Tom and Jerry Cartoons under this category
Nibbles the single attendee at Jerry’s school. However, Jerry is late and Tuffy looks at the watch on the wall wondering where he is. He is startled by the sound of Jerry being chased around the room outside the hole by Tom. Finally, Jerry reaches the hole, slamming the door shut behind him. He heaves a sigh of relief and straightens both his framed diploma on the wall and a necktie he’s wearing.Jerry begins teaching little Tuffy the basics of outwitting a cat by way of a couple of cartoon strips on the chalkboard. The first one demonstrates how the cat chases the mouse and, if he catches the mouse, will eat him. Tuffy wails at the idea. Jerry directs his attention to the other picture sequence, which shows the mouse reaching his hole and the cat saying ‘bad words’. Tuffy laughs.
For the next lesson, Jerry shows Tuffy an imitation cat’s paw in front of a mousehole facade. He demonstrates the procedure and goes into the hole, where he makes a show of looking for dangerujkno means a model pupil, looks around briefly, walks straight out of the hole and ends up walking on the spot with his tail caught in the cat’s paw. Jerry is not pleased, so he has Tuffy work the cat’s paw while he gives another demonstration.
Unfortunately, Tuffy winds the crank with such enthusiasm that Jerry ends up ironed out on the floor like a carpet before the little mouse realises what he’s doing. He immediately retreats to the stool in the corner and dons the dunce’s capFollowing a lesson book, the mice are hidden behind a sofa as Jerry attempts to show Tuffy how to pluck a whisker from the cat without waking him up. Using the furniture and the rug as cover, he succeeds in obtaining one of Tom’s whiskers (amazingly, without waking him up) and makes it back to the sofa to show Tuffy. To Jerry’s annoyance, Tuffy approaches Tom directly, instead of stealthily.
However, his annoyance quickly turns to horror when his young charge returns with a whisker - with a very bemused Tom still attached! Jerry grabs Tuffy and flees back to the hole, plucking out the whisker and hurting Tom, which makes him angry. Tuffy reaches the hole first, but slams the door in Jerry’s face. Finally, Tuffy thinks to open the door again, and Jerry tumbles in with a bump on his head and wearing the lesson book round his neck!
Later on, Jerry demonstrates the next lesson in the (now-intact) book; how to obtain cheese without waking the cat. He succeeds in climbing onto the cupboard and reaching a plate with some cheese on it, but narrowly avoids waking Tom when he drops his piece of cheese on his head. Acting quickly, he pulls Tom’s eyes shut and soothes him back to sleep. Once back at the hole, Jerry shows his prize to Tuffy before eating it. The little mouse goes out himself and looks up at the plate of cheese on the cupboard and then wakes Tom, who looks at him groggily and helpfully gives him the cheese. Jerry is dumbfounded. Tuffy returns with the whole cheese, shows it off and swallows the whole lot at once, causing his stomach to assume a large wedge shape.
In a last effort, Jerry tries to teach Tuffy how to bell the cat. By now, Tom is waiting for him, but fakes being asleep. Playing along with Jerry as he ties on the bell, he even conveniently lifts his head up and put a finger on the knot as Jerry ties it. Jerry signals his thanks before realising his folly and fleeing. Tom catches him easily and Jerry later makes it back to the hole with the string and bell wound several times round his neck. Tuffy looks out nervously and gulps. He cautiously approaches Tom, who is now fully awake and grumpy, and offers him a parcel. Tom opens it and finds it to be a bell on a string. Delighted at this present, he puts it on himself and Jerry storms off in digust and throws his diploma into the trash
At the end of the cartoon, Tom and Jerry (now wearing the dunce’s cap) are Tuffy’s pupils. Tuffy shows them how cats and mice should be friends. Tom agrees, kisses Jerry on the head and gives his bell another ring.
