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Tom and Jerry is my childhood favorite cartoon. It's still the best today, and Tee for Two is my absolute favorite short in the entire series. It's funny how amazingly golf pairs with the classic formula, so I may as well explain.

Tee for Two starts strong with its music piece perfectly capturing the energy of the rest of the cartoon, and it even leads into the first gag, Tom's crater-sized divot. He does get it out, where he meets Jerry in the hole he was shooting at. Jerry humiliates Tom, and then Tom hits him with a golf ball and forces the mouse to be his tee. What ensues is pure gold: the scene is perfectly used for gags that never get old, like the woodpecker egg Jerry uses to fool Tom and my favorite of them all, Tom trying to hit his ball between two skinny trees, only to be beheaded... then his body walks around like nothing happened! Classic stuff.

The music and animation are also superb as usual. The music especially stands out because golf is a quiet sport, but Scott Bradley captures the mood perfectly in spite of that.

Overall, Tee for Two is the gold standard of what you should expect from a Tom and Jerry cartoon. I won't be surprised if 30 years from now it's still my favorite. I'd give this 11 stars if it was an option.

"Tee for Two" is an American cartoon from 1945, so this one is already over 70 years old, from the last year of WWII, and this one is another Hanna Barbera production by MGM and here we have of course another Tom and Jerry short film. No dogs or owners in here this time as Tom is humanized again playing golf despite being a cat, but when Jerry resides in the hole Tom wants to get the ball in, chaos ensues. And said chaos includes a little freshly-hatched bird who is far from a rookie though and a swarm of bees who all go up against Tom. There is no intention to eat in here as you would expect from a cat&mouse cartoon, another reference to humanization. Jerry is not too important in here as he really only fight through proxies most of the time against Tom. The golf ball eye-painting scene was fairly funny though I guess. Eventually Tom gets it almost too much here as he did not know he was hitting an egg and the bee attack scene is also almost a bit too violent. Poor cat, who at one point, the shot at the very beginning, is a completely unskilled player, but then shows master calass skills on other occasions. And Jerry's final shot shows he isn't too untalented either. All in all one of the earlier, but not earliest and one of the better, but not best Tom and Jerry cartoons. I give it a thumbs-up and recommend checking it out. A fun watch with nice attention to detail.

As this short opens we see what appears to be a golf course; it is hard to be sure though as somebody has taken out so many divots it looks more like an artillery range! That somebody is of course Tom. When he finally does get the ball to the hole it keeps bouncing out; at first he can't see why, it soon becomes apparent that it is because Jerry is at the bottom of it and he doesn't enjoy being disturbed. When Tom realises what is going on he grabs Jerry with the intention of using him as a tee! What follows is the usual stream of violent gags viewers expect from the duo. Jerry gets hit by the ball a couple of times and hammered into the ground but as always Tom who suffers the most; he gets his teeth knocked out, attacked by an irate woodpecker, stung by a swarm of bees and even blown up by an exploding golf ball.

This was a fairly standard Tom and Jerry short; plenty of violence and some good gags; I particularly liked the fully grown woodpecker hatching from an egg and attacking Tom and the introduction where we see just how bad Tom is at golf... although that doesn't explain how he can hit Jerry with a ball as he runs off! The animation is of a high standard and the jokes come thick and fast so if you don't like one it doesn't matter as there will be another one along in a matter of seconds. This might not be as good as some of their other sporting outings but it is still well worth watching and to my mind beats 'My Bunny Lies Over the Sea'; Bugs Bunny's golfing short.

"Tee For Two" was originally released back in 1945.

Anyway - As the story goes - On a golf course, Jerry enlists the help of a woodpecker and a squadron of bees to get even with Tom.

. . . the Underworld--just think of epithets such as "Hell Cats"--and golf is widely regarded as The Devil's Game. TEE FOR TWO puts this pair of nefarious associations together, as a tomcat excavates colossal divots while racking up a score of 594 for one round of golf! Though the total destruction of the Country Club Links is not as tragic as "turfing" a Little League field would be, Tom's success in expanding his litter box seems to go wholly unpunished here. Doubtless one of the producers suffered a bad round, prompting the filming of this picture to savage the so-called Liar's Sport. This film is likely to be appreciated most by duffers who are already trekking down the Road to Perdition.