The bowling alley cat

The camera shows us a bowling alley and ball number 8, from which Jerry jumps out. Jerry goes to the track and begins to slide on it, like on a skating rink, after discovering its sliding properties. At the same time, Tom sticks his head out from behind the ball and decides to quietly pounce on the mouse. Jerry jumps off the track to the floor and decides to accelerate, pushing Tom's tail. The mouse almost runs into the cat's mouth and runs back. Tom chases after Jerry and eventually falls to the floor. Jerry throws the cat into a pile of trash using Tom's tail. Tom protrudes from the heap with a volcano explosion. Jerry runs away from the cat to the pins and sets a trap for himself. Tom throws a ball at him, waving it like a core at the Olympics . Before the ball crashes into the pins, Jerry climbs onto the 1st pin and dodges the hit, jumping from the point of the pin. Tom throws the ball again and knocks down the left pins. On the third attempt, Jerry knocks down the bottom of the pins, but Jerry continues to bounce the pins in the air, but he soon realizes what’s happening and falls. The fourth throw Tom knocks the middle. Only the pins 7 and 10 remain, forming a split, and Jerry hides behind the latter. Tom throws the ball toward the 10th, but at the last second the ball sharply turns to the left and knocks down the 7th. Tom throws the ball one more time, but Jerry knocks it into the air with a pin, which he used as a bat. Tom runs back, trying to catch him like an outsider in basketball. The ball crashes into Tom and the cat breaks through the floor. Having risen from a hole, Tom discovers that the ball has taken another head from him. Tom runs after Jerry, fixed on new pins. Jerry jumps off the skittle, Tom crashes into them. A machine with holes for arranging new pins turns Tom into a pin together with the others. Tom is freed from this form and continues the pursuit. The cat pushes a row of balls on a hill, and they, like a train, chase Jerry running on their way. Jerry runs away from the "train" and points him at Tom. Tom gets balls on the head and runs to the balls on the platform behind Jerry, who is hiding in one of them. However, sticking his finger in the holes of the ball, Tom accidentally pulls Jerry, who bit him, making growling sounds. Then, when Jerry fell back into the ball, spitting from Tom’s finger, Tom blows them in turn so that Jerry will fly out of the hole. Jerry jumps out, but Tom doesn’t manage to grab him for a short while, as the ball fell on his leg. Further, when he caught up with Jerry, he simply jumped on his foot, and Tom again screams slightly in pain, having failed, Tom ties the ball with a knot so that Jerry does not come out of it. Jerry manages to jump out of the hole and crawls into another ball, simultaneously tying the cat's tail to the ball. Tom is looking for Jerry, and he stands next to him. Tom understands what’s what, and furiously continues the pursuit of the mouse, but the tail interferes with him, clinging to the obstacles with a ball. In the end, the ball clings to the metal beams under the bench under which Jerry runs. Tom slips under the bench, but the ball with the tail remains. The cat runs after the mouse with all his might, and the ball breaks the bench and pushes Tom so hard that he knocked down all the pins (strike), broke through the wall and flew out into the trash.

Jerry writes the score and marks all the points, noting the strike in the last paragraph, as if he had played the perfect game.

• This is the first cartoon where the cat and mouse play sports games.
• When Tom spits out a bunch of garbage, his face after that moment looks like Popeye's grin.
• This is the last cartoon in which the 1940 music was used in the title credits. (True, in some post-war series it will sound again.)
• This is the 3rd episode in which the Jerry mouse wins.

One of the best series was the painting "Cat from a bowling alley." The cascade of tricks serves only as an excuse for the expressive game of Tom and Jerry. Stylized scenery designed to focus on the action of the characters - their behavior on the slippery floor of a bowling alley elevates the film to the rank of a comedy workshop.

- Leonard Moltin “ On Mice and Magic. The history of the American hand-drawn film " ^[1]

• The Bowling Alley Cat on the Internet Movie Database
• “The Bowling Alley Cat” on Big Cartoon DataBase