Push-Button Kitty
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| Push-Button Kitty
Tom and Jerry series |
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 The title card of Push-Button Kitty |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by | Lillian Randolph (as Mammy Two Shoes, uncredited) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Irven Spence Ed Barge Kenneth Muse |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | September 6, 1952 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6 minutes 33 seconds |
| Preceded by | Fit to Be Tied |
| Followed by | Cruise Cat |
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Push-Button Kitty is a 1952 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby.
[edit] Plot
The cartoon opens with Mammy Two Shoes sweeping the floor and Tom relaxing near Jerry's mouse hole. Tom raises his feet to let Mammy sweep under him. She says "Sorry to disturb you, Mister Thomas. Thank you so much." Jerry then comes out of his mouse hole. "Don't look now, Tom but a mouse just went by." Jerry walks back into his mouse hole with a piece of cheese. Tom looks at Jerry at returns to his nap. "That's right. You just enjoy yourself. It's later than you think." Then the doorbell rings and a mailman delivers Mechano - The Cat of Tomorrow. Mechano requires no feeding, no fussing, and no fur. Mammy calls Tom over to show him Mechano. She says, "Thomas, meet Mechano. He is taking over your job as mousecatcher." This causes both Tom and Jerry to laugh out loud. Mammy then turns on Mechano with the remote control and it immediately goes after Jerry. Mechano hits Jerry with a hammer and slingshots him through the window and out of the house. Tom then becomes sad and grabs a scarf on a pole and walks away. Mammy then laughs and says, "Is it okay if I laugh now, Thomas?" "That's how it is Tom, progress. The machine age and stuff like that. But don't worry, maybe you can find an old fashioned house, that needs an old fashioned cat."
Meanwhile, Jerry tries to get back to his mouse hole, but Mechano strongly thwarts him. Jerry tries to sneak in through the mail slot but Mechano hits him with a tennis racquet. Jerry tries to sneak in through a garden hose, but Mechano chops the hose with an ax. Jerry tries to slingshot himself from the front yard into his mouse hole but Mechano catches with a baseball glove. Mechano then shoots Jerry out the window by use of a cannon.
Jerry then sends out a bunch of wind-up mice to start trouble. Mechano starts to attack the mice and during this, Mechano chops up the piano with an axe, breaks the china with his cannon, he saws a table with a buzzsaw, and launches dyamite into the wall. Mammy realizes this and she calls out for Tom to help her. The carnage continues and Mechano ends up breaking himself to pieces. But Mechano's insides accidentally get swallowed by Tom. Mammy rushes out to greet Tom and she is grateful to have an old fashioned cat back in the house. "Thomas, am I glad to see you! Boy, they can have their new-fangled Mechanos! All I want is a plain, old fashioned cat." But Jerry gets the last say when he turns Mechano's remote control on, causing Tom to transform into Mechano, causing trouble again. Mammy Two Shoes screams "Thomas! Don't do that! Thomas! Stop!" as Tom mechanically chases one of the wind-up mice around the house.
[edit] Trivia
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- This is the last Tom and Jerry cartoon to feature Mammy Two Shoes, the African-American housemaid. The character was later replaced by a white, Yuppie-style couple, which was deemed a less offensive stereotype. Mammy Two Shoes would later return in Tom and Jerry Tales as a white woman named "Mrs. Two Shoes."
