Fraidy Cat

Fraidy Cat (1942) is a seven-minute Tom and Jerry short you can watch online on iFILM, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at MGM.

Tom catches a ghost story on the radio and ends up genuinely terrified. Jerry notices from across the room and turns that fear into a personal project — darkness, odd sounds, a few well-timed tricks. The usual chase dynamic flips: the predator is the one cowering. One of the earliest entries in the series, already running on the same tight comic engine that would carry Hanna and Barbera for decades. Stream Fraidy Cat (1942) online on iFILM.