Part Time Pal
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| Part Time Pal | |
| Tom and Jerry series | |
 The title card of Part Time Pal |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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| Animation by | Michael Lah Kenneth Muse Ed Barge |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date | March 15, 1947 |
| Format | Technicolor, 7 min 50 secs. |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Cat Fishin' |
| Followed by | The Cat Concerto |
| IMDb page | |
Part Time Pal is an animated cartoon short subject, starring Tom and Jerry. It was animated in 1946 by Michael Lah, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge, produced in Technicolor by Fred Quimby, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and then released to theaters on March 15, 1947 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.
[edit] Plot
Tom is being scolded by Mammy Two-Shoes in the kitchen at the beginning of the cartoon. "Now this, Mister Thomas, is your last and final chance! Either you gets dat mouse out of the refrigerator, or you is goin' out? Is that clear?" Tom, armed with a broom, marches around the kitchen angrily and alert. However, Jerry opens up a grille on the floor, exposing a hole, and directs Tom into it. Tom gives chase, but trips over a collection of empty milk bottles that Jerry had moments before rolled into his path. Speeding out of control, Tom falls into a barrel of cider in the basement.
Completely drunk, he befriends Jerry and makes his way back to the kitchen, drunkenly sharing the food with his new 'friend.' However, when pulling out a tray of food from the fridge, it collapses on him with an almighty crash. Jerry hides the drunken Tom, covering his mouth so that his hic-cups are not heard. Mammy returns downstairs to badmouth the cat who she believes has gone AWOL. As Mammy leaves the room, Tom emerges from his hiding place, but trips up over some of the spilled food and crashes into the refrigerator where he is squirted with some water, sobering him up again. Jerry, wielding a breast of chicken, approaches Tom, unaware that he is now sober, and very angry. Tom chases after Jerry towards the bathroom, but slips on a bath mat and crashes into a wall. A bottle of rum falls from the bathroom shelf and into Tom's mouth. Tom is drunk - again! Tom takes Jerry into the dining room for dinner, but the drunken cat is impatient, and marches upstairs to pick a fight with a sleeping Mammy, dousing her with a pitcher of water. The housemaid screams, hurls some furniture off-camera and then chases after Tom with a broom, jumping down the stairs and wrecking the house in the process.
