Hic-cup Pup
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| Hic-cup Pup | |
| Tom and Jerry series | |
 Title card of Hic-cup Pup |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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| Story by | William Hanna (unc.) Joseph Barbera (unc.) |
| Animation by | Ed Barge Kenneth Muse Ray Patterson Irven Spence |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date | April 17, 1954 |
| Format | Technicolor, 6 min 17 secs |
| Language | English |
| IMDb page | |
Hic-cup Pup is a one reel animated Tom and Jerry short that was created in 1952 by directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby, and scored by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson and Irven Spence, and was released in theaters on April 17, 1954.
[edit] Plot
Spike is putting his son, Tyke, to bed. When a chirping bird flies by, Spike calmly tells the bird to be quiet. "Shhhh...he's taking a nap." The bird stops singing. However, Tom's usual antics of chasing Jerry wake Tyke up, and Tyke gets the hiccups. Spike is understandably annoyed. "Hey, what's the idea of waking up my boy?!" Spike places responsibility on Tom to keep quiet, or else. "Every time his sleep gets distoibed (sic), he gets the hic-cups. If you wake my boy again, there's gonna be trouble." Most of the cartoon is spent with Jerry trying to get Tom to make noise, and Tom alternating between keeping Tyke asleep and hiccup-free.
Tom chases after Jerry with a spade, but the rodent hides among Spike and Tyke, and climbs onto the top of Spike's head. Tom slams the spade down on Spike's head, causing him to yell out loud. This wakes Tyke up, who resumes hic-cupping. Spike tries to stop his son by holding him by the neck, but each subsequent hic-cup gets Spike jumping up with him.
In the next scene, Tom is again chasing Jerry. He spots Jerry diving underneath Tyke's cradle. Tom slides his hand underneath the cradle to catch Jerry, but Jerry slides a mousetrap, which snaps on Tom's hand. Tom gets ready to scream in pain, but realising that doing so will wake up the bulldogs, holds his breath until his face goes red, and puts a pair of headphones on both dogs. Tom screams, and the dogs hear nothing. Tom pursues Jerry who crawls into a hosepipe. Tom blows into the hosepipe and Jerry is sent out of the other end. He removes Spike and Tyke's headphones, and then connects a trumpet to the other end of the hosepipe, and Tom's blowing into the trumpet wakes up both dogs. Spike marches up to Tom and shoves the trumpet onto Tom's head.
The next scene has Tom hiding outside of Jerry's mousehole. However, the crafty mouse sees him, and emerges behind the cat, placing some bicycle horns on Tom's feet. Jerry then walks up to Tom's face and kisses him. An angry Tom chases after Jerry, but the bicycle horns squeak every time his feet touch the ground. Tom solves this by running on his hands, until Jerry trips him up. Tom falls down behind Spike, landing on his feet again. Spike is woken, but does not see Tom behind him. He turns around, but Tom turns around with him, so still remains out of Spike's view. Spike looks between his legs, at which point, Tom gets on Spike's back so he can't be seen. Unfortunately, Tom's tail drops down, and Spike catches on. He chases after Tom, and the bicycle horns start squeaking again. They stop chasing while Tom removes the horns from his feet. Then the chase resumes. Tom hides in a corner, as Spike rushes off in the other direction. Tom runs back to Tyke's cradle to look for Jerry, but throws out everything in the cradle, including Tyke, who is woken up. Spike returns and Tom runs away in fear. Spike tends to the hic-cupping pup, but scaring him or producing loud noises fails to solve the problem, and eventually Spike ends up getting the hic-cups. Angrily, he yells "I'll moider (sic) that ....hic....cat!"
Next, Tom's final attempt to catch Jerry, who has climbed onto the roof of a house, fails. Tom rests on the guttering, but the guttering falls off the house, sending Tom crashing down to the ground. Tom, fearing for his life, digs his own grave. As Spike is about to react, he finds that both bulldogs are cured of their hiccups. Spike is overjoyed and tells Tom that from now on, anything he does is OK with him. As a result, Jerry is forced to run away, "going South for sake of health" as Tom sees him running toward South on an empty railorad track.
