Springtime for Thomas

STORY

It is a beautiful spring day and Jerry wants to play with Tom, but Tom is too busy, fixated with a female cat sunbathing in the yard outside. Tom stares dreamily at her for hours, until eventually approaching her and falling head over heels in love with her. As Jerry watches, a small devil (looking like Jerry, but smaller, green, and possessing a barbed tail, small horns, and pointed ears that look like Tom's) convinces Jerry to break things up between Tom and his new-found love. Jerry sends a forged letter laced with perfume to Butch, Tom's rival, whom was humming at the time "Over The Rainbow". Butch reads the letter aloud: "Dear Dream Boy, I have always admired your physique (pronounced fizz-ee-queue). Drop in for tea at 3:00. Swooningly yours, Toodles". The race is on between Butch and Tom for Toodles' affections.

First Butch lies on the sun lounger, next to Toodles. Tom finds a croquet mallet and hits Butch on the head with it. Unusually, Butch does not react to the pain. Instead, he grabs Tom and throws him into the swimming pool.

Tom gets out of the pool as Butch is serenading Toodles. Tom grabs the end of the sun-lounger and wheels it over to the pool, and throws Butch into the pool.

Butch now gets out of the pool and hits a croquet ball at Tom. Tom, drinking from a tall glass, gets cracked on the back of the head and falls down. Butch hits Tom through a number of croquet rings and he crashes into the central pole. Tom is then thrown onto a barbecue and turned around on a rotisserie.

Butch is now laid down again. Jerry, and his green evil-conscience, place a pin onto a spring under the lounger. Butch says "You know? I'm expecting Cupids' arrow, any minute." And he is then caught in the rump by the pin, which sticks out of the lounger... just as Tom walks over (Toodles is not seen again from this point on). Tom picks it up - and Butch assumes that Tom had caught him with the pin. He chases Tom, who hits Butch by turning a statue as Butch is running towards Tom.

Butch then chases Tom off a diving board; after landing in the water, Tom quickly drinks all the water, causing Butch to crash to the bottom of the pool.

Tom then runs to a swing, places a flower pot on it, and hurls the swing at Butch. Butch gets hit, but then throws the swing back, catching Tom on the seat. Tom swings back, helplessly, and Butch hits him with his guitar, baseball-style. Tom flies over the fence and out of the garden. Tom was kicked out and frowns. Tom says: Oh, fool!.

Jerry runs up to Tom, and the two shake hands as they agree that Tom is finished with Toodles. Tom then gives chase to Jerry, with each wearing happy expressions on their faces. However, this chase ends prematurely, as Jerry hypocritically finds a female play-mate and falls in love with her. He pushes Tom out of the way and snuggles up to his new-found girlfriend.