Fit to Be Tied (film)
| Fit to Be Tied | |
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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 Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by | Daws Butler |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by |
Kenneth Muse Irven Spence Ray Patterson Ed Barge |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | July 26, 1952 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6:49 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Little Runaway |
| Followed by | Push-Button Kitty |
Fit to Be Tied is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 69th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. This cartoon was a sequel to the 1944 short film The Bodyguard. And released to theatres on July 26, 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
After the Main Events of The Bodyguard, Spike is happily prancing along the backyard, he steps on a nail and yells for help. Jerry removes the nail on Spike's foot with a hammer after hearing the dog's pained cries, and as a reward, Spike becomes Jerry's protector, providing him with a bell to ring whenever he is in trouble. Jerry walks away, carefree and pleased with his good deed.
Tom sees a good opportunity to catch his unaware rival and hides until Jerry walks around the corner, catching the mouse by surprise. After snatching up Jerry, Tom becomes curious as to what the bell could be for and rings it. Spike drops right on top of him and throws him onto the concrete twice, then picks him up onto his back and prepares one last move which he apparently learned on television, spins around and slams the cat to the concrete, who breaks apart and reforms in the space of a second.
Spike returns the bell to Jerry and skips away, but not without being seen by Tom. Making the connection, the cat tries an alternative by covering the mouse with a flowerpot such that he cannot ring the bell; unfortunately, there is a hole in the bottom, which the mouse sticks the ringing bell out of. Spike's fist extends itself from clear across the block and knocks Tom into a gumball machine, which then falls back onto the cat such that gumballs roll out of his head.
Eventually, under pain of canine catastrophe, Tom is forced to become Jerry's "slave" around the house. Tom sets out five trays of cheese for Jerry, and while the mouse sniffs one, Tom attempts to filch the bell. Jerry thwarts him and eats a big wedge of cheese, causing himself to expand to the size of the wedge. Meanwhile, Tom reads the daily paper and is delighted to notice this headline: LEASH LAW PASSED: Public safety puts dogs on leash.
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