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Sorry Safari is a 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon. It is the eleventh cartoon directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia.
Plot
The film opens at the airport in Nairobi, where a big game hunter, Tom's grumpy owner, is preparing to go on a hunt through the African jungle. Tom, who is packed in a suitcase, has woken up from the long trip and is ready for the hunt, but is annoyed to find that Jerry had stowed away in the hunter's luggage. Tom and his owner are then heading off into the jungle riding on an elephant from Nertz. Jerry tries to climb aboard, but fails when Tom points a rifle at him, and in the process, he falls off and the recoil blast from the rifle rockets him into a tree. Tom gets his nose stuck in the rifle's barrel, but as he tries to get it out, ends up being at risk of getting shot because the trigger is caught on a branch. The hunter notices him and shouts, "THAT'S MY GUN! GIVE IT TO ME!!" He manages to get his nose out, and the bullets end up destroying the hunter's hat, much to his fury. The elephant hands Tom over to the singed hunter, who punishes him by wrapping a rifle over his head and firing it, deafening him.
Tom manages to clear his ears out and is able to hear the sounds of the jungle. Soon after, Jerry pokes his head out of another rifle barrel and taunts Tom. Tom tries to grab Jerry, but misses when his angry owner immediately yells "DON'T TOUCH MY GUNS!!!" This scares Tom off of the basket and onto the elephant's buckle. To make matters worse, Jerry unbuckles the belt, causing Tom to fall off, and then the owner manages to fall off. The singed safari hunter, falsely accusing Tom for the act, furiously traps him in the overturned basket, as the elephant walks off without them. The two attempt to get back on the elephant, but fail, and just as the furious safari hunter prepares to punch Tom in the jaw, they are both interrupted by the thunderous roar of a raging savage lion. Frightened, the hunter reaches back for Tom to hand him a rifle for self-defense as Tom searches the basket. As Jerry hands him with a thermos instead of a rifle, Tom gives it to his owner. Just as the hunter prepares to fight off the lion, Jerry puts his hat over his chest in mock mourning, sobbing. The loathsome lion then pounces on the hunter, mauling him instantly, as the thermos did not do any apparent damage to the hunter before running away, and the scratched-up and irritated hunter takes a sip of coffee from the thermos and counts all the way to ten before clobbering Tom over his head with the thermos in fury.
Tom's ruthless owner continues forward into the jungle, with Tom being forced to carry the basket as punishment, when the two spot their elephant resting in front of them. The hunter kicks the basket onto the elephant's back, buckles it in places (Tom gets out from under the basket) and resumes the hunt. Tom once again finds Jerry, who hides in the lunchbox. Tom tries to find Jerry in the owner's lunchbox, throwing away the packed food in the process. Tom's owner turns red in the face as he slams the lid on the cat's paws, grinning sadistically with his redness fading away. Tom winces in pain with his flattened paw fingers. Later, Tom manages to get Jerry in his clutches. When he tries to shake him, he hides from his brutish master because he heard a noise, even though he was trying not to anger him even more. The hunter finds him, but is interrupted as he threatens him when they spot a purple rhinoceros, which is in front of them, and charges at them. As the hunter prepares to fire a rifle, Tom hides Jerry in the elephant's trunk, and as the elephant sees Jerry hide from his trunk, Jerry comes out of the elephant's trunk ("A mouse! Mouse! Mouse!"), scaring him and causing him to run off. All three of them try to run from the rhino, who pokes them with his horn and launches them into the air, and as they land on a tree branch, which snaps (at a good timing) and causes them to fall on top of the rhino, the elephant sees that they have crushed the rhino. Later, the rhino, Tom and his owner are tied onto a long stick, carried by the elephant on the front end and Jerry on the back.
The cartoon closes with a close-up on Jerry, who waves goodbye to the audience as the end credits appear on the left.
Characters
Quotes
- Tom's Owner: THAT'S MY GUN!!! GIVE IT TO ME!!!
- Tom's Owner: DON'T TOUCH MY GUNS!!!
- Tom's Owner: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine... TEN!
- Elephant: A mouse! Mouse! Mouse!
Censorship
- On recent airings on Boomerang where the restored version of this short is used, the audio during the scene where Tom is deafened after Tom's owner fires a rifle tied to Tom's head was modified to have a looping sound of the music preceding it play over the originally muted section, likely due to the original gag being mistaken as an audio error.
Notes
- This is the last appearance of Tom's notorious owner, as he was removed from the series since his role was found too controversial among fans due to the way he punishes Tom, which has been considered as a depiction of animal cruelty. Because of that, this short and the two others he was in, Down and Outing and High Steaks, have barely made airtime on Cartoon Network and Boomerang due to inhumanely insensitive subject matter.
- The appearance of the elephant in this short is said to have been loosely based on another Terrytoons character created during Deitch's run at that studio, Sidney the Elephant.
- This is the only short where Tom's owner gets his comeuppance in the end, even though Tom gets the same treatment. However, his owner did get hurt more by the Lion than Tom ever did, as the owner nearly died from his fight with the Lion. The owner also did not have a successful hunt. Therefore, he received a bigger punishment than Tom in this cartoon and arguably the other two cartoons he previously appeared in.
- This is the only short where Tom's owner never ties up Tom in order to keep him out of trouble. Tom, however, still ends up tied up in the end anyways.
- This is the 125th cartoon of the series.
- This cartoon's opening titles do not open with the usual MGM Lion logo. Instead, it opens with a cartoon lion roaring in the jungle with the "A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER CARTOON" credit over it.
Gallery
- Main article: Sorry Safari/Gallery
Availability
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