Quiet Please! (Tom and Jerry)
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| Quiet Please! | |
| Tom and Jerry series | |
 Title card of Quiet Please! |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Animation by | Kenneth Muse Ray Patterson Irven Spence Ed Barge |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date | December 22, 1945 |
| Format | Technicolor, 7 min 43 secs |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Flirty Birdy |
| Followed by | Springtime for Thomas |
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- For the radio show, see Quiet, Please
Quiet Please! was a 1945 Tom and Jerry cartoon which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, and Ed Barge.
[edit] Premise
Tom's nemesis, the large dog (often called Spike, Killer or Butch) is trying to take a nap ("a little beauty rest", in his words) and is constantly disturbed and awakened by Tom's progressively noisy attempts to catch Jerry. He has had enough and tells Tom that if he is disturbed from his sleep once more he will skin him alive. The rest of the episode revolves around Tom's attempts to thwart Jerry's attempts to wake Spike up.
As Tom chases him, Jerry threatens to create noise by bashing a spoon and frying pan together by Spike's ears. The cat backs away, out of sight, and grabs the utensils from Jerry. The mouse later attempts to trip Tom up with a lamp cord. As Tom falls over, he is headed for a table of breakable wine glasses. Luckily, in midair, he manages to push the table out of the way and replace it with a pillow.
From there, Jerry points a rifle at Spike's head, aiming to fire. Tom immediately sticks his fingers in the gun barrels before Jerry can fire. As he examines his throbbing fingers, Jerry tries to push a grandfather clock to the floor. Tom can do nothing but stick his fingers in Spike's ears. Fortunately, the dog does not hear the loud crashing. After this, Jerry begins to drop lightbulbs off the mantelpiece. Tom, amazingly manages to catch them all, but Jerry plugs his tail into the light socket, lighting the cat up as if he were a set of Christmas decorations. Jerry then pushes a roller skate under Tom's foot, and sends him straight into Spike. The impact wakes the dog up, as do the subsequent lightbulb explosions.
Tom manages to send the dog back to sleep by singing him a lullaby—Brahms' Lullaby, to be exact—and pouring an entire bottle of Knock-Out Drops into Spike's mouth. The drug, and song, works like a charm. Jerry noisily bangs a drum, with no effect. To demonstrate the power of the Knock-Out Drops, Tom repeatedly bashes the dog with the drum. Jerry does everything in his power to wake Spike up, but to no avail. This includes yelling in his ear, jumping on him, and stabbing him in the rear with a pin. Eventually, Jerry places a huge stick of dynamite underneath Spike. As Tom attempts to pull it out from underneath Spike, the dog awakens. Tom smiles and slides the explosive device back under Spike and runs off. Before Spike can react, the bomb explodes. A battered Spike chases after Tom and furniture flies through the air.
At the cartoon's end, Tom is severely bruised and bandaged, rocking Spike in a cradle as he sleeps. Jerry is also sleeping in the cradle, from which a "Do Not Disturb" sign is hung.
