Springtime for Thomas
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
When the first day of Spring sets in, Jerry wants to play with Tom, but Tom's attention has become fully focused on Toodles Galore, a very feminine white cat, who is sunbathing outside. It is love at first sight, and as Tom rushes to pick up Toodles' handkerchief, she blows a kiss him, knocking him lovesick. As Toodles tosses sweets into Tom's mouth, a green devil appears and convinces Jerry to break things up between Tom and his new-found love as revenge. Jerry sends a forged letter supposedly from Toodles, with perfume, to Tom's rival Butch, who freshens up and then speeds off to meet Toodles for tea.
As Tom kisses Toodles, Butch lies on the sun lounger next to Toodles, starting a fight between the two over Toodles' heart. Tom hits Butch with a croquet mallet, but grabs Tom and throws him into the swimming pool. Butch then sings Quiéreme Mucho to Toodles with his guitar, but Tom tips Butch into the pool. As Tom drinks, Butch whacks a ball into his throat with a croquet mallet, knocking Tom out. Butch then whacks the ball onto Tom's head to send Tom sliding through croquet rings and crashing into a pole, causing Tom to land on a barbecue and be rotated around on a rotisserie.
Toodles then places flowers in Butch's hair, but Jerry and his anti-conscience place a pin under the lounger and jab him. Tom then picks the pin up, causing Butch to chase Tom. Tom whacks Butch by turning a statue before climbing the diving board and diving into the water. Tom quickly drinks all the water, making Butch crash onto the pool floor. Tom then places a flower pot on a swing and hurls the swing at Butch, but Butch throws the swing back, catching Tom on the seat. As Tom swings back, Butch hits him with his guitar, making Tom fly out of the garden.
Finally, Tom has had it and gives up. He reconciles with Jerry as they shake hands. Tom good-naturedly presents his hind end for Jerry to boot, Jerry does, and the chase is on again. However, Jerry then runs into a beautiful female mouse, and its love at first sight. After she blows a kiss to Jerry, Jerry pushes Tom away and snuggles up to his newfound girlfriend.

Review: How Easily We Males Are Ruined By A Beautiful Female.
This cartoon might be the ultimate - and wildly exaggerated - example of how us men can make such fools of ourselves over beautiful women.
We are just putty in their hands!It's springtime and Tom is love, so much so they doesn't even pay attention when Jerry rips off a large the fur on his back.
(This is why I usually root for Tom - and lose, of course.) The cat is staring out the window as the hot feline across the way, who is lounging in a chair reading "Har-Puss Bazaar." Tom is perched at the window just sighing at "Toodles."Some of the sight gags of Tom being totally enraptured by this "woman" are very funny.
Jerry doesn't think they are funny and when a little green devil pops out next to him, he hears "Hey, are you going to stand there and let a dame come between you and him?" The devil keeps urging Jerry to do something about the situation because "that dame has him eating out of her hand." Admittedly, Tom looks pretty silly and has lost all sense of dignity over this beautiful pussy with the long lashes.Anyway, the devil's plan is to provide another cat instead of Tom for the woman, so a black alley cat, living in a garbage can, is recruited.
This black cat turns out to be hilarious and the rest of the cartoon is the two males bashing the hell out of each other to try to get the female's affections.
These guys pull out all the stops!In the end, we get another surprise, and another example of what I mention in the first paragraph.
This was a solid Tom and Jerry cartoon and, to me, the year 1946 started ushering in a newer era of their material, more violent but also a lot funnier..
A spring in his step..
Jerry wakes and figures it's going to be another day of being chased by Tom. Thinking giving Tom a big kick in the ass will get the action started he's surprised to find Tom unresponsive.
The reason?
Tom is in love with Toodles, the girl cat across the street.
He's too head over heels to care about chasing a mouse.Jerry then thinks of a cunning plan to tear his attention away from Toodles by faking a love letter to local alley-cat Butch.
It's turns out Butch is more adept at making Toodles swoon and Tom is soon out of the picture as far as dating is concerned.With quite a few inventive moments and loads of visual gags and a nice twist ending, this is certainly one of the better T&J shorts..
Jerry or Toodles?.
Jerry is disappointed to find that Tom has a crush on Toodles, a beautiful female cat that he can see from his window.
Jerry, with the help of his evil side, tries to break them up by bringing in rival black cat (who later became known as Butch, after the dog's name changed from Butch to Spike).Very amusing stuff!.
A Tom & Jerry cartoon for Valentine's.
Here is another great cartoon for Valentine's Day (or any other day), starring the dynamic duo of "toondom:" Tom and Jerry.
This is my favorite Tom and Jerry cartoon from 1946, where Tom falls in love with a cute girl cat named Toodles.
In this short, Jerry peered by the spirit of jealously forges a letter laced with perfume (supposedly from Toodles) to an alley-cat named Butch to break-up Tom's romance, so Jerry could selfishly have his "frenemy" back.I don't have any particular scene that I like because I love this cartoon, and I love how Toodles is designed.
So that is all I could say about this cartoon..
Toodles is gorgeous!.
I loved Springtime for Thomas, it was a very interesting change of pace as the chases between the legendary cat and mouse duo are not abundant here, instead Tom is head over heels in love with Toodles.
Looking at Toodles, it is not hard to see why Tom AND Butch are smitten with her, she is gorgeous!
The animation is nice enough if not quite up to scratch with other Tom and Jerry cartoons, and the story does have its predictabilities.
But the characters are great and I was glad that there weren't many of them, that way the cartoon is more focused on what it should be focused on, the music is lovely and the visual gags still delight.
Overall, a very nice cartoon and an interesting change of pace.
9/10 Bethany Cox. The Love Cats..
Spring has sprung, love is in the air, and Thomas has fallen for Toodles, the fancy rich feline next door.
All gooey-eyed and completely under the posh pussy's spell, the once proud mouser no longer has time to chase poor old Jerry, preferring to wait hand and foot on the girl of his dreams.Nose put out of joint, the rejected rodent plots to ruin Tom's chances: he sends a local alley cat a fake love-letter signed by Toodles, and sits back as the mangy bit of rough becomes Tom's bitter love rival.After much mayhem, with the guys fighting furiously for temptress Toodles' attention, Tom admits defeat and returns to mouse-chasing duties, only to find Jerry cooing over a ravishing lady rodent.
Oh, the irony!Springtime for Thomas is another reasonable caper, with the usual quota of violence and laughs, but, once again, does not prove to be anything particularly special.
Fans of the cat and mouse duo will undoubtedly have fun, but with the old 'devil on the shoulder' gag proving to be the most inspired moment, I felt a little disappointed..
Love is a many splendored thing..
"Springtime for Thomas" is a 7.5-minute cartoon from the Golden Age of Animation, from 1946 to be more precise and it means that this one is already over 70 years old.
It is a Hanna Barbera production that is probably among their more known Tom and Jerry shorts these days.
It is also one of the rare films where we have Tom being referenced as Thomas and we also hear him talk on one occasion.
This one is all about love.
Tom prefers drooling over the female cat next door over playing cat-and-mouse games with Jerry, an unacceptable situation for the little mouse though and this film in its entirety is really a great deal about the playfulness between the two and not at all about them being enemies.
But in order to keep it from being too light, we have another male cat, a black one, being the antagonist to Tom as he clearly has his plans too with the attractive female cat.
Luckily for Tom, these cartoons often have David defeat Goliath and as he is physically inferior to the other cat, this means that he manages to defeat him most of the time, something he rarely manages when going up against Jerry.
And when eventually the status quo is restored, then things become difficult again quickly the way they were before and yet completely different.
A funny little film with several entertaining interactions.
Certainly a good watch if you love old cartoons.
I give it a thumbs-up and think you should see it..
Jerry interferes with Tom's love life!.
It is springtime; the flowers are in bloom and Thomas has fallen in love with Toodles, the cat sunbathing outside.
Jerry is not pleased with this; he wants to have fun tormenting Tom but no matter what he does Tom just keeps on staring at Toodles.
When Tom goes over to Toodles and starts to flirt, a little devil-mouse pops up next to Jerry and tells him to do something about the situation.
What he does is write a letter to an alley cat, claiming to be from Toodles, inviting him round.
Inevitably when the alley cat turns up and starts making advances towards Toodles a jealous fight starts and the two cats battle for her attention; eventually Tom is forced to concede defeat and it looks as though things will get back to usual with him and Jerry...
till a lady mouse appears on the scene.This was a fun short where Jerry is very much the antagonist for once.
It is also notable because Jerry is only slightly involved in most of the action as the fight between Tom and the alley cat provides the vast majority of the violent gags.
That is okay though as it is fun watching the two cats fighting.
The gags are of the sort one would expect; both creative and violent; they also come thick and fast.
Not all the gags are violent though; I particularly liked how the alley cat combed his hair with the bony remains of a fish before setting off to meet Toodles.
The animation is up to the usual high standard of the era and Scott Bradley's musical soundtrack was great too.