Don't Bring Your Pet to School Day is the forty-sixth episode of Tom and Jerry Tales.
Characters[]
Starring[]
Featuring[]
- Nancy
- Bobby
- The Ants
- Parrot
- Bartholomew J. Bunny
- Frog
- School children
Synopsis[]
Nancy brings her cat, Tom, into her elementary school for pet day and tells him to be a good pussycat and behave himself or else they will not win the gold star for the best pet. Tom is unamused and behaves badly.
Plot[]
The episode begins with Nancy bringing her pet cat Tom (who looks rather annoyed and disgusted) into her elementary school for pet day and tells him to be a good pussycat and behave himself, or they will not win the gold star for best pet.
However, Tom is unamused by the competition, and he goes as far as to discarding his red bow tie and undoing his hairstyle, which Nancy gave him prior to the cartoon's prologue. He is greeted by a rabbit named Bartholomew J. Bunny, who shakes the cat's paw while talking with quite a rather strange accent, which gets Tom even more annoyed and disgusted. On the same day, Tom sees Nancy's classmate and friend, Bobby, who brings his pet mouse, Jerry, transported in a cage, which Nancy fawns over, claiming to him as being adorable. Tom, overcome by gluttony, licks his lips at the sight of Jerry with a desire to eat the little mouse but remembers Bart is still shaking his paw. Finally snapping, the cat grabs a mace and brutally beats up Bart and then jumps on top of Jerry's cage, terrifying and scaring him, making him shriek in fear and fall out of his cage onto the floor.
Outraged by the cat's naughty behavior, Nancy stops him and then demands that he show Jerry that he is sorry for what he did while Bobby holds Jerry in front, waiting for Tom to respond.
At first, Tom does not reply or do anything. Nancy insists again, forcing Tom to kiss Jerry's head in humiliation and annoyance. He then does so twice (mostly due to him enjoying the taste) and later begins to suck on his head. He then eats the little brown mouse whole, but is tossed on the floor by an angry Nancy. "Spit him out!" She orders, slamming him on the floor multiple times until he finally coughs him up, and Jerry lands on the floor, all covered in cat saliva. Yuck! Jerry looks at Tom angrily, as if to say, "Bad mean old cat!"
Nancy then drags Tom and threatens to take him back to the pound if they do not win the star, which horrifies the cat. It was not long before he was pushed back to his chair, where Bart is shown with three large bumps on his head, dazed from the pain. Bart's one eye is blackened, and his other is bruised and creepy-looking. Nancy then demands Tom to stay put and be nice to the other animals. Tom shows a hysterical marking the words, "Yes Ma'am", in his eyes. Jerry, like back in 1943, strikes again and begins to torment Tom, with a drawing of him in the toilet. Tom furiously gets up, but Jerry points back to Nancy, forcing him to sit back down in a cowardly way, despite her not shown when he points.
Jerry then swallows a whole red apple, and his entire body is shaped like an apple. Jerry, now back to normal, goes over where Tom is seated, spitting a large amount of apple seeds in his face at a machine gun firing rate. Tom beginning to lose his temper, he growls. Jerry responded by spitting one more in his face, which caused him to snap. He makes a creepy close-up towards the camera, but before he can eat him, Jerry points to Nancy again doing her work, causing Tom to cowardly sit in his chair again.
Jerry then unleashes a frog and escapes the room with Tom pursuing in a panic state. He follows the two into the locker room, where he attempts to catch the frog, only to be smacked by a whip in his butt by Jerry. Before Tom could react, the frog burped a third time, causing him to fly into the locker. Jerry arrives with smelly gym clothes and begins to pack the locker, leaving Tom locked up inside. A chase occurs throughout the entire school until it reaches the playground, where Tom finally has both animals cornered. At one point he snatches the frog, but Nancy arrives and demands to know what he has in his paw.
Tom, on the verge of panic, takes drastic measures and swallows the frog, turning around facing Nancy, grinning that he has nothing. Nancy gets more angry than disappointed, grabs his tail, and storms for the classroom, revealing that they were next, which meant she had to search the whole school for him. During the presentation, Jerry returns and torments Tom, again releasing several of the other students' pets. The ants later crawl into Tom's fur covered with apple juice, making him scratch all over. The frog jumped again, and Tom found himself caught in the Globe. "What in the world are you doing?!" Nancy cried, with Jerry laughing along.
The fire ants in his fur combined with the frog in his stomach cause Tom to do insane tricks like breakdancing, doing the schuhplattler, hopping around, acting like a mime, and ending with an Egyptian pose until he finally falls down and the frog comes out of his mouth, with Jerry still laughing in amusement.
The crowd, however, enjoys the performance and applauds Tom, even with Jerry joining in the applause. At the end of the day, Tom is shown in Nancy's arms with the gold star. "You may not be the nicest cat, but you at least got the gold star for being the best dancer." Nancy says. Tom smiles, and the episode ends.
Cast[]
- Don Brown as Tom
- Samuel Vincent as Jerry
- Ian James Corlett as Bartholomew J. Bunny
- Nicole Bouma as Nancy
Notes[]
- The episode's title itself is a reference to how pets are not allowed to be brought into schools.
- This is the second time Tom swallows a frog since Cat Napping.
- This is Nancy's first appearance in the series after Baby Puss.
In Other Languages[]
| Names, etymology and in other regions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Language | Name | Definition, etymology and notes |
| Japanese | 私の自慢のペット | My proud pet |
| German | Der Schulwettbewerb | The school competition |
| French | Présentez votre animal domestique | Introduce your pet |
| Italian | Non portare il tuo cucciolo a scuola | Don't take your puppy to school |
| Portuguese (Brazil) |
Animais Nada de Estimação | Animals No Pets |