"Outer Space Rover" is the twelfth episode of Tom & Jerry Kids written by Dennis Marks.
Premise[]
A space dog named Urfo gets left behind and befriends Jerry as he's being chased by Tom.
Synopsis[]
Once the space ship lands, the door opens and so the Urfo's owner tap his foot and out comes Urfo and he smell something but he tell Urfo to get out so the Urfo sniff through the woods as Urfo owner tap his foot but Urfo sees the tree and he sniff around the tree and see Tom chases Jerry. The mouse goes into the hose that Tom grabs. Urfo witnesses his friend is in danger. Tom pull Jerry out of the hose so that the cat can catches the mouse. Urfo zaps him with his tail causing Tom to lose grasp of Jerry, as the mouse escapes so Tom pats his bum but Jerry tells Urfo want to play fetch with the stick so Urfo grab the stick until Jerry grabs the stick and throw as far as they could until Urfo appears and catch it with his mouth and he appears to Jerry until Jerry grabs the stick and throw up into the sky until Urfo appears to catch the stick with his mouth but the invisible Urfo lift Jerry until Urfo appears but Jerry stands onto Urfo's nose. Suddenly Urfo's owner whistles to Urfo while he is tapping his foot so Jerry throws the stick to Urfo until Tom grabs him. When Urfo pops back with the stick, he doesn't see Jerry anywhere. Tom is using Jerry as a tennis and bonuces him off his racket but as he bounces so hard, Jerry gets untied on a light bulb and flies off the fence. Tom pulls as Urfo zaps on the ball which hits through Tom's paddle racket and hits the back of his head knocking him out.
Jerry is now with Urfo again and they walk through the woods. The police officers get a called to head to the victnity of Tenth and Elm to find a flying object that has been sighted. Urfo's owner was tapping his foot again impatiently and Urfo heads back before bidding Jerry goodbye. As Jerry waves back to Urfo, he walks through Tom's legs seeing the cat is back and gets a shock. However, Urfo's tail lights up and he zaps Tom on top of the lampost as Jerry high paws the pup. Meanwhile, the police officers were tracking an unidentified flying object and Urfo's owner quickly takes in his spaceship as Urfo heads back to his master. The police officers arrive at the location to see nothing as Urfo hurries while Tom watches him. Tom sneaks over to the police car hearing the cops saying about $25,000 reward for picking up outer space creatures. Urfo arrives at the point whimpering as Tom traps in a trash can, runs super duper fast and stops the police officers. However, Jerry reappers and quickly frees Urfo with pinser and when Tom brings the police officers over and shows them his proof, they only see Jerry under there not Urfo.
The Police Officers comments "First Crazy people, now crazy Cats" and leaves. Tom was about to grab Jerry until Urfo comes back and zaps the cat away. As Urfo shakes Jerry's hand for saving him, Tom returns with a net and tries to catch the space pup in it but he keeps zooming all over the place which tires him out. Then Urfo is seat on the back of the police car but when Tom tries to catch him again, Urfo dodges again while the cat's net gets caught on the bumper and the polices drives away dragging Tom with them. The Police officers sees Tom through the car mirror.
Jerry is with Urfo who whimpers in the sky when his nose beeps and light shines but he doesn't get any answers up there. Out of luck, Urfo and Jerry both feel down and they sadly go back to the house. Urfo shears with tears as Jerry comforts him, looks at his collar and opens the green tag showing his mother. Jerry also feels sorry for Urfo as tears comes out of his eyes until Tom arrives back with his lasso to capture Urfo again but Jerry stops the cat and shows him Urfo's mother on the green tag. Seeing this, Tom also feels sorry for Urfo too until the man on the radio announced the reward for the capture of the outer space alien has been raised another $50,000 much to his enthusiasm.
So Tom attaches his lasso around Urfo, drags him to the laundry line, covers the pup in a white sheet and ties it up. However, Urfo teleports himself out and dashes away followed by Jerry to the park again. Seeing Tom coming their way, Urfo quickly draws a glass square for him to run into and it works. Later, Urfo and Jerry were at another spot trying to contact the space pup's owner but no avail and they both feel even more sadder. Jerry holds up a tissue for Urfo to blow on. Suddenly a glowing object appears and Jerry gets Urfo to look in the sky and the pup shines his light getting its signal. As Urfo licks Jerry, the spaceship beams Urfo up until Tom grabs hold of the pup's leg and they both end up inside. The Spaceship flies out of sight but comes back and Urfo's owner kicks Tom off their ship and the cat lands to the ground next to Jerry. Tom angrily shakes his fist at the spaceship but Urfo's Owner chases the cat away with lightning bolts.
With Tom out of the way, Jerry shines his flashlight getting the spaceship's attention and it zooms off into outer space again. Jerry happily waves goodbye to Urfo and his Owner as the episode finally ends by fading out.
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
- Tom Cat (main antagonist)
- Jerry Mouse
- Urfo the Space Pup
Supporting Characters[]
- Urfo's owner
- Police Officers
- Radio Announcer
Minor Characters[]
- Urfo's Mother (portrait only)
Voice cast[]
- Allan Lurie as Police Officer #1, Radio Announcer
- Frank Welker as Tom, Jerry, Urfo, Mike
Trivia[]
- This is the first and one of three appearances of Urfo.
- The plot of the episode is similar to the 1982 Steven Spielberg movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Urfo accidentally left behind after his owner got frightened by the police and flies off without Urfo, then returns for Urfo.
- Also, a scene from the classic Tom & Jerry short, The Mouse Comes to Dinner where Jerry lit Tom's tail causing him to scream in pain was in the movie, which frightened E.T. after recently turns on the TV set while being home alone in Elliot's house because E.T. is from a benevolent alien race that hates violence.
- Tom has a very antagonistic role in this episode, not just tormenting Jerry, but also would shamelessly sells Urfo to the Earth authority for cash, while Jerry would be more against the whole idea and helps Urfo get back home because Jerry considered Urfo as his friend. Tom got what he really deserves in the end by being chased by Urfo's owner's spaceship and trying to zaps him.
- Another classic scene from Triplet Trouble where Tom tied Jerry to his tennis racket and bouncing him off it.
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