Texas Tom is a 1950 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 49th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and was produced by Fred Quimby.
Plot[]
Tom and Jerry are engaged in some morning Western-flavored cat-and-mouse games when Tom spots a pretty cowgirl cat named Tara.
Overcome with lust, Tom dresses up in his best cowboy duds and tries to impress her at the expense of abusing Jerry. Tom takes out tobacco and rolls it up on a piece of paper, then uses Jerry's tongue to stick it closed, Tom smokes it and breathes out the smoke to spell "HOWDY". Tara becomes flustered and giggly. At one point he sings a song for her on a guitar but has a record player secretly playing the song for him; Jerry then takes the chance to mess with the speed of the recorder, and therefore, makes Tom sing in whatever speed he chooses. Jerry then gets hit by a guitar, and then he then finds a branding iron with a TJ-shape. He uses a tree like a slingshot and shoots the branding iron to Tom's exposed rear. Tom then jumps out of his clothing, cooling off in a horse trough.
Tom chases after Jerry for humiliating him and tries to lasso the mouse. Jerry manages to evade capture and throws the lasso around the left horn of a nearby bull. He then angrily yanks the horn off, thinking it was Jerry, and uses it like a horn. He attaches the horn back, shapes it to the correct position, but the bull starts mooing angrily. When Tom is confronted by the angry bull, he tries to flee. The bull charges at Tom, trying to ram him into a tree, but Tom hung on to a branch, causing the bull to smack into the tree. Tom then hides behind the gate, but the bull broke through, decapitating Tom. The bull spies golden horns on a door and trades his white horns off for the more dangerous golden horns. Tom then hides into a chicken coop, but the bull uses its golden horns to lift the coop up. The hens then flee, laying eggs in fear. Tom then grabs an egg, clucks at the bull, and eggs it before running away. However, Tom reached a fence on all directions. He resigns himself to his fate with a blindfold, smokes his last cigarette, and got the horns. Tom then goes flying in the air, bounces down the rooftop and falls down a waterspout.
With Tom out of commission, Jerry now wears his own cowboy duds, and he waves his hat over to the cowgirl cat, then excitedly runs up to her face, grabs her by the cheeks and presses his lips onto the Tara's red lips, giving her a big kiss, and rides off into the sunset on Tom's back like a horse.
Music Cues[]
- I Tipped My Hat and Slowly Rode Away - Larry Markes, Dick Charles (opening credits)
- Sweet and Lovely - Gus Arnheim, Neil Moret (Tom falls in love with Tara)
- The Last Round-Up - Billy Hill (Tom smoking)
- If You're Ever Down In Texas Look Me Up - Terry Shand, 'By' Dunham (sung by Tom)
- Chicken Reel (Tom inside the chicken coop)
Availability[]
- (1993) LaserDisc - The Art of Tom & Jerry, Side 7 (reissue)
- (2003) DVD - Tom and Jerry: Whiskers Away! (reissue; Warner Bros.)
- (2004) DVD - Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection, Disc 2 (reissue; Warner Bros.)
- (2005) DVD - Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection: Volume 2, Disc 2 (reissue; Warner Bros.)
- (2012) Blu-ray - The Telecine Has Landed
- (2017) Streaming - Boomerang (reissue; Warner Bros.)
Notes[]
- The original titles featured a slow pan across the desert landscape before slowing zooming in on the ranch, after which it would dissolve to the action. The reissued titles feature a completely new background, and after zooming in on the ranch it fades to black before fading in on the action.
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