Quiet Please!

Quiet Please! (1945) is a Tom & Jerry short you can watch online on iFILM, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera — it claimed the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Spike the bulldog has one demand: silence. Any noise, and Tom pays for it. Jerry hears this and immediately turns it into a weapon — making enough racket to wake Spike at exactly the wrong moments, forcing Tom into an impossible bind. Chase Jerry and disturb the dog; stand still and lose. Hanna and Barbera wring a dozen different situations from that single rule, which is the kind of tight economy that defines the best entries in this series. Stream Quiet Please! online on iFILM.