Coney Island Adventure is the eighteenth episode of Tom and Jerry in New York.
Synopsis[]
A trip to Coney Island's Carnival winds up with a night of horrors.
Plot[]
It is evening in New York. Tom is chasing Jerry outside the hotel, harming the doorman in progress. The animals stumble upon a strange-looking old man, who is walking down the street. After being hit twice in a Rom and losing his artificial jaw, the man stops Tom and Jerry. He tells them he was watching them for 80 years and asks Tom, if he is trying to eat Jerry. Tom replies in a gesture he does not know. The old man then asks Jerry, if he stole Tom's girlfriend. After a brief moment, Jerry replies with shaking head, that the did not. Having heard those two replies, the old man asks the animals, why are they chasing each other, accusing them of being crazy. The animals climb on the old man, where Tom is whispering to Jerry through the old man's head. When the animals stop talking, they jump off the man. He replies that their claims make no sense. Jerry runs away, then Tom follows him, which causes the old man to spin around.
A moment later, Jerry embarks on a bus. Tom hails a taxi to chase Jerry. The long ride past the bridge doesn't help Tom, he gets literally pressed inside the cab's couch. Jerry leaves the bus at the stop. Tom has to pay for his ride. He gives the cab driver a large tuna from his wallet, then he receives two sardines as change. He gives to the driver one of them as a tip, then he rushes after Jerry. The animals head to the carnival, which is being closed. Tom spots Jerry at the firing range. The cat tries to shoot his prey, without success. When his weapon runs out of ammunition, he tries to take another one, but the business owner interrupts him. Tom pays with his remaining sardine, so he can keep shooting at Jerry from the dart-gun. The second weapon refused to fire, so Tom hurls it at Jerry, hitting a duck instead. The stand owner announces Tom a winner and gives him a tiny teddy bear, then he tells Tom to go away and accidentally hurts his hand while shutting the stand.
Tom chases Jerry to another stand, with clown heads on display. This time Jerry attacks Tom with a water-hose, pouring lots of water into his feline opponent. Tom grows so large, that his head slams the bell. The same stand owner from earlier announces Jerry as the winner and gives him a tiny teddy bear, then he yells at Jerry to get lost and warns about incidents happening at midnight here. Tom doesn't resist and spews all the water he accumulated at Jerry. When the mouse spits the water away, the chase is resumed. Tom attempts to strike Jerry with a hammer on a strength-o-meter, without success. Eventually, Tom uses a jackhammer to launch Jerry high in the skies.
Unfortunately, the hour strikes midnight and the atmosphere becomes much creepier, as the moon begins glowing with green light. Tom and Jerry hide themselves inside a house of horrors, where they encounter an assorted selection of scary monsters, including a ghost, spiders, bats, a witch, a vampire, and even the death personification. The animals gain short respite inside the love tunnel. After another attack of the monsters, Tom and Jerry bail out into another carriage, this time leading them to the area filled with seemingly harmless gnomes. Tom breaks after a while in such environment, so he and Jerry run away from it. Breaking the wall hits the death avatar, which goes after them supported by gnomes and the rest of monsters. Tom and Jerry manage to escape the haunted carnival with the help of a roller-coaster and the monster, who ejects them high in the skies. The animals land on a dump barge, which is heading to the New York.
The morning breaks upon the city. Tom and Jerry return to the hotel, greeted by the doorman, who must have spent the night pinned down by the door. They head to the elevator and go upstairs. An unknown force leads them to the 13th floor, which was originally nonexistent. The carnival horrors attack Tom and Jerry on the floor, but the animals ignore the spooks and simply go to sleep. The episode ends.
Characters[]
- Tom Cat
- Jerry Mouse
- The Witch
- Old Man
- Death avatar
- Monsters
- Ghost
- Spiders
- Giant Spider
- Bats
- Gnomes
- Carny
- Taxi Driver
Trivia[]
- This is the second appearance of The Witch in this series.
- This is the first episode of the series that takes place at a theme park.
- This episode is very similar to the Tom and Jerry Tales episode Spook House Mouse.
- The Old Man says that's he's been watching Tom and Jerry chase for 80 years, which is a reference that the show itself is from 1940.
- When the Old Man says "Are you trying to eat Him?" Tom shakes his head no.
- Tom and Jerry whisper to the Old Man the real reason why they have these chases (although he can't hear what they are saying). Still, it still makes this one of the few rare moments where Tom and/or Jerry speak.
- The carny uses the same character model as the pet groomers from Cat Hair, albeit wearing pajamas instead of a pet groomers' uniform.