Saturday Evening Puss

Anyone who loves some "swinging' jazz," will lose this cartoon.

The maid is stepping out for a hot night on the town. I least I got that impression with the colorful dress, garter belt and the rest. I laughed when she tested her necklace, the one with green and red jewels. She hit the green and the word "go" lit up, red for "stop!"

The moment she's out door, Tom rushes to the window, whistles to his buddies out near the garbage can and holds up a sign that reads, "O.K. For the Party." They yell "yippee" and literally fly through the window. In no time, the place is jumping. The hot jazz music in here, by the way, is fantastic! These cats know how to party!

Unfortunately, the music is keeping the mouse awake and little Jerry turns out to be party pooper. The rest of the cartoon involves his attempts at silencing the music and the cats silencing him! There are excellent sight gags in this one....and some justice at the very end.

Three things make this Tom&Jerry cartoon stand out from the crowd:

• We see more of Mammy Two-Shoes than ever, not just her face but also a bit of her social life.

• It is one of the relatively few cartoons where Jerry doesn't get a total triumph at the end.

• It is filled with good 50's jazz music.

And it is even more. Tom has a whole gang of friends, and the cat(s)-vs-mouse chase, although basically the same as usual, is filled with gags around musical instruments. Jerry is even reshaping into the musical instruments he hear.

Finally, it is one where censorship has done most work, with two revisions, first replacing Mammy Two-Shoes voice with a smoother, bland voice, and then redrawing a lot of it to replace her with a skinny white girl. And every change made it worse (except possibly replacing cards by dancing). I find it hard to see how Mammy Two-Shoes could be severely racist where she is clearly the master of her house, not always obvious in other cartoons, and replacing an overweight middle-aged black woman with an almost anorectic white girl is hardly a step forward, limiting both age, weight and skin color to something considered "right". Is it a good move to remove strong, independent black women from the screen? I know the voice is cliché but nothing more, and many new movies are worse (the new Ladykillers, the Rush Hour series...). If Chris Tucker can make fun of "black language" why can't Mammy Two-Shoes?

So it has all the action and gags of an above average cartoon, but with these unique features on top. Not mind-blowing unique but quite significant.

Tom and Jerry are my Favorite Cartoon of All Life, They have Excellent Shorts and this is one of them, Saturday Evening Puss I remember seeing it on Television in a Morning and it was excellent! I saw it again recently and it is so good as I remembered!.

Making a Cartoon about a Party is an Original Idea at this point of Tom and Jerry, in addition to Iconic characters such as Butch and the Orange Cat, this is a Tom and Jerry cartoon of Short duration with only 6 Minutes with 30 Seconds but Those 6 minutes are worth it!.

One of its positive points is the appearance of the Other Cats like Butch and the Orange Cat, which are excellent characters that make the cartoon laugh!.

The Animation is still beautiful and too fluid, the Backgrounds look exquisite as well as the Objects like the Piano which looks very Realistic and Detailed.

Scott Bradley, as always, provides quality music that fits perfectly into the atmosphere of a party!.

The Voice Acting is Top Notch and it shows in how Well Acted Mammy Two Shoes is!.

The sound effects as always are Decent and remain in the Atmosphere.

In itself, Saturday Evening Puss is a Great Cartoon that has a fast pace and is excellently managed, it has great scenes like Tom delivering food to his Colleagues or the End with Jerry getting a Counterproductive Victory, for everything I said earlier Saturday Evening Puss gets a 9!

Out of all of the Tom and Jerry episodes I see, this is my favorite of them all. This is, to start off, a great episode. I love the music and all the voices in this one. The plot is good as well: Tom's owner is out so Tom throws a party in his house and Jerry tries to stop it. I also love the part where Jerry calls Tom's owner and tells her about the party, and she comes home furious. The best/funniest part of that scene is where she throws Tom and the cats out of the house, and they form a totem pole. I laugh so hard every time I see that part. Overall, I recommend this cartoon to all Tom and Jerry fans, whether they've seen it before or not.

When Mammy Two Shoes leaves the house to go to her Lucky Seven Saturday Night Bridge Club, her mischievous cat Tom seizes the opportunity to host a wild party for his alley-cat pals. Jerry the mouse, who is trying to get to sleep, attempts to stop the commotion...

The cat vs mouse action in Saturday Evening Puss is fairly routine, but what makes this cartoon slightly more memorable is the sight of Tom and his pals partying like crazy, the hairy hepcats generating some seriously groovy jazz tunes (could their antics have been the inspiration for a similar scene in Disney's The Aristocats?).

An ironic ending sees Tom and his friends thrown out of the house by Mammy, much to Jerry's delight, only for the mouse to have his sleep disturbed when Mammy puts on a record at top volume