Explaining Cartoons on Instagram: "The Mouse Comes to Dinner (1945), where Tom finds himself competing with another cat—Butch—while trying to impress Toodles Galore. Early in the cartoon, Tom and Butch square off in a refined game of croquet that instantly becomes a battle of ego, cheating, and escalating slapstick. What starts as gentlemanly sport quickly turns into bruises, broken rules, and pure cartoon hostility. The croquet scene works because it contrasts elegance with violence, a classic