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An old pair of Ginger's tap shoes turns Tom into a dancing fanatic.
Plot[]
The episode begins with Jerry and Tuffy robbing the kitchen from the food. After stealing lettuce leaves, tomatoes, and sliced cucumbers, the mice spot a huge sandwich loaded with ham, cheese slices, and vegetables. While asking for a toothpick, Tuffy gets ambushed by Tom under the plot of giving the toothpick, but Jerry manages to counter the ambush by slamming Tom's hand in the drawer. The mice snatch the huge sandwich, despite it losing integrity on the run and its components keep striking Tom. He gets smacked by the bun half, cheese, and vegetables, especially the cucumbers hitting his eyes shock him.
Meanwhile, Rick and Ginger are done with checking through their old stuff. Ginger has found an old pair of tap shoes she used to wear as a child. She puts them away due to not fitting her anymore. Tom continues chasing Jerry and Tuffy until he trips into the box of Ginger's old stuff. The cat ends up wearing Ginger's old tap shoes. With his newly obtained footwear, he tries to stomp on Jerry and Tuffy until he somehow gets fond of the tap-dancing noises coming from his feet. As a result, Tom ends up tap dancing all around the house. The dancing show causes trouble for Jerry, Tuffy and even Spike, when the latter chases Tom to the roof but ends up falling off the house. Later on, Jerry and Tuffy make a trail of dancing steps to lure Tom where he winds up stepping on a sticky puddle of glue where his shoes get stuck. Tom is forced to slip off the shoes. The mice take Tom's tap shoes and throw it to the garbage truck. Tom realizes that he was ousted from his footwear and dives into the garbage truck to try and get his tap shoes back. Jerry and Tuffy are satisfied that they got rid of Tom and his noisy shoes.
Tom finds himself in the garbage dump, where he retrieves his tap shoes. After a moment, he starts dancing in his tap shoes again, which disturbs the dogs in the dump. Despite their hostile approach, the guardian canines end up dancing with Tom. The pets are performing a dance number in the garbage dump. Tom then tap-dances out of the dump when the dogs start to realize what has just happened. A single rat gives them a round of applause.
Time passes by. Tom goes to the downtown, where he gets attracted by a street-performing musician and dances once again. His performance attracts attention of Toodles Galore, who is visibly impressed with Tom's tap-dancing skills. She leaps off the window and lands in Tom's hands. Toodles is dressed in her own pair of high-heeled shoes, which turn out to be suitable for tap dancing. She joins Tom in a romantic tap duet number. The two enjoy tap dancing together to the point it takes them into a fantasy land. The performance comes to a conclusion and Toodles thanks Tom for the dance - by giving him a kiss on his cheek before strutting away in her high-heeled tap shoes.
Back at Rick and Ginger's home, Jerry and Tuffy have just started to wonder where did Tom go and they end up finding Tom tap dancing by himself in the city. At one moment, the animals spot a little girl, who wants a pair of tap shoes, but her mother says "Maybe next year, sweetie." Tom then decides to give away his tap shoes to the ladies. Jerry and Tuffy are impressed to see Tom doing such a generously nice thing for the little girl. Due to Tom's act, the child now has a pair of tap shoes to wear and tap dance in.
Having sacrificed his footwear, Tom returns home sad that he does not have his tap shoes anymore. He finds his place to sleep, then he goes to slumber. Jerry and Tuffy are feeling bad for him, therefore they decide to stick gum with coins on the cat's feet. Another day breaks and Tom wakes up. He realizes that his feet are making tap dancing noises after the night and starts tap dancing again. A moment later, Rick and Ginger notice Tom tap dancing. They decide to tap dance with their cat. Jerry and Tuffy take the opportunity to eat the food while the humans and their cat are busy with their entertainment.
This episode shows a flashback of Ginger from when she was a child.
It reveals her face as she is shown to have orange hair.
This is the first time where Toodles Galore appears in her old design from The Alley Cat in this show. However, this design was also previously used in the "Don't Cut the Cheese", where she makes a cameo in a dream sequence early in the episode.
Errors[]
When Tom is admiring his newly acquired tap shoes, the blue background dot is protruding through his head in the en face frame.
Tuffy seems to lack his nose when he is observing Tom dancing on the roof.
One of the junkyard dogs gets his head separated from his neck while playing the trash can in lieu of a drum.
