That's My Mommy

Plot synopsis:
A mother duck is sleeping on her nest of eggs, but one of the egg suddenly rolls from the nest and begins to hatch. The duckling, Quacker, slips under a sleeping Tom outside and hatches underneath him, causing Quacker to assume Tom as his mother. While the duckling snuggles next to his "mommy", Tom places two sticks across a fire and ties Quacker to another stick, intending to spit-roast him. Jerry walks in, and horrified by the sight, rescues Quacker by placing Tom's tail on the rotisserie.
Jerry unties Quacker, but Quacker mistakes him for a kidnapper and cries for Tom's help. After Quacker runs back to Tom for comfort, Tom decides to inherit his mistaken role to keep a hold of the duckling and try to eat him. Quacker is watching Tom make pastry in the kitchen, which Tom uses as an oven bed for the duckling. After Tom closes the oven, Jerry smacks him with a broomstick and knocks him unconscious with the oven door. Jerry grabs Quacker, but the duckling once again fights him off and runs back to Tom, reviving him with water. The now conscious Tom angrily grabs Quacker, but Quacker kisses him and calls him a "nice mommy". Tom then makes "Stuffed Roast Duckling", giving Quacker a giant bowl of pudding to eat to make him stuffed.
Tom then places Quacker back in the oven next to vegetables, but Jerry comes to the rescue and uses a can opener to cut the door open. Quacker promptly starts throwing the vegetables at Jerry. Jerry carries the angry duckling into his mousehole to explain that Tom is not his mother, but Quacker stubbornly refuses to believe him, slamming the book shut onto Jerry before running away. When Tom notices Jerry chasing after Quacker, he traps the mouse in a jar, ties it shut with string and then throws it down a well. Still determined to eat Quacker, Tom then makes "Stewed Duck". Quacker then grabs the spoon off him, wanting to give him a rest, but then sees that a duckling is part of the recipe and finally realizes that Tom wants to eat him.
Deeply saddened, Quacker voluntarily prepares to jump into the pot to cook himself and make his "mommy" happy, telling Tom that he loves him. However, Tom has a change of heart and saves Quacker by grabbing him mid-air. Feeling guilty after the duckling's love towards him, Tom hugs Quacker and literally cries rivers of tears. Jerry manages to escape from the jar and return to the house, but then is stunned when he looks outside, seeing Tom and Quacker swimming across the nearby duck pond, with Tom having adopted the duckling as his own child. As a cartoon ends, the pleased duckling exclaims to Jerry: "That's my mommy!".

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Perhaps a little too short, but very funny and sweet.
I love Tom and Jerry, and I enjoyed That's My Mommy.
And yes, I like Little Quacker, he is very engaging and cute, not annoying like some people make him out to be.
The cartoon is perhaps too short at only 6 minutes, but it moves very quickly and is very satisfying.
The animation is stunning, and the music is a deft touch too.
The sight gags are consistently funny, and are delivered thick and fast, but I was most impressed by the ending.
And not in a bad way too, it was so unexpected and such a sweetly sentimental way to finish a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Tom is crafty, Jerry is a lot of fun and Little Quacker is really cute I think.
Overall, a delightful cartoon, with just the right touch of the funny and the sweet.
9/10 Bethany Cox. One of my favorite Tom & Jerry shorts with Little Quacker.
I was shocked and surprised by the negativity towards Jerry's friend the duck Little Quackers, voiced by a fellow named Red Coffey NOT Clarence Nash as people say.
I thought he's a very cute character in the Tom & Jerry cartoons, despite a few faults (admittedly).
This short is one of my favorite shorts with Little Quacker; also one of my favorite Tom & Jerry shorts in Cinescope too.In this short Little Quacker is a duckling that thinks that Tom it's he's mother after being hatched at Tom's feet, because Tom was the first thing he see after he hatched of course.
But Tom was trying to make into a duck dinner, and Jerry was trying save the naive little duck.
I love it when Tom actually saves Quacker from willingly becoming a duck dinner.
With tears streaming down his face, Tom adopts the duckling as his own child - so cute!!.
Tom the mom..
That's My Mommy features that insufferably cute duckling Quackers, who, having been accidentally hatched by Tom, believes the cat to be his mommy.
Of course, Tom isn't going to waste a golden opportunity to have duck for dinner and gets out his cookery book, but every recipe is ruined by Jerry mouse, who repeatedly intervenes.As far as I am concerned, Quackers is only slightly less irritating than Nibbles the mouse, and his presence is guaranteed to get my back up.
Fortunately, there is still some sadistic fun to be had in watching Tom trick the duckling into a pastry dish or feed him full of stuffing before popping him into a tray of vegetables, even if Jerry inevitably spoils things.
The ending, however, is horribly twee, with Tom realising the error of his ways and adopting Quackers.
Gack!.
Okay, but not great....
This is another Tom & Jerry cartoon that features the little yellow duckling.
He hatches from an egg after ending up underneath the sleeping Tom, and thinks that Tom is his mother.
Tom tries to eat the duckling, while Jerry tries to explain who its real mother is.
This was the first cartoon William Hanna and Joseph Barbera produced as well as directed after their previous producer, Fred Quimby, retired from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Although the two's skill is still evident, somehow the 'feel' is a bit lacking in comparison to previous episodes.
The items painted onto cels look a bit 'furred' around the edges, and are not as cleanly painted as before.
The backgrounds are also not too great, and the story just does not have quite the same level of humour that had been attained previously..
Dark Humor, With A Sentimental Ending.
"Little Quackers," voiced by Clarence Nash, kills me.
Yeah, I really laugh at the little yellow duck and love the material the writers use when he's in these Tom and Jerry cartoons.
A lot of the humor, as in this one, is a dark humor and a little more subtle than the usual Tom-Jerry chase scenes.
Sometimes I get tired of all the chases so the little duck provides a different kind of humor, although we usually see a similar storyline of Jerry trying to save Quackers from being eaten by Tom.When I say dark humor, I mean early scenes like the one here in which the baby duck hatches by mistake under Tom, thinks the cat is its mother and in seconds, is tied to a spit and being roasted by Tom.Throughout this cartoon, Quackers thinks "mommy" is being nice to him and the whole Tom is preparing him for dinner in various ways!
In a way, it's a little sadistic but it's funny and you know Quackers will survive somehow.In fact, the ending is a shocker and just the opposite of the black humor - a real sentimental finish.Highly recommended: lots of laughs and a sweet finish..
Heartwarming Cartoon..
Just leaving a quick comment before reviewing the cartoon, It really bothers me when people give credits for Fred Quimby being the greatest man involved in these cartoons, when it was clear that it wasn't, all he did was steal credits from William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, in the Oscar ceremonies, he got the statues for himself and didn't even call them once for the ceremonies.
This was the first cartoon that Hanna-Barbera did without Fred Quimby in charge, and you can see it, the cartoons got more experimental.
Such as the unpopular "Blue Cat Blues", Tom and Jerry teaming up a lot in these cartoons, and other things.Moving to the Review, anyway, this cartoon got some really good sight gags, does a excellent use of the CinemaScope technology (A Thing that I wish that it was still on theaters today), the Music never disappoints, and the animation is really good, as always.The Story is that Little Quacker's Egg hatched under Tom, making him believe that Tom is his mother, and give him all the love, Tom doesn't correspond well, seeing him as meal instead, Jerry sees this, hilarity ensues.
This cartoon got a really heartwarming ending and brought a tear to my eye in the end.
It's really nice seeing Tom have a change of heart.I Recommend it to everyone that calls himself or herself as a Tom and Jerry fan..
One of my all-time favourite Tom and Jerry cartoons and my favourite episode to feature Quackers..
My mum and I once rescued an orphaned duckling.
I named it Ducken.
It would sit in front of the fire.
We gave it to one of those bird sanctuary places.
Anyway-aww!
This short is just too cute!
I love it very much.
Who ever couldn't?
It's very brief, but so much fun it don't matter.
For me all the laughter in this one comes from Quackers the duckling-or rather his hilarious and adorable voice, as provided by Red Coffey.
There are several different opinions as to who does the voice, but that's what it says.
I really love the humour of Quackers's homely attitude:"now you sit down, Momma, an gimme that spoon!" Three bits that make me laugh featuring him are when he indignantly refuses to believe who his mommy is and slams the book on Jerry, when Tom puts the little onions on his feet, and when he says goodnight to Tom just before he closes the oven door, and Tom pauses while he says it!
Sometimes on things of this nature it's the little things that can make you laugh.
All my favourites of this show have this particular look to them.
Much more humorous than dramatic, although you would surely have to have a heart of stone not to feel a little pang at what the duck says just as he's about to dive into the pot.
It's all very lighthearted.
I suppose from an adult perspective certain things in this little yarn could be seen as being vaguely "dark".
But no child would ever see it that way.
The final line, which is also the title, always got a big laugh.
The animation is colourful and as always lively and fun.
It is only a mere six minutes long so there's not too much to talk about-but who cares about that, it's a classic.
It's still as timeless and heartwarming as the day it was released.
Fifty years have done little if anything to diminish the simple joy of That's My Mommy.
Bye-bye..
Who would had guess that Tom had an change of heart?.
More of an dramatic picture if anything, this first of the post Quimby production era begins as the the baby duck's egg rolls to Tom and the cat hatches the egg.
The baby duckling (named Quackers) adopts Tom as his mother.
Even though Jerry tries to warn the duck, by showing him an picture book of an mother duck and duckling on one side, and the mother cat and kitten on the next page.
Meanwhile, Tom tries to cook the duckling various times.
Yet every time, Jerry saves the duckling from being cooked.
Eventually, the duckling realized the truth and decides to cook himself and yet, still tells Tom that he still loves him.
In an surprise move, Tom cries NO!
and saves the duckling just in time and tears are seen coming from Tom's face.
Meanwhile, Jerry, after freeing himself from the pan that Tom dumped in the well, couldn't believe his eyes.
As both Tom and Quackers are seen at an nearby lake quacking at each other.
The duckling gets the last word by telling the audience that Tom is his mommy.
I though the picture was good for it's dramatic scenes but for comedy, not so much.
I still recommend it only for it's dramatic parts and the ending.I give it an 7 out of 10.