Robin Hoodwinked

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Robin Hoodwinked
series = Tom and Jerry

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caption = The title card of "Robin Hoodwinked".
director = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
story_artist = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
animator = Kenneth Muse
Carlo Vinci
Lewis Marshall
James Escalante
background_artist = Robert Gentle
layout_artist = Richard Bickenbach
voice_actor = Lucille Bliss as Tuffy (uncredited)
musician = Scott Bradley
producer = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
release_date = June 6, 1958
color_process = Technicolor
CinemaScope
Perspecta Stereo
runtime = 6 minutes 15 seconds
preceded_by = "The Vanishing Duck"
followed_by = "Tot Watchers (final "Tom and Jerry" cartoon produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera)
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0052140

"Robin Hoodwinked" is the 113th one reel animated "Tom and Jerry" short, copyrighted 1957 and released on June 6, 1958 after the MGM cartoon studio had effectively closed down. It was the penultimate "Tom and Jerry" cartoon that was directed (and produced) by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It also marked the final appearance of Tuffy, who first appeared in The Milky Waif, then and until 1954 known as Nibbles. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Carlo Vinci, Lewis Marshall and James Escalante with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Richard Bickenbach.

Robin Hoodwinked is reminiscent of the "Mouseketeer" cartoons, except here, Tuffy speaks in a hybrid of Saxon/Cockney English (with a very poor accent) as opposed to French.

Plot

Hearing the news that Robin Hood has been captured, and is sure to hang, Jerry and Tuffy decide to go and free Robin, who is in imprisoned in a castle with Tom as guard. They break into the prison and find the cell where "poor old Robin is locked up tight, 'e is", but first they have to get past Tom.

They find the "bloomin' key" and grab it off Tom, but Tom locks Jerry and Tuffy in the cellar and swallows the key.

Jerry and Tuffy escape the cellar, and Tuffy is able to get the key for Robin Hood's cell by abseiling from a piece of string, into Tom's mouth, whilst Tom is asleep. However, the string breaks, and Tom swallows Tuffy, waking him up in the process. Hiccuping, Tom drinks down a great deal of punch. He goes back to sleep.

Tuffy emerges from Tom's mouth, clearly hiccupping. He almost escapes, but the prongs of the key get caught on Tom's mouth and he wakes up again. Tom closes his mouth, trapping Tuffy. "Blimey! 'E locked me in, 'e did!". Tuffy breaks through Tom's teeth, using the key as a battering-ram.

Jerry helps Tuffy escape Tom, and together they give the key to Robin Hood. However, Tom raises the alarm. A silhouette of Robin Hood is seen diving into the moat around the castle and he escapes, with arrows flying all around him. Tuffy celebrates Robin's freedom, but his nappy gets caught on a flying arrow and he is sent into a nearby tree. He starts crying and Tom immeadly starts a puppet show. It is "very" funny. It was so funny to Tuffy that he got the hiccups.

The cartoon ends with a still-hiccupping Tuffy carousing, whilst being carried on the arrow-shaft by Jerry: "We took the blinkin' key, then Robin Hood went freeeee.... And it was you and me, what done it! (Hic!)"

Trivia

* In some airings, Tuffy is the one who lowers Jerry and Jerry is drunk.