The Bad Note

Likely the most famous scene in the Tom and Jerry cartoon Piano Tooners (1931) is when Jerry chases and bashes a bad note that comes out of a piano and flushes it down a toilet.



I’m not sure if the close-up is a death scene or the note begging for mercy or what it is. But does it matter? This is a Van Beuren cartoon.

John Foster and George Rufle receive the “by” credits. The bad note comes from a rendition of “East Side, West Side.”