The Western Cook is a cook from the Tom and Jerry cartoon Posse Cat (his only known appearance). He is the owner of the Western version of Tom Cat and a Cook Shack store. He is voiced by legendary voice actor Stan Freberg who voiced in a lot of cartoons.
Personality[]
The Cook has a thick drawly Southern accent. He appears to dedicate his role as a cook seriously, as he is mostly seen preparing meals in the kitchen.
Despite this, the Cook can be very short tempered, as he will not hesitate to use his revolver to either scare or punish Tom with repeated gunshots.
Appearance[]
The Cook wears a blue shirt, green collar, and a red scarf, with blue pants, white socks, and brown cowboy boots. While cooking, he dons a white apron. He also has a brown leather holster strapped onto his belt, which carries his revolver.
Like Mammy Two Shoes, the Cook's face is not seen throughout the cartoon. However by the near end when he chases Tom, the back portion of his head can be briefly seen. He appears to have black hair and wears a chef's hat.
Biography[]
In Posse Cat, the cook is cooking up a turkey roast one day on a lovely morning, but sees Jerry Mouse lasso a spicy sausage roll and pull it into his mousehole. Tom sniffs and sees the sausage being pulled in the mouse hole, but decides to not do a thing about it.
Enraged with his pet for failing to catch Jerry because of laziness, the Cook rings his triangle bell to summon Tom. Since the ring to Tom means that it is time to eat dinner, Tom runs up with silverware and plates. The cook realizes that Tom does not have any problem to obey or show respect to him when it is time to eat and gives a rant about how Tom is lazy and how, from then on, his meals will depend on if he does his job in keeping Jerry out of the shack:
"Why, that lazy cat! Boy, you sure don't have any trouble hearing when it's time to eat, do you? I suppose you want a nice juicy turkey leg with mashed taters and giblet gravy? Lots of gravy? Well, you ain't gettin' any dinner! Wanna know why? That's why! When you get rid of that varmint, you can eat and not before. Now get goin'!"
He then sends Tom away by firing but purposely missing gunshots. He then continues his work and prepares more food. However, Jerry secretly rings the triangle by pushing a rake nearby which makes it ring causing Tom to think that the Cook has changed his mind and has prepared dinner for Tom. When Tom arrives with silverware and plates, the cook having tricked by Jerry and ignoring the triangle ringing angrily repeats his word:
"I said no dinner 'til you catch that mouse!"
He then sends Tom away with gunshots again. Then, Tom tries to lasso Jerry to him, but misses and ends up lassoing the turkey roast. Tom tries to pull on the turkey thinking it is Jerry, but the Cook holds onto the turkey as it is pulled to Tom. For Tom who realizes what he has done; and for the cook thinking that Tom is cheating on their deal, the cook again sends Tom away with gunshots. While he is sleeping, Jerry puts the cook's hand in a sandwich with 2 Radishes and again rings the triangle. When Tom comes, he sees the sandwich with the cook's hand and takes a bite into it. The cook yelps in pain "YEOW!" and sends Tom away with gunshots again. Tom then mocks the cook and tries to drink some water from the hose, but all the injuries Tom has received during the fight with Jerry, causes the water to drain out of Tom's body.
Later, the cook sees Tom shooting Jerry with a pistol and the cook realizes that Tom is obeying. Unaware that this was planned out by Tom and Jerry to cheat on their deal and technically be allowed to get his dinner, the Cook praises Tom and gives him dinner.
"Here's your dinner, partner. Yes, sir! You're a rootin' tootin' shootin', Tom Cat. Yes, siree!"
Minutes later, the cook is cleaning up dishes when Tom in another battle with Jerry, ends up accidentally flying a burnt fiery brander into the Cook's rear. The cook screams in pain (whose scream sounds like Tom's) and jumps in the air. Furious by this, the Cook chases Tom off with continuous gunshots to the fields.
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Notes[]
- This is the first and only appearance of the cook so far in Tom & Jerry.