Hatch Up Your Troubles

Hatch Up Your Troubles
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Story by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Starring	Sara Berner William Hanna
Music by	Musical supervision: Scott Bradley
Animation by	Ed Barge Ray Patterson Irven Spence Kenneth Muse
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	MGM Cartoons
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	May 14, 1949 (1949-05-14)
Running time	7:41

Hatch Up Your Troubles is a 1949 one-reel animated cartoon made in 1948 and is the 41st Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence and Kenneth Muse. The cartoon was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on May 14, 1949 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. In 1955, a CinemaScope remake was produced, The Egg and Jerry. It was nominated for the 1949 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.

Plot

A mother woodpecker leaves her nest for lunch, but an egg in the nest jumps up and falls to the ground, rolling into Jerry's mouse hole. Jerry wakes up to find himself sitting on the egg. An adorable baby woodpecker hatches and instantly takes to Jerry as his mother, but cannot resist pecking Jerry's furniture.

Jerry returns the woodpecker to his nest, but the little bird follows Jerry back to his hole, at which Jerry orders him out. Dejected, the woodpecker wanders around the garden and comes across an unsuspecting Tom, who is sitting in a deckchair, drinking and reading a magazine. The woodpecker carelessly pecks the deckchair's leg, causing an irritated Tom to pour his drink onto the bird. The bird gets mad and then pecks through the rest of the deckchair leg, causing the chair to fold up onto Tom.

Tom chases after the bird. The baby woodpecker calls for his "mama" (Jerry) Jerry emerges from his mousehole and intervenes by hitting Tom with a rake. Tom gets to his feet and uses the rake to trap Jerry, but the woodpecker pecks the rake's lower handle, sending Tom hurtling backwards into a mailbox. Tom then hurls the rake at the bird and the mouse, but the bird quickly pecks it down. Tom then chases and swallows the bird, but the bird pecks inside Tom's stomach. Tom drinks a bucket of water, but more pecking causes the water to seep out through his body. Jerry then whacks Tom's tail, allowing the woodpecker to peck out through Tom's teeth.

Jerry flees, but runs straight into an axe and is knocked out cold. Tom attempts to take advantage of the situation, but the woodpecker continually pecks at the cat's head. Tom grabs the bird and corks his beak, rendering its peck useless. Tom then ties the woodpecker to a telegraph pole. However, the bird manages to free himself, and noticing that he has very little time, quickly performs a complex calculation in order to rescue Jerry. He pecks the wooden post just in time and the telegraph pole bounces off Tom's head repeatedly and hammers him into the ground, starting with his feet and ending with his head; Jerry escapes by the very moment Tom gets hit by the pole.

Jerry is thankful for the woodpecker's help, but the mother woodpecker then flies into the scene and the baby woodpecker realizes who his mother is after all. The two fly away, much to Jerry's disappointment, but the baby woodpecker flies back to Jerry and kisses him lovingly before flying away again, as Jerry waves him off happily.

Voice cast

• Sara Berner as Baby Woodpecker
• William Hanna as Tom and Jerry

Production

• Directed by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Story by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Animation: Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irv Spence, Kenneth Muse
• Effects Animation: A.C. Gamer
• Layout: Richard Bickenbach, Peter Alvarado
• Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas
• Music: Scott Bradley
• Orchestrations: Milt Franklyn
• Solo Trumpet: Uan Rasey
• Co-Producer: William Hanna
• Produced by: Fred Quimby

Availability

• Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol. 3, Disc One
• Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection Disc 1
• Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Vol. 2, Disc One

See also

• Peck Up Your Troubles

External links

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• Hatch Up Your Troubles at IMDb