One day, Tom lures Jerry into a sandwich and is about to eat him, but before he can take a bite out of his mouse sandwich, a hawk flies by and steals the sandwich away from him. As it turns out, the hawk, being a bird of prey, wants to have Jerry in his stomach too. After an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve Jerry from the hawk, Tom then gets the idea to pass himself off as a female hawk and capture the affection of his avian competitor. It works... a little too well.
Tropes:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Once the hawk wants to make out with the disguised Tom, he becomes this.
- Accidental Kiss: Accidental for Tom, intentionally for the hawk. At one point, when the eagle tries to kiss the disguised Tom, Jerry makes it happen by pulling the cat's fake beak and making it push the cat and bird together. The eagle leaps into the air with delight, and Tom quickly snatches Jerry and hides him in his dress before he comes down.
- Ass in a Lion Skin: Tom passes himself off as a female hawk in an attempt to retrieve Jerry from the hawk, though his disguise barely looks bird-like.
- Beak Attack: The hawk clobbers Tom on the head with his beak twice before tossing him down to the pavement.
- Catch a Falling Star: Tom makes a run for it and jumps off of the roof with Jerry. Before he can make contact with the ground, however, the hawk catches him in his arms, lets out a happy call and tries to kiss him when the cat gets away.
- Covers Always Lie: The title card features Tom glancing up at a birdhouse with a little bird on it. While the other character in the short is indeed a bird, it is instead a hawk that is roughly the same size as Tom. The short also doesn't contain a birdhouse either.
- Disguised in Drag: Tom isn't just disguised as a hawk, he's disguised as a female one.
- Egg-Laying Male: Implied. The final scene of the short shows the clearly male and feline Tom sitting on a nest containing eggs.
- "Eureka!" Moment: After being sent out of the hawk's tree a second time, Tom is about to throw away the feather duster and dress when he realizes that he can pass himself off as another hawk with them.
- Eyelash Fluttering: Tom does this several times to make his female hawk disguise more convincing, and when he hides behind the chimney, one of his eyelashes even acts like a beckoning finger.
- Eye Pop: The hawk's eyes and eyebrows pop out from their owner's face the very moment he spots a disguised Tom.
- Feathered Fiend: Downplayed. The hawk, while not particularly mean or evil, is just a predator looking for a meal and tries to eat Jerry. As the cartoon progresses, he abandons his plans to eat Jerry and even thanks him when the mouse hands him a rope that restrains Tom.
- Flowers of Romance: Jerry hands Tom a bouquet of flowers as he is being dragged away by the hawk.
- Gone Horribly Right: Tom's hawk disguise, while effective, fools the hawk so much that the latter eventually becomes a persistent Abhorrent Admirer and even gets married to him at the end of the cartoon.
- Grapple Move: Non-video game example. At one point, Tom tosses the hawk over his shoulder and slams him on the ground, but when he is about to shake hands with Jerry, the mouse does the same thing to him.
- Impact Silhouette: Downplayed. The hole made by Tom when the hawk throws him down to the pavement is body-shaped, but contains no details such as his ears and tail.
- Interspecies Romance: While the hawk isn't particularly friendly towards Tom, who is a cat, he immediately falls head over heels for him when he sees him disguised as a female hawk. They even end up married at the end of the cartoon.
- Lured into a Trap: Tom lures Jerry onto a sandwich with trails of cheese at the beginning of the cartoon.
- Pain to the Ass: As Tom is romancing the hawk with his disguise, Jerry, who has been tucked away in the former's dress, sticks a pin in the cat's rear, enacting a yell of pain from him.
- Palate Propping: When the hawk tries to eat Jerry between slices of bread, the mouse pushes the bird's beak up and even fastens it in place before kicking the bread slices away. The hawk then closes his beak on Jerry, who emerges through one of his nostrils and kicks him in the eye.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Tom's hawk disguise consists of little more than lipstick, a party horn strapped to his nose, a dress and a feather duster as a tail, and his cat ears aren't even concealed in any way. The hawk falls for it anyway, and at no point does he see through the disguise and realize it's actually Tom. On the other hand, Jerry, who isn't fooled, still recognizes Tom and even tries to expose him at one point by loosening his dress, which Tom quickly pulls back up.
- Rake Take: While trying to get away from the hawk, Tom gets him to step on a rake, stunning him, and flicks his beak to make him tumble into an underground bunker.
- Running Gag: The party horn acting as Tom's "beak" being sounded and the hawk's enthusiastic call.
- Sapient Eat Sapient: Attempted by Tom, a sapient cat, when he tries to eat Jerry, a sapient mouse.
- Standard Snippet: "Here Comes the Bride" is played as the hawk pulls Tom towards him near the end of the short.
- Suddenly Speaking: The normally mute hawk has a few lines throughout the short. He asks Tom "Going down?" when he is about to toss him out of the hole in the tree, and when he tries to get the attention of the disguised cat, he says "Yoo-hoo!" and "She loves me!" when Tom clobbers him on the noggin with a brick.
- Tap on the Head:
- While hiding behind the chimney, Tom strikes the hawk on the head with a brick. It doesn't deter him in the slightest, as he simply remarks "She loves me!" and makes a chance to make out with him.
- Later on, as the hawk peeks behind a fence to check if Tom is there, he receives a plank to the head and is knocked out. Then, Tom peeks behind his side of the fence and is knocked out with a pipe from Jerry.
- The Tooth Hurts: When the hawk snatches Tom's sandwich, the cat ends up breaking his teeth when he chomps down on the empty area where his Jerry sandwich would have been.
- Traitor Shot: One promotional picture
features Tom and Jerry themselves shaking hands. If the items behind their backs didn't make it clear they're planning on betraying each othernote , the fact they're winking at the viewer should. Nothing like this happens in the cartoon, though. - Whale Egg: Implied. At the end of the short, Tom, a cat (i.e. an animal that cannot lay eggs), is sitting on a nest full of eggs. He is about to throw one egg away when he changes his mind and sets to work knitting clothes for his future offspring.
- Wingding Eyes: Jerry's eyes display the disguised Tom shaking his booty when he notices him.
