Part Time Pal

Part Time Pal is a 1947 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 28th Tom and Jerry short, released to theaters on March 15th, 1947.^[1] It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, and animation by Michael Lah, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and uncredited animation by Pete Burness and Ray Patterson.

Part Time Pal
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Written by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Starring	Lillian Randolph Harry E. Lang (uncredited) Bob Lantzy Jack Sabel
Music by	Scott Bradley
Animation by	Michael Lah Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Pete Burness (uncredited) Ray Patterson (uncredited)
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	MGM Cartoons
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	March 15, 1947 (1947-03-15) January 1955 (reissue)
Running time	7:50
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Tom is instructed by Mammy Two Shoes to guard the kitchen's fridge from Jerry, and is under the threat of being thrown out of the house if he fails. She hands him her broom and leaves.

Tom salutes and marches around the kitchen with determination and alert for Jerry. Little does he know, Jerry has opened up a grille and marches with Tom while saying "Hup!", and directs Tom into it. Jerry immediately heads for the fridge, about to eat some corn, but Tom swipes it off him and chases him.

Jerry rapidly knocks every empty glass milk bottle to the ground, rolling into Tom's path leading him to trip over the collection of empty milk bottles. Speeding out of control, Tom ends up being sent to the basement, falling into a barrel of cider marked "X X X", and is heard drinking it.

Jerry hears Tom gargling, thinking that he's drowning in the cider. Tom emerges from the cider barrel, completely drunk and alive, and befriends Jerry. Taking him by Jerry's hand, he makes his way back to the kitchen, drunkenly sharing the food with his new "friend". Tom offers him some jelly, but Jerry declines the offer, so Tom tosses it away. Next, Tom grabs two beer bottles and shakes them, leading the corks and beer to fire right in his face, with the outcome of him looking like Santa Claus. Tom sees a bottle of cream and grabs it from the fridge only to find that a roast chicken is stuck to his arm. Refusing to let go of the cream, Tom pulls it to his feet. He gives Jerry the bottle of cream and heads for the top shelf and eats some cherries from a bowl. However, when bending over he accidentally pulls out a tray of food from the refrigerator and he and it fall with an almighty crash. This wakes up Mammy, who comes downstairs to investigate what is going on.

Jerry dives into a pie with Tom being next to jump, as Jerry licks the leftovers on his face, Tom prepares to dive, he slams to the ground with the entire pie all over in his face. Jerry hears Mammy coming and hides Tom, covering his mouth so that his hiccups are not heard. Mammy enters to discover the kitchen in a shambles and badmouths the cat who she believes has gone AWOL. Tom drunkenly attempts to boot her in the posterior and give her a hotfoot, but Jerry thwarts each attempt before he can harm her. As Mammy leaves the room, Tom emerges from his hiding place, but he trips up over some of the spilled food and crashes into the refrigerator where he is squirted with some water, sobering him up again.

Jerry, wielding a breast of chicken, approaches Tom, unaware that he is now sober, who gets very angry. Tom then chases after Jerry towards the bathroom, but Jerry jumps onto a towel and the cat slips on a bath mat and crashes into a wall. A bottle of bay rum falls from the bathroom shelf and into Tom's mouth, causing our feline to become blitzed again.

Tom takes Jerry into the dining room for dinner and rings the bell, expecting service for them both. But Mammy is upstairs, fast asleep, and doesn't hear. The drunken cat grows impatient and, despite Jerry's objections, goes upstairs to get her. He takes a jug of water and, after reciting "One for the Money", with Jerry eavesdropping on him, and douses Mammy with it.

Mammy screams angrily when she gets doused, hurls some furniture off-screen at the cat and then chases after Tom downstairs with a broom, wrecking the house in the process and jumping down the stairs. Jerry watches the fiasco as Mammy proceeds to chase Tom out into the night, swiping the broom at him, only to miss due to every one of his drunken hiccups lifting him up.