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Puss Gets the Boot

Plot

A screenshot from Puss Gets the Boot.

The camera shows a mouse named Jinx attempting to run, but getting nowhere, then zooms out and reveals a smug, superior cat (here named Jasper) holding his tail so that the mouse cannot move. The cat pulls back the mouse’s tail, opens his mouth, and releases the mouse such that the mouse will run into his mouth. The mouse spots the trap, brakes in time and runs toward his mousehole, but Jasper catches him with his tail. The cat tosses the mouse into the air and the mouse lands on the cat’s tail, then runs down the cat’s body until he has to brake a second time because the cat is again attempting to eat him. The mouse dashes off and the cat waltzes behind him innocently and hops in front of the door and opens his mouth. The mouse runs in, but rolls out of the cat’s mouth on his tongue. The cat begins a chase and then sees a better idea: he takes an alternative path around and he will try to fool the mouse. The cat dips his finger in ink, paints a fake mousehole on the wall, and lowers a sign that says “HOME SWEET HOME”. The mouse stops running in order to enter his “hole” and knocks himself out. The cat ‘tsk’s and revives the mouse with a dash of water.

The mouse recovers and soon notices that something is next to him. He feels the cat’s head and grabs an eyelid. The cat opens his eye and hoists the mouse up. The mouse looks into the cat’s face and realizes it’s the cat. The mouse punches the cat in the eye. He shrieks in pain and retaliates by giving chase.

However, the cat runs into a houseplant and breaks it. His mistress, Mammy Two Shoes, a Black maid, quickly arrives and chastises Jasper. Jasper tiptoes away, but is soon under Mammy’s broom.

“Just a minute, you good-for-nothin’, cheap fur-coat! Now would you just look, just look at that mess you made.”

The housemaid gives Jasper an ultimatum: “Now, understand this, Jasper. If you breaks one more thing, you is goin’ out – O-W-T [sic], OUT!”

“That’s clear, ain’t it?”

The mouse throws his fists in the air from a candlestick he is hiding in.

“One more breakin’, and you’s going out. Now get out of my sight ‘fore I gets mad!”

Mammy sweeps Jasper away with her broom.

Jasper creeps away, but soon runs into a table. The cat sees a vase falling from it and rushes over to save it. He sighs with relief and soon spots the mouse laughing at him. Jasper crawls over the floor in anger. The mouse gets out of the candlestick as Jasper runs up onto the table and forces the cat to back off or else he will throw a wineglass to the floor.Jasper skids to a stop. He retreats as he sees Mammy prancing around the house with the swept-up mess and hears her:

“Anymore breakin’ and that cat’s goin’ outta here.”

The mouse nods. Jasper gulps from hearing this. chuckles nervously and walks off. Jasper sees the mouse letting down his guard and tries again to catch him, but the mouse again threatens him. The mouse then whacks the cat with the wineglass and gets Jasper to back off again. The mouse then decides to toy with the cat, winks at the camera and throws the glass down. Jasper hears whistling and sees the mouse, sans glass, pointing towards the ground. Jasper panics and dashes at the glass, narrowly saving it. The mouse throws down a second glass, followed by the tray and four more glasses which Jasper catches on the tray. Jasper then gets hit on the head with a decorated plate of flowers thrown by the mouse. Jasper sees the mouse taunting him with one more glass in his hand, and Jasper attempts to throw the plate to the ground, but realizes this would probably break it and punish himself. Jasper then spots pillows of all sorts on a nearby couch.

As Jinx is strolling along the table, Jasper pops his head up next to the mouse. The mouse hangs the threat of throwing the wineglass down over the cat’s head, but Jasper appears dreamy and indifferent. The mouse then twists his tail at the cat as if to say “Have it your way”, then he throws the glass to the floor in total arrogance. Not hearing the crash he expected, the mouse looks down to the ground and sees that the glass fell on one of the pillows.

Jasper grins and the mouse tries to run away, but Jasper slaps his tail. The mouse says a quick prayer:

“Now I lay me down to sleep.”

“I pray the Lord my soul to keep.”

“If I should die before I wake,”

“I hope and hope my soul He’ll take.”

“Amen.”

and Jasper lets him go, only to catch him with his tail again. Jasper tosses the mouse into the air and opens his mouth expecting to eat the mouse when he falls back down. The mouse has been thrown up to the china rack and drops a plate down onto Jasper instead of himself. Jasper is momentarily stunned. The mouse proceeds to run across the shelf of plates and knocks every one of them down. Jasper sweats increasingly more as he lugs around the stack of plates, then finally manages to slant it against the wall and pants from the weight of the dishes. Jasper is briefly safe, but he soon spots the mouse waving at him from the top of the stack. Jasper can only watch in terror as the mouse throws one more plate down to the ground and it breaks.

Mammy hears it from upstairs and storms down the steps, proclaiming that she will evict the cat as soon as she gets down. To multiply Jasper’s humiliation, the mouse leaps in triumph, then runs down the stack of plates, stomps on Jasper’s nose, rolls the cat’s eyelids, squirts Jasper’s milk on Jasper’s back and even cleans himself with Jasper’s tail. The mouse spots Mammy approaching with broom in hand and knows he must get the job done soon or else he will be seen. The mouse kicks the cat in the rear which causes him to drop all the crockery and frame him.

Jinx flees the scene and dives into his hole just before Mammy squashes him with her foot. Jasper is dragged across the floor by Mammy and thrown out of the house. The triumphant Jinx watches and then spots the “Home Sweet Home” sign. The mouse posts the sign by his real mousehole and nods in confidence that this is the real one as he marches in.

Release and reaction

The mouse threatens to throw some breakables in order to expel Jasper from the house.

Though Puss Gets the Boot was popular on its initial release, no follow-up cartoons were originally scheduled. MGM saw Puss Gets the Boot as a “flash in the pan”, and assigned Hanna and Barbera to several musical cartoons. Not entirely satisfied with their new output, Hanna and Barbera decided to get started on another cat-and-mouse short.

A studio-wide contest took place to christen the cat and mouse with names; the winning combination of Tom and Jerry was suggested by animator John Carr. However, despite coming up with a new name for the cat and mouse team, Hanna and Barbera were prevented from making another Tom and Jerry cartoon. MGM’s animation department head, Fred Quimby, had assumed there were already enough cat and mouse cartoons in existence, and therefore Tom and Jerry could not possibly bring anything new.

Besa Short, a manager of the Loew’s theater chain in Dallas, Texas, sent MGM a letter enquiring as to whether new cat and mouse cartoons would be made, after thoroughly enjoying Puss Gets the Boot. At the same time, the cartoon had been given an Academy Award nomination, strengthening Hanna and Barbera’s request to create another cartoon. From there, Hanna and Barbera were given permission to create two new Tom and Jerry shorts, and in 1941, The Midnight Snack and The Night Before Christmas were created, with the latter cartoon getting another Academy Award nomination.

Voice dubbing

All of Mammy’s dialogue is redubbed on Cartoon Network and other Turner syndicated prints (excluding TCM; she even spells “OUT” correctly)

Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (February 2008)

At over nine minutes in length, this is the longest theatrical Tom and Jerry short released, the shortest is Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life.

The opening shot was referenced to in later Tom and Jerry short, Dog Trouble.

This is the only Tom & Jerry short to be released in 1940, as it was initially intended as a one-shot.

Notes

This is one of three Tom and Jerry shorts where the title is a pun on the fairytale Puss in Boots. The others are Puss n’ Toots and Puss ‘n’ Boats.

External links

Puss Gets the Boot at the Internet Movie Database

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The Hanna-Barbera “Tom and Jerry” shorts

1940

Puss Gets the Boot (001)

1941

The Midnight Snack (002) The Night Before Christmas (003)

1942

Fraidy Cat (004) Dog Trouble (005) Puss n’ Toots (006) The Bowling Alley Cat (007) Fine Feathered Friend (008)

1943

Sufferin’ Cats! (009) The Lonesome Mouse (010) The Yankee Doodle Mouse (011) Baby Puss (012)

1944

The Zoot Cat (013) The Million Dollar Cat (014) The Bodyguard (015) Puttin’ on the Dog (016) Mouse Trouble (017)

1945

The Mouse Comes to Dinner (018) Mouse in Manhattan (019) Tee for Two (020) Flirty Birdy (021) Quiet Please! (022)

1946

Springtime for Thomas (023) The Milky Waif (024) Trap Happy (025) Solid Serenade (026)

1947

Cat Fishin’ (027) Part Time Pal (028) The Cat Concerto (029) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (030) Salt Water Tabby (031) A Mouse in the House (032) The Invisible Mouse (033)

1948

Kitty Foiled (034) The Truce Hurts (035) Old Rockin’ Chair Tom (036) Professor Tom (037) Mouse Cleaning (038)

1949

Polka-Dot Puss (039) The Little Orphan (040) Hatch Up Your Troubles (041) Heavenly Puss (042) The Cat and the Mermouse (043) Love That Pup (044) Jerry’s Diary (045) Tennis Chumps (046)

1950

Little Quacker (047) Saturday Evening Puss (048) Texas Tom (049) Jerry and the Lion (050) Safety Second (051) Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl (052) The Framed Cat (053) Cue Ball Cat (054)

1951

Casanova Cat (055) Jerry and the Goldfish (056) Jerry’s Cousin (057) Sleepy-Time Tom (058) His Mouse Friday (059) Slicked-up Pup (060) Nit-Witty Kitty (061) Cat Napping (062)

1952

The Flying Cat (063) The Duck Doctor (064) The Two Mouseketeers (065) Smitten Kitten (066) Triplet Trouble (067) Little Runaway (068) Fit to Be Tied (069) Push-Button Kitty (070) Cruise Cat (071) The Dog House (072)

1953

The Missing Mouse (073) Jerry and Jumbo (074) Johann Mouse (075) That’s My Pup! (076) Just Ducky (077) Two Little Indians (078) Life with Tom (079)

1954

Puppy Tale (080) Posse Cat (081) Hic-cup Pup (082) Little School Mouse (083) Baby Butch (084) Mice Follies (085) Neapolitan Mouse (086) Downhearted Duckling (087) Pet Peeve (088) Touch, Pussy Cat! (089)

1955

Southbound Duckling (090) Pup on a Picnic (091) Mouse for Sale (092) Designs on Jerry (093) Tom and Chrie (094) Smarty Cat (095) Pecos Pest (096) That’s My Mommy (097)

1956

The Flying Sorceress (098) The Egg and Jerry (099) Busy Buddies (100) Muscle Beach Tom (101) Down Beat Bear (102) Blue Cat Blues (103) Barbecue Brawl (104)

1957

Tops with Pops (105) Timid Tabby (106) Feedin’ the Kiddie (107) Mucho Mouse (108) Tom’s Photo Finish (109)

1958

Happy Go Ducky (110) Royal Cat Nap (111) The Vanishing Duck (112) Robin Hoodwinked (113) Tot Watchers (114)

2005

The Karate Guard (162)

Spin-off

Give and Tyke (Spike and Tyke) Scat Cats (Spike and Tyke)

See also: The Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry shorts (19611962) and The Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry shorts (19631967)

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