Tee for Two
| Tee for Two | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
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| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Story by |
William Hanna (uncredited) Joseph Barbera (uncredited) |
| Voices by | William Hanna as Tom (uncredited) |
| Animation by |
Kenneth Muse Pete Burness Irven Spence Ray Patterson Assistant animation: Barney Posner (uncredited) |
| Studio | MGM Cartoon Studio |
| Distributed by | MGM |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7:03 |
| Language | Not language specific |
| Preceded by | Mouse in Manhattan |
| Followed by | Flirty Birdy |
Tee for Two is a 1945 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 20th Tom and Jerry short. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on July 21, 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The cartoon name is a pun on the phrase "Tea for two".
The cartoon opens on a wrecked golf course, which has trees chopped down or golf clubs wrapped around their trunks, hundreds of divots carved out of the ground and other scenes of devastation. As the camera pans across the golf course, we see Tom who keeps trying to hit a ball out of a gigantic divot. He finally hits the ball out on his 50th try. When Tom takes the flag out of the hole, the ball rolls in but bounces out. Tom is surprised by this, and he lifts the green to roll the ball back in, but the process continues until it is revealed that Jerry lives in the hole, and he was the one throwing the ball out. After throwing the ball directly into Tom's eye, Jerry draws an eyeball on the golf ball to make it look like an eye. This enrages the cat and causes him to swing his golf club at the mouse; the club misses and wraps around the cat's own neck. Jerry escapes temporarily, but is caught when Tom hits his golf ball onto Jerry's head, knocking him out.
The next scene shows that Jerry is being used as a tee and Tom places a ball on his head. Tom then readies his shot, which cuts out a huge divot while Jerry somehow manages to hold onto Tom's club. Tom looks around to see where his ball is, but Jerry whistles and holds up the ball. Tom then puts Jerry through the ball cleaner, and the mouse responds by spitting soapy water in Tom's face. Jerry is then forced into holding the tee with the ball on it; Tom hits the ball and makes a fraudulent grin. This proves to be a mistake when the ball hits a rock, bounces right back and smashes Tom's teeth.
In the next scene, Tom's ball is in front of two skinny, long trees. Tom cannot stand behind his ball to hit it, so he is forced to split the trees. After he hits the ball, the trees smash his head and decapitates Tom. Tom's body walks around and reattaches to his head. The ball ends up in a tree and triggers a "slot machine" display. Three lemons appear on the reels; when Tom looks inside an avalanche of golf balls comes out of the tree, covering him. Annoyed at this, Tom returns to his game, but Jerry has replaced his ball with a woodpecker egg. After Tom hits the egg, the egg hatches and the bird comes back to peck on Tom's head. The bird then pecks out the handle of the golf club so that the head of the club lands on Tom's head.
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