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7.5/10 by 50 users
Under the Big Top
Jerry gets Tom involved in a circus act and proceeds to make his act a dangerous and humiliating performance.
Writing:
- Joseph Barbera
- William Hanna
Release Date:
Mon, Sep 01, 1980
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 7
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 7
Lou Scheimer
Tom (voice) / Jerry (voice) / Droopy (voice)
Season 1:
On a rainy night, while being disrupted by Jerry, Tom throws him out. Believing him to be dead, Tom is tricked into thinking Jerry is a ghost.
Slick Wolf is the construction foreman on a building. Droopy and Spike are his workers. Droopy keeps getting Spike in trouble with the boss all day. Droopy falls asleep, and as he sleeps, Spike has him finish the building. Slick comes in the next day and congratulates Droopy, while Spike is behind a brick wall.
Tom uses a remote control female mouse to lure and trap Jerry, but his plans backfire and his owner kicks him out.
Tom chases Jerry in a library where Jerry tries to make noise to wake the enormous sleeping librarian and her baby, whom the Librarian "forces" Tom to babysit.
Droopy wants to be a rescue dog. Pretending to own the rescue school, Slick Wolf takes his money and tries to do him in.
While Tom is left with Spike's little Tyke, trying to keep him amused, Jerry tries to make Tom's job difficult.
Tired of Jerry toying with him, Tom leaves the house. Jerry tries hard to get Tom back before his owner calls pest control.
Droopy is a stagecoach driver. Slick Wolf and Spike make several attempts to rob the coach (Spike frequently dressing in drag to stop the coach), but they are not successful, and they eventually land in jail.
Tom plays a violin, but Jerry tries to stop Tom due to his cacophonic tunes and they trash the orchestra.
Tom tricks Jerry into thinking he's an alien that's going to blow up the earth. Jerry gets revenge by activating his secret weapon.
An oriental mad scientist has invented a mystery ray gun. He tells Droopy and Barney Bear to guard it from people. Droopy must protect it from falling into the wrong hands by using a rather unusual method: a Jekyll and Hyde formula. Slick Wolf tries to steal it, but Droopy keeps turning into a large monster, who then beats him up. Droopy frees himself and Barney from Slick's trap, and chases Slick away.
Tom chases Jerry as he flies in a model airplane, destroying Spike's big plane model in the process.
Jerry gets hold of a mad scientist's size modifier in order to shrink Tom and enlarge himself.
Droopy and Barney Bear explore an old house looking for treasure. Slick Wolf decides to scare them off by disguising himself as a ghost.
Jerry uses a stranded circus rooster to rudely awaken Tom, but it gives itself away with an intensified crowing.
Tom is sent to a military school for cats, coached by Spike. Jerry makes Tom's rigorous training a torment.
Droopy enters a disco contest at The Slipped Disco nightclub. His opponent is a conceited Slick Wolf, and the master of ceremonies is Spike. Despite Slick's many attempts to beat Droopy, he loses the contest, and Droopy wins.
Tom is sent to catch Jerry and Tuffy using a flute to lure them, until Tuffy gets a hold of it.
Jerry gets Tom involved in a circus act and proceeds to make his act a dangerous and humiliating performance.
Droopy and Slick Wolf are competing against each other in a series of lumber-related games.
Tom is sent by his master to catch a gopher eating the garden vegetables, but Jerry thwarts his efforts.
Tom and Jerry outsmart each other to get one locked outside the house.
Droopy and Slick Wolf are photographers for the Daily Bugle. They are assigned to get a picture of Bigfoot (kind of a purple Tazmanian Devil), and Slick tries various schemes to sabotage Droopy's pictures, including dressing in drag as a female Bigfoot. Droopy ends up getting his pictures, and Bigfoot throws Slick in the newspaper press.
In 1908, Tom was chosen to be test pilot of the Wright Brothers airplanes, but Jerry was credited for a successful flight.
Tom chases Jerry on a Texas ranch, where he causes inconvenience for Spike and gets tangled in Cowboy events.
Slick Wolf tries to get in a Hollywood movie studio, only to be foiled by security guard Droopy.
Jerry takes advantage of Tom, who is left to guard Spike's party grub, and Tom barely escapes his predicament.
Tom chases after Jerry and Tuffy around a museum to get his fish back, but Spike keeps kicking him out.
Droopy and Spike work at Barney's Bakery, where there seems to be trouble making bread.
Spike restricts Tom from catching Jerry, but Tom tries to anyway and Spike sends Tom back to his house in the middle of winter.
Jerry uses a robot dog to scare off Tom and access the fridge. Tom tries to use a Trojan dog to get at Jerry, but the plan backfires.
Droopy is sent out on a dangerous assignment. He must track down the wolf in sheik's clothing!
A peckish Tom chases Jerry around a construction site, getting pinned down by Spike.
Tom's owner's sister mistakes Jerry for a hamster and won't let Tom touch him.
Droopy is in Storybook Land. Red Riding Hood is delivering food to Grandma's house, and Slick Wolf tries to steal the food. Droopy foils Slick, and he goes to visit Goldilocks. She lives with three gorillas (subletted from the Three Bears), and while Slick looks for food to steal, the gorillas return and chase him away.
Tom's owner has received a parrot. When Tom rounds on him, the parrot and Jerry work together to make Tom's chase double trouble.
Tom chases Jerry in a supermarket in order to protect the food products. They both end up trashing the place.
Slick Wolf sells Droopy a good-luck charm for $5. Spike tells him that it was really a good-luck charm, and the two try various ways of getting it back, with their attempts backfiring each time. Spike offers to buy it back for $10, and Droopy sells it back to him. Slick and Spike see a sidewalk salesman selling about 30 of them, and Slick chases Spike for wasting their money.
Jerry joins a circus as the escape artist Mousini with Tom as his co-star. They lose their jobs after their latest performance.
Jerry's identical, yet strong cousin comes to visit. Tom retreats after Jerry's cousin ruins his mistress' daughter's wedding buffet with a sounder of pigs.
Tom's owner has brought a robot maid, which Tom and Jerry use against each other until it goes out of control.
Tom dreams his chase with Jerry as a medieval quest scenario.
Droopy is the mail clerk on a train out West, and receives a package to deliver to a bank. Slick Wolf hears this, and he proceeds to try and steal it, figuring that it must be money. After a number of attempts, he succeeds, but is arrested by the sheriff. The package contains not cash, but "Wanted" posters for Slick Wolf. Droopy receives the reward for his capture. This is the last Droopy short.
Jealous of Spike's appreciation for Jerry's dance talent, Tom tries to interfere, but they go along with their performance.
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