Sleepy-Time Tom

Plot synopsis:
Tom and his cat friends—Butch, Lightning, and Meathead—are singing loudly in the middle of the night. The cats drop Tom off at home; he yawns and stretches, now very tired from the night out. He climbs up onto the window ledge, deciding to sleep there. However, just as he drifts off to sleep, Mammy Two-Shoes (portrayed by Lillian Randolph) arrives and chastises Tom. Tom enters the kitchen and nearly falls asleep, until Mammy warns him to stay awake and keep Jerry out of the refrigerator, as she will kick him out of the house if she catches him sleeping. Jerry overhears Mammy's warnings and decides to make things difficult for Tom, encouraging the cat to fall asleep in order to get him thrown out.
First, when Mammy leaves the kitchen, Jerry offers Tom a bed made out of a table, a tablecloth as a blanket, and a loaf of bread as a pillow. Tom accepts this gift, but when he starts to sleep in it, he hears Mammy calling him and begins to chase Jerry. However, he trips on a carpet and his hand lands on a cushion, and as the carpet unrolls to cover him, he almost falls asleep again. He wakes up upon hearing Mammy's voice again, and nearly catches Jerry, who turns on the radio, which plays a soothing song (the final half of which is the opening to Brahm's Lullaby) and causes Tom to fall back asleep. He almost falls asleep on Mammy's shoe, but wakes up and resumes looking for Jerry. Tom finds Jerry in his mouse hole and waits for him to come out, taking a bat that he prepares to hit Jerry with. He yawns and starts to lie down, and Jerry brings him a pillow, which Tom's head falls on. Jerry manually closes his eyes, but Tom is awakened again when he loses grip of the bat, which hits him and startles him awake.
Then Tom ends up drinking a large amount of coffee for the caffeine to keep himself alert. Even after drinking from the whole pot, Tom still falls asleep until Mammy asks him Was you sleeping?. Tom shakes his head, and after Mammy leaves again, stating You hadn't better be... Tom continues to try everything to stay awake. For his first try, Tom sticks toothpicks under his eyes to try to keep them open, but both toothpicks snap under the weight of his eyelids. He then tries sticking tape onto the top of his head to keep his eyes open, only for his head to cover his eyes. Tom cunningly paints yellow circles on his eyelids to give the illusion that he is awake—though his eyes are closed and he is sleeping. Mammy is led to believe that Tom is awake, but Jerry sees through Tom's ploy, Jerry decides to rips off part of Tom's fur. The cat is immediately woken and chases after Jerry, but Jerry has made signs (which resemble the popular Burma-Shave road signs), Tom stops to read them: Are you sleepy? Want a bed? Solid comfort - straight ahead.
Jerry's signs lead Tom to Mammy's bedroom, where Tom falls asleep. Jerry watches as an unsuspecting Mammy sees Tom on her bed, and violently throws Tom out of the house. Tom crashes into a fence, but is too tired to care and simply falls back asleep while using a brick as a pillow. Tom's friends come around the corner, then upon spotting Tom having dozed off, they pick him up and tug him along with them through the alleyway, singing in the moonlight once again whilst they are leaving.

Tags: comic

Review:
Basically a one-joke concept, but a hilarious cartoon anyway.
I did see this once before on television but couldn't remember the name of it.
Seeing it again, I now know what the cartoon was, and I can also say I loved Sleepy-Time Tom. It is a one-joke concept but it was a hilarious one anyway.
The animation is simple but still very, very good, colourful and lively, and the music is wonderful.
The visual gags and the minimal dialogue add to the hilarity, and while Mammy Two-Shoes's voice has visibly changed, the character is still effective.
The story is simple, but well done, and the few voice-actors involved all do a stellar job.
Jerry is still sweet and dastardly, and I kind of felt sorry for Tom, all he wanted to do was sleep(that's what happens if you stay out too late celebrating).
Overall, I loved it, it just proves that a one-joke concept CAN work.
10/10 Bethany Cox. Same visually, but different voice for Mammy Two Shoes nowadays.
This is one of the cartoons with Mammy Two Shoes, the character who is never seen above the waist and who is a foil for Tom and/or Jerry in several shorts.
The character became controversial for stereotypical appearance, speech and behavior and were rarely seen for quite a while.
The voice has since been re-dubbed to eliminate the perceived insensitivity.
Other than the minor fact that the shorts have been altered from their original form, the cartoons are not harmed by this and have been shown more often of late.
This is a hilarious short where Mammy plays a small but vital role in the proceedings.
The change is not materially significant to enjoying the cartoon, as the dialogue is not terribly different, just the pronunciation and speech patterns.
Well worth tracking down and most recommended..
Tom Pays For His Late-Night Revelry.
"Good Night, Ladies" sing the drunken cats in the middle of the night, returning home from an evening of revelry.
Tom is more-than-ready to hit the sack.
Unfortunately for him, the headless maid (we never her face or hear her name but she's referred to on IMDb as "Mammy") spots him and gets yelled at, big-time because "the mouse in the refrigerator" is taking the food and it's the cat's responsibility, "not mine," to take care of that situation.By the way, the cartoons the other review mentioned, the one where Mammy's voice and grammar he said are altered, I don't believe are on this cartoon, which was part of the Spotlight Collection on DVD.
She sounds "black" and the grammar isn't the best, so I am presuming I saw the cartoon as it was originally presented.
That's why Whoopi Goldberg comes on with a disclaimer at the beginning of this DVD collection.Half-asleep Tom makes it to the kitchen and would much rather go to sleep than worry about Jerry.This one-gag cartoon (which many of them are) is Tom just about to clobber Jerry, the mouse giving him a pillow to fall asleep on, and then maid yelling at the cat, starting the whole process over again.
This episode was slightly below par but not bad, either..
Thomas!.
Thomas!.
A hilarious Tom & Jerry cartoon where Tom returns home after a long night out with this friends, singing a catchy tune, buzzed and sleepy.
But the poor cat needs to stay awake per the ever funny Mammy Two-Shoes to keep Jerry away from the fridge.
Loved the way Mammy Two-Shoes keep yelling "Thomas!" after she finds him asleep in various places, followed by some laugh-out-loud slapstick comedy.
Tom's struggles to stay awake makes you want to curl up in bed for a nice nap as well!Grade A-.
Tom desperately wants a cat-nap..
Tom returns home late from a drunken night out with his pals, falling asleep whilst crawling in through the window.
Mammy Two Shoes find him still there the next morning and threatens to throw the lazy cat out if he doesn't do his job and get rid of pesky mouse Jerry.
On hearing this, Jerry does his utmost to ensure that Tom is caught napping again.Sleepy-Time Tom's plot features the same wearisome location as many an earlier T&J caper—Mammy Two Shoes home—but avoids delivering too many yawns thanks to plenty of laughs.
Sure, the cartoon is essentially a one-note joke, Tom repeatedly falling asleep just as he is about to nab Jerry, but that joke is a good 'un and offers quite a bit of mileage.
My favourite gags involve Tom painting pupils onto his eyelids and trying to prop them open with toothpicks.6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.