The Tom & Jerry Show
EPISODE 7

BROADCAST NUMBER:TJGA-7
ORIGINAL ABC AIRDATE:October 18, 1975

80-27"THE KITTEN SITTERS"


In the house, Spike is the watchdog in charge awhile the mistress is out. As Tom chases Jerry, Spike explains the rules which are no horsing around, no chasing, etc. But Spike is interrupted by Tom and Jerry chasing each other. Spike tells the duo to cut it out before they damage something. Tom slipped onto a rug and tumbled hitting the potted plant, the bird cage, and the fish tank. until Tom crash into the wall with Jerry falling on him from a cuckoo clock. Spike appears to scolds Tom and Jerry telling them to clean up the mess. Suddenly Spike hears the knock on the door. He goes to the front door and opens to see a basket with a kitten holding a sign saying "I need a home were looking for a home". Spike refuses as there is too much pets in the house then slams the door. Spike asks Tom and Jerry if they are done cleaning and they nod, he tells them to take their antics outside. Tom and Jerry go to the front door finding a basket with the same kitten requesting with the sign "I need a home were looking for a home", Tom and Jerry agree to let them in. Tom picks up the kitten and five more kittens appears in the basket.

As Spike is sleeping, Tom, Jerry and the kitten sneak to the kitchen followed by the five other kittens pass him but Spike is breifly waken to see five kittens, he falls asleep to beliving it was a daydream. Jerry pours the milk into the bowl as Tom puts the kitten down to drink the milk as the other kittens is about to drink the milk. The kittens started meowing with Tom trying to quiet the the kittens. Spike wakes up and hears the noise in the kitchen. Spike returns to the front door to find the basket is empty. Spike questions who let the kitten in and runs to the kitchen. Tom aware of Spike is coming then the duo grabs the six kittens. Spike goes to the kitchen looking around for the kittens. Tom is sleeping on the pillow hiding one of the kittens the kitten appears under the pillow as Tom covers the kitten under the pillow. Spike goes to Tom and holds him. Tom starts meowing to trick him but Spike covers his mouth. As kitten is under the pillow while he is moving. Spike finds the kitten under the pillow. Spike then grabs the kitten and put it back in the basket. Spike tells Tom and Jerry who like to play the games suggesting to play boot the puss or clock ran down the mouse but both cat and mouse flee as Spike runs towards them before stopping after he hearing the kitten meowing near the canary making the chirping noise with the kitten meowing in the bird cage thinking it is a birdcat.

Spike hears chirping as Tom grabs the kitten from the birdcage. Spike finding out there is no catbird, Spike goes to the birdcage and tells the canary where is that kitten. The canary chirps leaving Spike and puts the kitten outside. Jerry opens the door to let the kitten go inside. Tom sneaks by carrying the kitten with Spike runs towards them. But Spike thinking Tom put the kitten in the flowerpot. As a kitten appears in the flowerpot, Spike sees and grabs the kitten from flowerpot and Spike put it in the basket and closing the door he locks the door to prevent the kitten from getting in. Tom looks out for Spike while the kittens coming out of Jerry's mousehole to drink the milk. Spike runs searching for the duo hears the kitten meowing but the kitten appears behind the fish tank. Spike assuming the fish is also meowing covers his ears as kitten ran into the kitchen. Tom shuts the door with Spike becoming confused to where the meowing was coming from as the cuckoo bird comes out of the clock to make the cuckoo sound and meowing noise beliving he's going cuckoo crazy.

Then the kitten climbs down the cuckoo clock and heads to to the kitchen with Tom holding the door open. Spike finds out Tom and Jerry is hiding the kitten. Spike runs to the kitchen Tom, Jerry and Kittens run away. Spike slips onto the milk bowl and crashes into a laundry basket to the wall causing the door opens up and the ironing board falling on Spikes's head, as Tom and Jerry inside escape. Spike told where is that kitten and spots the the kitten appearing under the white cloth with six kittens is under the white cloth seeing it as a six foot kitten. The Kitten Sitters - Six kittens drinking milk Spike with Tom and Jerry happy the kittens are drinking the bowl of milk. Spike is convince he becoming crazy, to keep his sainty, he decides to leave the house. Spike packs up his things carrying a sack on a pole wit his stuff and lifts the dog house finding the kittens appears inside it. Spike finds out they are six kittens and happy he is not going crazy with the kittens comforting Spike. Spike tells Tom and Jerry to make milk for the kittens as he now accepts them in. Spike, Tom and Jerry watch the kittens drinking the milk. Spike tells Tom and Jerry to go out and play awhile he takes care of the kittens. Spike is playing with kittens. Tom and Jerry shake hands together while smiling to the audience.

TRIVIA & NOTES:


80-21"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:


80-24"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.

TRIVIA & NOTES:

  • This is the first of three paths Tom & Jerry cross with an extraterrestrial(s); the next two are in "Two Stars Are Born" and Episode #80-43, "Planet Of The Dogs."
  • Three classic Tom & Jerry cartoons can be referenced in "Planet Pest." The scene in this cartoon of Thomas wrecking Spike's doghouse is reminiscent of a running gag used in the 1952 MGM T&J short entitled, oddly enough, The Dog House. The scene of Spike, Tom and Jerry developing a nervous breakdown after seeing doppelgangers of Tom and Spike reflects a similar climax of 1957's Timid Tabby. And T&J raiding the fridge for goodies recalls a similar segue from 1941's The Midnight Snack.
  • Inanimate objects the alien transforms into: a welcome mat, a box of Blobo Detergent, a bar of soap, and a table. Notice all of these objects, like the alien, are pink!
  • For some strange reason, Spike doesn't know Tom and Jerry's names! He refers to Thomas as "Cat!", and when Gerald wakes him up, he responds, "Hey! Mices don't do that to bulldogs!"


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