Quite rare for Tom to actually try and consume Jerry most of hisĪttempts are just to torment or humiliate Jerry. Despite the typical cat-eats-mouse scenario, it is surprisingly Tom possesses surprising strength for his size, lifting items such asĪnvils with relative ease and withstanding considerable impacts with cartoon character Sylvester was originally named Thomas). 'Tom' is a generic name for a male cat (The Warner Bros. He usually lives a pampered life, although the characters usually live in several lifestyles, while Jerry is a small brown house mouse who always lives in close proximity to him. Thomas 'Tom' Cat Tom (called 'Jasper' in his debut appearance) is a blue and white domestic shorthair cat. Since the merger, Turner has produced Tom and Jerry Tales for The CW's Saturday morning ' The CW4Kids' lineup, and several Tom and Jerry direct-to-video films in collaboration with Warner Bros. Time Warner (via its Turner Entertainment division) currently owns the rights to Tom and Jerry: Warner Bros. The most recent Tom and Jerry theatrical short The Karate Guard (2005), was written and co-directed by Barbera. The feature-length film, Tom and Jerry: The Movie was released in 1992, and was followed by their first made-for-television short, Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat for Boomerang. Tom and Jerry resurfaced in made-for-television series' produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Filmation Studios starting in the 1970s. Chuck Jones's Sib-Tower 12 Productions produced another 34 entries between 1963-1967, creating a total of 161 theatrical entries. MGM released an additional 13 entries in 1961 produced by Rembrandt Films led by Gene Deitch in central Europe. In 2000, Time magazine named Tom and Jerry one of the greatest television shows of all time. Has a worldwide audience and has been recognized as one of the mostįamous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema. A longtime television staple, Tom and Jerry The original series is notable for having won seven Academy Awards, tying with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the theatrical animated series with the most Oscars. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote, produced and directed 114 Tom and Jerry shorts at MGM cartoon studios in Hollywood from 1940 to 1957.

Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a rivalry between a cat ( Tom) and a mouse ( Jerry) whose chases involved comic violence. For other uses, see Tom and Jerry (disambiguation). For the earlier cartoon series whose focal characters are human, see Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren). This article is about the animal-cartoon series.

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