Cartoon dodo bird holding a paint brush11/22/2023 ![]() Jerry meanwhile is having a ball improvising a war dance. Tom winces a bit at the taste, and adds salt to improve it, both in the pot and on himself. Jerry lights a fire under the pot, while Tom takes a moment out of his cutting to sample the broth in the pot around him with a ladle. “Hold the onion”, adds Jerry, in the traditional cartoon gag. Tom obliges, also cutting carrots as well. Handing Tom a stack of vegetables, Jerry orders him, “Cutta potato”. At spearpoint, he drives Tom ino the cooking pot. In one of his super-rare speaking appearances, Jerry now assumes a deep basso voice (provided by Paul Frees), and appears from the brush, bellowing out intimidating sounds that are a sort of native/English cross of nonsense words, including “Cocomo Ashtabula Yo Yo Azusa” and “Kalamazoo”, and a portion of which sounds like the mumblings of a tobacco auctioneer. Jerry decides to really lay it on heavy, by approaching a cannibal cooking pot, and scooping up charcoal from its base to blacken himself up into the disguise of a miniature native. Tom turns to see it, screams, and backs up into the points of three spears resting against a hut. Tom rears backwards, catching his tail in the mouth of a large witch doctor’s mask. Jerry adds to the foreboding, by beginning to pound out a savage beat from a tom tom drum. Tom pursues Jerry deeper into the island, then looks around, to discover he is in the middle of a seemingly deserted native village. ![]() But Jerry lands on the handle instead, flipping the hot pan into Tom’s face. As soon as Jerry steps in, Tom begins flipping him in the pan over an open fire. However, Tom is one move ahead of him, and has placed a frying pan in his path. As Jerry spots one of Tom’s paw prints in the sand, he steps backwards in apprehension. Tom sees him in three guises – as a walking pork ckop, chicken drumstick, and hot dog. Next, Tom spies a turtle as a passing meal – but appears to know nothing about the hardness of a turtle’s shell, chomping his teeth into it, and cracking most of them away.Įnter Jerry, dressed in a miniature outfit and umbrella as if a little Robinson Crusoe. Tom tries to crack a cocoanut agaunst a rock. He sights an upcoming island – but his destination is pretty much chosen for him by the ocean, as a wave picks up speed, and also the raft, then does a “Hawaiian Holiday” style transformation into a pair of watery hands, which bend the raft into a curve, then allow it to snap back into stright position, slapping Tom in the back, and driving him up onto the shore, then up the side of a cocoanut palm, and smack into the cocoanuts at its top. His food and water suplies empty, Tom turns to consuming a shoe (odd, in that he never usually wears one as part of his outfits), adding for additional calories the shoestring, as if ducking up a spaghetti noodle. His Mouse Friday (MGM, Tom and Jerry, 7/7/51 – William Hanna/Joseph Barbera, dir.) – Roughly in the tradition of past Robinson Crusoe epics, Tom Cat is now cast as the adrift castaway aboard a raft. Original layout drawing from “Symphony In Slang” – courtesy of Howard Lowery Auctions ![]() The man sums up by asking, “What’s the matter? Has the cat got your tongue?” Webster embarrassedly looks off to one side, where an angel cat sits, holding just such a body part in its paw. When the man’s story is concluded, Daniel Webster stammers for something to say, unable to comprehend a thing. Among one of the events in the young man’s life is a period where, dejected at rejection by his lady fair, he retreats to a South Sea isle and becomes “a beachcomber” – borrowing the old sight gag from Terrytoons’ Robinson Crusoe’s Broadcast to have him literally using a hair comb to sift through the beach sand. Peter and Daniel Webster with his modern turns-of-phrase in describing his life on Earth. The film is an impressionistic marvel in compiling a seemingly never-ending assembly of visual puns on commomplace words and phrases, as a newcomer to the Pearly Gates kerflummoxes St. ![]() dir.), deserves an honorable mention for purposes of this article. Symphony in Slang (MGM, 6/16/51 – Tex Avery. In this installment, we cover the years 1951 through 1953 – another period when suntans seemed desirable in spite of dermatologists’ advice, while the salty ocean spray provided sufficient relative humidity levels to allow audiences to easy distinguishing the abundance of sand on the screen from the periodic run of foreign legion pictures. There’s still a run on the real estate agencies, as toons corner the market on choice beachfront properties.
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