead of the poor cat being flustered unable to get Jerry.
Overall, a more-than-solid Tom and Jerry effort.
Greater damage is done trying to do good in life (and cartoons)!
llltdesq9 September 2003
I believe it was Thoreau who said, "If I knew that a man were coming to my home with the fixed intention of doing me good, I would flee for my very life." Tom develops amnesia and Jerry and Mammy try to "help" him recover his memory. While Jerry's efforts are not entirely altruistic (Tom's rather irritating behaving like a rather large mouse) Tom is better off as a cat. But the best laid plans of mice and men don't go very well here, with painfully obvious and hilarious results. Lots of great sight gags and semi-vocal effects for Tom. Well worth looking for and most recommended.
Ha Ha! Very funny!
TheLittleSongbird15 June 2010
As silly as the premise may have been initially, Nit-Witty Kitty more than makes up for it, and is an enormously entertaining cartoon. Seeing my favourite cat and mouse duo again was more than a delight in itself.
I do agree that the basis of the story was somewhat silly, but as I have said there is so much that redeems that. The gags are absolutely hilarious, and they are clever and well-timed, it is not everyday where you see Tom behaving like a mouse now is it. The animation is very colourful and lively, granted it is not one of the best-looking Tom and Jerry cartoons admittedly but it is not the worst-looking either. The music is wonderful as well, a real delight to the ears, and the pacing I had no problem with either as the cartoon went at breakneck speed. Lastly the ending is satisfying and a funny ending to a funny cartoon.
Overall, hugely enjoyable while not being the best of the Tom and Jerry canon. 9/10 Bethany Cox
I do agree that the basis of the story was somewhat silly, but as I have said there is so much that redeems that. The gags are absolutely hilarious, and they are clever and well-timed, it is not everyday where you see Tom behaving like a mouse now is it. The animation is very colourful and lively, granted it is not one of the best-looking Tom and Jerry cartoons admittedly but it is not the worst-looking either. The music is wonderful as well, a real delight to the ears, and the pacing I had no problem with either as the cartoon went at breakneck speed. Lastly the ending is satisfying and a funny ending to a funny cartoon.
Overall, hugely enjoyable while not being the best of the Tom and Jerry canon. 9/10 Bethany Cox
Another Tom and Jerry cartoon full of laughs and slapstick comedy.
OllieSuave-00710 January 2018
A unique Tom and Jerry cartoon that is more than just Tom and Jerry playing cat and mouse. Tom has amnesia thanks to Mammy Two-Shoes' bad aiming and things he is a mouse. Because of Tom's more annoying behavior, Jerry attempts to cure his amnesia, trying to jolt his memory with things at his head.
Another cartoon full of laughs, slapstick comedy, and unpredictability.
Grade A
Another cartoon full of laughs, slapstick comedy, and unpredictability.
Grade A
Good? I've forgotten (not!)
Antzy8831 July 2001
In a frantic chase between Tom and Jerry around the black maid's feet, she gets a broom, but hits Tom instead of Jerry. Tom then suffers from amnesia and starts to think and act like a mouse.
Jerry learns from a home treatment book that a possible cure is to give Tom a sharp blow on the head. Getting this to happen proves to be a problem...
Very amusing cartoon!
Jerry learns from a home treatment book that a possible cure is to give Tom a sharp blow on the head. Getting this to happen proves to be a problem...
Very amusing cartoon!
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