Baby Puss
Tags: comic

Plot synopsis:
A little girl named Nancy is playing dollhouse, and pretending to be the mother and has also dressed Tom, apparently the family pet, up to be her baby. She scolds Tom, who is hiding under some furniture. She drags Tom out by his tail and threatens to spank him. Tom is resentful over his treatment and feels humiliated. She carries him to the bassinet, tucks him in, and shoves a bottle of milk in his mouth. She warns him, under threat of more spanking, to stay in bed while she goes downtown to buy a new girdle. Indignant at first, Tom gets a taste of milk and quickly accepts his lot, cooing like a baby and drinking from his baby bottle.
Jerry peeks from behind a dollhouse and sees Tom. Incredulous at first, Jerry proceeds to mock him by playing "Rock-a-bye Baby" on the phonograph and pretends to be a baby himself. Tom is furious and chases Jerry into the dollhouse and puts a sign that reads "Measles". Tom looks in the window to see that Jerry is in the bathtub, pretending he is bathing and brushing himself and humming the melody of "How About You?". Seeing Tom, he screams, hits him with the brush, runs downstairs to the bedroom and hides in a bed, causing a doll to turn up and shout "Mama!" Jerry uses the doll's clothes to disguise himself as a girl holding an umbrella, but his shirt falls off of him leaving his shoes on his feet and white pants that goes under it. Tom opens the dollhouse roof until Nancy returns and scolds him again. Tucking Tom back in bed, she threatens to feed him castor oil should he go out again.
Tom goes back to playing. Jerry emerges from the dollhouse and runs to the window to get the attention of Butch, Topsy, and Meathead (first seen in Sufferin' Cats!), Tom's three alley cat friends who are outside. When the trio see Tom, they begin to make fun of him. When Tom confronts the other cats, they continue to tease and humiliate him, tossing him like throwing a ball, causing him to land in a fishbowl, resulting in a wet diaper. They then capture him and change his dirty diaper with a fresh diaper, a safety pin, baby oil, baby powder, and a tight frilly pair of girl's rubber pants over the new diaper and Topsy throws the fish from the fishbowl into his pants and they sing Carmen Miranda's "Mamãe Eu Quero" with Jerry joining in. Jerry laughs as the song goes on. But the whole song stops when Nancy returns and demands to know what is going on. The other cats flee as Nancy prepares to scold Tom. She then takes Tom to a high chair, forcing him to drink castor oil. He resists at first. Jerry then squeezes a nutcracker on Tom's tail to make Tom yell in pain and therefore drink the spoonful of castor oil. Tom feels sick to his stomach and rushes to a windowsill to vomit. Jerry laughs at his misfortune, but the castor oil bottle, having turned over after Tom ran off the high chair he was sitting on, spills some of the castor oil out and Jerry ends up taking a dose of it himself, feels sick to his stomach as well and quickly joins Tom vomiting at the windowsill.

Review: Once again, very enjoyable.
There may be the odd joke that I agree could be perhaps a little on the mean-spirited side of things, but this is occasionally.
Overall, Baby Puss is very well animated and very funny, well to me it is.
Tom is great here and takes his humiliations well, while Jerry is as cunning as usual, and the girl and alley cats are good support.
Even more impressive than the characters is the animation and music.
For me, Baby Puss in terms of animation is one of the best-looking Tom and Jerry cartoons, with the backgrounds and colours stunning.
The music has a lot of energy and beauty, while the cartoon goes at a cracking pace and while there is the odd sadistic gag(though none of them are as sadistic as the Gene Dietch cartoons) Baby Puss is very funny and makes the most of a somewhat unoriginal but never predictable story.
So overall, very enjoyable, well animated and funny.
9/10 Bethany Cox. awesome!.
One of the funniest Tom & Jerry cartoons ever made.
Tom getting dressed up as a baby by a little girl is priceless in itself.
Add Jerry, and a few alley cats to the mix, and you got one funny cartoon.
Not to be missed!.
puss in booties.
An annoying prepubescent white girl dresses Tom the cat up as a baby, a bonnet, little booties, a diaper, the whole nine yards.
Tom only puts up with it to get the delicious milk and is having a good time until Jerry the mouse sees him which enrages him while the mouse mocks him.
Later Jerry gets Tom's feline friends over and embarrass's him further.
I hear some people say this one is too sadistic.
Hello..
this is a Tom and Jerry cartoon people.
If you think it's too sadistic go watch the ultra-liberal crap-fest that is "Captain Planet" This hilarious cartoon can be found on disc one of the Spotlight collection DVD of "Tom & Jerry".My Grade: A.
Too Mean-Spirited To Enjoy.
This is one of the few Tom and Jerry cartoons I would never watch again.
You know, there are many times when I watch these entertaining Tom and Jerry cartoons I root for Tom, just out of compassion.
Many times he gets brutalized by Jerry but usually there's a decent reason.
Tom is usually chasing him.
But in this cartoon, Tom gets literally tortured by other cats and takes a lot abuse physically and verbally for no reason, except incredible meanness.In the house he resides in, at least in this cartoon, some idiot little girl dresses him up as a baby complete with bonnet and diapers, puts him in a little crib, scolds him and then - thankfully - leaves.
At Tom enjoys the bottle of milk she left him.
In fact, he loves the milk so much he doesn't mind acting like a baby while he's enjoying the drink.
Jerry is watching him go goo-goo over the milk and makes fun of him.
In no time, the usual chase is on, but only until the brat comes back.Once again Tom has to endure this obnoxious girl.
In all, it happens three times.
Between the second and third, Jerry summons the neighborhood cats in to tease Tom about his outfit and baby acting.
It becomes more than teasing and the cartoon becomes almost shocking in its sadismThere were some funny scenes but not enough to overcome the mean spirit in this animated short..
Unusual Tom and Jerry short marred by being overly sadistic.
Even by Tom and Jerry's own violent standards, Baby Puss is disturbingly callous.
It begins with an unusual premise - the usual 'owner', the plump black maid, is nowhere to be seen, and Tom appears to have been catnapped by an annoying little girl who wants to play mummy-and-baby with him.
Tom puts up with this nonsense because he loves the bottled milk she feeds him, but this cosseted life comes to an end when Jerry invites Tom's alley cat friends to see how their leader is being humiliated.
This leads to a lengthy slapstick sequence in which Tom is bullied relentlessly, and maybe it's because he's dressed as a toddler that I found this quite hard to take, especially the part where his head is blown up like a balloon and later stamped on repeatedly.
I'm no wimp and I usually love violent cartoons, but this seemed too close to child abuse for comfort.
Having said that, there are plenty of laughs and even - unusually for a 1940s cartoon - a couple of jokes about vomiting!.
one of the cutest cartoons ever made!.
This is one of my favorite Tom and Jerry cartoons.
There isn't much plot, but everything that happens is just so delightful, funny, and beautifully animated, it's hard not to love.
Tom's bratty alleycat friends are always fun to watch, and Tom is definitely at his most helpless and adorable.
For old music fans, Baby Puss features a dozen great old standards brilliantly orchestrated..
This episode is a little more sadistic than usual..
After he is forced to dress up and act like a baby by a sadistic little girl, poor old Tom becomes the victim of bullying by Jerry and a group of nasty alley cats.Tom is physically and verbally attacked for the entire duration of this cartoon by every other character, and, although the level of violence is not particularly any higher than in other episodes, Baby Puss seems more mean spirited than your average T&J adventure.
The result just isn't as enjoyable as usual.There is also an overlong musical number which feels rather incongruous, and an unsatisfying ending which sees both Tom and Jerry getting a dose of Castor oil that makes them violently sick (I wanted Tom to turn the tables on his tormentors)..
Tom the Baby.
This short is one of my favorite Tom & Jerry shorts from 1943.
In this short, Tom was forced to play "baby" for the little girl of the house and he did not like it one bit!
except for the milk from the bottle.
Then when the child left the room, Jerry peeks from behind a doll house and sees Tom, who is enjoying the bottle (for the milk) and mocks him by playing "Rock-a-Bye Baby" on the turntable and pretends to be a baby himself - I love that part.
Tom is furious and chases Jerry into the doll-house.
Just when it seems that Tom has Jerry cornered, Nancy returns and scolds Tom again.
Tucking Tom back in bed, Nancy threatens to feed him castor oil if he gets out again.Jerry emerges from the doll house and runs to the window to get the attention of Meathead (from the short Sufferin' Cats!
), Butch and Topsy, Tom's three alley cat friends who are outside.
When the trio see Tom, they begin to make fun of him.
When Tom confronts the other cats, they continue to tease and humiliate him...poor Tom. Overall, I love this cartoon..
SNUFF FILM!!!.
It felt like watching a snuff film.
The cruelty for the sake of sadism was unbearable.
Poor Tom did nothing to deserve this physical and verbal sadistic abuse.
Even films such as "Hostel" and "Saw" weren't so disturbing as this short cartoon.
I would never even dream to let my children watch this abomination!.
Baby Puss.
Baby Puss (1943) *** 1/2 (out of 4)One of the best in the series has Tom being dressed up as a baby by the little girl who lives with him.
This leads to Tom being picked on by Jerry but things get even worse for the poor cat when a group of alley cats show up to continue the abuse.
BABY PUSS is without question the best film in the series up to this point and it manages to feature one great laugh after another.
For starters, the voice of the little girl is just so perfectly annoying that you really can't feel Tom's pain.
The comedy aspect is extremely high and especially with the various abuses that Tom receives at the hands of the other cats.
The diaper changing sequence is just a classic as is the scene where Jerry does some cross-dressing.
Fans of the series will certainly love this one..
too brutal.
Tom and Jerry was my childhood.
I've watched it several times, each time it still brought me joy and relaxation.
There is a certain level of violence but it usually adds fun.
But this episode...
Tom did nothing wrong to deserve the abuse.
These street cats abused him physically and mentally for the whole episode, only because Tom looks funny.
Tom is a house cat, too gentle and vulnerable against the other cats.
It reminds me of my elementary school days being bullied by some classmates because I was quiet and timid.
Tom was so helpless, even Jerry felt nothing and even helped those bullies.
I was shocked.
I thought Jerry and Tom are rivals and friends..
Baby Puss H-Less Review.
This episode is definitely not the best episode for me, but I still found moderate enjoyment here because the jokes gave me a few chuckles, and Jerry, who was the reason those cats tortured Tom, did not really win in the end as he had to deal with the bad liquid in which I do not remember its name.
If it had not been for that little human girl in this episode, I probably would have enjoyed it a significant amount more, but all in all, I like this episode..
A different approach, and a forgettable outcome.
"Baby Puss" is an American 8minute cartoon from 1943, so this one will have its 75th anniversary next year and it is from the dark days of World War II.
However, Tom and Jerry were always really unpolitical back then, so you will not see or hear any references about the global political climate during these 8 minutes.
They were perhaps also there to have people laugh and distract them from the more important events for a little while.
Barbera, Hanna, Berner and Bletcher are all household names when it comes to (MGM) animation from back then, so the premise is there for a good film.
But the eventual outcome just wasn't convincing enough.
It hardly felt like a Tom & Jerry movie at times because in the center of it all were some alley cats and Tom was just there.
Jerry even disappeared for almost the entire second half.
And these cats also do not possess the same level of quality like other supporting characters in this universe, like Jerry's nephew.
And even if this is still among T&J's most known films today, I can see why it did not receive any recognition from the Oscars like so many other cartoons starring the world's most famous cat and mouse duo.
I myself also did not enjoy it too much.
The best thing about it was perhaps the music, a whole lot this time, but the comedy simply was not good enough in here.
Thumbs-down from me.
Not recommended..
best one ...
should have been awarded.
One of the best Tom and Jerry cartoons ever made, enforced by the tribute to Carmen Miranda (who's she?
Answer: a Latin American singer with a fruit bowl on her head and with amazing teeth....search her on the internet!!!) All our family get a laugh out of this cartoon and any time we watch it I say it's definitely the best episode out of them all.
The facial expressions really set out who the characters are.
The singing and dancing lighten the violence with the small cat being done just like the famous singer (Carmen Miranda; see above).
Watch it and enjoy.
it is a tonic!!!!
If I was a teacher, I'd grade it A+++++++!!!
(Just to tell you, I'm not a teacher).