Tom and Jerry Cartoons under this category
Down a dirty alleyway, Butch the alley cat is scavenging for food, taking leftover food from dustbins and putting them in a rather dilapidated shopping cart. Just then, he spots a bottle of milk by a doorstep. As Butch approaches house with the milk bottle, the front door opens, and Tom takes in the bottle of milk, replacing it with an empty one. Then Butch sees a nice leg of ham by the windowsill. As he attempts to snatch it, Tom inside the house takes it without even seeing Butch, and closes the window right on Butch’s hands. Butch then has an idea. He dresses a a baby, and finds a discarded cradle to use. Planning to enter the house under the disguise of a baby, he knocks on Tom’s door and cries out. The door is opened by a curious Tom who sees the abandoned “baby” and reads a note resting on Baby Butch’s body:“I AM A POOR HUNGRY WAIF. FEED ME.
Tom starts to cotton on to the fact that Baby Butch is in fact an imposter raiding the contents of his refrigerator.Tom takes the cradle into the house, and walks offscreen to fetch some milk. While Tom is gone, Butch runs to the kitchen and snatches the ham from the refrigerator. Running back to the living room, Butch is about to sink his teeth into the ham, when Tom returns with a bottle of milk.
Butch hides the ham behind a sofa. Tom feeds Butch the milk, which he drinks until he realizes that he has been given milk. He spits out the milk and yells in disgust (leaving the audience to wonder why he tried to snatch the bottle in the first place), before realizing that he might have blown his cover. Butch resumes drinking, as Tom picks Butch up and pats him in order to get him to burp. Butch sarcastically burps and Tom puts Butch back in the cradle again, walking off.
Butch gets out of the cradle to look for his ham, but Jerry has taken it. Butch grabs the ham off Jerry and hits him over the head with it.
The cartoon continues with Butch attempting to get the ham off both Tom and Jerry, with Tom seemingly oblivious to Butch’s intentions until Jerry informs him and the cat and mouse team up against Butch to get him out of their house and away from their food.
