Hey, Audience, Have Some Water

Tom and Jerry use a water-filled elephant to stop packs of angry, marauding lions at a circus at the end of Tight Rope Tricks (1933). Hmm. There are frames where the stream of water isn’t connected to the elephant’s trunk.



The Van Beuren story department wonders about the next gag. “I know!” says John Foster or someone else, “Let’s have Tom turn the water onto the theatre audience.” So Tom does.



Dissolve into the final scene. The lions drown (now there’s comedy!). Floating up from the sea of water (how much was in that elephant, anyway?) are Tom, Jerry, the female tight-rope walker (voiced by Margie Hines) and a happy elephant. Jerry dances on top of the elephant for no particular reason as the iris closes to end another Van Beuren cartoon.



George Rufle gets a “by” credit along with Foster, with musical accompaniment scored by Gene Rodemich.