While passing the time in a pool hall, Tom inadvertently wakes up Jerry, who is living inside the pool table he is playing on, and proceeds to get into a series of pool-related hijinks with him.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Sports: Tom actually plays pool correctly at the beginning of the short, albeit with cheating by lifting the pool table to sink one ball and moving a side pocket to sink another. However, once he wakes up Jerry, this is where things start to go downhill, and it's passable due to Rule of Funny.
- When Jerry first tries to run away from Tom, the latter catches him by striking a cue ball at him, which carries him back to Tom before he can dive into a corner pocket. If a cue ball falls in any one of the pockets, it counts as a foul — even if you're somehow able to spin it back out.
- After that, when Jerry slides down the cue stick and tries to run away again, Tom strikes several balls that run over Jerry without the cue ball, which he does a second time after the mouse shoots a pool bridge down his throat. In the middle of those events, Tom also does the same with the 8-ball, which must be pocketed after all of the balls have been sunk.
- Then, Tom makes three attempts to toss some balls at Jerry, which the mouse strikes back to him with a cue stick as if it were a baseball bat.
- Finally, at the end of the short, as Jerry reracks the balls, the 8-ball isn't even placed in the center, and the 1-ball is the only ball remaining as it rolls towards Tom and into his screaming mouth.
- Dinner Deformation: While running from a train of balls, Jerry jumps onto Tom and opens his mouth, causing the balls to roll into him and deform his body into their shape.
- Eye Scream: After failing to hit Jerry with an 8-ball and having said ball fly into his face, Tom then tosses another 8-ball as well as a 6-ball at the mouse, who bats them right into his eyes with a cue stick.
- Finishing Move: When Tom gets stuck in the pool table after an accidentally self-invoked Ass Shove, Jerry sets up a game of pool himself and sinks every ball in one shot - except the 1 ball, which slowly rolls in Tom's direction. Jerry smacks Tom on the head with the pool stick, causing Tom to scream in pain and inadvertently swallow it.
- Forcibly Formed Physique:
- When Jerry is sent rolling around the interior of the pool table by the 10-ball sunk by Tom, he is smashed between some other balls and is left in a shape resembling that of an uppercase I.
- When Jerry bats a 1-ball back at Tom, the latter races back and forth around the pool hall to catch it. He does, only to be sent flying into a drink machine. The machine then dispenses four bottles of soda and then Tom, who is contorted into the shape of a soda bottle, complete with a bottle cap on his head.
- An Odd Place to Sleep: If Jerry hadn't chosen to sleep in the pool table that Tom was playing on, the latter would've enjoyed his pool game in peace.
- Oh, Crap!: Jerry is about to go back into the inside of the pool table after sensing that nothing is wrong, only to panic when he sees Tom right in front of him and tries to flee.
- Pain-Powered Leap: After Tom accidentally stabs his own rear with a pin tied to the cue stick, he barely holds in the resulting scream before finally letting it out and jumping high into the air, landing in one of the corner pockets.
- Pain to the Ass: Tom sticks a cue stick in one of the corner pockets in an attempt to poke Jerry, but the other end of the stick emerges from a side pocket behind him with Jerry on it, who is holding a pin and some string. The mouse then ties the pin to the cue stick and tugs on it to trick Tom into thinking he's got Jerry. Tom then raises the cue stick and pushes it down, unwittingly driving the pin into his butt and resulting in his Pain-Powered Leap described above.
- Portable Hole: During his game of pool at the beginning, Tom sinks a ball that is ricocheting back and forth endlessly by physically moving a side pocket.
- Rump Roast: A variation. Tom tosses another cue stick at Jerry when his first one misses, and it slides along Jerry's rear so hard that the friction burns it red.
- Tap on the Head: At the end of the cartoon, as the 1-ball is rolling towards Tom, who is stuck in the corner pocket, Jerry clobbers him on the head with a cue stick. Tom screams in pain, causing him to swallow the 1-ball.
- Tightrope Walking: Tom tries to hit Jerry with a pool bridge after sticking a hose in a pool table and causing geysers of water to come out of the pockets, but the mouse manages to grab onto the bridge, get onto a high wire and snatch it away from Tom. As Jerry walks on the wire with the bridge in his hands for balance, Tom tosses two cue sticks at him; the former which is shredded in half when it hits the wire dead center, and the latter which scrapes the mouse's rear end and burns it. Jerry then retaliates by shooting the bridge into Tom's throat with the wire.
- Torso with a View: Tom tosses a 10-ball at Jerry and prepares to catch it with a baseball mitt as Jerry bats it back with the cue stick, only for the ball to pass through the mitt so fast that it burns a hole through it — and Tom's hand as well.
