Saturday Evening Puss
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| Saturday Evening Puss | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna (unc.) Joseph Barbera (unc.) |
| Voices by | Lillian Randolph (unc.) William Hanna (unc.) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Ed Barge Kenneth Muse Irven Spence |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) |  January 14, 1950, 1957 (production re-release) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6' 30" |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Little Quacker |
| Followed by | Texas Tom |
Saturday Evening Puss is a 1950 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 48th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera who created the cat and mouse duo ten years earlier. The cartoon was produced by Fred Quimby, scored by Scott Bradley and animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, and Ray Patterson.
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[edit] Plot
Mammy dresses up before preparing to leave for the Lucky Seven Saturday Night Bridge Club. As she leaves, Tom was very happy and rushes to the living room window. He whistles to Butch, Lightning and Topsy to get their attention and rush in when Tom gives them the all-clear by showing them a sign reading O.K. for the party! and start to play loud jazz music. Also, Tom gives sandwiches to Lightning and Topsy and a sub for Butch.
But the noise has disrupted Jerry from getting his beauty sleep. Unsurprisingly, his complaints to Tom fall upon unsympathetic ears and meet with no success. Jerry's being outmaneuvered by the four cats, so he attempts to disrupt the proceedings personally. Unfortunately, now the cats do not appreciate Jerry's desperate acts and go on the warpath.
The party soon starts up again after Jerry flees into his mouse hole (and after Tom then turns the recorder back on) before Jerry pulls the plug on the phonograph and Topsy begins the chase again, trying to flatten Jerry but instead getting four taunting caricatures of Jerry imprinted on the trash can lid. Jerry sees the other cats approaching and flees through an open 2-section door, closing the top section such that all three cats run into it.
Jerry runs into Topsy coming from the other direction as he rounds a corner, so he hides behind the curtain and steals the lid. Topsy then runs back the other way, but runs into his own lid. The chase then resumes again, eventually leading Jerry into Tom's trap which causes Jerry to be squished and Tom proceeds to tie him up with the windowsill string before he and the other ally cats start to play the loud jazz music once again. Jerry swings down to the nearest table and uses the telephone to report Tom's activities to Mammy Two Shoes.
Mammy is seen playing bridge with her friends when Jerry calls and tells her about Tom's party. She races back home and crashes through the wall. When Tom opens the door and sees Mammy, the cats run away, but unfortunately for Tom, Mammy grabs his tail and throws the cats into a street wall, forming a totem pole. Mammy is upset over the fact that the cats ruined her entire evening. But to Jerry's dismay, she decides to relax by playing the same jazz recording that the cats were playing, leaving Jerry no better than before.
[edit] Voice cast
- Lillian Randolph as Mammy Two Shoes (original version) (uncredited)
- June Foray as Thin White Lady (re-animated version) (uncredited)
- Thea Vidale as Mammy Two Shoes (redubbed version) (uncredited)
- William Hanna as Jerry (uncredited)
[edit] Censorship
Saturday Evening Puss though is a part in Tom and Jerry, It has been replaced by the negro woman into a thin white lady. Chuck Jones has made the following Changes:
- Mammy two Shoes has been replaved by a thin white lady and when in the beginning they show that the Irish lady is putting nailpolish on her nail and then a phone rings and she comes to know that it is her lover's phone and then she says that she would come now and she puts on her white slippers with nothing in her hand, opens the door and closes it with her legs whereas in the original version, she puts a stoplight necklace and she has put a lot of bangles on her hand. She doesn't get the phone in the original version and she already put the red slippers on her leg. The original sound effects remain.
- When Jerry gets irritated of that music, he tells this to Tom but his voice has been muted in the re-animated version where in the original version his voice was heard.
- In the re-animated version, The Irish Lady is dancing with a man where in the original version, Mammy two shoes was playing cards in the Bridge club.
- When Mammy shouts at Tom, the cats are not seen, which was like that in the original version.
Chuck Jones has done this because Mammy is a negro and negro people who would watch this would get angry because negros are the only ones dancing, playing cards, wearing goody jewelery and hence if it is made in concise, it means that there is social discrimination between negros and other religion. Hence, He made the following efforts.
