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Overview

The Dog House is the 72nd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short.

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Plot[]

Spike the Bulldog finishes blueprints of his dream dog house. He plans to build it and prepares tools and paint. As he finishes building the structure of the dream house he sees Tom chasing Jerry around. As Spike watches Tom hit Jerry with a piece of wood, he shields his dream house but Tom accidentally causes Spike to land on and crush the dream house. When Tom sees Spike glare at him angrily, he runs off, but Spike uses his foot to trap Tom by the tail, cleans himself and warns him:

"Wait a minute, pussy cat! Ever since I was a pup, I've wanted a little place of my own! And I still want it! But if one more thing happens to my little dream house... there's gonna be moider!!"

Tom is then thrown by Spike into a mailbox. Tom sees Jerry walking by and hides behind the corner of a hedge. He then chases Jerry to the dream house, but both dig under it. Tom ends up taking Spike on a wild-ride on his back by accident; Spike hits Tom's head with his hammer but this causes Tom to lose his balance and throw Spike onto his own dream house. Tom then flees, before Spike reacts. After Tom escapes, Spike then taps his fingers on the rubble in annoyance.

Sometime later, Spike finishes building his dream house and prepares to paint it. Tom is still chasing Jerry about and Jerry plants a skate in Tom's path so that Tom will step on it; Tom slides into the dream house shoving it away. An unnoticing Spike grabs Tom's tail and paints it red until he notices who he is painting. When Tom flees, Spike chases him, but is delayed by Tom using an ax as a threat to destroy his dream house. Tom then teases Spike by pinching Spike's nose like a noise-maker. Spike tries to attack but is delayed by the ax again until the ax's blade falls off the handle. Before Spike can punish Tom, Tom distracts Spike to look straight, whacks him in the head with the handle and runs off as a dazed Spike falls over in pain... onto his dream house which shatters apart again.

Tom flees behind the house, but sees Jerry walking past him. When Jerry flees, Tom grabs a lawn-roller and chases after Jerry. Spike has finally finished his dream house but sees Tom rushing with the roller after Jerry towards the dream house. Spike holds up his hand to order Tom to stop, but Tom just rams through, flattening Spike & the dream house into an arrow shape.

Tom chases Jerry into his mouse-hole and puts a stick of dynamite in the doorway and lights it, but Jerry throws it into Spike's dream house. When Tom tries to grab the dynamite from the dream house, he is stopped by an angry suspicious Spike who prepares to look inside. Tom tells him not to peek inside, but Spike refuses the warning and looks inside only to see the dynamite detonated, destroying the dream house and leaving Spike in a black-face sunflower appearance.

Tom sees Jerry climbing up a power-pole and tries to use a fire-ax to chop the pole down. Spike finally has finished building his dream house but sees the pole falling towards it. To protect it, Spike grabs the house and brings it elsewhere, but nonetheless the power pole falls right onto it and crushes the dream house. 

An annoyed Spike rebuilds his dream house on a tree branch, and adds a "Home Sweet Home" sign on it for extra beauty, but sees Tom chop down the tree at Jerry. A resigned Spike leans against his dream house and grumbles "Timber" as the tree topples over and crushes the dream house and throws up the "Home Sweet Home" sign. 

Sometime later, Tom & Jerry's battle has paused so that Spike can finally achieve peace and quiet in his home. Jerry is resting on Spike's dream house roof as Tom watches behind a fence through a hole. Tom tries to lasso Jerry but ends up lassoing the dream house, pulling it and Spike into the fences, crushing the dream house. Tom thinks Jerry is fighting and pulls Spike repeatedly into the fence using a fire-hydrant as strength; however Spike is pulled through the hole. Tom tries to flee, but Spike finally has had enough and grabs Tom by the tail from the hole and pulls his back into the fences just as Tom did to Spike .

Spike and Jerry work together as partners to make and finish Spike's dream house for good with Tom acting as a slave, having to be whipped by the dog as Tom is forced to build the dream house, doing every single task at once.

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Notes[]

  • The shot of Jerry running out the door and Tom storming out breaking a hole through it was also used in Love That Pup.
  • The shot of falling power-pole was also used in Hatch Up Your Troubles.
  • The final short to air in the year 1952.
  • This is one of the only three cartoons where they use the blackface flower gag, the other two being The Yankee Doodle Mouse & Safety Second.
  • The cartoon's plot was inspired by, and is very loosely based on, the 1948 Cary Grant/Myrna Loy film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. It was released on 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Censorship[]

  • Much like The Yankee Doodle Mouse, on local syndication, sometimes cut the scene with the shot of The Yankee Doodle Mouse power-pole was used in here Spike is in blackface is cut short. However, the scene remains to be shown uncensored on Boomerang.

Gallery[]

Main article: The Dog House/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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