Hic-cup Pup

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Hic-cup Pup
series = Tom and Jerry

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director = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
story_artist = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
animator = Ed Barge
Kenneth Muse
Ray Patterson
Irven Spence
producer = Fred Quimby
background_artist = Robert Gentle
voice_actor = Daws Butler
musician = Scott Bradley
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
release_date = April 17, 1954
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 6' 17"
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0047084
preceded_by = "Posse Cat"
followed_by = "Little School Mouse"

"Hic-cup Pup" is the 82nd one reel animated "Tom and Jerry" short, created in 1952 directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson and Irven Spence with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It and was released in theaters on April 17, 1954 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Plot

Spike is putting his son, Tyke, to bed. When a chirping canary (from "Kitty Foiled", "The Flying Cat" and "Life with Tom") flies by, Spike calmly tells the canary to be quiet. However, Tom's usual antics of chasing Jerry wake Tyke up, and the little guy gets the hiccups. Spike is understandably annoyed, and places responsibility on Tom to keep quiet, or else. Jerry bites Tom's tail. Tom yells out and wakes up Tyke a second time. Tom flees and each successive hic-cup from Tyke pushes him another couple inches into the air.

Tom peeks around the corner and Jerry pops his head out of a flower pot. Tom chases after Jerry with a spade, but the rodent hides among Spike and Tyke, and climbs onto the top of Spike's head. Tom slams the spade down on Spike's head, causing him to yell out loud. This wakes Tyke up, who resumes hic-cupping. Spike tries to stop his son by holding him by the neck, but each subsequent hic-cup gets Spike jumping up with him.

In the next scene, Tom is again chasing Jerry. He spots Jerry diving underneath Tyke's cradle. Tom slides his hand underneath the cradle to catch Jerry, but Jerry slides a mousetrap, which snaps on Tom's hand. Tom gets ready to scream in pain, but realising that doing so will wake up the bulldogs, holds his breath until his face goes red, and puts a pair of headphones on both dogs. Tom screams, and the dogs hear nothing. Tom pursues Jerry who crawls into a hosepipe. Tom blows into the hosepipe and Jerry is sent out of the other end. He removes Spike and Tyke's headphones, and then connects a trumpet to the other end of the hosepipe, and Tom's blowing into the trumpet wakes up both dogs. Spike marches up to Tom and shoves the trumpet onto Tom's head.

In the next scene, Jerry happily walks out of his mousehole, only to run back inside when Tom spots him and lays wait. The crafty mouse emerges behind the cat, placing some bicycle horns on Tom's feet. Jerry then walks up to Tom's face and kisses him. An angry Tom chases after Jerry, but the bicycle horns squeak every time his feet touch the ground. Tom solves this by running on his hands, until Jerry trips him up. Tom falls down behind Spike, landing on his feet again. Spike is woken, but does not see Tom behind him. He turns around, but Tom turns around with him, so still remains out of Spike's view. Spike looks between his legs, at which point, Tom gets on Spike's back so he can't be seen. Unfortunately, Tom's tail drops down, and Spike catches on. He chases after Tom, and the bicycle horns start squeaking again. They stop chasing while Tom removes the horns from his feet. Then the chase resumes. Tom hides in a corner, as Spike rushes off in the other direction. Jerry then turns the same corner as Tom and retreats the other way running back towards Tyke's cradle where Tom looks for him, but throws out everything in the cradle, including Tyke, who is woken up. Spike returns and Tom, after unsuccessfully trying to stifle Tyke's hiccups, runs away in fear. Spike tends to the hic-cupping pup, but giving him water, scaring him and producing loud noises all fail to solve the problem, and eventually Spike ends up getting the hic-cups.

Next, Tom's final attempt to catch Jerry, who has climbed onto the roof of a house, fails. Tom rests on the guttering, but the guttering falls off the house, sending Tom crashing down to the ground. In a cloud of dust, Tom, fearing for his life, digs his own grave. As the dust settles, Spike is about to react, but realizes that both bulldogs are cured of their hiccups. Spike is overjoyed, thanks Tom and says that from now on, anything he does is OK with him and Tyke. As a result, an unhappy Jerry is forced to run away, he puts a sign on his door saying "Gone South for sake of health. Jerry" as Tom sees him running south on an empty railroad track.