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The Truce Hurts is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 35th Tom and Jerry short released, created in 1947. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on July 17, 1948, by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The title is a pun on the phrase "the truth hurts".

Plot

The cartoon opens and starts with all furniture and things being thrown out of the house until Spike stops and questions why they cannot be friends with each other ("What's all this fighting getting us on huh? Cats can love dogs, can't they?" "And mice can get along with cats can't they?!"). The trio make a truce, sign a peace treaty and become allies. They then make a truce, sign a piece treaty, and become allies, with the song "Auld Lang Syne" being played in the background. The treaty reads:

The Dog, the Cat, and the Mouse agree To live together peacefully With this truce, we won't tinker The one that does is a STINKER Signed Tom, Jerry, and Spike

As the three of them sleep together, Tom covers Jerry up, Jerry closes Spike’s mouth to stop him snoring and Spike turns off the alarm clock to make breakfast. Spike pours three glasses of milk as Tom brushes Jerry's teeth and cleans his ears. Then, Spike takes three glasses and pours equal milk in Tom and Jerry's glass but pours more milk in his own glass. Jerry goes outside while Butch is making a meal on a garbage can, and picks Jerry up and puts him on the plate. Tom saves Jerry by flipping the can's lid into Butch's face. Tom then kisses Jerry, much to Butch's disbelief and he screams loudly and knocks himself silly up with a brick.

Tom then walks along the sidewalk until a dog eating a bone grabs Tom and goes to eat him. Spike screams like a man and saves Tom by knocking out all his teeth. When Tom points out the giant apple stuck in his mouth, Spike punches it down, but it is too big, so Spike punches Tom on the head, saving him but knocking him out by accident.

The three then walk along the sidewalk, and Spike takes off his fur to help them walk across a muddy puddle, but a steak drops out of a meat truck driving by, much to the trio's delight. They take it home, but each of them greedily divides the steak so that they have the largest share, causing a fight that causes the steak to fly out of the window and drop into the gutter water and down the drain. The three look at each other, realize they can no longer be friend pals again, Spike then tears the treaty and they the trio continue their original fight to fight/beat each other up.

Notes/Trivia

• For some strange, reason, the scene where Spike signs the truce is renamed "Butch" in this cartoon. Butch is normally the name of Tom's black alley cat acquaintance, who is also seen in this picture.

• This is one of the cartoons where Tom rescues Jerry. The cat also saves the mouse in "Snowbody Loves Me", "Dog Trouble", and "The Night Before Christmas".

• This episode was featured in "Tom and Jerry: Festival of Fun".

• This cartoon was featured in "Matinee Mouse" and Ask Ashley episode, "Where is Ashley?"

• In the background, while Tom, Jerry, and Spike are walking down the sidewalk, you can hear the melodies for Over the Rainbow and We're Off to See the Wizardbfrom "The Wizard of Oz is played. This is also used in 1948's "Professor Tom", 2 shorts after. Also, the score from the dancing sequence in the movie "Anchors Aweigh" is played as well.

• The dog who harasses Tom first starred five years earlier in the short "War Dogs". Spike also appeared briefly in that picture.

• Only time Spike saves Tom.

• In the edited scene where the three are shown in blackface, the patch of skin fur Spike took off before had suddenly disappeared.

• The portion fight from this short was also used in "Matinee Mouse".

Goofs

• At the bottom of the Peace Treaty, it was signed by Tom, Jerry, and Butch. Like mentioned above, Butch is supposed to be an alternative name for Spike.

• When the water splashes, making the blackface, they had bows on their ears, which is very unusual.

Censorship

• On most versions, some broadcast showings, as well as DVD prints, the scene where the the meat truck splatters mud all over on Tom, Jerry, and Spike, leaving them in blackface is edited out on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and iTunes Store before the viewer can see all three of them in blackface. Boomerang (EMEA) also removes the scene, even in the UK, where cut scenes are usually intact.

• There is also a version that repainted the blackfaces, so that they're full of mud. It played on television.

• On CBS and Boomerang in the UK, instead of Tom, Jerry, and Spike appearing in blackface, new animation was done by the Chuck Jones unit. Instead of them appearing in blackface, their faces are covered in mud, excluding their eyes and Butch is rarely seen on television.

Production

• Directed by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Animation: Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Tom Johnson, Frank Endres
• Story by: Larz Bourne, Tom Golden
• Backgrounds: Robert Little
• Sequence Director: Seymour Kneitel
• Music: Scott Bradley
• Produced by: Fred Quimby

Voice cast

• Billy Bletcher as Spike the Bulldog (uncredited)
• William Hanna as Tom and Butch's screams (uncredited)

Availability

It can be found uncut on disc one of Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol.1, disc two of Tom and Jerry Golden Collection, and PBS Kids Sprout.

References

External links

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• The Truce Hurts at IMDb

• 1948 animated films
• Tom and Jerry short films
• Films directed by Joseph Barbera
• Films directed by William Hanna
• 1940s American animated films
• American films
• 1940s comedy films
• Film scores by Scott Bradley