Two Little Indians is a 1953 Tom and Jerry cartoon. It is the 78th Tom and Jerry short.
Characters[]
- Jerry Mouse
- Two Indian Mice
- Tom Cat
- Spike Bulldog
- Robin (red,cameo)
Synopsis[]
"Scoutmaster" Jerry is asked to take a couple orphans with American Indian heritage on a hiking trip. But the mischievous orphans turn the hike into a real war against Tom Cat with axes, bows and rifles.
Plot[]
The cartoon opens with the two young grey mice, both resembling Tuffy, dressed as Indians and walking toward Jerry's house. They knock on the door and hand him a note that reads:
"Dear Scoutmaster Jerry, these are the two little orphans you promised to take on a hiking trip. Thanks, Bide-a-wee Mouse Home."
Jerry then pats them on their heads, and he leaves to put on his scoutmaster uniform. The two grey mice then started scouting around. When Jerry returns, he sees the red-feathered grey mouse heading toward Spike, who is asleep. The red-feathered gray mouse goes into Spike's mouth and attempts to shoot an arrow at Spike's uvula, but Jerry intervenes. Spike wakes up and looks at the two of them in both anger and confusion. To distract him, Jerry starts playing "Turkey in the Straw" on the bow and arrow like a violin. This allows Jerry and the red-feathered grey mouse to get away as they hide behind a fence, with Jerry shaking his head at the red-feathered grey mouse as if to say, "Don't do that." Jerry then sees the blue-feathered grey mouse trying to shoot a robin sitting in a tree. The little grey mouse shoots his arrow in the air, barely missing the robin's tail feathers. Jerry scolds him as if to say, "Stop it". While the arrow falls through the drain pipe and ends up hitting him in his bum.
Jerry then leads his little Indian scouts on their hiking trip. The scouts stop and see Tom asleep under a tree. They head over to Tom with weapons in hand. Jerry then realizes his scouts are not with him, and he sees what is about to happen. The blue-feathered grey mouse grabs the top of Tom's head and tries to scalp him with his tomahawk, but Jerry pulls him into a tree to make him stop. However, since the blue-feathered grey mouse was holding Tom's fur the minute he was pulled in, this woke him up. He then looks around and goes back to sleep. The red-feathered grey mouse has made his way to Tom's bum, and he gets ready to fire. Jerry tries to stop the arrow, but it is too late. The arrow hits Tom's bum, and he jumps up and screams in pain. When he lands to confront Jerry, He readies the bow and points it at Tom to shoot at him, as if to say, "Stop it right there, Thomas!" Unfortunately, Jerry does not know how to use a bow and arrow properly, and he ends up misfiring three times, with neither attempt being able to shoot the arrow. Tom, realizing that Jerry is no harm to him, grins and lies down on the grass. The red-feathered grey mouse then shows up and successfully shoots an arrow into Tom's nose. Tom, thinking Jerry shot the arrow, grabs him, but he is saved when the blue-feathered grey mouse chops off the tip of Tom's tail with his tomahawk. Tom screams in pain and grabs the blue-feathered grey mouse, but he gets saved when the red-feathered grey mouse scalps Tom with a tomahawk of his own. Tom grabs the red-feathered grey mouse, and he is saved when Jerry hits Tom with the mailbox.
The three mice run away, splitting in three different directions. When Tom chases them, he realizes he is unable to go after each of them simultaneously as his head, body and legs immediately reattach themselves the second they separate from each other. He goes after Jerry and pushes the spikes in the fence together, catching Jerry by his tail. Tom grabs Jerry, and the two grey mice try to save him. But Tom uses a flyswatter to smack them and send them away. Tom starts to walk away with Jerry, but he stops when the blue-feathered grey mouse fools him with fake smoke signals with a cloth and a toaster, while the red-feathered grey mouse paints faces on badminton shuttlecocks to make them look like a tribe of American Indian mice. This frightens Tom, and he ends up tying Jerry to a post on the house's back porch. He then grabs a coonskin cap and defends himself with a rifle behind a tipped-over table.
The red-feathered gray mouse fires an arrow with a frying pan tied to it. The arrow hits the overhang, and the frying pan swings, missing Tom because he ducked down. Tom readies his rifle, and just before he fires, the pan swings back and hits him in the back of the head into the rifle's loading end, making him look like an elephant with the rifle as a nose. The two mice then run off to dress a still-sleeping Spike up like an Indian chief, even painting an angry face on Spike to make him look like he is awake. When Tom sees Spike, he gets so scared that the coonskin cap stands on end, and he runs off and hides in a folding lawn chair.
The blue-feathered gray mouse lights up a match and shoots it at Tom. It hits the chair and burns it up, leaving the cat unharmed. Tom then runs back to the table and hides behind it. The two Indian mice then run up to Tom, and the blue-feathered grey mouse climbs up the barrel of the rifle while the red-feathered grey mouse opens his powder horn. The blue-feathered mouse catches Tom's attention by knocking on the rifle's hammer and shooting an arrow at the cat's nose. As the blue-feathered grey mouse runs away, Tom fires a few rounds and chases after him, not realizing that the gunpowder is trailing behind him. The red-feathered grey mouse comes out and lights the gunpowder trail. Tom then chases the blue-feathered gray mouse all over and into a garage, where the latter escapes through the open window. Tom stops at the window, where a small pile of gunpowder starts to form, and he continues firing at the blue-feathered gray mouse. Then he sees the flame follow him into the garage, which leads to a can of gas and an oil can near him. Tom tries to run away from the garage, but he cannot due to him holding the rifle sideways. The flame ignites the gas and oil cans and triggers an explosion inside. The garage folds in on itself, and Tom raises his rifle with a white cloth tied around it, signaling that he surrendered.
Jerry and the two Indian mice are shown smoking a peace pipe together. They pass the pipe to Tom as soon as he tries to exhale the smoke from his mouth, but to no avail. Tom accidentally swallows the smoke, and it ends up coming out of his ears.
Availability[]
Censorship[]
- The entire ending scene where Jerry, the gray mice and Tom smoke a peace pipe is cut from the UK version of Boomerang as of 2006.
- Despite being banned from syndication in the U.S. due to Native American stereotypes, the short does occasionally air on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and MeTV/MeTV Toons. It also used to air on TBS and TNT back when both those channels aired Warner Bros. and MGM shorts before creating Cartoon Network and Boomerang.
Gallery[]
Main article: Two Little Indians/Gallery