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The lady of the house has gone out for a few hours, leaving her baby in the care of a stereotypical 1950s teenager, who immediately begins calling her friends. Tom and Jerry must call a truce to their constant chases as the baby, unsupervised, continually gets loose. When the baby escapes out the front door, Tom and Jerry chase it to a construction site, where they frantically try to keep it from harm.

★★★★☆ Curator’s rating Landmark

The last Tom and Jerry short made by Hanna and Barbera at MGM. The studio closed its animation department shortly afterwards, ending an eighteen-year run of over a hundred films and sending its two directors off to found the television studio that would define the next twenty years of American animation. Fittingly, it is a baby-in-peril short — one of the formats they had made their own — and Tom and Jerry end it arrested together.

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