Pecos Pest

Plot synopsis:
Jerry receives a telegram from his Uncle Pecos, saying he is on his way to the big city from Texas for a guitar solo and will be staying with his nephew for the night; Pecos then arrives shortly after. The mustached mouse (who stutters in a fashion similar to Porky Pig) gives Jerry a performance on his guitar, playing his new song, "Crambone" (his variation of the song "Frog Went A-Courting"), which he gets through most of until he breaks a guitar string toward the end.
Uncle Pecos asks Jerry if he has a spare guitar string, but Jerry shakes his head in the way of saying no. Pecos looks out the mouse hole and claims he sees another string. He walks up to a sleeping Tom and fearlessly plucks a whisker off the cat's face and installs it into his guitar, startling Tom awake. As Pecos starts to play a song, a shocked Jerry comes to the rescue and quickly carries his reckless uncle away from Tom back to the mouse hole, accidentally banging his uncle's head on the wall just above the hole whilst doing so. Just as Tom is about to get them, Jerry drags Pecos into the hole, but Pecos quickly sticks his head out and thanks a confused Tom for his "service".
Tom then heads to the bathroom to examine his severed whisker in the mirror, but then he hears the sound of Pecos breaking another string. Pecos then appears and plucks another whisker from Tom's face. An angry Tom seizes Pecos, but Jerry arrives, rescuing his uncle again by squirting a tube of toothpaste into Tom's face, with the toothpaste forming into a pair of glasses. As Jerry makes a run back to the mouse hole with Pecos, they fall through a floor grate. Tom arrives and listens to Pecos continuing to play his guitar until he breaks another string and claims he needs another whisker. Scared of feeling any more pain due to another whisker being plucked, Tom barricades the grate and flees. He hides next to the basement door, which Pecos throws open on top of him, and calls for the cat while Jerry holds onto his uncle's tail, trying to restrain him.
The force of the impact causes the basement door to break into pieces, revealing a flattened Tom, who immediately runs away as Pecos follows. Tom slams anything he can find onto Pecos in order to keep him at bay: first a bread bin, then the top half of a Dutch Door shut (without realizing that, because Pecos is a mouse, he can simply walk underneath it), and finally a mop. As if uninterrupted, Pecos keeps coming and tries to reason with the cat that he needs a whisker to fix his guitar and is not going to let a broken string stand in the way of his fame and fortune. As a last resort, Tom jumps out the kitchen window and runs back to the front door before shutting it. He slowly checks through the peep-hole to see if the coast is clear, but Pecos suddenly reaches through and yanks off a whisker.
Pecos installs the whisker, which immediately snaps after he tunes his guitar. Tom frantically runs away to look for another place to hide. Pecos comes searching for him again, and finds him sitting on a chair wearing a knight's helmet and holding a book and a lit cigar. Tom dumps some cigar ash onto Pecos's head, but an unfazed Pecos responds by flipping the chair over and removing another whisker. Adamant not to lose the two leftover whiskers, Tom dashes into a nearby closet and slams the door shut. Pecos then invites Jerry to listen to the song he's going to play for his encore, which he plays at first with no problems. This causes Tom to calm down a little and he steps out of his hiding place. But just as he is liking the music that Pecos is generating, the snap of yet another string is heard, causing Tom to instantaneously gasp and retreat back into the closet.
Determined to get another whisker, Pecos approaches the closet door, declaring, "You know darn well I can't leave without a guitar string." before he proceeds to attack the door with an ax. Tom finally surrenders with a white flag, pulls out his fifth whisker and hands it to Pecos. Later, Pecos announces to Jerry that he has to leave and reminds him to watch his concert the next night. The night comes, and both Jerry (excitedly) and Tom (who now has only one whisker left and is very irritated) are watching his performance on the living room TV. Pecos starts playing, but midway through, one of the guitar's strings snaps again. Tom goes up to the TV and laughs hysterically at Peco's situation, knowing that he has no replacement strings. But in a comical twist, Pecos reaches through the TV screen and yanks out Tom's last whisker, leaving the feline baffled as Pecos finishes his performance.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Very good Tom and Jerry-I love Uncle Pecos!!!.
This cartoon introduces (for the only appearance, sadly) Jerry's Uncle Pecos (voiced by Shug Fisher, who also plays the "gee-tar" here, marvelously) who is gonna be a star on TV.
A word of advice: stay on his good side.
You do not want to rile this boy at all!
I wonder if Uncle Pecos is the father to Jerry's cousin Muscles?
Oh, well, I digress.
The end of this is hilarious and there is an incredible guitar solo that Uncle Pecos does for an encore.
Most highly recommended..
Froggie went a-courtin' to bring us a cool cartoon!.
Jerry's Uncle Pecos comes to visit, during which he practices playing for his big moment when he will get to play his guitar on stage in public.
Trouble is, he keeps having an accident with the strings (they have a habit of breaking), and this trouble is further enhanced when he finds suitable replacements on Tom's face...Very funny -- but then would you expect anything less?This cartoon was the last to be produced by the legendary Fred Quimby.
He retired after this cartoon was finished.
Hanna and Barbera were to produce the remaining eighteen cartoons they did before MGM pulled the plug on the animation department in 1957..
The greatest.
Although I am now 48 Years old, and have seen "Pecos Pest" countless times over the Years it is "still" funny as all get out, and even my Children just love this Cartoon.
If I am on my out of the Door and I happen to see that it is on, whatever it is will have to wait for those 7 Minutes.
It is I would say my number One favorite Tom & Jerry Cartoon.
I also was intrigued by the person doing the voice of Uncle Pecos, and I always told my best friend I thought it was the guy who portrayed Shorty Kellems on the Beverly Hillbillies TV Show.
Low and behold I found out Uncle Pecos was indeed voiced by Shug Fisher (aka George Shug Fisher)who did portray Shorty..
Jerry's Uncle.
Jerry the mouse's guitar playing Uncle Peco from Texas comes to spend the night with him before he goes for his big debut on national TV.
When his guitar string breaks he just plucks the whiskey of Tom the cat.
This happens multiple times.
Yea it's pretty much a one-joke premise, but it's pretty entertaining none the less.
Perhaps not the best of the tom and jerry shorts, but I enjoyed it enough.
Someone should post the lyrics to Peco's song LOL This humorous animated short can be found on disc 2 of Warner Brother's 2-DVD Spotlight Collection set.My Grade: B-.
Different, But Not One Of The Better T&J Cartoons.
Having seen a lot of these Tom and Jerry cartoons, I usually enjoy a departure from the normal cat-chasing-mouse story, but this one just didn't connect.
Once again, Tom suffers needlessly.The story begins when Jerry receives a telegram one night which reads: "Me and My Guitar On Way To Big City for Television Debut --Stop - Will Spend Night With You, (signed) Uncle Peso"Soon Uncle Pecos is there, a little guy with a long mustache, sombrero hat, cowboy boots and a two-string banjo.
He can't stop singing, "Frog Went A- Courtin," which is going to perform the following night on TV.The gag of the entire cartoons come next when a string breaks on the guitar.
Uncle Peso wakes a sleeping Tom Cat and plucks out one of his whiskers.
This happens about every 15 seconds the rest of the way, no matter what Tom does to get away from this maniac.As mentioned, once again, poor Tom gets hurt while just minding his own business.
The stuttering singer Uncle Peso, was cute for a short while but his act grew thin and too much of this cartoon - over half of it - was just him singing that stupid song..
Another example of a one-joke Tom and Jerry cartoon, but it works.
The story is a little on the predictable side, but this was still very enjoyable.
Pecos Pest is very one-joke but it works.
Tom and Jerry are both great, but the real star is Uncle Pecos, marvellously voiced by Shug Fisher.
Uncle Pecos has a big moustache, an over-sized cowboy hat and plays the banjo while singing constantly at the top of his lungs.
The song itself may grate to some people, but I like it, it has a real country flavour to it, as does a lot of the music here.
The animation is lovely, and the visual gags all work perfectly.Overall, Pecos Pest is not the best Tom and Jerry cartoon, but it is a very enjoyable one, that's all that matters really.
8/10 Bethany Cox. Crambone..
I'm not usually a fan of 'guest' characters in T&J cartoons, who are more often than not unbearably twee, but Jerry's Uncle Pecos (voiced by Shug Fisher) is anything but: when he needs a new string for his guitar, he pursues Tom like an unstoppable Terminator, fearlessly plucking the poor cat's whiskers to mend his instrument.
As if this wasn't funny enough, he does so all the while singing a very silly song (Froggy Went A Courting) in a stuttering style that is quite frankly just bizarre.
Bizarre and very funny!To top it all off, there is a delightfully surreal gag at the end of the cartoon where Pecos, performing on TV, breaks another string and reaches out of the television set to pluck Tom's last whisker.
Great stuff!.
One-Joke cartoon....but what a joke!.
The brilliant team of Hanna/Barbera knew that their "Tom and Jerry" series was pretty much creatively out of gas by the early fifties (though the Oscars didn't realize this--the safest bet in Hollywood was on a T & J cartoon for at least an Oscar nomination)...so they began introducing 'guests' to attempt new plots.
This short was by far the most successful!Uncle Pecos is hilarious...as he warbles and sputters through "Froggie Went A'Courtin'" time and time again--and breaking his "geee-tar strangs" as he preps for his big television debut (in color, no less!).
It falls upon Tom to supply the replacements--with his whiskers painfully removed (all six are ultimately sacrificed for the guitar).Some marvelous guitar playing--one solo is so remarkably like Les Paul, I checked the Internet to see if it was him.
It wasn't--but that doesn't detract from a marvelous cartoon.
There are not many Tom and Jerry cartoons worth watching today (their violent and racist antics throughout their overview are rather repulsive), but this one is worth watching over and over.
Give Hanna/Barbera credit--they knew when to let other characters do what the 'stars' could no longer pull off.