"Bats What I Like About The South" is the first segment of the 4th episode of Season 1 of Tom and Jerry Tales. It is the 10th episode overall in the series. It premiered on October 28th, 2006. The episode was directed by Tim Maltby, and written by Robert Ramirez with storyboards by Lyndon Ruddy.
Characters[]
Starring[]
- Jerry Mouse
- Bat
- Tom Cat (main antagonist)
Synopsis[]
Tom chases Jerry into a spooky, old mansion, where Jerry encounters a bat that looks just like him.
Plot[]
During a gloomy night, Tom chases Jerry, who is getting tired, so he squeezes through a fence into a graveyard. He is spooked by the terrifying statues before him, and he is soon after eaten by Tom, but Jerry manages to escape from the cat's mouth. Jerry then stretches Tom's tongue and coils it around a tombstone, causing it to fly back and smack Tom in the face and bury him alive, with a flower growing out of the "grave."
Suddenly, Tom pops out from the "grave," but it soon starts to rain, so Jerry goes into a nearby mansion for shelter. Then, he saw Tom rushing towards him, so Jerry squeezes through the doors and rolls inside. Suddenly, a black shadow appears on the walls and scares Jerry, who attempts to flee. But the door open to reveal Tom, and Jerry runs away from him.
The chase resumes, and soon Jerry enters the mansion's music room. He jumps onto the piano and goes inside the pipe organ. Tom goes into the music room to look for Jerry, but he goes to the pipe organ and peeps his eye through one of the pipes. Tom then sticks his claw through the same pipe until Jerry bites Tom's finger, so he opens the seat and takes out a music sheet, then starts playing the organ, causing Jerry to pop out. He tries to swat Jerry with a flyswatter, but misses each time. Jerry gets fed up, takes one pipe from the organ, and smashes Tom's head with it.
Tom chases Jerry into the living room. Then, he takes the stick from the fireplace and hits a lamp, causing the lamp head to come off to reveal Jerry and then hitting the moose hunting trophy to reveal him again. Tom chases Jerry using the stick until he jams it into a pillar, which causes the roof to shake and collapse. Jerry tries to run away, but a large chunk of the ceiling lands close to him, with the debris making him look white. But then, a young white bat appears who looks just like him, so Jerry gets its attention and finds that it seems to mimic his movements. They then play rock, paper, scissors to determine that he is not a reflection.
The bat goes through the broken mirror. It spread his wings to Jerry, frightening him, but the young bat grabs him on his arm, he realizes Jerry doesn't have wings because he's a mouse, but Jerry refuses to be a bat. So, the bat teaches him to fly. Jerry tells the bat to look at Tom. Tom appears devastated, believing he had just killed Jerry, creating a makeshift gravestone. The bat finds this funny and starts laughing, but Jerry shushes him. He then starts whispering into the bat's ear, and they agree on a plan to scare Tom.
Tom puts a flower on the gravestone and cries, but he hears the pipe organ playing music. Then, Tom goes back to the music room and goes to the pipe organ, but the flyswatter appears and hit him. He looks at the piano and screams, as Jerry is walking across the piano with his tail creating a "halo" on his head. He runs away while leaving a trail of fire, with Jerry laughing at him. Tom tries to escape from the haunted mansion, but the bat locks him in. Tom goes to the dining room. On top of a chandelier, Jerry pulls down a spider web and ties it to his body, pretending he is a spider going down on the table and then ties a piece of spider web to a fork and spoon, and gives the "all clear" signal to the bat to continue their ploy.
Then, Jerry hides in the napkin. Tom goes to the dining room and move multiples objects to block the entrance of the dining room and goes to sit down in the chair. Suddenly, the fork and spoon appear to move on their own (from Jerry and the bat tugging the spiderweb like puppet strings), so the fork and spoon make their way to Tom, spooking him. He grabs the spoon and begins fighting off the fork, but it pokes him, causing him to scream. Then, Tom uses the bowl to knock away the fork and spoon and walks triumphantly away, until a sees the napkin walking up to him. After some hesitation, Tom begins pulling off multiple napkins to reveal the ghostly-white Jerry, scaring him so much he passes out.
Then, the bat put a pot lid on Tom's face while Jerry uses a spoon to hit Tom causing him to shake, and Tom rushes out of the dining room, crashing through the wardrobe Jerry and the bat just laugh at him. Tom begins running up the stairs, but the bat stands in his way. He screams and runs back down the stairs, only to find Jerry and run right back.
Then, Jerry uses the carpet to launch him through the glass at the top of the mansion, causing rain to start pouring in. Jerry walks up furiously to Tom, who starts begging for mercy. Suddenly, a raindrop hits Jerry, washing the debris off of him and returning him to his normal brown color. Tom is left furious at being duped, and after flashing a nervous smile, Jerry bolts while Tom brings out his claws, but misses and chases him upstairs. The white bat notices Jerry in trouble and dives towards Tom, but is promptly trapped inside a jar to avoid interfering. Tom begins marching towards Jerry, who is hiding behind several spools of yarn, pulling up his "sleeve" to reveal a tattoo showing his contempt for Jerry.
Jerry, using the yarn and a needle, disguises as a bat with a set of newly-sewn wings. He flies to the jar before Tom throws a yarn ball at the jar, causing it to fall off, but Jerry flies down and manages to catch it before he flies to the chandelier and opens the jar, rescuing the bat. Jerry then whispers into the bat's ear again, for one final trick. Jerry (with his new wings) and the bat ambush Tom and stick the jar onto his head, then smash him into the chandelier. The episode ends with Tom hanging from the chandelier, annoyed, while Jerry sleeps with his new bat friend.
International translations[]
Irish: Ialtóg Theas (Southern Bat)
| Names, etymology and in other regions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Language | Name | Definition, etymology and notes |
| Japanese | 恐怖のコウモリネズミ | Horror Bat Mouse |
| German | Jerry Fledermaus | Jerry Bat |
| French | Une chauve-souris pas si chauve | A not-so-bald bat |
| Italian | I pipistrelli del Sud | The bats of the South |
| Spanish (Latin America) |
Los Murciélagos son lo que más me Gusta del Sur | Bats are what I like the most in the South |
| Portuguese (Brazil) |
Bat-Jerry | Bat-Jerry (Possibly a parody of "Batman") |
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Trivia[]
- This title is a parody of the song, "That's What I Like About The South", by Phil Harris.
- This episode, alongside "Fraidycat Scat," and "Tomb It May Concern," premiered 3 days before Halloween.
- Another episode where Jerry becomes white again.