It's Got Me Again! is a 1932 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising, released on May 14, 1932. It is historically significant as the first Warner Bros. cartoon nominated for an Academy Award (Best Animated Short Film, 1932).
The cartoon follows a Mickey Mouse-like mouse who emerges at night in a music shop, avoids a mousetrap, and activates a gramophone playing the title song "It's Got Me Again!" (music by Bernice Petkere, lyrics by Irving Caesar). The tune draws other mice who dance and play musical instruments. Their celebration is interrupted by a hungry cat that sneaks in via the chimney and eats a cuckoo clock, causing it to hiccup "cuckoo" sounds. These noises alert the mice, leading to a chase and a musical battle where the mice fend off the cat using instruments as weapons
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