Episode
Tom and Jerry Tales: Kitty Cat Blues
Overview
The episode is an updating of the classic Tom and Jerry film The Zoot Cat (1944); it also has some elements of Solid Serenade (1946), with Tom wooing a female cat by singing and accompanying himself on strings. Tom is drawn the way he looked in the films from that period, and the episodes featured the same girl cat (Sherkie), though modernized. Tom now sings to her with a guitar, and in 1950s style blues. He is more interested in pursuing Jerry than in the girl, however, and wrecks the house during the chase which leads him and the mouse to getting the boot in the end.
Details
- Series
- Tom and Jerry Tales
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 32
- Air date
- 2008-02-09
- Runtime
- 7 min
Episode context
Kitty Cat Blues is Episode 32 in Season 2 of Tom and Jerry Tales. It aired on 2008-02-09. The runtime is 7 min.
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Episode 31: DJ Jerry
The record store owner asks Tom to charge the store for the night. As his owner leaves, Tom has discovers Jerry is having a party under the store. After his efforts fail, Tom turns into a rat, but is caught and out of the party. The owner returns to see his store ruined and kicks Tom out, hiring Spike to guard the store. This is the first time Tom has had an African-American master since Mammy-Two-Shoes; his owner here is a Rastafarian guest stars Phil LaMarr as The record store owner.
Episode 33: Flamenco Fiasco
In old Spain, Tom enters a Flamenco dance contest to try to win the top prize of the Golden Guitar awarded by El Presidente himself. However, this disrupts Jerry's date and he tries to sabotage the cat's efforts to win. But the two, along with their girlfriends vie in a danceoff and Tom wins by bringing the house down--literally!
More episodes from this season
Episode 30: Snow Mouse
Tom and Jerry encounter a giant abominable snowmouse during a chase in a forest in the winter. The creature begins to chase them as well, but when he's exposed to hot springs, it shrinks down to size and the duo literally blow the puffy-furred mouse away.
Episode 34: You're Lion
Tom and his owner go on a safari in Africa where he gets to meet his fellow felines, the wild lions. However, the encounter is less than friendly as instead, Tom and Jerry are chased by the lions who desire to make a meal of them.
Episode 29: Snow Brawl
A truckload of spilled magic hats bring Tom and Jerry's army of snowcats and snowmice to life. The whole opening scene is likely an homage to Chuck Jones' "Bugs' Bonnets". The wizard's hats may be a nod to the Harry Potter franchise.
Episode 35: Kangadoofus
When Tom and Jerry travel to Australia, Jerry is able to blend in with a family of kangaroos after being chased by Tom, who schemes to get the mouse away from their mother by any means possible.
Episode 28: Hockey Schtick
On a cold winter day, Jerry decides to freeze the pond go ice skating. But Tom wants to play hockey and attempts to engage the little mouse in a physical confrontation.
Episode 36: Monkey Chow
Fed up with Jerry in the house, Tom and his owner move to Malaysia. They are touring the exotic monkey garden when Tom finds out Jerry followed them so he throws him down the river and gets gumballs as a reward. Meanwhile, one mischievous monkey swipes the woman's purse. She orders Tom to get it back for her, but not before he goes through its various contents, which leads to more trouble, including going for a joyride in her car and using her cell phone to make a long distance order for pizza.
Episode 27: 24 Karat Kat
Tom and Butch travel back in time to the 19th Century at a Sutter's Mill, Tom and Butch scheme to steal the gold from Jerry's claim, by digging a hole into the pond, which ends up becoming a geyser that leads them into a junkyard filled with spiky thorns, and trying to stop him once he collects the gold. But in the end, they are foiled by their own bad efforts which lead them to be tossed into jail by Sherrif Spike while Jerry becomes a very wealthy mouse.
Episode 37: Game of Mouse & Cat
In a twisted alternate reality, mice chase cats and Jerry's owner orders him to get Tom out of the house by whatever means possible. But in reality, it's a virtual program in which Jerry gets to live his dream. Afterward, Tom tries out a program in which he gets to chase a fearful Spike around.
Episode 26: Kitty Hawked
A museum tour mouse tells young mice about Jerry's role in the Wright brothers' aerial experiments, leading to the historic first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. Tom plays his own role courtesy of the duo's usual chases.
Episode 38: Babysitting Blues
Tom and Jerry babysit their nephews for the day, which leads to more trouble than usual courtesy of their being very mischievious.