Ignore the first review on this. Anyone who dislikes this show, seriously needs help. This is a classic show. A cartoon that is a classic because it's great. Every time you think for a second, children in the 40's had not entertainment. It must have been so boring for them. Well, you don't know how wrong you are, as they had stuff like this! Tom and Jerry for crying out loud, if those kids were an... read more
When I was a kid, I remember watching Tom and Jerry with my dad and thinking it was a really funny cartoon. Now, that I'm much older, I'm really horrified by the cartoon. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those people that goes around saying TV makes kids bad... blah, blah, blah.
But all the same, the violence and meanness of this cartoon are way out of proportion. I think it'... read more
Description:Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of theatrical shorts, television shows and specials, feature film, home films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence.
Hanna Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of theatrical shorts, television shows and specials, feature film, home films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence.
Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry cartoons at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywood, California between 1940 and 1958, when the animation unit was closed. The original series is notable for having won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film seven times, tying it with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the theatrical animated series with the most Oscars. Tom and Jerry has a worldwide audience that consists of children, teenagers and adults, and has also been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema. In 2000, TIME named the series one of the greatest television shows of all time.
Beginning in 1960, in addition to the original 114 H-B cartoons MGM had new shorts produced by Rembrandt Films, led by Gene Deitch in Eastern Europe. Production of Tom and Jerry shorts returned to Hollywood under Chuck Jones's Sib-Tower 12 Productions in 1963; this series lasted until 1967, making it a total of 161 shorts. The cat and mouse stars later resurfaced in television cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation Studios during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; a feature film, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, in 1992 (released domestically in 1993); and in 2000, their first made-for TV short, Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat for Cartoon Network. The most recent Tom and Jerry theatrical short, The Karate Guard, was written and co-directed by co-creator Joe Barbera and debuted in Los Angeles cinemas on September 27, 2005.
Today, Time Warner (via its Turner Entertainment division) owns the rights to Tom and Jerry (with Warner Bros. handling distribution). Since the merger, Turner has produced the series, Tom and Jerry Tales for The CW's Saturday morning "The CW4Kids" lineup, as well as the recent Tom and Jerry short, The Karate Guard, in 2005 and a string of Tom and Jerry direct-to-video films - all in collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation. In February 2010, the show celebrated its 70th anniversary and a DVD collection of 30 shorts, Tom and Jerry Deluxe Anniversary Collection, was released in late June 2010 to celebrate the cartoon duo's seventh decade.
Beginning in 1965, the Hanna and Barbera Tom and Jerry cartoons began to appear on television in heavily edited form. The Jones team was required to take the cartoons featuring Mammy Two-Shoes and rotoscope her out. Most of the time, she was replaced with a similarly fat White Irish woman; occasionally, as in Saturday Evening Puss, a thin white teenager took her place instead, with both characters voiced by June Foray. However, in more recent local telecasts of the cartoons, and in the versions shown on Boomerang, Mammy could once again be seen; more recently[year needed] with a new, less stereotypical black voice supplied, which is done by Thea Vidale.[citation needed].
Debuting on CBS' Saturday morning schedule on September 25, 1965, Tom and Jerry moved to CBS Sundays two years later and remained there until September 17, 1972.
The intros of each episode shown on TV and DVD today are re-issues from the 1950s-1960s, with the exception of Puss Gets The Boot and The night before Christmas, which still retain their original opening and closing credits from the early 1940s. ... (more)(less)
“Ignore the first review on this. Anyone who dislikes this show, seriously needs help. This is a classic show. A cartoon that is a classic because it's”
“Ignore the first review on this. Anyone who dislikes this show, seriously needs help. This is a classic show. A cartoon that is a classic because it's great. Every time you think for a second, children in the 40's had not entertainment. It must have been so boring for them. Well, you don't know how wrong you are, as they had stuff like this! Tom and Jerry for crying out loud, if those kids were anything, they had more than you do today.
Barbera and Hanna are geniuses. They created something so great that there isn't enough ways to appreciated it. Tom and Jerry are some of the best cartoon characters that ever existed. It's just so well done, what more can I say?
I do suggest to avoid the new version of this though, you know, when Tom and Jerry can talk??!! What the hell” read more
TheKnight12 added this to a list 1 month, 1 week ago
"The funniest, most creative and overall best cartoon of all time in my opinion. I used to watch this on Cartoon Network as a kid so much and I still enjoy it to this day. I'm referring to the classic cartoon shorts William Hanna and Joseph Barbera directed during their time in MGM. All the other versions weren't as good. There were so many great ones, "The Cat Concerto", "Yankee Doodle Mouse" "Mouse Trouble", "Texas Tom", etc.
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Note: Tom and Jerry was always a fun show to watch. It had a fun concept of cat and mouse trying to kill each other. Tom and Jerry always trying to kill each other never got old. "
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This is the show that I watched the most when I was kid and probably the only cartoon I'd watch from the Boomerang Channel today. Tom and Jerry is and always will be the king of cartoon violence. Even after all these years, Tom and Jerry is still relevant and the shining example of a timeless cartoon. The never ending war between a cat and a mouse never gets old. I prefer the Hanna-Barbera era since the animation was the best, the comedic timing is genius and the music is just classic. "
rewster added this to a list 4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Followed a similar formula to Sylvester and Tweety/Speedy Gonzales, or Coyote and the Roadrunner so it very much appealed to me, even though the Looney Tunes were way better.
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