"The Police Kitten" is the twenty-seventh episode of The Tom and Jerry Show (1975).
Synopsis[]
Police officers Tom and Jerry are assigned to train a female feline rookie, one Katy O'Kitty, by letting her assist them in patrolling duties. Their resentment over this assignment is made worse by the fact that she turns out to be better at their job than they are.
Plot[]
Police officers Tom and Jerry are assigned to train Katy O'Kitty, a female feline rookie, by reluctantly letting her ride with them, but their resentment over this assignment gets even worse by the fact that she's better at their job than they are like rescuing a kitten from a tree and saving Tom from a runaway skateboard but Tom jumps off the skateboard and he get an the sign causing the sign spin around. The Alley Cat Gang hears the police siren so they hide and slam the door shut before Katy, Tom and Jerry goes to the door but Tom tries to open the door but it’s lock so Katy O'Kitty tells The Alley Cat Gang to open the door and so they can talk to them so Tom and Jerry is about to knock down the door with a huge log. However Tom and Jerry stop and see Katy karate chops the door and Finally, when she captures The Alley Cat Gang single-handedly with her powerful karate chops, the alley cat gang then surrender. This causes Tom and Jerry to be green with envy.
Tom and Jerry's police chief praises their work and Katy's report that they are "the greatest officers on the force". The chief decides to celebrate with soda pop, so he take out the coin from his pocket and goes to the vending machine and insert the coin and when he develops problems with the machine by shaking, kicking and banging the machine, Katy comes to the rescue with that ever-handy tool: a hair pin and out come the orange soda and she give the orange soda to chief. The chief, Tom, Jerry and Katy O'Kitty end by sipping orange soda pop.
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Major Characters[]
- The Chief
- The Alley Cat Gang (the main antagonists)
Minor Characters[]
- Woman
- Baby Kitten
- Boy
Trivia[]
- The number of Officers' Tom and Jerry's squad car is 6 and 7/8.
- Kathy Gori voices Katy O'Kitty. Gori is best known for such Hanna-Barbera voice roles as Gidget Lawrence on the November 18, 1972 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, Gidget Makes The Wrong Connection, Lori on Inch High, Private Eye (NBC, 1973-74), Katie on Valley Of The Dinosaurs (CBS, 1974-76), and the Fran Drescher-esque Rosemary the telephone operator on Hong Kong Phooey (ABC, 1974-76). She also voiced Sarge on DePatie-Freleng's Bailey's Comets (CBS, 1973-75).
- This is the only New Tom & Jerry cartoon to "iris out" at the end, a time-honored technique of the MGM T&J theatrical shorts of yore.
- Katy O'Kitty bears a resemblance to Tom's white female feline (whom he loses out) in the 1956 T&J short, Blue Cat Blues, which was one of the rare T&J theatricals which, like the 1975 T&J series, depicted the friendly enemies Tom & Jerry as pals.
- There are seven cat characters in this episode. The kitten stuck in the tree is the only non-anthropomorphic cat.
Gallery[]
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