House Hunting Mice

House Hunting Mice

Year: 1947

Runtime: 7 mins

Language: English

Director: Chuck Jones

ComedyAnimationFamily

Mice Hubie and Bertie wander into an automated house of tomorrow.

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Timeline & Setting – House Hunting Mice (1947)

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House of Tomorrow

Set outside a model 'House of Tomorrow' known as the Super House, a demonstration of futuristic domestic tech designed by the spoof architect Frank Lloyd Wrong. The home showcases automated appliances like a phonograph launcher and a robotic sweeper, creating a glossy stage for gadgets. It serves as the comic playground where Hubie and Bertie test the devices, often with chaotic results.

🏠 Model home 🤖 Automation ✨ Futuristic

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Main Characters – House Hunting Mice (1947)

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Hubie (Mel Blanc)

A resourceful yet impulsive mouse who volunteers to explore the House of Tomorrow. He loves food and uses quick thinking to navigate the gadgets, even as his schemes land him in sticky situations. His bold curiosity often clashes with Bertie’s caution, driving the pair into slapstick misadventures.

🐭 Mouse 🧠 Clever 🧀 Cheese-lover

Bertie (Stan Freberg)

Hubie's partner in mischief, more impulsive and button-happy than careful. He eagerly triggers the appliances to reach the cheese and ends up pulling both mice into dangerous or ridiculous scenarios. His bravado ensures the stakes stay high and the comedy stays fast-paced.

🐭 Sidekick 🧀 Cheese-lover 🤖 Gadget-curious

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Major Themes – House Hunting Mice (1947)

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🤖 Automation

The short uses the House of Tomorrow's gadgets to satirize promises of convenience, showing how automated appliances can both assist and complicate daily life. Hubie and Bertie's misadventures reveal the unpredictability of technology when humans (or mice) push the wrong buttons. The humor arises from robots malfunctioning, obeying quirky programming, and failing to anticipate human appetite and curiosity.

🧀 Greed

Cheese becomes the lure that drives the mice into the machine-filled trap, highlighting how desire leads to risky experimentation. The cheese dispenser and the ensuing chaos show the temptations of a gadget-filled home and the trouble that follows. The final wave of cleaning robots escalates the stakes, turning a simple snack chase into a chaotic escape.

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