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Sorry Safari  is a 1962  Tom and Jerry  cartoon. It is the eleventh cartoon in the series of thirteen directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia.

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The film opens at the airport in Nairobi , where a big game hunter, Tom's grumpy owner is preparing to go on a hunt through the African jungle. Tom, who is packed in a suitcase, has woken up from the long trip and is ready for the hunt, but is annoyed to find that Jerry had stowed away in the hunter's luggage. Tom and his owner are then off into the jungle riding on an elephant from Nertz. Jerry tries to climb aboard, but fails when Tom points a rifle at him, and in the process, he falls off and the recoil blast from the rifle rockets him into a tree. Tom gets his nose stuck in the rifle's barrel, but as he tries to get it out, ends up being at risk of getting shot because the trigger is caught on a branch. The hunter notices him and shouts, " THAT'S MY GUN! GIVE IT TO ME!! ". He manages to get his nose out, and the bullets end up destroying the hunter's hat, much to his fury. The elephant hands Tom over to the singed hunter, who punishes him by wrapping a rifle over his head and firing it, deafening him.

Tom manages to clear his ears out and is able to hear the sounds of the jungle. Soon after, Jerry pokes his head out of another rifle barrel and taunts Tom. Tom tries to grab Jerry, but misses when his angry owner immediately yells " DON'T TOUCH MY GUNS!!! " This scares Tom off of the basket and onto the elephant's buckle. To make matters worse, Jerry unbuckles the belt, causing Tom to fall off. Later, the owner manages as he falls off. The singed safari hunter, falsely accusing Tom for the act, furiously traps him in the overturned basket, as the elephant walks off without them. The two attempt to get back on the elephant, but fail, and just as the furious safari hunter prepares to punch Tom in the jaw, they are both interrupted by the thunderous roar of a raging savage lion. Frightened, the hunter reaches back for Tom to hand him a rifle for self-defense as Tom searches the basket. As Jerry hands him with a thermos instead of a rifle, Tom gives it to his owner. Just as the hunter prepares to fight off the lion, Jerry puts his hat over his chest in mourning sarcastically, sobbing. The loathsome lion then pounces on the hunter, mauling him instantly, as the thermos didn't do any apparent damage to the hunter before running away, and the scratched-up and irritated hunter takes a sip of coffee from the thermos and counts all the way to ten before clobbering Tom over his head with the thermos in fury.

Tom's ruthless owner continues forward into the jungle, with Tom being forced to carry the basket as punishment, when the two spot their elephant resting in front of them. The hunter kicks the basket onto the elephant's back, buckles it in places (Tom gets out from under the basket) and resumes the hunt. Tom once again finds Jerry, who hides in the lunchbox. Tom tries to find Jerry in the owner's lunchbox, throwing away the packed food in the process. Tom's owner turns red in the face as he slams the lid on the cat's paws, grinning sadistically with his redness fading away. Tom winces in pain with his flattened paw fingers. Later, Tom manages to get Jerry in his clutches and hides from his brutish master. The hunter finds him, but is interrupted as he threatens him when they spot a purple rhinoceros, which is in front of them, and charges at them. As the hunter prepares to fire a rifle, Tom hides Jerry in the elephant's trunk, and as the elephant sees Jerry hide from his trunk, Jerry comes out of the elephant's trunk (" A mouse, a mouse, a mouse! "), scaring him and causing him to run off. All three of them try to run from the rhino, who pokes them with his horn and launches them into the air, and as they land on a tree branch, which snaps (at a good timing) and causes them to fall on top of the rhino, the elephant sees that they have crushed the rhino. Later, the rhino, Tom and his owner are tied onto a long stick, carried by the elephant on the front end and Jerry on the back.

The cartoon closes with a close-up on Jerry, who waves goodbye to the audience.

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• Jerry Mouse
• Tom's owner
• Tom's Owner : THAT'S MY GUN!!! GIVE IT TO ME!!!
• Tom's Owner : DON'T TOUCH MY GUNS!!!
• Tom's Owner : One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten!
• Elephant : A mouse! Mouse! Mouse!
• This is the last appearance of Tom's notorious owner , as he was removed from the series since his role was found too controversial among fans due to the way he punishes Tom, which has been seen as a depiction of animal cruelty . Because of that, the 3 shorts he was in, which were this short, along with Down and Outing and High Steaks , have barely made airtime on Cartoon Network and Boomerang due to inhumanely insensitive subject matter.
• This is the only short where Tom's owner gets his comeuppance in the end, even though Tom gets the same treatment. However, his owner did get hurt more by the Lion than Tom ever did, as the owner nearly died from his fight with the Lion. The owner also didn't have a successful hunt. Therefore, he received a bigger punishment than Tom in this cartoon and arguably the other two cartoons he previously appeared in.
• This is the only short where Tom's owner never ties up Tom in order to keep him out of trouble.
• This is the 125th cartoon of the series.
• This cartoon's opening titles do not open with the usual 1960s MGM Cartoons Metrocolor Lion logo due to it being a Czechoslovakian production, it opens with a cartoon lion roaring in the jungle with the "A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER CARTOON" credit over it.

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Sorry Safari

Sorry Safari is the hundred and twenty-sixth animated theatrical short of the Tom and Jerry series. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on October 12 , 1962 . It was written by Larz Bourne , produced by William L. Snyder , and directed by Gene Deitch .

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• 2 Memorable quotes
• 3 Characters
• 4 Locations
• 7.1 Development
• 7.2 Filming
• 10 Behind the scenes
• 12 Everlasting influence
• 13 Critical reception
• 14 Home availability
• 15 References

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes.

In order of appearance:

• Nairobi Airport

Development

The music was composed by Steven Konichek , adapted from his predecessor Scott Bradley 's original composition.

Dates are in order of release:

• United States : October 12, 1962

Behind the scenes

• Deitch is now credited after Snyder.

Everlasting influence

Critical reception, home availability.

• June 15 , 2015 : Warner Home Video releases Tom and Jerry: The Gene Deitch Collection on DVD.
• Directed by Gene Deitch
• Rembrandt Films
• Theatrical shorts
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Sorry Safari

Tom and Jerry have stowed away in the luggage of a big game hunter who lands in Nairobi (Tom is sort of the hunter’s assistant). They ride along on his Nertz U-Drive elephant. Tom has some problems with a gun. Jerry then unbuckles the passenger box from the elephant; Tom gets blamed. A lion attacks; Jerry gets Tom to hand the hunter a thermos instead of a rifle. Tom stashes Jerry in the elephant’s trunk, which frightens him. Bad timing, as there’s a charging rhino. Fortunately, they land atop the rhino; Jerry and the elephant carry off the rhino, the hunter, and Tom, tied up and hanging from a log.

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"Down and Outing," "High Steaks," and "Sorry Safari" (Tom and Jerry)

Down and Outing, High Steaks, and Sorry Safari are three Tom and Jerry shorts from the second theatrical era (1960-1962) from Gene Deitch (known for his work on the Terrytoons cartoons).

In these three shorts, Tom's owner (an overweight man who resembles the Terrytoon character, Clint Clobber) tries to go on with his daily life (fishing in the first, cooking on the barbecue in the second, and going on a safari in the final), but the antics that Tom and Jerry cause with their standard chases end up making chaos.

• 1 Why All Three of Them Get A Violent Beatdown
• 2 Redeeming Qualities

Why All Three of Them Get A Violent Beatdown

• 8 words & 1 number: Three of the most abusive, torture Tom cartoons.
• All three of them are predictable in a bad way (see WIS #5).
• I.E. Tom accidentally smacks the owner with a pan, then the owner assaults him with a bombardment of hits from the same pan.
• Oftentimes, Tom's injuries that he received as the result of this abuse are horrible and scary to look at for a younger audience, such as his graphically-flattened fingers in Down and Outing and his scarred "grilled" face in High Steaks.
• Oftentimes, Jerry will laugh at Tom as he goes through this abuse, which is character derailment, and everything that he does in these cartoons go completely against his character. They are so anti-Jerry that they make these unwatchable every time he takes the joy and suffering on Tom.
• In each of these cartoons, all that Tom was doing was trying to prevent Jerry from ruining the day's events. In retaliation, Jerry frames Tom for everything that goes wrong and his owner falls for it each time, and wails and lets all of his anger out on Tom to either beat him up or just physically abuse him. Even more character derailment for Jerry, and more things going against Jerry's character.
• On that topic, of all the three cartoons, Jerry is depicted at his absolute worst in High Steaks, even for his poor portrayal in the entirety of the Gene Deitch era, due to Jerry being far more sadistic than the rest of the cartoons of the era (especially these three cartoons), as well as how Jerry did far worse things to Tom in High Steaks compared to even Down and Outing and Sorry Safari, with the worst one being Jerry trapping Tom's tail on the barbecue grill when the cat isn't looking which ultimately resulted in Tom receiving the absolute worst amounts of pain and unnecessary torture he ever received in the history of Tom and Jerry (see WIS #14).
• In two of the shorts, Tom's owner gets away with everything, leading up to the controversy where he has to be written off for animal abuse territory due to angry rants and raves at Gene Deitch.
• All the three shorts generally had very unfunny and cruel jokes. And in all the shorts, Jerry escapes karma as well. They even end badly for Tom when he should've come out on top.
• There is barely any good humor in these shorts, which is unacceptable for a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
• Likewise, Allen Swift also does a terrible job providing the vocal effects for both Tom and Jerry, as the voices he provided to the cat-and-mouse duo are dreadful, annoying, unfunny, and do not fit the main duo, especially Jerry's laughs which sounds incredibly creepy.
• On that note, Tom's owner barely speaks in any of the shorts, to put it simply, he only has four lines in all three shorts, one line in Down and Outing, none at all in High Steaks (well, aside from his singing), and only three lines in Sorry Safari.
• Like the rest of the Gene Deitch-era Tom and Jerry shorts, the slapstick violence in these three shorts comes off as very lifelike, cruel, and hurtful, rather than being cartoon-ish, lighthearted, and funny.
• On that topic, the scene from High Steaks when Tom transforms into into the shape of the soda bottle as the result of being force-fed an entire bottle of soda by his owner is a bad rehash of a similar gag from Cue Ball Cat where Tom transforms a soda bottle after crashing into a soda vending machine, all without actually understanding the context of the gag used and why that gag in question worked so well in Cue Ball Cat and instead comes off as incredibly nonsensical and illogical even by Tom and Jerry standards.
• In High Steaks, when Tom's owner sees Tom struggling to get his tail out of the barbecue grill that has been set by Jerry, he just stands and stairs at Tom, and after Tom accidentally runs him over, falls into the pool and nearly drown, when Tom's owner grabs and pulls him out of the pool, rather then check to see if Tom's fine, he brutally beats him up and ties Tom to a lounge chair.
• In Sorry Safari, when Tom gets fling into the air by Jerry, has a gun stick on his nose, and is struggling to get the gun off his nose as the tree branch is about to break, instead of helping Tom, Tom's owner just stands there and yells "That's MY Gun! Give it to me!".
• In Down and Outing, Tom is beaten and tied with rope and put into a bucket where the caught fish are supposed to be placed and has fish thrown into his face by Jerry and Tom's owner, causing him to cry.
• High Steaks ends on the worst note, with Tom getting his tail stuck in the grill, making him run into the pool and nearly drown, before the owner takes him out and beats him up, before tying Tom to a lounge chair. It isn't over yet, as Jerry sneaks in and hooks the chair to a passing car, allowing Tom to be whisked off to an unknown fate.
• In Sorry Safari, Tom (along with his owner) ends up being the victim of an angry rhino and gets tied to a tree.
• Each of those endings is supposed to be happy endings, suggested by all the joyous music playing in the background, but instead, the way that it is used comes off as sickening and outrageous.
• There are also a lot of animation errors in all three episodes, such as in High Steaks, when Tom emerges out of the swimming pool after diving into it near the ending, his lower body isn't visible on the pool surface despite that the pool water is supposed to be crystal-clear.
• In addition, Tom's owner would have a happy personality to Tom if he does a very careful action or helping him if he is in danger in High Steaks and Sorry Safari, but the issue above fails because the owner beats up Tom mercilessly.
• Both Down and Outing and High Steaks are basically poor man's versions of Cat Fishin' and Barbecue Brawl respectively, but without any fun and cleverness which those episodes had.
• Sorry Safari, despite having a jungle theme setup giving heaps of potential for comedic gags such as quicksand, man-eating plants, snakes, monkeys, crocodiles and lost African civilizations, most of the gags and jokes in said cartoon are limited to Tom and his owner falling off the back of an elephant and getting chased by both a lion and a rhinoceros, as well as Tom getting needlessly abused and tortured by his owner all thanks to Jerry causing trouble on purpose.
• The short also has a very misleading picture for the "Tom and Jerry in" title card, which has Tom getting ready to cook Jerry on a grill, indicating Tom is meant to be the antagonist with the plot being Jerry trying to survive not being eaten by Tom when the actual short has Tom and his owner making barbecued steaks as Tom tries to prevent Jerry from eating any or ruining the day with no indications of Tom planning to eat Jerry.
• Like with most shorts, the pacing is all over the place in all three of these shorts. "Sorry Safari" and "Down and Outing" have very sluggish and tiresome pacing, while on the other hand, "High Steaks" did start out slowly at first, but then all of the sudden it went way too fast, which is a huge contributor of the gags falling flat.

Redeeming Qualities

• Tom is still a likable character as usual.
• Sorry Safari has stylish designs and lots of moving overlays for a 3-D effect.
• Sorry Safari at least gave Tom's owner his comeuppance (ironically in his final appearance), even if Tom and an innocent rhino suffered from it, too.
• Whenever Tom's owner isn't angry, the rest of the shorts are calm and laid back affairs.
• This being Tom and Jerry, there's still a few funny moments and references, like how the owner, in his first appearance in Down and Outing, is first shown from the waist down, paying a subtle homage to Tom's previous owners such as Mammy Two-Shoes .
• Sorry Safari is the least bad out of the three, but it still a terrible episode overall.
• "DON'T TOUCH MY GUNS!!!"
• Be courteous to the pet, even if someone is abusive; Down & Outing does this as the only episode to do so without even making a single mistake.
• If someone accidentally or intentionally messes up something, do not take your anger seriously and target those who make mistakes, not those who did not.
• Try to reprimand when you abuse your pet or someone, so that they can change for the better.
• Tom's owner never appeared again after the Gene Deitch era due to the backlash that he had received from fans of the series.
• Sorry Safari spawned the "DON'T TOUCH MY GUNS!" meme.
• In High Steaks, Tom is connected to a car at the corner of Deitch and Snyder streets (named after director Gene Deitch and producer William Snyder).

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Sorry safari.

1962 Directed by Gene Deitch

Tom joins his owner on a hunting safari in Kenya. Jerry has hidden himself in the Clint's luggage, and Tom quickly sees him and attempts to get rid of him.

Allen Swift

Director Director

Gene Deitch

Producer Producer

William L. Snyder

Writer Writer

Larz Bourne

Editor Editor

Composer composer.

Štěpán Koníček

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Rembrandt Films

Czechoslovakia USA

Alternative Titles

Heia Safari, Tom et Jerry au safari, 非洲冒险, Triste safari, Nieudane safari, Afrikai vadászaton

Comedy Animation Adventure

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12 oct 1962, releases by country.

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Review by Geoff T ★★ 2

Tom and Jerry Project: 1940-1967 Sorry Safari (1962)

So after a series of efforts that were actually quite decent, it's back to square one with what is generally considered the nadir of the Deitch era, if not the entire series.

Tom's owner has brought along Tom for a hunting session in the jungles of Kenya. Armed with an array of guns and riding on the back of an elephant, Jerry wants to come along for the ride, only to annoy Tom which in turn causes a large amount of headache for his abusive owner. Next thing you know, the elephant is escaped and Tom's owner is left to fend off the angry wildlife lurking in the jungle (like lions).

Review by Ray ★★

Oh man, I can tell by the xylophone music that this is going to be one of those surreal Tom and Jerries that traumatized me as a child. Tom and Jerry accompany a big game hunter to Nairobi because that's what we were doing in 1962 (Bob Hope's Call Me Bwana would come out the very next year). You can also see the influence this sort of rando weirdness would have on Ren & Stimpy and the like.

There is a "gun goes off right next to your head so you can't hear for a few moments" gag that trolled me into checking my headset. Otherwise, it's an awkward, uncomfortable slog through the jungle. No thank you.

Review by Sophie Farrell ★★

After a handful of shorts that were actually pretty decent and felt that some effort had been put into making them, its back to square one for the Gene Deitch era of Tom and Jerry with Sorry Safari. I have seen plenty of reviews proclaiming Sorry Safari to be the nadir of the Deitch era, and one of the worst Tom and Jerry shorts ever made. As a result, I went into Sorry Safari hoping that it would prove those opinions wrong. Therefore, I'm disappointed to say that Sorry Safari lived up to those negative reviews. While there are a couple of fun ideas in Sorry Safari, I never really felt that it came together as a completely satisfying whole…

Review by PlooplePop ★★★½

A little of that ol' Deitchian human-on-animal violence that he somehow failed to recognize as inherently less fun than the old cat vs. mouse antics. Added bonus: a depiction of an elephant by someone who's clearly never seen an elephant!

There's a lot of slow silence in this one, which, even when it's a peaceful and bucolic jungle scene, somehow just amplifies the inherent nightmarishness of the Deitch era. These cartoons make me so uncomfortable. And I love it. I don't know why.

Review by Grey the Dot ★★½

Sorry excuse for a Tom & Jerry Cartoon.

Review by Rafael B. ½

What the fuck were these guys thinking when they made this rubbish? What it seems is that Gene Deitch has never watched Tom and Jerry in his life.

Review by Davis Grant ★

I do not like  Gene Deitch  as a director. Like at all.

Review by Trevor Dobbin ★★½

Gene Deitch #11. Nifty drawings and background paintings in this one. I particularly enjoy the elephant design. The sound work excels, from the cartoon briefly turning mute when Tom loses the ability to hear after getting his ears blocked, to Tom's horrifying screams as he gets suffocated later, to the cracking sound in his fingers as they break one-by-one just a couple scenes later. Not an especially funny short, but fairly well crafted and easy to watch.

Review by ✨Tyler✨ ½

I wanted to see what the lowest-rated Tom & Jerry cartoon on Letterboxd was like, since the Gene Deitch era is probably the one I'm least familiar with. Going in, it seemed crazy to me that this was on par ratings-wise with some of the "lost" (i.e. racist) cartoons from this series and uh...yikes. I completely get why it has such a bad reputation.

This is not only one if the ugliest cartoons I've ever seen, but also one of the most sonically and thematically unappealing as well. Everything is so ugly, depressing and cheaply animated that it's a genuine dread to watch. I now know why this era is infamous for its lack of quality and consistency with what this cartoon is supposed to be. There's thankfully no racism present, but it is still an absolute dread to behold. Beware.

Tom and Jerry (1940-1967)

Review by Christopher Brown ★★★★

Those animals!! And Tom's horrible owner finally gets what he deserves!

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Sorry Safari

On safari in darkest Africa (via the Nairobi airport), Tom and Jerry join their master on a “Nertz” rent-an-elephant. Tom hides in one of the baskets to go on the safari. All goes well until Tom discovers Jerry hiding in another basket. When the hunter discovers that he has stowaways, he tries to get rid of them both. The master finds once again that travels with Tom and Jerry can be difficult (when he is charged by a lion, he finds that Tom has replaced his gun with a thermos bottle). At tale’s end, the elephant and Jerry are carrying the spoils of the hunt- Tom, the master and a rhino- tied to a pole.

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Tom and Jerry have stowed away in the luggage of a big game hunter who lands in Nairobi (Tom is sort of the hunter’s assistant). They ride along on his Nertz U-Drive elephant. Tom has some problems with a gun. Jerry then unbuckles the passenger box from the elephant; Tom gets blamed. A lion attacks; Jerry gets Tom to hand the hunter a thermos instead of a rifle. Tom stashes Jerry in the elephant’s trunk, which frightens him. Bad timing, as there’s a charging rhino. Fortunately, they land atop the rhino; Jerry and the elephant carry off the rhino, the hunter, and Tom, tied up and hanging from a log.

Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.

SORRY SAFARI

Tom and Jerry accompany a man on a safari trip into the jungle. Like usual, Tom attempts to catch Jerry, but the man in the safari is fed up with Tom’s antics and is very bitter to him.

Sorry Safari

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Tom and Jerry are in Kenya on a hunting safari and don't get along as usual.

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Sorry Safari

Sorry Safari is a Tom and Jerry animated short film, released on October 12, 1962. It was the eleventh cartoon in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia .

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