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Tom-ic Energy is a Tom and Jerry 1965 cartoon.

Plot

Throughout the title cards, Tom chases Jerry on top of a building and then through the A/C vent and into the building. A chaotic struggle ensues inside the building until the duo reach a balcony. Tom scares Jerry's spirit out of him by poking his head through the other window, screaming, and making a scary face. Jerry's spirit catches its host and gives a laughing Tom a taste of his own medicine. The mere sight of the "ghost" causes Tom to turn white in fear; then it returns to its host body. Jerry recovers and runs off as Tom recovers by shaking his head.

Tom chases the mouse up a series of work steps and into the air, still chasing in a zigzag pattern until Jerry stops him and points to the empty abyss. Tom panics and falls through the piped balcony, splitting himself into pieces in mid-air, but they re-form the cat when they hit the ground. Jerry zigzags back down to comparatively solid ground and jumps through a water duct, but Tom sees him and locates himself at the bottom, intending to swallow the mouse. Jerry travels so fast that he bursts through Tom and opens his tail. Tom then ties the end of his tail and pursues the mouse.

Jerry takes the chase out to the street and the chase is stopped by a red light to allow "traffic" which consists of other ongoing cat-mouse chases to pass. The light turns yellow and Tom and Jerry prepare to run like race cars at the starting line. Tom dashes off before the green light and Jerry whistles, then points at the lights, which are changing. As the light turns red, Tom gets run over by a large red truck.

Tom pursues the mouse around a street corner, braking themselves with their feet. Jerry stops behind an open manhole and signals for Tom to stop. Tom literally falls for it. Jerry then runs away, but Tom pops out of a second manhole as Jerry is passing over it, which keeps the mouse from going anywhere. However, the manhole cover twists Tom's head. Tom removes it and unwinds his head. Jerry spots Tom and manages to reach the outside of the manhole cover such that he hits Tom's nose upon every revolution. Tom clutches his nose in pain, but ends up dropping the manhole cover on his own foot. Tom lets out a loud bellow, and dances around in pain seeing that his toes are flattened.

Jerry fakes sympathy for Tom and offers to inflate his toes with an air compressor, but Jerry goes beyond that and inflates the whole of Tom, then releases him. Tom is launched high in the air, then runs out of air and falls back down. He falls into a pair of Long Johns/Union Suit and is thrown back up to the top of the building, catching a feather boa and a lady's hat from a clothesline on the way back up. A male cat noticed and mistaken Tom of being a female, he then pursues Tom and kisses him while he recites French poetry while speaking in a French accent. Jerry pretends to play a violin as he watches. Tom discovers Jerry, beats the alley cat into a bloody pulp and flees. The alley cat has a black eye and says, "C'est...la guerre." ("That...was a war," referencing Tuffy in a number of Hanna-Barbera cartoons that took place in 1700s France) Jerry switches to a few seconds of "The William Tell Overture" and then dashes off. Tom chases Jerry through the building a second time and down to the street again.

While running down the street, Jerry is able to run under a bulldog walking down the street, but Tom runs into the bulldog. Tom kisses the bulldog, kicks him in the face and dashes off, leaving the bulldog brimming with rage that he charges forward and chases poor Tom and misses trying to bite him several times. Annoyed at this turn of events, Jerry places a manhole cover between Tom and the bulldog, causing the bulldog to run into it and limp away in the form of a centipede, making accordion sounds as he slithers. The chase between Tom and Jerry then continues, although Tom does shake Jerry's hand to thank him for taking care of the naughty bulldog.

Characters

Starring

Featuring

Voice Actors

  • Mel Blanc as Tom, Jerry, Tiny Bulldog, and French Cat
  • Clarence Nash as Tom (archive audio, when fighting over the French Cat, uncredited)

Notes

  • This was the first Tom and Jerry cartoon to use WB/Looney Tunes sound effects.
    • The footage of Tom being chased by the bulldog would later be reused in The Cat's Me-Ouch.
  • The cartoon is essentially plotless, consisting of various gags held together by a chase that is already underway at the start of the cartoon and still going by the end.
  • The name is a pun on atomic energy.
  • The music of this cartoon is primarily based on Paganini's Moto Perpetuo (Op. 11) with other music and sound effects mixed in with the theme which crops up throughout the cartoon.

Availability

Errors

  • Tom's left foot was flattened, but when it first cuts down to his flattened toes, it instead has his right foot flattened.

Gallery

Tom and Jerry Cartoons
1940 Puss Gets the Boot
1941 The Midnight SnackThe Night Before Christmas
1942 Fraidy CatDog TroublePuss n' TootsThe Bowling Alley-CatFine Feathered Friend
1943 Sufferin' Cats!The Lonesome MouseThe Yankee Doodle MouseBaby Puss
1944 The Zoot CatThe Million Dollar CatThe BodyguardPuttin' on the DogMouse Trouble
1945 The Mouse Comes to DinnerMouse in ManhattanTee for TwoFlirty BirdyQuiet Please!
1946 Springtime for ThomasThe Milky WaifTrap HappySolid Serenade
1947 Cat Fishin'Part Time PalThe Cat ConcertoDr. Jekyll and Mr. MouseSalt Water TabbyA Mouse in the HouseThe Invisible Mouse
1948 Kitty FoiledThe Truce HurtsOld Rockin' Chair TomProfessor TomMouse Cleaning
1949 Polka-Dot PussThe Little OrphanHatch Up Your TroublesHeavenly PussThe Cat and the MermouseLove That PupJerry's DiaryTennis Chumps
1950 Little QuackerSaturday Evening Puss • Texas TomJerry and the LionSafety SecondThe Hollywood BowlThe Framed CatCue Ball Cat
1951 Casanova CatJerry and the GoldfishJerry's CousinSleepy-Time TomHis Mouse FridaySlicked-up PupNit-Witty KittyCat Napping
1952 The Flying CatThe Duck DoctorThe Two MouseketeersSmitten KittenTriplet TroubleLittle RunawayFit To Be TiedPush-Button KittyCruise CatThe Dog House
1953 The Missing Mouse • Jerry and JumboJohann MouseThat's My Pup!Just DuckyTwo Little IndiansLife with Tom
1954 Puppy TalePosse CatHic-cup PupLittle School MouseBaby ButchMice FolliesNeapolitan MouseDownhearted DucklingPet PeeveTouché, Pussy Cat!
1955 Southbound DucklingPup on a PicnicMouse for SaleDesigns on JerryTom and ChérieSmarty CatPecos PestThat's My Mommy
1956 The Flying SorceressThe Egg and JerryBusy BuddiesMuscle Beach TomDown Beat BearBlue Cat BluesBarbecue Brawl
1957 Tops with PopsTimid TabbyFeedin' the KiddieMucho MouseTom's Photo Finish
1958 Happy Go DuckyRoyal Cat NapThe Vanishing DuckRobin HoodwinkedTot Watchers
1961 Switchin' KittenDown and OutingIt's Greek to Me-ow!
1962 High SteaksMouse into SpaceLanding StriplingCalypso CatDicky MoeThe Tom and Jerry Cartoon KitTall in the TrapSorry SafariBuddies Thicker Than WaterCarmen Get It!
1963 Pent-House Mouse
1964 The Cat Above and The Mouse BelowIs There a Doctor in the Mouse?Much Ado About MousingSnowbody Loves MeThe Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse
1965 Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of LifeTom-ic EnergyBad Day at Cat RockThe Brothers Carry-Mouse-OffHaunted MouseI'm Just Wild About JerryOf Feline BondageThe Year of the MouseThe Cat's Me-Ouch
1966 Duel PersonalityJerry, Jerry, Quite ContraryJerry-Go-RoundLove Me, Love My MousePuss 'n' BoatsFilet MeowMatinee MouseThe A-Tom-Inable SnowmanCatty-Cornered
1967 Cat and Dupli-catO-Solar-MeowGuided Mouse-illeRock 'n' RodentCannery RodentThe Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R.Surf-Bored CatShutter Bugged CatAdvance and Be MechanizedPurr-Chance to Dream
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