Hatch Up Your Troubles
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A woodpecker’s egg falls from its nest, rolls into Jerry’s home, and settles underneath the sleeping Jerry. When it hatches, the bird naturally calls Jerry “Mama.” Jerry soon realizes that a woodpecker can be an ally in his battles with Tom.
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Oscar nominee
Nominated for the Academy Award. A woodpecker chick hatches next to Jerry and adopts him, and the short becomes a reluctant-parenthood comedy with Tom as the threat. It was well enough regarded that MGM remade it in widescreen a few years later — the version in this archive titled The Egg and Jerry.