- Not to be confused with Cruise Kitty, an episode of The Tom and Jerry Show (1975).
Cruise Cat is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 71st Tom and Jerry short.
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- Captain
- Seagull
Plot[]
Tom is a mascot aboard a cruise ship and is warned by the captain that Tom will be replaced if a mouse is found on board the ship. Meanwhile Jerry arrives to and sees the ship that takes him to his intended destination. As he enters the ship, he is promptly kicked out by Tom, causing the mouse to be flung off to the dock, with a coconut stuck on his head. Jerry's immediate facial expression shows that "I should teach that cat a lesson he will never forget, if I get this thing off my head." Jerry continues to board the ship unsuccessfully until boarding on the anchor of the ship. He then ties Tom's tail to a lifesaver ring and makes a fake call for help. Tom throws the ring and this results in himself being thrown off the ship.
Tom manages to get back on the ship anyhow, soaking wet and furious. Jerry then lounges on a recliner, which Tom initially mistook him for a child passenger. Eventually, Tom realized that he's the "child passenger" is actually Jerry, and rushes over to catch him, but gets trapped in-between the recliner.
As Tom chases Jerry, Jerry slips up Tom as he passes by with a bar of soap while Tom salutes a passing captain as he is thrown off the ship. Tom emerges soaking wet once again onto the stern. Tom dives into the pool after seeing Jerry dive into it, but is no match for Jerry, who drains all the water out and thus causes Tom to crash on the floor into about 10 pieces. Then Jerry dashes to the ship's funnel whistle and pulls off the boiling water on the cat's behind.
Jerry thinks he lost Tom, who then suddenly comes with a shuffleboard cue and traps Jerry by the neck. However, Tom quickly notices the captain. Fearing he might see Jerry, Tom hides Jerry behind and salutes to the captain who walks by. After that, Jerry uses the shuffleboard cue to push Tom off the ship. Tom desperately tries to get back on board but barely as he uses his cat nails to cling on the side of the boat. But he slips downward into the water whilst scratching the metal boat.
Jerry, successfully ridding Tom off the ship again walks along the edge of the deck playing his ukulele, but is attacked by Tom, who now really furious, pokes his head up, and chases Jerry, who flees into a booby-hatch, which Tom proceeds to trap him in there with a dynamite stick. Having heard no sound from inside, Tom briefly opens to check, where it is revealed that Jerry is merely standing behind the door. Jerry then kicks Tom downwards, locks Tom inside with the dynamite stick and runs off. Tom is left struggling to escape and screaming "HELP! GOD! LEMME OUT--" before the dynamite stick immediately explodes.
Next, Jerry flees into a theater where the Tom and Jerry cartoon Texas Tom is being shown, where both Tom and Jerry temporarily stop chasing each other to watch the cartoon. As the cartoon plays, both Tom and Jerry laugh at each other's misfortunes much to each other's annoyances, resulting in Tom throwing Jerry off the ship and into the air. After reaching his highest point, a seagull catches Jerry, only to be swatted away when Jerry hits him with his ukulele. Jerry realizes that he is going to fall, but eventually lands back onto the ship on the mast, falls into a vent, and drops into a food serving tray with pancake slices and sausages, which the ship chef proceeds to serve to, unaware that Jerry had landed on it.
The captain praises Tom for keeping mice off the ship until the food is served and then much to Tom's horror, it turns out to be the tray Jerry fell into. Tom was thrown into the ship brig as his punishment and watches after some sea water splash onto his face just as Jerry surfs to the coast of Hawaii.
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- During the footage scene, stock footage of Texas Tom is used, albeit with altered audio.
- Tom talks in the cartoon; he says "Help! God! Gimmie out...", this was one of the few times Tom shouts when he is trapped inside the booby-hatch.
- This is the first cartoon to take place in Hawaii.
- Some aspects in the cartoon would be used in later nautical-themed cartoons such as Calypso Cat and Puss 'n' Boats.
- In Calypso Cat, Jerry gets in the ship the same way he did in this cartoon.
- Puss 'n' Boats also shares a similar premise of Jerry attempting to sneak onto a ship which Tom is guarding to keep the boat free of mice.
- The opening scene of Surf-Bored Cat homages the ending of this cartoon where the cruise ship arrives at the beaches of Hawaii. In addition, in that same short Jerry getting his head stuck inside a coconut is similar to in this short.
- Tom's sailor scout outfit has also appeared in Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers along with his cowboy outfit from Texas Tom, his musketeer outfit from The Two Mouseketeers, and his beach outfit from Salt Water Tabby.
- The ending tune of the short where Jerry surfs to Hawaii is "Aloha Oe". Salt Water Tabby also ends with the tune of "Aloha Oe".
- This is the first Tom and Jerry cartoon to credit the background artist in the opening credits.
- This is one of the few where Tom gets the better of Jerry for most of the cartoon until the tables turn.