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====Tom and Jerry speaking==== Although many supporting and minor characters speak, Tom and Jerry rarely do so themselves. One exception is ''The Lonesome Mouse'' where they speak several times briefly, primarily Jerry, to contrive to get Tom back into the house. Tom more often sings while wooing female cats. For example, Tom sings [[Louis Jordan]]'s "[[Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby]]" in the 1946 short ''[[Solid Serenade]]''. In that short and ''Zoot Cat'', Tom woos female cats using a deep, heavily French-accented voice in imitation of then-popular leading man, actor [[Charles Boyer]]. At the end of ''The Million Dollar Cat'', after beginning to antagonize Jerry he says, "Gee, I'm throwin' away a million dollars... BUT I'M HAPPY!". In ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring]]'', Jerry says, "No, no, no, no, no." when choosing the shop to remove his ring. In ''The Mouse Comes to Dinner'', Tom speaks to his girlfriend Toots while inadvertently sitting on a stove: "Say, what's cookin'?", to which Toots replies "You are, stupid." Another instance of speech comes in ''Solid Serenade'' and ''The Framed Cat'', where Tom directs Spike through a few dog tricks in a dog-trainer manner. In ''[[Puss Gets the Boot]]'', Jerry prays for his life when Tom catches him by the tail. Jerry has whispered in Tom's ear on several occasions. In ''Love Me, Love My Mouse'', Jerry calls Toots "Mama". Co-director William Hanna provided most of the squeaks, gasps, and other vocal effects for the pair, including the most famous sound effects from the series, Tom's leather-lunged scream, created by recording Hanna's scream and eliminating the beginning and ending of the recording, leaving only the strongest part of the scream on the soundtrack, and Jerry's nervous gulp. The only other reasonably common vocalization is made by Tom when some external reference claims a certain scenario or eventuality to be impossible, which inevitably thwarts Tom's plans β at which point, a bedraggled and battered Tom appears and says in a haunting, echoing voice "Don't you believe it!", a reference to the then-popular 1940s radio show ''[[Don't You Believe It!]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.day3media.com/DontYouBelieveIt.mp3 |title=Sample audio: introduction to an episode of ''Don't You Believe It!'', January 4, 1947 (mp3 audio) |access-date=October 1, 2013 |archive-date=August 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821115141/http://www.day3media.com/DontYouBelieveIt.mp3 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131005035853/http://www.myoldradio.com/old-radio-episodes/don-t-you-believe-it-ep-154/1 Recording of ''Don't You Believe It!'' from January 4, 1947. ''My Old Radio Show''. Retrieved October 2, 2013]</ref> In ''Mouse Trouble'', Tom says "Don't you believe it!" after being beaten up by Jerry, which also happens in ''The Missing Mouse''. In the 1946 short ''Trap Happy'', Tom hires a [[Butch (Tom and Jerry)|cat]] disguised as a mouse exterminator who, after several failed attempts to dispatch Jerry and suffering a lot of accidents in the process, changes profession to ''Cat'' exterminator by crossing out the "Mouse" on his title and writing "CAT", resulting in Tom spelling out the word out loud before reluctantly pointing at himself. One short, 1956's ''Blue Cat Blues'', is narrated by Jerry in [[VoiceOver]], voiced by [[Paul Frees]], as they try to win back their ladyfriends. Jerry was voiced by [[Sara Berner]] during his appearance in the 1945 MGM musical ''[[Anchors Aweigh (film)|Anchors Aweigh]]''. ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Movie]]'' is the first, and so far only installment of the series where the famous cat-and-mouse duo regularly speaks or is able to be understood by humans. In that film, Tom was voiced by [[Richard Kind]], and Jerry was voiced by [[Dana Hill]].
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