Quacker the duck has to be one of my least favourite of Jerry's sidekicks: he's just way too cutesy for my liking. In this cartoon, he is the last of a clutch of eggs to hatch and is left behind by his mother and siblings when they take to the water (aaaww!). And to make matters worse, he can't swim. Convinced that 'nobody loves me', the sad little duckling wanders into the path of Tom, who tries to cook the little fellow. Jerry intervenes, however, and tries to teach Quackers how to swim while avoiding Tom.
Just Ducky is a long way from the early Tom and Jerry shorts, in which the characters would inflict massive amounts of pain on each other. Nobody here really gets hurt, and when it looks like Tom is going to drown, Quacker overcomes his fear of water to save the cat. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.