"Pie in the Sky" is the thirty-third episode of The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, written by Jim Mueller.
Synopsis[]
Tom chases Jerry around a construction site while Spike tries to enjoy his lunch, but Tom keeps making things worse for him.
Plot[]
The episode starts with a homeless, scruffy Tom walking on street, hungry searching for food, he tries looking at a trashcan, but it turns out to be empty. He then walks to the City Park, Jerry is looking for food in a trash bin only deciding to eat a half-eaten apple, which Jerry notices Tom and hides in the trashcan for Tom to put his hand inside of the trash bin to find he found food, with Jerry still holding to the apple, Tom tries to strug the mouse to the bin, and walks away with it, peeved Jerry tries to walk to the cat, the mouse tapped on Tom's leg to get his attention to command him to give back his apple, Tom replies by blowing him awhile, about to eat the apple, he is then interrupted by Jerry doing his second attempt, Tom then attempt to attack Jerry as the mouse quickly eats the apple, on Tom's palm of hands, Jerry then runs away from him, shocked Tom then chases Jerry to a construction site. Sudden Spike goes down the construction lift while he is carrying his lunchbox so Spike think it’s lunchtime then the elevator goes up showing Tom flatterned and he continues to chases Jerry. Spike take out the napkin from his lunchbox and he sit onto the bench but Tom knocks the bench off causing Spike fall off the bench and lands himself on the ground and his lunchbox land onto Spike and the food lands into the lunchbox but the egg lands onto Spike's head.
Tom looks up high at the building to see Jerry, takes the lift and chases after him. As Jerry takes out a paperbag and blows into it, Tom traps him in a bucket but gets blasted into the sky freeing the mouse who already popped the bag. Tom falls into the another trash can and hurries back to the construction site again. Meanwhile, Spike finds a quiet spot to eat his lunch but then Tom bumps into a wheelbarrow of bricks while chasing Jerry and they crush Spike into a retangluar shaped den. Tom is still chasing Jerry until he runs into a rake twice and steps on a hoe behind him. Tom continues on his pursuit after Jerry again but steps on the rake again and runs really fast. As Spike was about to eat his sandwich, Jerry hides inside without him noticing and Tom grabs it away until Jerry devours it all and dashes off.
Just then, Spike confronts Tom who shivers in fear demanding where his sandwich is and warns the cat that he will make him a permanent part of this construction site. After Tom nods, Spike puts him in the wheelbarrow and pushes him away. Jerry laughs at Tom's predicament until the cat apporaches him then Jerry makes a tomato appear like magic and eats it. Impressed, Tom wants a tomato too so Jerry makes another one appear and throws it into his face. Once again, Tom runs into the same rake and hoe but this time, he throws over it and lands in the cement. Jerry laughs then runs more as Tom catches up to him through the pipes, up, up, up until they rise the end but as Jerry gets away, Tom falls down again.
Spike is seen inside the operator's cab of the crane and thinks Tom won't bother him now. Speaking of Tom, he is chasing Jerry at the very top floor building again until the mouse jumps off the edge to another floor and Tom falls off, lands on the beam which snaps the ropes as he holds on tight and it crushes Spike and the entire crane. Outraged, Spike orders Tom to come down and get what's coming to him but he refuses until the rope breaks and he falls into the Dog's arms. However, Tom makes a run for it and Spike chases after him until he is hit by a crate which goes back up. Spike comments how he hates cats and calls for somebody to stop Tom which Jerry does by setting a trap for him and cuts the rope trapping the cat by the leg. Spike catches up, grabs Tom and thanks Jerry but the cat gets away again. However, Jerry whistles as Tom runs up the beam, into the cement mixer, gets shooted out and lands around Spike and Jerry.
Spike reminded Tom what he said earlier about him making the cat a perement part of this construction site. The final scene shows Spike in his art hat and making Tom into a statue whereas Jerry is helping himself to Spike's lunchbox, gets out a pie and quickly eats it all as the episode fades out.
Characters[]
Cast[]
- Lou Scheimer - Tom, Jerry, Spike
Trivia[]
- The shot of Spike saying "Cat!" as well as chasing animation is reused from The Plaid Baron Strikes Again.
- Tom does not attempt to eat Jerry despite his opportunity to satisfy his stomach.
- This episode reused the Jerry waving animation from Heavy Booking three times in the episode with some minor tweaks.
- Speaking of Heavy Booking, the part where Tom traps Jerry in a blue bucket and Jerry (offscreen in the bucket) blows up a paper bag and pops it, making Tom and the bucket leap up was reused as well. Not only that, but they reused the entirety of the animation from this sequence.
- Jerry's angry march is one of the reused animations from this show. It is also seen in Invasion of the Mouse Snatchers.
- Tom chasing Jerry through a pipe that doesn't have a consistent shape before they emerge from it was seen in Puss 'n' Boats except Tom and Jerry were just a grey and brown blob whilst Tom was deformed into a thin cylinder with eyes and thin legs. And speaking of Jerry, he doesn't get deformed in the Chuck Jones short.
Errors[]
- When Spike says, 'Thanks little buddy,' Jerry's nowhere to be seen. All of a sudden, when we pan to Jerry, he is next to Spike's foot.
- When Tom and Jerry emerge from the pipes as blobs before getting back to their normal shapes, it's illogical even by Tom and Jerry standards why Jerry ran in the air but Tom can't.
- When Spike was chasing Tom, his mouth was grey like his paws instead of light grey.
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