Solid Serenade is a 1946 Tom and Jerry short, the 26th in the series, produced in Technicolor by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released to theatres on August 31, 1946. Fred Quimby produced it, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera directed, and Scott Bradley supervised the music; Ed Barge, Michael Lah and Kenneth Muse handled the animation. The cartoon is set in a backyard where Spike the bulldog guards a doghouse, and Tom serenades the cat Toodles Galore with a large string instrument, a hybrid of double bass and cello. The music wakes Jerry, who sleeps in a mousehole inside a mailbox, and the vibrations from the instrument repeatedly disturb and injure him. Jerry retaliates against Tom with a series of pies and sets off a chase through the house, which eventually draws in the enraged Spike.
