Calypso Cat

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Calypso Cat
series = Tom and Jerry


caption =
director = Gene Deitch
story_artist = Larz Bourne
animator = Vaclav Bedrich
voice_actor =
musician = Steven Konichek
producer = William L. Snyder
studio =
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
release_date = 1962
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 8'
preceded_by = "Landing Stripling"
followed_by = "Dicky Moe
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0055822

Calypso Cat is a Tom and Jerry cartoon produced in 1961 and released in 1962. It was directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder.

Plot

While chasing Jerry around a dock, Tom sees and instantly falls in love with a female cat. The female cat appears to return Tom's interest, so Tom sneaks aboard the ship the female cat and her owner have just boarded. Jerry follows Tom onto the boat and proceeds to interfere with Tom's subsequent flirtations.

By the time the ship arrives at its destination (a Caribbean island), the female cat is barely tolerating Tom. When she sees a local cat playing the steel drum, her interest turns to him. Tom becomes jealous, and the local cat and Tom begin to fight each other, using the drums sticks and steel drum as weapons. Tom loses the fight, and the local cat proceeds to walk away, accompanied by the female cat.

Jerry then sets Tom's feet on fire to get his attention, and Tom proceeds to chase Jerry back onto the ship. The ship arrives back at the dock where it had been at the start of the cartoon, and the chase continues on the dock.