His Mouse Friday

Plot synopsis:
Tom is first seen being ship-wrecked and lost at sea in a parody of Robinson Crusoe. He only has his old shoes to eat in order to survive. Tom though soon spots a distant tropical island and is catapulted there by a wave. After Tom finds it tough to eat a coconut and a tortoise he finds Jerry and decides to eat the mouse instead. Tom has Jerry on a frying pan but the rodent escapes and Tom chases him into a native village. Jerry creeps Tom out by playing tom toms and Tom gets scared.
Using soot from a cooking pot Jerry disguises himself as a black native complete with a deep voice and talks gibberish to Tom. He presumably tells Tom he has to be cooked to death and orders him to "hop the pot". Then he gives him vegetables to cut but to "hold the onions". Tom, accepting his fate, cooperates. He soon feels the heat after Jerry lights a fire. Tom though notices Jerry's loincloth has come loose exposing his brown fur. Discovering he has been played for a sap the cat taunts Jerry. Jerry using a bone tied to his head flies away and Tom gives chase. However, the cat ends up stopping at the feet of a group of real cannibals. When Tom looks up, he is frightened to see them with one of them licking his lips delightfully and fancying barbecued cat. In horror, Tom runs off. The cannibals chase after him. Jerry seems to have been safe now but he then spots a shorter and thicker-lipped cannibal who also licks his lips delightfully, fancying barbecued mouse. Soon, Jerry is so terrified that he runs off, then the cannibal also chases after the mouse before the cartoon irises out.

Tags: comic

Review:
Jerry's Voice In Here As To Be Heard To Be Believed!.
The funniest part of this politically-incorrect cartoon, I thought, was Jerry's voice.
He's on an island, a la "Robinson Crusoe," minding his own business when a starving Tom is washed ashore on his raft.
Tom sees Jerry only as a steak, or a leg of chicken, a hot dog or whatever.
The poor cat is dying of hunger and would eat about anything.
However, Jerry isn't ready to sacrifice himself.
He winds up painting himself dark brown, putting a bone on top of his head and brandishing a big spear - yes, a racist stereotype - and ordering Tom around.
It's Jerry gruff voice, imitating this rough African native, that should make you laugh.
He speaks gibberish for awhile and then English, telling Tom what to do, as he tries to make a vegetable stew out of him.It's amazing how dumb Tom is at times, as he goes along with this!
Can you picture someone sitting in a big tub under a fire and being made into stew....all the while tasting the "soup" and adding a little salt here and there so you taste better?If you aren't offended at Jerry's savage-native appearance, it's got some good humor, a cute ending and you should enjoy this.
Overall, however, the cartoon is entertaining....nothing super, but worth watching..
Politically Correct?
No. But still pretty good.
This isn't one of Tom and Jerry's best cartoons, as it just isn't as funny or violent as the typical film from this era.
However, if you simply look at the film from a technical point of view, it is superb, as the animation style and quality is as good as you'll find--and even better than the great animation from MGM toons from the 1940s.Now I understand that this cartoon has been pulled from circulation because it's seen as politically incorrect due to it being an insensitive depiction of cannibals.
While it is very true that Jerry puts on black powder to make himself look Black and he puts a bone on top of his head, I am sure that some might be offended by this (after all, minstrel shows and black-face comedy are sad things from our past).
Some might also NOT be offended because the creators of this cartoon are saying nothing directly derogatory about anyone but cannibals, and I for one, do not particularly like cannibals and don't mind offending them.
It's probably not a terrible thing that this one was pulled, but it always worries me when people do this as we are losing an important part of our history, as even the ugly stuff should be remembered.
After all, how can you know how far you've come unless you've seen where you've been?.
Didn't think much of it.
Banned cartoon in which Tom is stranded on what appears to be a desert island.
But it's not long before he finds Jerry, and he's bound to be Tom's diner.But things complicate as there's a tribe on the island, and Jerry dresses up like one of them to scare Tom and have him for HIS dinner.
Best moment: when Tom has to slice up the vegetables for the 'cat-soup' and throws away the onion.
Love that expression on his face.Off course the real tribe come in the picture as well as both Tom and Jerry have to run for their lives, before the cartoon comes to a sudden stop and we don't really know how things end.Apart from that one scene with Tom in the huge soup bowl there isn't much to enjoy here.
Not that offensive either, if that's what you're looking for.
Jerry goes native..
A shipwrecked Tom is washed up on a tropical island where he is terrorised by what he believes to be a cannibalistic pygmy, but which in reality is only cheeky Jerry mouse in disguise.Woah!
Tom and Jerry cartoons from the '40s and '50s featured quite a lot of gags that might be considered racially offensive these days, but His Mouse Friday has got to be most controversial of them all so far, with Jerry blacking up and pretending to be a cannibalistic savage (complete with grass skirt, bone on his head and 'Ooga Booga' dialogue!).
The cartoon also stars a whole tribe of equally offensive, racially stereotypical natives who turn up for the fun.Personally, I find such historically awkward, socially unacceptable entertainment absolutely fascinating—a snapshot of an era gone by when political correctness simply didn't exist.
Technically, the cartoon is as accomplished as one might expect, with great animation, well timed gags, wonderful music, and superb direction..
A decent cartoon, but it isn't really Tom and Jerry at their best.
From a very early age, I have been a huge fan of Tom and Jerry.
His Mouse Friday is not one of their best though, and I can definitely see why people will not be totally enamoured by it.
The story is rather slight and has a going-by-the-motions quality to it, while there are moments that will be seen as not just stereotypical but also politically incorrect and somewhat insensitive(though I will say I was not offended by it, others might though).
Apart from a cute ending and a priceless scene with Tom and a big soup bowl, there isn't much of note that one would deem as particularly funny.
This said, it is crisply paced and is interesting in that Jerry's voice is to be heard to be really believed.
The animation is still wonderful with lots of detail and beautiful colouring, and the music is as catchy, cleverly orchestrated and action-enhancing as ever.
Jerry is sweet and cunning, and while Tom is dumber than usual he maintains his likability.
Overall, decent but not one of Tom and Jerry's finest hours.
7/10 Bethany Cox. Not as offensive as I'd expected.
This 'Tom and Jerry' short opens with Tom adrift on a raft; he is so hungry that he starts to eat his shoe.
He then spots a small island, once there he tries to get something to eat but has little luck getting to the edible parts of a coconut and a turtle.
It is then that he sees Jerry although he is so hungry he sees him as food on legs rather than as a mouse.
He tries to catch and cook Jerry but he escapes only to reappear looking much darker, with a bone in his hair and waving a spear.
Jerry then orders Tom to get into a large pot and starts cooking him!
Tom obviously believes Jerry is a dangerous local.
While Tom cooks Jerry starts dancing; when his grass skirt falls off Tom notices that Jerry is no longer uniformly dark!
It looks as if Tom now has the upper hand...
at least it does until the real locals turn up wanting barbecued cat...
and Jerry doesn't get off either; a smaller member of the tribe wants barbecued mouse!To be honest I thought this short would be a lot more offensive that it turned out to be; the locals only appear briefly and they aren't really cannibals as they intend to eat a cat and a mouse; not fellow humans.
Some people might be offended by Jerry's blacking up but it was part of a disguise...
like donning a beret and a string of onions to look French, not a black-face minstrel impression which would be more offensive.Having dealt with the potential offensiveness one just has to ask whether it was funny or not; overall I'd say it had a decent number of laughs; I liked Tom eating his shoe and failing to open the coconut and laughed when he was forced to add vegetables to the water but told to 'hold the onion'.
The locals weren't exactly funny but it was good to see that Jerry's predicament at the end was just as bad as Tom's.