Hic-cup Pup
| Hic-cup Pup | |
|---|---|
| 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 William Hanna (Tom's Screams) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by |
Ed Barge Kenneth Muse Ray Patterson Irven Spence |
| Backgrounds by | Robert Gentle |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | April 17, 1954 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6:17 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Posse Cat |
| Followed by | Little School Mouse |
Hic-cup Pup is the 82nd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1952, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson and Irven Spence with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It was released in theaters on April 17, 1954 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
Spike is putting his son, Tyke, to bed. When a bird flies by to chirp, Spike calmly tells the bird to be quiet. However, Tom and Jerry's usual antics wake Tyke up, and Spike asks Tom, "Hey! What's the idea of waking up my boy?!" Tyke ends up getting the hiccups. Spike is understandably disappointed in both the noise and the hiccups and explains that every time Tyke wakes up disturbed from his nap, he gets the hiccups. Spike issues Tom a warning not to wake Tyke up again or else. Jerry immediately bites Tom's tail, and Tom screams startledly in pain, (waking up Tyke a second time) and runs off. Each successive hiccup from Tyke pushes him another couple inches into the air before Spike pats him on the back.
Tom peeks around the corner and Jerry pops his head out of a flower pot. Tom chases after Jerry with a shovel, but Spike quickly hears them again and plugs Tyke's ears, but Jerry climbs onto the top of Spike's head, prompting Tom to accidentally whack Spike on the head with the shovel as Spike screams in pain, unwittingly disturbing his son again, and immediately grabs Tom by the upper-arms in anger. Meanwhile, this causes Tyke to resume hiccupping again, eventually causing him to hop across the ground. Spike tries to stop his son by holding him, with each subsequent hiccup literally carrying Spike with him.
Later, as the dogs are fast asleep, Tom is chasing Jerry again and attempts to grab him underneath Tyke's cradle, but Jerry slips a mousetrap on Tom's hand. Tom gets ready to scream in pain, but manages to hold his breath until he puts a pair of earmuffs on the dogs so they don't wake up. Enraged, Tom pursues Jerry, who crawls into a hosepipe. Tom blows into the hosepipe and Jerry is sent out of the other end. Knowing that Tom will continue blowing, Jerry removes the dogs' earmuffs and inserts a trumpet on the other side of the hose, waking up Spike and Tyke (mysteriously, Tyke doesn't get hiccups this time). As Tom continues blowing, Spike angrily marches up to him, pulls the trumpet off the hose, and slams it down onto an oblivious Tom's head. When a surprised Tom pushes his head through the mouthpiece, it comes out tiny.
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