Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Release Date: December 25, 1943
Stars: Tom & Jerry, Meathead
Rating: ★★★★★
Review:
A little girl makes Tom behave like a baby.
Tom only reluctantly cooperates, until he discovers the milk bottle. Jerry mocks him and warns three alley cats of Tom’s baby behavior. They mock him too, all too more violently, which leads to a frantic samba finale in which the little cat does a great Carmen Miranda impersonation, singing her hit song ‘Mamãe eu quero’ from the film ‘Down Argentine Way’ (1940).
Tom’s friends, the red cat from ‘Sufferin’ Cats‘, Meathead (in his debut) and a little cat, would reunite only seven years later in ‘Saturday Evening Puss‘ (1950). Apart from the finale the greatest scene is when Jerry behaves like ‘she’ is caught naked in the bathroom of a doll house.
Watch ‘Baby Puss’ yourself and tell me what you think:
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Yankee Doodle Mouse
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Zoot Cat
Dr. Grob's Animation Review 
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February 1, 2018 at 16:39
Steve Carras
Unusal for an MGM cartoon to use a few baby-related WB songs (“You Must have been a Beautiful Baby” and “Baby Face”, maybe also “Pretty Baby”) which WB had established in their own cartoons on the soundtrack.:)
June 29, 2014 at 15:22
calliecature
I’ve always noticed as a kid that Jerry always started it. But I never realized he was this mean.