Like many other American cartoons from the '40s-'50s, some shorts have racist stereotypes (with His Mouse Friday being the worst offender), the most notable being the African-American maid Mammy Two-Shoes.Thankfully, the following four television adaptations, Tom and Jerry Kids, Tom and Jerry Tales, The Tom and Jerry Show, and Tom and Jerry in New York have ended the decline in quality as they stay faithful to the original source material.The first two television adaptations, The Tom and Jerry Show (1975) and The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, took the quality to new levels of low due to said shows not staying that true to the original source material and being produced on low budget animation.The quality had improved tremendously once again during the Chuck Jones era, except the only problem with this era is that the slapstick can often times play it safe.The quality then took a complete nosedive in the Gene Deitch era.As a result, the animation started looking cheaper and the overall quality of the shorts became increasingly stale. The classic era declined in quality from late 1955 to 1958, mostly due to budget cuts.The quality has fluctuated over the years.Fred Quimby quickly changed his mind about the cat and mouse cartoons. But the following year, Quimby received a letter from the film distributor in Texas saying that new cartoons should be created with the cat-and-mouse duo. He told William Hanna and Joseph Barbera not to create any more cartoons involving both half-pint roughhousing and rampaging wild animals. Unfortunately, despite the success of the very first Tom and Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, the executive producer of MGM animation, Fred Quimby, did not like the cat and mouse duo.It's very dynamic, as it usually relies on its otherwise phenomenal animation and soundtrack to tell the stories for you, which makes it stand out in its idea of not every cartoon having to require dialogue to make it feel entertaining.Pecos Pest (Which ended this era on a high note).Puss Gets the Boot (the cat-and-mouse duo's debut).Several great and memorable shorts, such as:.Tom's design is very nice and Jerry's design is very cute both in the Chuck Jones-era.It also uses some of the Looney Tunes gags. The Chuck Jones era (1963-1967) is a unique era for Tom and Jerry, as it has a Looney Tunes-style.It's iconic theme tune is catchy and memorable for kids and adults alike.
Spawned several TV spin-offs including The Tom and Jerry Show (1975), The The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, Tom and Jerry Kids, Tom and Jerry Tales, and The Tom and Jerry Show (2014).Clever use of 'squash and stretch' to make the pain more credible and impactful, and was brilliantly done without making it look too flexible or to the point of over-exaggerating the animation.
Tom and Jerry is an American classic series of cartoon short films first made in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (Hanna-Barbera).ĭuring its original run, Hanna-Barbera and Fred Quimby produced 114 shorts for MGM from 1940 to 1958. Behold, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's greatest cat and mouse duo.