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"TERMITES PLUS TWO"
LOST EPISODE
While Tom & Jerry rock in their rocking chairs reading their morning paper, Professor Fixit's
Weekly Household Tip on the radio warns of the termite season, and their
home must be treated for termites before any damage. Just then, actual termites
start attacking Tom and Jerry's house, first gnawing away their rocking
chairs as they sit in them. A magnifying glass reveals the termites as a
motorcycle gang with rotary saw blades for wheels as they take off in a cloud
of sawdust. Tom and Jerry try everything to get rid of the termites--DDT spray, a platter of a log topped
with whipped
cream and a cherry, a super vacuum cleaner, and even an anteater!--but all
their efforts fail. Finally they hop into their station wagon to escape while their
house crumbles behind them (giving new meaning to the term "eaten out of house and
home"!), but even the car disintegrates. They ride away on the car's steering wheel,
with the termite horde still in
a hot pursuit.
TRIVIA & NOTES:
- "Termites Plus Two" is delightfully reminiscent of termite-themed theatrical cartoons of the past, such as The Housing Problem (TerryToons, 1946),
Termites From Mars, with Woody Woodpecker (1952), and Insect To
Injury, featuring Popeye (1956).
- This is one of many occasions which see T&J driving in a vehicle; they are seen in a
hotrod in episode #80-26, "The Sorcerer's Apprentices," and a convertible
in #80-36, "Triple Trouble." Also, they are seen in a police car in #80-28, "The Police Kitten," a tractor in #80-39,
"Son Of Gopher Broke," a vet's ambulance in #80-23, "The Hypochondriac Lion," and a Catcar in #80-29, "Two Stars Are Born."
- The scene in "Termites Plus Two" of Tom & Jerry running on a log is based on the first scene in the
syndicated opening credits.
- Professor Fixit's (voiced by John Stephenson) Weekly Household Tip is heard on the radio. It parallels numerous classic MGM T&J cartoons which made use
of radio programs, including Fraidy Cat (1942), The Zoot Cat (1944) and The Missing Mouse (1953).
- Tom actually jumps into Jerry's arms in one scene!
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"PLANET PEST"
At night, a spaceship lands on the and a pink shape-changing space alien
with deely bobs hops off and goes to Tom and Jerry's house. The alien hops onto the window and sees Tom and Jerry making a sandwich; Tom puts some salami on the sandwich,
and the alien becomes hungry and he lick his lips. Tom juggles the hard boiled egg
slices and he places them on the sandwich. However, when he hears a knock on the door, Tom goes to the door but the alien disguises as a welcome mat. Tom opens the door and
finds no one but doesn't even see the welcome mat change back to an alien
and go inside the house and Tom closes the door. The alien goes to the table, sees the sandwich and the alien licks his lips. Tom takes the lettuce out of the fridge until the alien takes the lettuce and eats it. Then Tom takes the plate of sausages until the alien takes the plate of sausages and eat them so Tom hears someone eating the sausages so he
looks very angrily at Jerry for eating the food but Jerry shrugs, confused
in that he didn’t do anything. Tom and Jerry looks inside the fridge until the alien eats the sandwich
behind them. Tom take a box out of the fridge and he look at the table but the sandwich is missing so Tom
again stares Jerry down
very angrily, thinking he's at fault
for eating it, but Jerry
still inists he didn’t do anything.
Jerry is very angry until the alien goes to him and the alien disguise as Jerry. Tom take out the chicken out of the fridge until Alien-Jerry eats the chicken and he run away. He goes into the washing machine while the other Jerry puts the clothes into the washing machine and he turn into a box of Blobo Detergent. Tom goes to the washing machine looking for Jerry, then goes back to the fridge and takes a pie out, but Alien-Jerry appears in the pie dish and he eats the crust of the pie and he feeds Tom with the last crumb and he runs away! He disguise as a bar of soap and causes a
pursuing Tom slips onto it and crash into the laundry basket causing the clothes fly everywhere,
grab a lamp and hurl out thru a window on top of the branch. Below there is Spike is sleeping in
his dog house. The alien jumps up and down while he is licking his lips and hops onto the dog house.
and becomes Tom, lifting the dog and eating his bone and setting him down. Spike thinks it must have been a bad dream. Spike tells him to prove to
him this isn't bad dream and he pinches Spike his arm. Spike thinks he is dreaming that hurt no cats does that to dogs but he soon goes back to sleep and Tom disguise back to an alien and he hops away.
Tom is top of the branch but the branch to breaks, falls from the tree and crashes onto the dog house causing the dog house to
shatter! Spike wakes up and, thinking the dream has becomes a nightmare, grabs Tom, puts hims on the sprinkler, and turns on the tap, the water goes up and lift him up.
Jerry takes the steak out of the fridge until the alien goes to Jerry and turns into Spike,
takes and eats the steak and runs away. An incensed Jerry is very angry and runs
in pursuit. The phony Spike turns into back an alien and hops away while the
real Spike is sleeping; Jerry arrives and knocks him on his muzzle until he wake up and he thinks
"mices don’t do that to bulldogs!" Spike puts the dog bowl onto Jerry and he throws
it like a frisbee; the alien reappears and he turns into Tom, catches the dog bowl and accidentally throws
it at Spike! Spike then chases him and goes into the house.
There the real Tom takes a sandwich out of the fridge until Alien-Tom goes to him and he turns into Jerry
and takes the sandwich from him and runs. Spikes looks at Tom chasing Jerry with the sandwich
and,
still thinking he's dreaming, wishes he's wake up from this dream as "it’s getting ridiculous!" so
he joins in on the chase. Alien-Jerry stops and turns into a stool, Tom takes the sandwich and he is about to
chow down until Spike takes it away.
Just then
Spike's dog bowl is flying with Jerry in it through the window; Spike is about to eat the sandwich until Jerry takes the sandwich from him. Jerry comes out from the dog bowl and he lands onto the floor. Spike and Tom continues to chase Jerry into
a closet, closing the door behind them. In athe closet store room, Spike turn on the light and reveals Jerry holding
the sandwich but he turns off the light, Tom turn on the light and reveals
Spike holding a sandwich but he turn off the light, Spike turn on the light
and see two Toms! He rubs his eyes until the light goes off again. Tom turn on the light and see two Spikes and he turn off the light.
When the door opens Spike, Tom and Jerry all keel over in a nervous
breakdown! The
alien comes out from the store room, eats the sandwich and he laughs and floats away.
Later, a doctor examines the three in bed and diagnoses that they suffer from an acute (or not so cute!) case of hallucination, and in showing them, he transforms into Spike, then Tom, then Jerry, and then his old self again. The alien immediately dashes aboard his mini space ship and heads back for his own planet.