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Buddies Thicker Than Water is a Tom and Jerry animated short film, released on November 1, 1962. It was the twelfth and penultimate cartoon in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia. The short's title is a pun on the phrase "Blood is thicker than water". It was also one of the few shorts to have Deitch provide the voice of Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse.

Plot

On a snowy night in New York City, Jerry is comfortably asleep in his hole inside a fourteenth floor penthouse of Expensive Arms Apartments, while Tom tries to keep from freezing to death below in the alley near the entrance lobby after getting evicted by his new lady owner. He writes a note, slips it into a bottle, and throws it up to hit the penthouse window. However, the bottle lands back down and covers Tom's head, so he blows it back up and this time it reaches the top floor with success. Jerry, awakened by the noise, goes out to the balcony and finds both this note and a second one sent up by Tom:

"Help! I'm freezing. Your old pal, Tom"

"P.S. I'm also starving. Tom"

Rushing to the alley right outside the entrance lobby, Jerry finds the frozen-solid Tom and drags him back upstairs on a trash can lid. He then sets Tom inside the hot-air vent, thaws him out with an electric blanket. Tom thanks Jerry by kissing him on the cheek. Jerry then provides him with an "Instant Gourmet" dehydrated meal.

Tom and Jerry lounge about the penthouse, listening to music and drinking everything in the owner's liquor cabinet. Her return startles the inebriated pair, and Jerry dives into his hole as she grabs Tom and prepares to throw him out again. Tom grabs Jerry and shows him to the owner, throwing her into a panic until he pitches the mouse off the balcony, betraying him. While Tom enjoys the owner's favor, Jerry angrily digs himself out of the snow and sneaks back in, using some of the owner's face powder to disguise himself as a ghost.

When Jerry puts an album of spooky music on the stereo and switches off the lights, Tom believes that the mouse's ghost has come to haunt him. He flees through the penthouse and out onto the balcony's edge, where the snow washes off part of Jerry's makeup and exposes the ruse. Tom prepares to strike back, but before he can do so, the snowdrift under his feet gives way and he falls down to the same alley right outside the entrance lobby. He quickly writes a new note and throws it up to Jerry:

"Help! It's freezing down here! Your old pal, Tom"

Jerry responds by throwing a pair of ice skates and a hockey stick down to him, then goes back to his hole to finish sleeping.

Censorship

The scene showing Tom and Jerry drinking champagne is cut in the UK and Middle East.

References

1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 150–151. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.

External links

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• Buddies Thicker Than Water at IMDb

• 1962 films
• 1962 short films
• 1962 comedy films
• 1962 animated films
• Films directed by Gene Deitch
• Films set in New York City
• Tom and Jerry short films
• 1960s American animated films
• Animated films without speech
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films
• Films set in New York (state)
• Rembrandt Films short films