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This is a short in the Tom and Jerry series from MGM. There will be spoilers ahead:

The short begins with two elephants in an open train car-Mama elephant and her baby. The baby is inexplicably sleeping in the open doorway when he rolls right out of the car, down a slope and right into the home and bed of Tom the cat. The elephant hides and the fun begins, fun being the elephant spooking the daylights out of Tom.

First, Tom climbs into bed on top of the elephant, now under Tom's blanket. Tom's startled by the elephant's trunk and while Tom is distracted, the elephant makes a hasty getaway. Hungry, the unknown house guest inhales Tom's milk from his bowl, further disturbing Tom.

Tom goes investigating, finds Jerry and blames him for the disappearing milk. Just as Tom is about to bash Jerry, he's rescued by elephant suction power and the two join forces. There's a nice bit with a bag of peanuts which scatters on the floor which Jumbo makes march under the closet door, which tells Tom where they are.

The meat of the cartoon is here. Jerry gets the bright idea to paint Jumbo up to look like a large mouse and Tom's nightmare begins. Tom gets pummeled, whacked, squashed and is put upon in general, all while trying to figure out just what's happening. Then Tom starts shooting at Jumbo and Jerry.

Mama finds her baby and the stage is set for a beautiful ending. I actually felt sorry for Tom. There's just so much any cat can take!

This short is available on DVD and is well worth finding. Recommended.

. . . of pilfering the intellectual property of rival film studios. Twelve years before JERRY AND JUMBO the Walt Dizzy outfit had made DUMBO synonymous with pachyderms. Guess what? JUMBO rhymes with DUMBO, since only their initial letters are divergent. When it comes to the actual plot of JUMBO, it's straight out of a series of Sylvester Cat and H-i-p-p-e-t-y Hopper films which preceded JUMBO by half a decade. In these episodes, Sylvester continually mistakes H. H. for a giant mouse, just as Tom supposedly perceives JUMBO much later. Joe and Bill, the dudes behind this brazen rip-off, were notorious for never having an original idea in their heads. They flat out stole the negative of the Warner masterpiece RHAPSODY RABBIT, doodled out their own cheap Tom and Jerry version called CAT CONCERTO and then manipulated the screening process making Warner look like copycats to steal the Warner Oscar! Nefarious Tinsel Town "Poverty Row" gangs such as the House of the Groaning Fat Cat naturally hired as many crooks as they could to pilfer the work of their betters at legitimate movie studios. Punishment for such crime is seldom doled out in this world. Just wait until the Next!