[A Valentine note that reads: "Dear Toots~ Roses are red Violets are Blue Mice are Nice But, OH You Kid Sheikie".]
(Tom making him self nice for a female cat who plans to ask out with his gift prepared with Jerry inside. He goes to see Toots' house and plans to impress her with a gift and a song)
Tom: [Yells out]: "Yoo hoo! Hey, Toots!"
[Toots opens the door and is pleasantly surprised at the bоx which she opens and sees Jerry inside.]
Jerry: "Uh, what's cooking, Toots?"
Tom: *whistles* (Tom then whistles for her attention and plays a ukelele and plays a small song. Tom twists a yo-yo string into the words "Hi Babe")
(He does a little dance before pulling out a bouquet of flowers. On the last step of the dance, a loose floorboard hits Tom's face which makes the cat falll down the stairs bouncing off like a board on the steps into the walkway)
Toots: "Boy, are you corny! You act like a square at the fair, a goon from Saskatoon. You come on like a broken arm. You're a sad apple, a long head, a cornhusker. In other words, you don't send me. So bail out, brother. Get lost. And here's your rat, cat."
Jerry: [As Toots was talking, he nods to all of her words in agreement]
(She then throws her gift back to Tom. Jerry then grabs an ear of corn, puts in it the gift box to poke fun of the fact that Tom is corny, He runs away, starting a chase scene with it ends as Jerry runs through an opening in a gate and Tom crashes into it. Tom overhears the radio)
Radio Man: "Boy, are you corny. How many times have you been told that?"
(Tom then looks in the window and sees the female cat listening to the radio as she paints her nails.)
Radio Man: "How many girls have said, "No, Horace, I can only be a sister to you?" Get your boots laced, buddy. Get hep to the jive. Step in and see Smiling Sam, the zoot suit man. Step out with a zoot suit, with a drape shape and a reet pleat. Wear an ankle length jacket with 3 foot shoulders, pants that begin at the chin, zoom to a 54 inch knee, then fade softly to a 3 inch victory cuff. Get hip. Get one. Get lost in a new zoot suit."
(This gives Tom an idea: to make his own zoot suit and mystify his intended. So he steals a pair of scissors and a lampshade and fashions his own zoot suit. He knocks on the door again and the girl cat is surprised to see Tom in the impressive outfit)
Toots: "Jackson!".
Tom: "What's jumpin', chick?"
(Jerry reappears and his eyes turn into Tom's suit. As Tom is showing off his suit, a coat hanger is stuck in the back of his jacket to hold the shoulders to full-width, and the chain around his neck is a bathtub plug)
Toots: "You're really a sharp character! A mellow little fellow. Now you collar my jive. You're on the right side, you alligator, you. Slip me some skin, my friend."
Tom: "Well, all reet, well, all root, well, all right."
(She allows Tom to her house)
Toots: "Let's dig a little righteous jive. Do you hear me? Latch on, Jackson. We're off."
(They start to jive dance around the house, and Jerry asks for a turn with the girl cat, which Tom gives him. The Zoot Cat successfully woos his girl, Toots. Tom then sees Jerry slipping away and grabs for the mouse. Jerry runs over to an ashtray and takes out a cigarette. Jerry then takes a puff of it, blows smoke in Tom's face and puts the cigarette out with Tom's nose.)
Tom: OOOHHHH!!
(The female cat is still dancing and Tom returns to her. Jerry then peels a banana and throws the peel on the floor causing Tom to slip. Tom lands on the piano keys and somehow manages to set himself right on the bench to start playing a piano piece for her, he then becomes a suave romantic saying)
Tom: I love you. When I'm with you, I'm what you call a hep cat. I am hep to the jive. I'm in the groove, darling.
(Toots replies)
Toots: Now you're really sending me, Jackson.
(Tom then winks to the camera and says to her in a Charles Boyer-esque voice)
Tom: Now you set my soul on fire. (Then, Jerry placing matches in Tom's feet, Tom continues by saying) It is not just a little spark. It is a flame; a big roaring flame (Jerry lights the matches) I can feel it now—it is burning, burning, BURNING.
(All he says while wooing his girl came true. He pauses, sniffs the air and says in a Groucho Marx voice)
Tom: Say, something is burning around here. (He realizes that his foot is on fire) OHHHH!! Ow-whoa-oh-OH-ho-ho-hoo!
(Jerry runs away and opens a floor vent. Tom runs around the corner and falls into the basement. Jerry then starts to dance with the jive-dancing Toots before Tom returns with a fireplace shovel, which he tries to hit Jerry but misses. Jerry pulls Tom's hat over his head, trapping the cat, and whacks him on the brow. Jerry then runs and hides behind a table leg and trips Tom as he passes by Jerry then runs under the couch, and Tom dives after him, popping out between the couch and window. Jerry clips the windowshade to the hanger in Tom's jacket, and then steps on Tom's nose and kicks the cat in the eyes. Tom angrily pursues the mouse, but is stopped by the hook. Tom grabs the coffee table, but Jerry hits his hands with the shovel, and the shade pulls Tom back and he ends up in the fishbowl.)
Tom: Whooo-hoo!! Hoo-hoo-hoo!
(Tom is pulled up and down by the shade, then left hanging on the shade, and his wet zoot suit slowly shrinks and falls off. Now the zoot suit lands near on Jerry such that it makes a perfect fit for him. Jerry then walks away into a drape with his brand new zoot suit)
(As the cartoon closes "The End" and then "Tom and Jerry Cartoon" closes)