Toodles Galore is a character in the Tom and Jerry series. She is a white female cat, wearing a neck ribbon, who is often considered attractive by other characters (particularly other cats).
Toodles is the first of many female cats that Tom falls for over the course of the series, and is the most recurring of all of Tom's love interests. She does not speak and rarely moves about. She is also the love interest of Butch, who is often competes with Tom for her affections (exp: in Springtime for Thomas and Casanova Cat, where he falls head over heels in love with her.)
Character Overview[]
Appearance[]
Toodles is a white female cat with a tall, slender and graceful physique. She has large, expressive eyes and a small, cute nose. Her fur is predominantly white, and she is often depicted with a bow tied around her neck.
In Love Me, Love My Mouse she appears with a different look, with more cat-like features than in the Hanna-Barbera era (albeit still anthropomorphic), with two whiskers, and puffier cheeks. She retains her white fur and blue eyes.
Personality[]
Toodles is shown to be very laid-back and mild-mannered. She plays hard-to-get sometimes but was never mean to Tom or Butch, who do various things to win her affection. She can be seen as shallow at first.
Toodles has mother instincts as seen in Love Me, Love My Mouse, after Tom offers Jerry to her as a present, Jerry invokes her motherly instincts by acting cute, causing her to treat him like her child. It only lasts until she gives him a kiss, at which point she gains an appetite of now having a desire to eat mice.
History[]
The Alley Cat[]
Prior to her debut in Tom and Jerry short Springtime for Thomas, a white female cat resembling a prototype version of Toodles previously appeared (alongside a black alley cat resembling a prototype version of Butch Cat) in the one-shot MGM cartoon The Alley Cat (1941) directed by Hugh Harman. A character model sheet for the short refers to her as "The Lady Cat".[1] In the short she is a love interest of Butch.
Tom and Jerry original shorts[]
In her debut in Springtime for Thomas, where she is a love interest for Tom and Butch who also appears in the short which the two cats competed for Toodles' affections, in the end it's seemingly Butch won. After her debut, she appeared again in Solid Serenade where she is seen putting make up on, before Tom calls her, she then rushes to see Tom sings his song to her Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby, where she is impressed by his singing.
Tom does his best to impress.
In Salt Water Tabby, she is seen wearing a bikini and sunglasses and again, Tom greets her by winking at her, and despite her obvious displeasure, drinks her soda and eats her hot dog. Tom reclines in her lap, pleased with his efforts (though she isn't), though afterwards dealing with Jerry, She and Tom are sharing sandwiches and tea together, awhile Jerry puts rocks on his sandwich, to pour sand to Tom's cup for him choke and given water spits water on Toodles making her glare at him, where she was last seen.
In Casanova Cat, she inherits a million dollars living in Swank Park Ritz Apartments, Tom tries to woo her with Jerry as his present to her, he also once again competes with Butch who finds out again by Jerry, the alley cat first holds then kisses her. Tom and Butch both lose to Jerry who won Toodles' affections as he kisses her in the lips. The short was her final appearance in the Golden Age/Hanna-Barbera era though later she appeared in stock footage of previous cartoons such as in a flashback in Smitten Kitten and film reels in Smarty Cat.
She appeared in Tom and Jerry's Chuck Jones-era short, Love Me, Love My Mouse, where she is given changes for her Chuck Jones design. In the short, Tom who gives her ring box with Jerry, who pretends to be powerless, and cuddles to Toodles making her motherly towards him, and caused trouble to Tom by framing him of harming and eating him for Toodles to prevent it, when she continually kisses him till she realizes something else when kissing Jerry: aside from being cute, Jerry is also quite tasty. She has a change of heart, and attempts to eat Jerry, taking sides with Tom and pursues after him.
Tom and Jerry Tales[]
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Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz[]
Toodles & Tom and Cherie & Jerry on stage.
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The Tom and Jerry Show (2014)[]
Toodles primarily appeared in cameos in this series, where she appeared in her Salt Water Tabby design for the Season 1 episodes Belly Achin' and Cat Napped. She then made cameo appearances in Season 3 episodes, where she appeared in a design unique to the series, including a dream scene in Don't Cut the Cheese and a cameo in the episode A Star Forlorn.
Toodles and Tom tap dancing.
Toodles then made a full appearance in the Season 4 episode Tap Cat, where she meets Tom, who was happily tap dancing in Ginger's old tap dancing shoes, deciding to show off his tap dancing skills to her. Impressed by Tom's tap dancing, Toodles, wearing her own pair of high-heeled tap dancing shoes, joins Tom in a romantic tap dance duet number. They enjoyed tap dancing together in their tap dancing shoes, In the end, Toodles thanks Tom for the dance by giving him a kiss before strutting away in her high-heeled tap shoes.
Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory[]
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Tom and Jerry in New York[]
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Filmography[]
MGM one-shots[]
- The Alley Cat (debut)
Tom and Jerry original shorts[]
- Springtime for Thomas (debut in Tom and Jerry)
- Solid Serenade
- Salt Water Tabby
- Casanova Cat
- Smitten Kitten (flashback)
- Smarty Cat (flashback)
- Love Me, Love My Mouse
Tom and Jerry Tales[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
The Tom and Jerry Show (2014)[]
- Toodles' name is mistakenly credited in the series to Toots, although Toodles herself appearances are seldom in the series.
- Note: There are only appearances of Toodles Galore, and not Toots.
Season 1[]
- Belly Achin' (imagination only)
- Cat Napped (cameo)
Season 3[]
- Don't Cut the Cheese (cameo)
- A Star Forlorn (photo cameo)
Season 4[]
Tom and Jerry in New York[]
Season 1[]
- Put A Ring On It (does not speak)
- Here Kite-y Kite-y (does not speak)
- Billboard Jumble (does not speak)
- Torched Song
- Quacker's Lucky Penny (does not speak)
Season 2[]
- Stunt Double Trouble
- Surfer Supreme (does not speak)
- Toots the Terrible
- Caterpillar and Mouse (does not speak)
- Pied Piper of Harlem
- Big Apple (cameo)
Films[]
Others[]
Video Games[]
- Tom and Jerry in House Trap
- Tom and Jerry Infurnal Escape
- Tom and Jerry Tales (Nintendo DS)
- Tom and Jerry Chase
Gallery[]
- Main article: Toodles Galore/Gallery
Trivia[]
- Ironically, Toodles is mis-credited as "Toots" in Tom and Jerry in New York. This is most noteworthy in the title for the second season episode, Toots the Terrible.
- Also, Toots who was in the previous series, The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) was mis-credited as "Toodles", making it seem as though they have swapped names in some modern Tom and Jerry media so far.
- In Toots the Terrible, it’s revealed that she's a lot better mouse catcher than Tom. She's agile, acrobatic and resourceful. She's also an excellent swimmer and probably doesn't even hate water. She is also a fast runner, especially on stairs that she beats Jerry (who was using the elevator) to the rooftop without tiring herself out.
- Toodles has a weirdly more humanoid appearance compared to the other cat designs, especially in Tom and Jerry Tales and Tom and Jerry in New York.
- Toodles appears to be quite skilled in tap dancing and the flamenco, especially in Flamenco Fiasco and Tap Cat where she owns and tap dances with her own pair of high-heeled tap dance shoes.
- She doesn't appear in the Tom and Jerry Kawaii anime, however in Doll House, there's a plush cat doll inside of the dollhouse resembles her because it's white with a bow around its neck, the plush cat resembling her is also seen in Public.