High Steaks is a Tom and Jerry animated short film, released on March 23, 1962. It was the fourth of the thirteen cartoons in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia. The short's title is a pun on the phrase "High stakes". Plot Tom's owner is grilling steaks in his backyard. The steak's scent reaches Jerry, who is aroused by it and is led to the steak. He then tries to eat it but is captured by Tom, who uses his grill fork to catapult him back into the house. Jerry then returns to retrieve the steak and encounters Tom once more. Tom and Jerry battle it out with steak prongs. Tom tries to charge at Jerry with the prong he had, but Jerry dodges it quickly, causing Tom to accidentally stab the owner's rear end, causing him to leap in pain. After Tom nervously salutes the owner, he angrily sears Tom's head as flat as a waffle with a hot girdle. Jerry next hides in a shuttlecock and tries to sneak onto the table, but Tom hits him with a racket. The shuttlecock gets caught in the net and rebounds into the owner's mouth. Angry and red-faced, he breaks the racket over Tom's head and walks away. The racket flips over for a few seconds to hit him again. Tom then tries to stop Jerry from opening a freshly shaken bottle of Kooky Kola (which is a pun on the soda, Coca-Cola) but he is too late; the soda ruins one of his owner's steaks, so Tom gets punished by gulping down another bottle of Kooky Kola and swallowing it making Tom look like a bottle much to Jerry's humor. Once Tom recovers, he chases Jerry across the yard only to get distracted by the smell of steak on the grill. Jerry secretly put Tom's tail on the grill and his tail is now trapped in the grill. Tom tried to pull it out but the pain causes him to run out with his tail hooked on the grill, and knock his owner along with his steak and the bowl of salad flies in the air. Tom dives into the swimming pool to cool off, but when he tries to get out he goes back in the water due to the grill's weight. The owner, already tired too much of