Part Time Pal
| Part Time Pal | |
|---|---|
| File:PartTimePaltitle.jpg The title card of Part Time Pal | |
| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Animation by | Michael Lah Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Ray Patterson Pete Burness (unc.) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Running time | 7 min 50 secs. |
Part Time Pal is a 1947 animated cartoon short, starring Tom and Jerry. It was animated in 1946 by Michael Lah, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge, produced in Technicolor by Fred Quimby, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and then released to theaters on March 15, 1947 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Pete Burness animated about 50% of the animation in this cartoon, and yet he is uncredited.
Plot
Tom is being scolded by Mammy Two Shoes in the kitchen at the beginning of the cartoon. "And this, Mister Thomas, is your last and final chance! Either you keep dat mouse out of this ice box, or you goes out! Understand? Remember, you is on guard!" Tom, armed with a broom, marches around the kitchen angrily and alert. However, Jerry opens up a grille on the floor, exposing a hole, and directs Tom into it. Tom gives chase, but trips over a collection of empty milk bottles that Jerry had moments before rolling into his path. Speeding out of control, Tom falls into a barrel of cider in the basement.
Completely drunk, he befriends Jerry and makes his way back to the kitchen, drunkenly sharing the food with his new 'friend.' However, when pulling out a tray of food from the fridge, it collapses on him with an almighty crash. Jerry hides the drunken Tom, covering his mouth so that his hic-cups are not heard. Mammy returns downstairs to discover the kitchen in a shambles---"Well, slap my face if this ain't a mess!"---and badmouth the cat who she believes has gone AWOL. As Mammy leaves the room, Tom emerges from his hiding place, but trips up over some of the spilled food and crashes into the refrigerator where he is squirted with some water, sobering him up again. Jerry, wielding a breast of chicken, approaches Tom, unaware that he is now sober, and very angry. Tom chases after Jerry towards the bathroom, but slips on a bath mat and crashes into a wall. A bottle of bay rum (a kind of lotion, not for drink) falls from the bathroom shelf and into Tom's mouth. And Tom is drunk again! Tom takes Jerry into the dining room for dinner, but the drunken cat is impatient, and marches upstairs to pick a fight with a sleeping Mammy, dousing her with a pitcher of water. The housemaid screams, hurls some furniture off-camera and then chases after Tom with a broom, jumping down the stairs and wrecking the house in the process.
Censorship
- Mammy's line about the mess is re-dubbed as "Well, I'd be darned. This is such a mess!!" on Turner prints .
- Tom's drunken line "One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go!" has been muted out in TV Schedule.