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As this short begins Spike the bulldog lies down to have a sleep; he can't though because of Tom and Jerry's fighting... he is surprisingly tolerant as Tom accidentally hits him with a frying pan, fires a shotgun over his head and even hits him with an axe! He finally reaches breaking point and tells Tom that he'll skin him alive if he hears another sound... Jerry of course sees this as an invitation to make a racket. He does everything he can to make a noise as Tom valiantly strives to silence his attempts. Tom eventually comes up with a plan... he pours a bottle of 'knock out drops' into Spikes mouth; after that nothing Jerry can do will wake him... well; almost nothing!

I was surprised at just how amusing I found this short as Spike isn't my favourite Tom and Jerry character; here he was funny because he was surprisingly reasonable; one might have expected him to get violent the first time he was hit by a frying pan! The way Jerry tries to make a noise seemed far more malicious than usual with some of the things seeming violent even by the standards of Tom and Jerry... this of course added to the amusement! Not all the laughs came from the violence though; Tom's lullaby to Spike was pretty funny.

Wait, was that a Popeye reference? "Quiet Please!" is a 70-year-old Tom-and-Jerry cartoon, runs for 7 minutes as always with these and is certainly among the most famous the duo has to offer. Their Hanna Barbera cartoons won quite a few Academy Awards in the 1940s and this is one of the triumphant films. It all starts as always: Tom chases Jerry and causes all kinds of mayhem and noise. However, Spike is around as well and he wants to sleep, so he warns Tom that there will be huge physical pain coming his way if he won't be quiet. So, for the rest of the film, Tom not only tries to catch Jerry, but is also pretty busy trying to prevent Jerry from making any kind of noise. There were a couple funny scenes in here and I certainly prefer this one to the very famous "Can Concerto". Not among my huge favorites, but all in all, a successful cartoon and I recommend watching it.

. . . lies in picturing a cat with a shotgun! What separates Man from the dumb animals is that the latter were never smart enough to invent firearms. Ironically, it is this very kind of Peacemaker that disturbs Spike's peace during QUIET PLEASE! Fortunately for us, we do NOT have to worry about stray felines gunning us down as we jog, mow the lawn or sleep. I personally have never seen a cat with a trigger finger, and guns do NOT shoot themselves, as the FBI pointed out to A. Baldwin on Aug. 12, 2022. Doubtless the recoil from a shotgun would immediately squash the brain of any critter named Fluffy or Mittens strong enough to shoulder a long gun, aim and somehow fire it. A mouse may find the leverage to topple an upright grandfather clock during this film, but the truly belly-busting laugh inducer is seeing a smallish house pet trying to step into Mankind's exclusive domain. After getting a chuckle from QUIET PLEASE!, kindly remember to support your local chapter of BANGS: Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps--people, NOT cats!

. . . heartless, sadistic cold-blooded killer, this series--and particularly QUIET PLEASE!--constitutes a fertile training ground. When a nation is at war, having a "boot camp" to keep its children from growing up playing violins or painting daisies, but rather being able to fiendishly finish off enemies with few qualms, is the hallmark of a Great Society. America likes to picture herself as the underdog--or, ever better, the under-mouse--that is, a scavenger vermin always on the spot to filch a stray blue Hawaii or not thoroughly baked Alaska. Given that, indoctrinating young tykes with endless cartoons about mice loving to bully, torture, maim and murder the guardian cats meant to protect households is the perfect analogy even Today in this our Modern 21st Century for a Jan. 6-style Insurrection.