Busy Buddies is a 1956 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 100th Tom and Jerry short, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Dick Bickenbach.
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Joan and George are going out and tell the babysitter, Jeannie, to look after an unnamed baby. However Tom appear from the wall and Jerry comes out from the mousehole and they listen so Joan and George leaves the house while Joan closes the door and Jeannie goes to phone and she answer the phone but she is more interested in talking on the telephone. At first, Tom and Jerry goes to the kitchen and they take the opportunity to help themselves to some food, Jerry helps himself to some cookies, and as Tom helps himself to a watermelon and milk, they soon discover Baby crawling away while Jeannie continues to talk on the phone, unaware. Tom and Jerry rescue Baby from increasingly dangerous hazards, such as the cupboards, the sink, a curtain rod, the heating ducts, a flagpole, and a mailbox down the street. So Tom and Jerry listens through the mailbox and they did hear something so Tom and Jerry use the can opener to cut the hole of the mailbox however they hear the police siren but Tom and Jerry to rummage through the hole of the mailbox to look for Baby but the light flashes on Tom and Jerry while the baby appears but they duck down from the gun shot and Tom grab the baby and they run away. As Tom goes home with Baby and they hide behind the bush, Baby suddenly falls in the sky. Tom gets a stroller, but fails when Baby uses a diaper as a parachute, and floats to safety and Tom goes to Jerry and he give the Baby to him so Tom grabs the Baby and he put the Baby in a crib so Tom proceed to change the Baby diaper. However when the door bell rings Tom and Jerry hides behind the walls. Jeannie is unaware through all of this, and at one point even hits Tom with a book for "bothering the baby" when he returns Baby to the crib. At the end, Joan and George return and ask Jeannie how things went. She explains that she had a little trouble with Tom, but knows that Baby was "no trouble at all". Then the camera cuts to Baby on the crib, as he wakes up, winks at the audience, goes back to sleep as the cartoon closes.
Quotes[]
- Jeannie: "Yes Ma'am."
- Jeannie: "Good night Hi it's Jeannie. yeah yeah ah no I'm babysitting oh no oh no really you mean Mike well. Oh huh? oh yes me oh gosh no suppose Gary saw me. Oh It's a swell sharp you all gonna see it yeah oh wait a minute. I'll check out the Baby. The baby's okay who? Jane she got her hair you mean in the back with bangs oh no. Scat you, cat! Go on scat! Oh it's that darn cat bothering the baby. Oh, he said call on Monday."
- Joan: "And how was the baby, Jeannie?"
- Jeannie: "Oh, just fine. I have little trouble with Tom but the baby was an angel he was no trouble at all."
Notes[]
- Not to be confused with the Three Stooges short of the same title.
- This short was withheld from being televised until early 1998 due to its propaganda of satirizing child neglect and endangerment, including sequences of the baby crawling underwater and unseen cops shooting at the titular mute duo and the baby.[citation needed]
- However, it was released on The Art of Tom & Jerry: Volume II Laserdisc box set in 1993, like several other collectable Laserdisc that would feature cartoons that have yet to be televised until further notice.
- This short is unavailable on British television and is exempt from the Complete Collector's Edition for the same reasons regarding its propaganda.
- This was one of only two shorts that was not included in the Complete Collector's Edition, the other being The Million Dollar Cat.
- This episode is later continued in the infamous Tot Watchers two years later which is considered a watered-down version of this short.
- George's head is visible onscreen for the first time, as in his previous appearance Pet Peeve his head appears to be off-camera.
- This is the first appearance of George and Joan's Baby and Jeannie.
- This is the 100th short of Tom and Jerry.
- This is the only Tom and Jerry short where Tom nor Jerry go against each other, or have no negative interactions (not even a stare) with each other.
- This episode was the first to use a second version of the 1956 green Tom and Jerry title card, removing the yellow backgrounds from the first two shorts.
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