Tee Time is a 1930 Felix the Cat cartoon, directed by Otto Messmer, produced by Pat Sullivan and distributed by Copley Pictures. It was the last of the original B&W Felix the Cat cartoons and the last one made by the original Pat Sullivan studio (although it was not the last silent Felix, as this cartoon was distributed with a soundtrack).
The films starts with Felix practicing piano, getting bored but not being allowed to leave his seat by his grouchy father. He starts making light of it, but gets reprimanded again, making him imagine playing golf with kitty kat. his father yells at him again to keep playing as felix looks outside, seeing grasshoppers playing leapfrog with each other. Felix gets an idea—he whistles for the grasshoppers to come near the window, and Felix traps them in gloves. The grasshoppers head towards the piano in the gloves, and start playing it for Felix, with the coatstand and broom and a mouse dancing nearby. Felix's dad gets happy hearing Felix's piano skills seemingly improving. Happy, Felix walks away, playing flowers like instruments. He comes across a mouse and tells him what he had to deal with it, and decides to play golf with him. Unfortunately, a golf ball flies right towards a sleeping police officer, and it lands right on his nose. Felix unwisely decides to swing his club to knock the ball right off of the cops nose, but surprisingly, he sends it away without even waking him up. It winds up trapped on an old fire alarm, but Felix can't get it to budge from its spot, even when he swings at it with a hammer instead of a gold club, which unwittingly sets off its sound. Nearby, a goat and pig are seesawing when they hear the ruckus, and the goat heads off to find the fire while some barnyard animals start panicking. A fire truck arrives to look for the fire, but the head of them, a horse, finds out the source of the noise is Felix. Greatly annoyed, the horse orders a goat to loosen up the Fire Hydrant so they can spray Felix with it full blast.
Felix is blown far away with the golf ball, all the way across the ocean and into Africa, where he bounces on a drum with the ball. A nearby tribesman hears the drum playing and pulls on a monkeys tail to summon the rest of the tribe, who are clearly hostile towards Felix. Felix is terrified and runs away from them, and climbs up a palmtree to hide. A native down below angrily looks around for Felix, but Felix does away with him by pummeling him with coconuts, while drive him right into the ground. Felix walks off, confident that hes safe, only for four more tribesman to pop up and scare him. Felix then comes across a leopard, who he knocks up with his tail. He grabs some spots off its skin and throws them at the tribesman like balls, but they in turn start throwing knives at him, which Felix deflects with his tail. One misses and stabs a nearby hippo in the butt, which angers it and provokes it into chasing Felix, who runs all the way back home, only to find his father has discovered his charade and intends to beat him. But the hippo shows up, still wanting to chase him, but Felix gets creative and transforms it into a piano, which he plays outside the window, just in time for his father to find him there, surprised yet pleased at this outcome.
Tropes:
- Blown Across the Room: Exaggerated and Played for Laughs: Felix gets sprayed by a fire hose so hard, he's sent flying all the way to Africa!
- Darkest Africa: Felix is blown all the way there by a fire hose.
- White Gloves: Felix stuffs two grasshoppers into these so they can play the piano for him in his absence.
