Hic-cup Pup is the 82nd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1954.
Plot[]
Spike is putting his son, Tyke, to bed. When Cuckoo flies by, chirping loudly. Spike calmly tells the him to keep the noise down: "Shhhh! He's taking a nap." The canary stops singing and flies away. However, Tom's usual antics of chasing Jerry and Tyke wakes up, and the puppy gets the hiccups. Spike is understandably annoyed by both the noise and hiccups and threatens Tom, placing responsibility on him to button his lips. Jerry immediately bites Tom's tail, who screams in painful, Tyke wakes up twice. With all the blame on him, the cat flees; each successive hiccup from Tyke pushes him another couple inches into the air.
Tom peeks around the corner and Jerry pops his head out of a flower pot. As Tom chases after Jerry with a spade, Spike quickly plugs in Tyke's ears to prevent the noise from Tyke to wake up and gets the hiccups, but Jerry climbs onto the top of Spike's head, such that Tom accidentally smashes Spike's head. Spike yells in pain with howl up and grabs Tom by the upper-arms before the cat can run away. Meanwhile, Tyke wakes up and resumes hiccuping, eventually bunny-hopping across the ground. Spike tries to stop his son by holding him by the neck, but each subsequent hiccup carries Spike with him.
Next, Tom is again chasing Jerry and eventually spots Jerry diving underneath Tyke's cradle. Tom slides his hand underneath the cradle to catch Jerry but instead meets Jerry's mousetrap. Tom gets ready to scream in pain but manages to hold his breath until he puts a pair of earmuffs on both dogs, such that the dogs don't hear the cat screaming. Out for revenge, Tom pursues Jerry, who crawls into a hosepipe; Tom blows into the hosepipe and Jerry is sent out of the other end. Knowing the cat will continue mindlessly until he catches the mouse, Jerry removes the dogs' earmuffs and inserts a bugle on the other side of the hose, both dogs wake up. Spike marches up to Tom and shoves the bugle bell-first onto his head.
Jerry happily walks out of his mousehole, only to run back inside when Tom spots him and lies in wait for the mouse to emerge. The crafty mouse emerges behind the cat, places some bicycle horns on Tom's feet, and then walks up to Tom's face and kisses him. An angry Tom chases after Jerry, but the bicycle horns squeak every time his feet touch the ground. Tom solves this by running on his hands until Jerry trips him up; Tom falls down behind Spike, landing on his feet again.
Spike wakes up, but the elder canine does not see Tom behind him. He turns around, but Tom turns around with him, still remaining out of Spike's eyesight, if not ears. Spike looks between his legs, at which point Tom climbs Spike's back so he can't be seen. Unfortunately, Tom's tail drops down into the dog's view, and Spike catches on. He chases after Tom, and the bicycle horns start squeaking again. Spike pauses the chase, instructing the cat to remove the horns from his feet that Jerry placed; when the chase resumes, Tom successfully hides in a corner as Spike rushes off in the other direction.
Jerry then turns the same corner as Tom, then retreats to Tyke's cradle. Frustrated, Tom throws out everything in the cradle, including Tyke, to search for the mouse, but Tyke wakes up first with hiccups. Spike returns and Tom, after unsuccessfully trying to stifle Tyke's hiccups, runs away in fear. Spike tends to the hiccuping pup by giving him water, scaring him and popping a paper bag loudly, which all fail to solve the problem; eventually, Spike ends up getting the hiccups saying "Now he's got me doing it!...hic... I'll moider that ...hic...cat!...hic...", threatening to throttle Tom for it.
Next, Tom's final attempt to catch Jerry, who has climbed onto the roof of a house, fails. Tom rests on the guttering, which falls off the house, sending Tom crashing down to the ground. In a cloud of dust, Tom, fearing for his life, digs his own grave. As the dust settles, Spike is about to excavate the cat and carry out his threat but realizes that both bulldogs are cured of their hiccups. Spike is overjoyed, thanks Tom and says that from now on, anything he does is OK with him and Tyke - including chasing Jerry. When Jerry hears this, he goes into his hole and comes out with his hat and briefcase and puts a sign on his door. Tom runs to the door and reads the sign which states Jerry's intention to take refuge in the southern states and watches Jerry hurriedly run across a railroad track shown to point south.
Characters[]
Voice Actors[]
- Daws Butler as Spike
- William Hanna as Tom's screams
Notes[]
- This is the only Tom and Jerry cartoon where Jerry fails to frame Tom.
- This is also the only cartoon featuring Spike and Tyke in which Tom triumphs.
- The ending to this short is similar to the ending for Timid Tabby, with Jerry running away to another place.
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