Muscles Strikes Again

Muscles Strikes Again is a 2027 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 173rd Tom and Jerry short. Directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone, the cartoon is written by Gene Grillo and animated overseas by Japanese animation studio, Toei Animation. It serves as a sequel to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1951 short, Jerry's Cousin. The cartoon will show up before Tom and Jerry in Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure as they will be premiered together on Cartoon Network, and then released on DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital along with Tom and Jerry in Dragon Ball: The Adventures of Goku and Tom and Jerry in Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle.

Summary
A week have passed since Muscles Mouse visited Tom and Jerry's house where he taught the house cat a rough lesson for trying to catch his cousin. It was Jerry's turn to pay a visit to Muscles' mouse hole at Hogan Alley, wanting to spend more time with him, but feels miserable to know that he have nothing to give him in return for his help. Luckily, with the duplication of Muscles' clothes as a costume, he is able to fool Tom, as well as all the alley cats into thinking he is Muscles. But unfortunately, it wasn't always, for Butch and his gang have discovered only one disguise error: Jerry has his eyes' lashes that Muscles don't. Now that they have exposed his true self, what other plans does these pussycats do to get the poorly weak little brown mouse? Will they have to use Muscles as a bait for Jerry to rescue him, so that they should share with Tom on trampling him?

Characters

 * Tom Cat
 * Jerry Mouse
 * Muscles Mouse
 * Butch Cat
 * Meathead Cat
 * Topsy Cat
 * Lightning Cat
 * Tuffy Mouse

Cast

 * Richard Kind - Tom Cat
 * William Hanna - Tom Cat (vocal effects, uncredited)
 * Frank Welker - Jerry Mouse (vocal effects), Meathead Cat
 * Stephanie Nadolny - Jerry Mouse (speaking voice in the opening and closing announcement sequences
 * Kath Soucie - Tuffy Mouse
 * Maurice LaMarche - Muscles Mouse
 * Joey D'Auria - Butch Cat
 * William Hanna - Butch Cat (vocal effects, uncredited)
 * Elizabeth Daily - Topsy Cat
 * Roger Craig Smith - Lightning Cat

Credits

 * Produced and Directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone
 * Written by Gene Grillo
 * Based Upon Characters Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
 * Associate Producer: Jim Wyatt
 * Executive Producer: Sam Register
 * Music by Michael Tavera
 * Voice Directors: Maria Estrada, Ryan Johnston
 * Animation Supervisors: Minoru Maeda, Tadayoshi Yamamuro, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
 * Sound Engineers: Hidenori Arai, Mutsuhiro Nishimura
 * Editors: Dave Courter, Philip Malamuth

Company Credits

 * Production: Turner Entertainent Co., Warner Bros. Animation
 * Animation Services: Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
 * Voice Casting Facility: Studiopolis, Inc.
 * Sound Effects: Jet Sound Engine Co., Ltd.

Trivia

 * Despite being silent in the series of cartoons, feature films and television shows, Tom and Jerry's voices are heard as vocal effects. Richard Kind voices Tom, and Frank Welker voices Jerry's vocals, with Stephanie Nadolny provided the second main-title character's speaking voice in the sequences of Tuffy's pre-show and after-show announcements with them, Butch and his gang.