You didn't even say a word about the creative genius behind Tom and Jerry's music. The great Scott Bradley. It was him who gave the animation the proper music in deserved. Half the reason why the show is even funny.
@@Mike-ks6qu Often the music WAS the sound effect - sounds translated into acoustic music, incidentally taking into account all the latest contemporary classical music techniques of the time. Like Eliot Alderson, I was astonished that Nostalgia Critic didn't mention Bradley's music once, and stuck Mendelssohn's 4th Symphony over it instead!
I know, right? There were several instances where Jerry was the instigator. An example off the top of my head: There's the Serenade episode, where Tom is trying to serenade a female cat he likes; which he first gets Spike out of the way, before playing her a song on guitar. This unintentionally wakes up Jerry; who instantly takes it as a personal attack; and rather then asking Tom to stop, or trying to reason with him (in which case Tom's reaction would've instigated the fight); Jerry opts to physically assault him instead. Feels like he instigated that conflict himself; even if Tom's music was annoying him; that's no reason to go full on aggression out of nowhere. What about the Episode where Tom inherited a million dollars; but loses all of it if he harms an animal? After learning this; Tom tries to live the big life, and be a respectable person with all that money and no fears to think of ever again. Except one problem; Jerry also reads the message, learns he can't hurt him anymore; and begins extorting Tom for all he's worth, and using it as a blockaid to literally harass, torture and hurt Tom, because he can't do anything; which finally culminates with Tom losing his temper; and literally saying "I'm throwing away a million dollars; BUT I'M HAPPY!" all because Jerry wouldn't leave him alone.
I'm surprised you didn't mention how well the music works with the scenes. It's not just the sound effects. The music and the shorts always seemed meant for each other. Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry is simply a masterpiece. It is so excellently produced and connected that I am constantly in awe whilst dying of laughter when I watch it. The music made dialogue completely unnecessary in most cases.
@@Cathrope1 Right! That's because the studio orchestras that are heard in both Warner Bros. & MGM's cartoons are the same as those used in Warner & MGM's feature films. Scott Bradley & Carl Stalling made good use of their companies' music libraries with a generous helping of public-domain classical music thrown in. This is why a lot of people claim their introduction to classical music was from classic cartoons.
The reason that Tom & Jerry speaks to both children and adults is that they each appeal to different people. Jerry is a silly, innocent prankster in the eyes of kids but a big asshole in the eyes of adults, but Tom is a big meanie to kids but to adults he's a relatable, balanced character with flaws just doing what he does.
Between 1940 and 1958, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 T&J shorts for MGM. Of those 114, 13 were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. Of those 13, 7 won.
161 shorts in total during their original golden age run. 114 by Hanna Barbera, 13 by Gene Deitch, and 34 by Chuck Jones. Since then a made for tv short, sketch, and a limited theatrical release short was released. So now 164.
Just for the record, Tom droning, "Dooooooon't yooooooou believe it..." is a reference to a radio show from the 1940s also called _Don't You Believe It._ The show was essentially an early precursor to _Mythbusters._ Bugs Bunny also referenced it in _Big Top Bunny._
Can you imagine how many other old references the show spits out that goes over our heads? (Well my head anyway) I just found out that "is you is, or is you aint" was cab calloway
He also said it in the episode with the escaped white mouse (the lab mouse that would explode if whacked). When a radio announcement declares the mouse safe, he kicks it and blows the house to bits. Of course, Jerry had been posing as the white mouse to taunt Tom crazy. He had initially thought the real white mouse to be Jerry disguised again, only for Jerry to make himself known at the other end of the room.
am i the only one who actually thought due to how he said it in the shorts quality tom said "wooooon't yooouu believe it."(well i was a kid and not all tv's gave 30's-40's cartoons the best quality.)still thought compared to a later cartoon that used it(the one with the white lab mouse that blew the entire damn city up when tom kicked it thinking it was a fake after jerry pranked him.looking back on it jerry was just as/if not more guilty for causing fights as tom just more that tom at times went too far or overkill in dealing punishment.) the context of tom's voice in this short was more funny.(jerry kicked tom's ass so hard he could only speak in that tone.)
I think he forgot one very, very crucial thing -- the music. It's amazing on every level. The prove is that we usually don't even realize that there's a music involved. It's so perfectly synchronized with the visuals and the story, that we sense the music as just being an acoustic representation of the actions and emotions. Try it! Look at some Tom and Jerry short and listen to the music. Imagine an orchestra playing it, imagine you are the cymbalist, the violinist, the drummer accompanying the suspension. You can even try to just hear the shorts without watching them. Just from the music, you will always kknow almost exactly, what's going on...
My favorite character was always Spike. This dog is just good guy with his son, trying to sleep or something and then Tom and jerry ruins everything. but at the end he always gets his revenge. Good dog.
Cosmic Mage When I was younger, as I would always root for Jerry, I liked Spike aswell. If he wasn't mad at them both, he would always protect Jerry, so I liked him!
My favorite moment with spike is in the dog pound episode when Tom passes by him without a head and Jerry running after with the fake doghead and Spike starts screaming like a woman
I honestly always hated Jerry. He's just SUCH an asshole. Maybe it's just the episodes I saw, but more often than not, the conflict would spark from Jerry's desire to have a little fun at Tom's expense. Jerry knew Tom would chase him, and purposely showed himself so that he could lure Tom to a trap. There was, straight up, an episode where Tom's owner tells him that if Tom causes a mess in the house, He's going to "get it" when she comes back, and Jerry overhearing that proceeds to try his best to mess up the House for the Rest of the episode. One thing I remember happening WAY TOO OFTENLY in the series, are scenarios where Jerry carries Tom's fate in the tip of his fingers, Tom Begging, like SERIOUSLY BEGGING for his life, for Jerry to spare him, and Jerry pretends to spare him for a second only to fuck him over soon after. FUCK JERRY.
KidSnivy69 Not about taking sides, it's about having a different opinion supported by facts. Tom is an instigator but so is Jerry. And these make the character anything but innocent.
KidSnivy69 Then why are you here watching a video examining the genius of Tom and Jerry. You already have surface level entertainment and you can rewatch it so, you clearly don't need further discussion. Clicking this video should be a waste of time for you, let alone taking time to read the comment section and then reply, more than once, to one of them. Your logic makes no sense.
Fun Facts: In an old promo on Boomerang, the announcer actually described Tom & Jerry as the most famous feud in show business history. Tom & Jerry were referenced in "Ice Sore", an episode of The Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles: "Make the floor all ice, like in Tom & Jerry. That's my favorite."
Good old Boomerang! I used to LIVE on that channel as a kid! There was this announcer who started the "Boomerang Action Hour!" or whatever, who had an awesome robot voice. It wasn't until years later when I watched the G1 Transformers did I realize that the announcer had been the voice of Soundwave the Decepticon! That blew my mind...
Let's be honest here, almost no one ever roots for Jerry. The rare moments Tom actually won are usually my favorite. Specifically "Little School Mouse", where Jerry teaches his protege Nibbles on how mouse and cats are sworn enemies and every chance he got Tom beat the ever loving shit out of him and it was hilarious, still is.
+Jean-Pierre Moreno Tom usually starts the fights, I'm just saying most people root for him because they find him more endearing. Especially since most of the episodes are usually seen through his eyes, whether he's the villain or not, Jerry ends up coming off as boring due to his almost always ensured victories. He' also has a rather sadistic streak to him.
One of my favorite shorts was from Chuck Jones..actually those were usually my favorites because Tom has the FUNNIEST screams in them, anyway moving on. The episode is just Tom trying to sleep while Jerry and a grey mouse constantly beat the crap out of him and at one point making him think he stabbed himself with the use of a knife and some ketchup. The payoff at the end? Both mice stuck in a bottle that rigged so that if they try to leave by pushing the cork out, a revolver will shoot through the glass..the same revolver they actually used on him earlier in the short, meanwhile Tom sighs in content while laying on his cat pillow and using his tail to hold a fan and use it as he goes to sleep.
that was basically all it was in later episodes. I ended up caring more for Tom and wanting harm to come to Jerry for what he was doing than the other way around. Jerry became pretty unlikable after a while actually.
Some of the best memories I have & I will ALWAYS treasure, are when I was a young lad, my grandfather & I would watch these Tom & Jerry cartoons together. Our country had just left the Soviet Union in 1991, & we had just gotten access to western movies & cartoons around 1985. We had to go to the soviet theaters to see Tom & Jerry but it was worth it. A grandpa & his grandson bonding over a simple cat & mouse cartoons. No words, just laughs! :)
I always loved Tom's owner. I don't know if she has a name, I always called her "The Black Lady". I guess you can call her a racist depiction because she has a stereotypical African-American accent and is fat, but she owns a very nice house and is pretty rich what with those expensive jewels she wore in one episode. "THOMAS!"
VIDCAs17 I don't think she was a maid. In Saturday Evening Puss, Jerry calls her at a bridge game and tells her Tom and his cat friends are throwing a party, and she says, "What, a party? At MY house? EXCUUUUUSE ME!"
I think the biggest problem with Chuck Jones' interpretation is that Jerry is made into an asshole several times. I was actively rooting for him to get eaten in several episodes.
khansuhaib I didn't have much of a problem with that. I thought everything was defined pretty well, the world was aesthetically pleasing, and the slapstick itself didn't bother me. It was just the portrayal of Jerry that I didn't like
@@786suhaib786 Chuck Jones himself said in an interview once that his Tom & Jerry cartoons were 'More like the Roadrunner and Coyote in cat & mouse drag,"
Dude, Jerry was an asshole to begin with. Granted Tom tends to start everything but jerry's actions afterwards can b e very uncalled for and over the top.
Chuck Jones is amazing, but it doesn't work as well for Tom and Jerry because its to straight and too slow. Theres not enough fast movement in my opinion. But for his other works its fine.
My grandpa saw it first when India got Independence in 1947. He showed it to my mom when she was a kid in 1971. She introduced me to it in 1992. Picture 3 generations sitting together and laughing at T&J... It's 2019 and still holds up!
My favorite episodes were always whenever those two paired up. If they already can do such damage when they're fighting each other, just you see what they do when they're toghether.
Indeed. Remember that episode where the 3 adorable kittens came into their house and bullied them? I loved how they seriously just looked and nodded at each other. But yeah...when those 2 work together...stuff explodes.
Am I the only one who preferred Tom over Jerry? For me (as a child), sure I preferred Jerry over Tom, it was 'evident' that the mouse was the good guy and Tom was the bad. But as I rewatched the series (AKA some episodes :P), I noticed that I felt more sympathetic towards Tom than towards Jerry. Maybe it's just me, but it seemed that some (or even most--probably exaggerating there) endings with Tom getting beaten, or mistreated was unjust towards him (for me). I mean, he's a CAT. He's *supposed* to catch mice--Some of the episodes he tries to catch Jerry due to his owner. For example, there was an episode (I don't remember the name) where Tom played the role of an infant due to his owner's wishes. Jerry began picking on him and relentlessly continued after having the knowledge that if Tom continued to 'misbehave' (by giving in to his *predatory* and *cat* instincts) he would be punished by his owner. (However this could be wrong due to my memories of childhood). But as I said before, this is just my opinion and I did not intent to offend any readers/viewers.
You know, it's interesting to empathize with Tom (I do as well). After all, Tom is just doing his "job", so to speak. I won't go into it, but it's interesting to reflect on all the recent events revolving around the police and fatalities.
It's a cartoon. And these characters are capable of not being jerks to each other. Tom's "job" was to murder Jerry? Just because it's his purpose doesn't mean I'll root for him. I root for either Tom or Jerry, depending on who's not being the jerk.
Same here, there were many times where Jerry was a bully to Tom, and it was so satisfying to see Jerry getting owned by Karma, even better when Tom triumphs over him like in million dollar cat, where he had enough of Jerry abusing him and finding happiness in losing his millionaire status just so he can assault Jerry
I think my favorite Tom speaking moment is him reading Jerry's "will" and the only thing there is one custard pie, then he yells out "LET ME HAVE IT!" And gets creamed by a pie. Slapstick at its best.
Shinjis Hand x Asuka my favorite was always When tom hires another cat(butch i belive) to help him catch jerry and at the end when the cat gets hella pist he shows tom a signand he reads "C.A.T. Cat...that spells Cat"
Shinjis Hand x Asuka my favorite is when he gets a rich cats inheritance and it says he has to bring someone with him, and Jerry ruins everything for him so eventually tom goes berserk on him and says " I'm throwing away a million dollars, but I'm happy!"
@@thebaronanative8289 He doesn't have to bring someone with him. The will says that he loses the million dollar inheritance if he harms another living thing, even a mouse. Jerry takes advantage of the stipulation and follows Tom around to rub it in his face. Tom, being Tom, eventually has enough and snaps.
It's always overlooked that Tom&Jerry was developed during the WWII. I believe the creators wanted to nullify the fear of war in children's hearts. And like everything else developed during the war, Tom&Jerry had to be genius and it was. I adore the developers in these regards.
Don't accuse Tom of being the bad guy. You should know that every time Tom won and could have easily have Jerry killed, he saved him in the end, like the episode where he had to literally defrost him in a fireplace after Jerry turned into a popsickle. Meanwhile, Jerry simply tortures Tom and has great fun looking at his misery every chance he gets, like when he tortured Tom after convincing him he had measles. This backfired in the end, and both actually got them, but still.... Hell, Jerry actually killed Tom on several occasions.
Good thing their cartoons they cant die even if they tried too I feel bad for Both of them because why cant they just not do it much i mean i think they have broken every bone in their body
It is hard to make out sometimes but it's funny because the book he was looking at said "A cornered mouse NEVER FIGHTS"..and the "never fights" is in all caps, underlined, and red while the rest is black. Jerry then beats the living hell outta him.
My Grandfarther always loved Tom And Jerry. I remember seeing the show a lot when visiting him as a kid. When i got bored of all the grownup talk, i could always sit in front of his TV and watch Tom and Jerry. He had all of the VHS tabes. It was amazing. I still remember my Grandfarthers hysterical laugher when Tom got hurt. :) Good memories. I miss him. Rest in Peace Erik.
White Blogger Black Specs nope Jerry experiences and felt emotion Do he’s not a psychopath He may be a sociopath tho Psychopath are humans born with missing brain parts so they can’t feel emotion
What plays a big part of why I've always enjoyed tom and jerry is music and the general sound design. It just all perfectly complements each other and the lack of voices or spoken dialogue makes it so much better
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Tom and Jerry is one of the most amazing cartoons of all time. Up there with Bob Clampett and Tex Avery. And I agree with everything Doug said here. The animation was fast-paced and lifeful. The violence is also very cartoonish and does not feel too violent. Modern cartoons are more violent, especially Family Guy. The timing was also perfect. The music is also beautiful and truly remarkable. And then we have the characters. Despite Tom's name being first, Tom is the antagonist in this show. He doesn't really need to chase Jerry, he does it just because he wants to. Jerry is the real protagonist of this show, and a great protagonist too. Jerry always has to fight Tom in order to stay alive. He is sometimes brutal towards Tom, but it is justifiable nearly all the time, since Tom always try to hurt him. Tom and Jerry were basically Hanna-Barbera's Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, only quiet and with a lot of different setups. But there are two things I don't understand. The criticism towards Jerry and the show itself. Tom is, just like Doug said, asking for it pretty much the time. Tom is usually a big jerk to Jerry. The main reason is because he's bigger. Therefore, Jerry punching Tom are acts of either revenge or self-defence. Jerry usually has a reason to be a... I'm not gonna call him whatever his detractors calls him. The criticism towards the show itself mystifies me too. Who is foolish enough to think people would imitate all the violence? And on a final note: If people were not sympathizing with Jerry, the cartoon would not have been very popular at all. There are lots of people who are supporting Jerry (like me), but in comment sections like this one, it feels like no one likes him or the show. It's almost the same thing with Spongebob. If nobody liked him, no one would like the show. #jerryneedsmorelove
As Doug also mentions, Jerry sometimes enjoys defending himself a little TOO much, and there are in fact those rare times he actually starts the fight and gets away with it. They're not often (and yeah MOST of the times Jerry acts worse than Tom, he loses instead) but I think that occasional unfair stipulation made Tom easier to sympathise, the world will punish him even if he wasn't the one in the wrong while Jerry will sometimes be seen as the hero and get off scot free even if he's the instigator. Also Jerry's 'defensive' stipulation was sometimes skewed, such as when Tom was just trying to stop him stealing food. It's like some of the Sylvester shorts like 'Canned Feud', the mouse is the instigator, and a very sadistic one at that. It feels like they skipped over the 'He started it' scene because we are supposed to assume the cute little mouse has been provoked and deserves to torment the big nasty cat by default. That writing flub makes it VERY hard to root for them even when they ARE playing fair, and sometimes ruins the humour, which comes from the 'villain's' cruel arrogance coming back on them.
the original Tom and Jerry is not just slapstick though they are actually very smart as well there are alot of irony and sarcastic remember in the episode The Hollywood Bowl the momment Tom pull out a new ward when Jerry just break his ward a second ago? that scene alway killed me
Am I the only one that love the Tom and Jerry feature length movie? I thought that the way they started with a. regular episode and then have the house destroyed, and continuously made meta jokes on the old cartoon while throwing them into a complex new situation that allowed their characters tone extrapolated into being complex was brilliant. The scene where they find out each other can talk is one of my favorite in any movie ever because it capitalizes and builds upon your nostalgia so well.
And have the main plot of the story be Tom and Jerry trying to reunite an orphan with her dad who happens to be Indiana Jones while getting chased by people who are named after various foot fetishes. Imagine if they actually made such a feature length film! What are the odds of that happening?
Actually they did bring them back sometime last year but used flash animation instead of hand drawn. They pretty tried to do the same as the first original cartoons even including the original Tom scream but I don't think it's on anymore.
Censorship is the reason most slapstick today is kinda weak. There was an episode of Fairly OddParents where the characters end up in their equivalent to Tom and Jerry. When the slapstick was performed, it was censored. Even the modern Tom and Jerry shows have suck weak slapstick. That and it being flash-animated. It just looks weird for this kind of humor
1:53 Do y’all remember the episode where Tom was falling in love, and Jerry got jealous he wasn’t getting attention so he ruined it all for Tom. I was so upset at Jerry for that, it made him anything but innocent.
scared me too as a kid, but in a way thats funny. if that makes sense. i was a massive tom and jerry fan as a kid. and i watched "tom and jerry kids" every Saturday morning with a bowl of cereal. i still remember how the theme song went. the original show would run late at night on that channel that had road runner as well as bugs and daffy. good times, good times.
I remember one moment as a teenager wondering if I was too old for cartoons, when my grandfather brought up that he still watches Tom and Jerry. Knowing that being a kid at heart is in my genes, I still enjoy cartoons to this day!
@@commandertaco1762 "It is not just a little spark. It is a flame. A big, roaring flame. I can feel it now." "Hey, something is burning here!" (looks down, screams)
4:00 OK that was funny but imagine this situation: Random person: Help! I'm drowning in the sea! Life Guard: Ok! Give me a second *jumps and tries to land on the person needing help* Tom was intending to kill her!
That's nuthing dude, I know a guy who, as a kid, used to tear open and eat the weird flexible jelly-like shit inside Stretch Armstrong toys like it was actual jelly, he ate like seven of the damn things as far as I know!
Justin Savino You'd think, right? But nope, the dude's in his mid-twenties now and he's a fitness instructor, not to mention jacked as shit. Also, apparently the Stretch Armstrong goo tasted very sugary. \(@_@)/
I think you're wrong. The driving force was each character's personality. I grew up on Tom and Jerry. Loved both of them, although they were very different personalities. Tom was alway trying to figure out how to catch Jerry and Jerry was always trying to figure out how to excape Tom. They were both clever, although the undermouse was always the most clever in the end. It was big guy against little guy and little guy always found a way to win. We knew what was going to happen all the time, but were amused when it happened. It had nothing to do with pain, because we all knew there was no real pain involved. It was the unexpected way the little guy defeated the big guy. That was the fun of Tom and Jerry.
He's just trying to get all his videos on one channel instead of spread across two channels. It doesn't help that still so much of his content is lost until he brings it over from when it was uploaded on Blip. Of course it provides the benefit of getting watched twice by some people, but still.
I love how you lay out the psychological functions of comedy and cartoons - the title Critic, to analyze, take apart something... you do it in such form. I can't favorite this video enough.
I really like one where they're in a mall or something and Jerry is hiding among a bunch of mice dolls. That scene was hilarious, and remembering it now cracks me up.
One of my favorites was the one where tom becomes the lead composer of an orchestra, and Jerry sends an army of ants to act as the notes on the paper used to conduct the songs, and as Tom is trying to signal off the song the notes keep changing causing him to screw up every time. I haven't seen that episode since I was 8, but I remember it really fondly. The episode had me laughing for hours on end every time I watched it.
slpastick is just a small part of these cartoons the quality animation and artwork/ music is what draws me to them, as well as the well researched refrences, they put their effort in every single element. its what happens when you let a business do what they do without interference from other institutions
I first saw Tom and Jerry in Bangladesh. Because of it's lack of dialogue nothing was ever dubbed unlike other English cartoons on tv. So when I came to America it was nice to have that familiarity since I couldn't speak English. And I never liked Jerry. He's a mouse, who wants mice? Tom is suppose to eat him. (Same with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner).
The Hanna and Barbera shorts still are the best of the T&Y cartoons, fun and timeless for all ages. I have the collection box set and they still make me smile. Some of my favorites: 'Fit to be tied' ' The cat concerto' ' Quiet please' ' Tee for too'... and many more to be honest, love these classics.
'Tom and Jerry will never have its time to shine again'? Recently I remember seeing a new show on Cartoon Network called "The Tom and Jerry Show" that was surprisingly faithful to its predecessor.
Yeah, the original screams from the shorts are coming out of Tom & Jerry's mouth! Season 2 they really upped it too. Not bad for flash. It's just hard to find on Boomerang so I bought on iTunes
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Great video keep it up
By the way i saw your spawn review good job
You should watch the crtooon is way better and R rated
I actually like the early days because they were better animated.
Do more Tom and Jerry cross over with ?
The ones like "Gone Fish'n" are artistically beautiful and comic gold.
Ok sounds good Doug Walker
tom and jerry is secretly a complex plot to get kids to listen to classical music
And occasional sadism.....
Stole this from reddit
nah thats the plot of looney tunes
smiley satanson I thought they wanted to get kids to listen to opera?
@@colinpreston80 hmmm... maybe both :/
You didn't even say a word about the creative genius behind Tom and Jerry's music. The great Scott Bradley. It was him who gave the animation the proper music in deserved. Half the reason why the show is even funny.
Check out the TH-cam video: 'Music From Tom & Jerry by Scott Bradley At The BBC Proms'.
For sure, the music is flawless. Sound effects and music in Tom and Jerry were flawlessly executed.
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@@Mike-ks6qu Often the music WAS the sound effect - sounds translated into acoustic music, incidentally taking into account all the latest contemporary classical music techniques of the time. Like Eliot Alderson, I was astonished that Nostalgia Critic didn't mention Bradley's music once, and stuck Mendelssohn's 4th Symphony over it instead!
Tom and Jerry are basically everyday life siblings
Fights
Friendship
Goofing around
Destroying everything
Trying to murder each other
Nathan Yup... My sister chased me with a knife lol
But Tom doesn’t actually try to murder Jerry, and the same with Jerry. There are a few episodes which show they care for each other.
Lord OfTheWoomies ...
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That is some Family Love you got there.
the Tom Scream is just the best scream ever
Better then the movie version
IKR, I lost my shit when it happened
I would love to see footage of William Hanna recording those screams.
AOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA
It really is 😂
Whenever I watched Tom and Jerry, I usually found myself rooting for Tom 90% of the time actually.
Probably because Jerry is suuuuch an asshole...
I've never liked that "hero".
+MrQuelquDeux Jerry was a sadistic fuck, who just happened to be a cute mouse.
I don't know how the hell you people watched the show, but most of the time on the BEGINNING of episode it's Tom that is an asshole
+greenman394 I agree
Tom is just being a cat.
Tom has the most ICONIC scream EVER. Change my mind.
Agreed
Besides the Wilhelm scream I agree
Goofys scream is also iconic yknow
@@alx2nalx940 True..... but is it the most iconic?
Yeah tom is probably most iconic. Homer Simpson is probably 2nd place. Goofy and courage the cowardly dog are in top 5
"Jerry is innocent" "Tom is always who starts the fight" Excuse me, what?
I know, right? There were several instances where Jerry was the instigator.
An example off the top of my head: There's the Serenade episode, where Tom is trying to serenade a female cat he likes; which he first gets Spike out of the way, before playing her a song on guitar. This unintentionally wakes up Jerry; who instantly takes it as a personal attack; and rather then asking Tom to stop, or trying to reason with him (in which case Tom's reaction would've instigated the fight); Jerry opts to physically assault him instead. Feels like he instigated that conflict himself; even if Tom's music was annoying him; that's no reason to go full on aggression out of nowhere.
What about the Episode where Tom inherited a million dollars; but loses all of it if he harms an animal? After learning this; Tom tries to live the big life, and be a respectable person with all that money and no fears to think of ever again. Except one problem; Jerry also reads the message, learns he can't hurt him anymore; and begins extorting Tom for all he's worth, and using it as a blockaid to literally harass, torture and hurt Tom, because he can't do anything; which finally culminates with Tom losing his temper; and literally saying "I'm throwing away a million dollars; BUT I'M HAPPY!" all because Jerry wouldn't leave him alone.
Within a hour in 2 years anyone could have left that response? What a coincidence
TheShadowlord90 you took the words right out of my mouth
@@Kohchu is you will or is you ain't my baby
NettoPainter yeah what would’ve worked better is if he said “more often than not Tom starts the fight”
I'm surprised you didn't mention how well the music works with the scenes. It's not just the sound effects. The music and the shorts always seemed meant for each other. Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry is simply a masterpiece. It is so excellently produced and connected that I am constantly in awe whilst dying of laughter when I watch it. The music made dialogue completely unnecessary in most cases.
Dr StrangeLove the background music played during the train scene was beautiful
Dr StrangeLove True
Pretty sure Ed Edd & Eddy got inspiration from it. It's the same there too.
Looney Tunes was excellent at it as well.
@@Cathrope1 Right! That's because the studio orchestras that are heard in both Warner Bros. & MGM's cartoons are the same as those used in Warner & MGM's feature films. Scott Bradley & Carl Stalling made good use of their companies' music libraries with a generous helping of public-domain classical music thrown in. This is why a lot of people claim their introduction to classical music was from classic cartoons.
1:52 “Jerry is innocent.”
Tom: *DON’T. YOU. BELIEVE IT.*
#TomDidNothingWrong
Creepypasta reference??
Ah, that voice 😂
You're all idiots.
Shaggy used 0.00000001% of his power to make us think we’re idiots. And we are!
The reason that Tom & Jerry speaks to both children and adults is that they each appeal to different people. Jerry is a silly, innocent prankster in the eyes of kids but a big asshole in the eyes of adults, but Tom is a big meanie to kids but to adults he's a relatable, balanced character with flaws just doing what he does.
I've always liked Tom ever since I was little tho
You could argue that Tom was more interested in tormenting Jerry rather then doing his job as a House Cat.
@@ttime441 same
Between 1940 and 1958, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 T&J shorts for MGM.
Of those 114, 13 were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.
Of those 13, 7 won.
How many were there in total in original run?
Including 4 straight Oscar wins for their shorts.
161 shorts in total during their original golden age run. 114 by Hanna Barbera, 13 by Gene Deitch, and 34 by Chuck Jones. Since then a made for tv short, sketch, and a limited theatrical release short was released. So now 164.
They deserve it
Just for the record, Tom droning, "Dooooooon't yooooooou believe it..." is a reference to a radio show from the 1940s also called _Don't You Believe It._ The show was essentially an early precursor to _Mythbusters._ Bugs Bunny also referenced it in _Big Top Bunny._
D O N ' T Y O U B E L I E V E I T
Can you imagine how many other old references the show spits out that goes over our heads? (Well my head anyway) I just found out that "is you is, or is you aint" was cab calloway
Believe it or Not, which dated back to the 1930s. (See also "Believe it or Else", a 11 minute spoof on it.)_
He also said it in the episode with the escaped white mouse (the lab mouse that would explode if whacked). When a radio announcement declares the mouse safe, he kicks it and blows the house to bits. Of course, Jerry had been posing as the white mouse to taunt Tom crazy. He had initially thought the real white mouse to be Jerry disguised again, only for Jerry to make himself known at the other end of the room.
am i the only one who actually thought due to how he said it in the shorts quality tom said "wooooon't yooouu believe it."(well i was a kid and not all tv's gave 30's-40's cartoons the best quality.)still thought compared to a later cartoon that used it(the one with the white lab mouse that blew the entire damn city up when tom kicked it thinking it was a fake after jerry pranked him.looking back on it jerry was just as/if not more guilty for causing fights as tom just more that tom at times went too far or overkill in dealing punishment.) the context of tom's voice in this short was more funny.(jerry kicked tom's ass so hard he could only speak in that tone.)
I think he forgot one very, very crucial thing -- the music. It's amazing on every level. The prove is that we usually don't even realize that there's a music involved. It's so perfectly synchronized with the visuals and the story, that we sense the music as just being an acoustic representation of the actions and emotions.
Try it! Look at some Tom and Jerry short and listen to the music. Imagine an orchestra playing it, imagine you are the cymbalist, the violinist, the drummer accompanying the suspension. You can even try to just hear the shorts without watching them. Just from the music, you will always kknow almost exactly, what's going on...
I love Scott Bradley's music, and tom and Jerry is some of his best work.
My favorite character was always Spike. This dog is just good guy with his son, trying to sleep or something and then Tom and jerry ruins everything. but at the end he always gets his revenge. Good dog.
Cosmic Mage When I was younger, as I would always root for Jerry, I liked Spike aswell. If he wasn't mad at them both, he would always protect Jerry, so I liked him!
Yeah I would always listen to him when he spoke.
*DEEP FLIPPING VOICE*
*ThAtS My BoY*
I wanna see spike and Tom in a boxing ring and beat the shit outta each other
My favorite moment with spike is in the dog pound episode when Tom passes by him without a head and Jerry running after with the fake doghead and Spike starts screaming like a woman
If TH-cam ads were T&J shorts instead, people would actually watch them.
agreed
Jerry's far from innocent and Tom doesn't always start the fight. Jerry also started a fight and legit killed Tom in a single episode.
I honestly always hated Jerry. He's just SUCH an asshole. Maybe it's just the episodes I saw, but more often than not, the conflict would spark from Jerry's desire to have a little fun at Tom's expense. Jerry knew Tom would chase him, and purposely showed himself so that he could lure Tom to a trap.
There was, straight up, an episode where Tom's owner tells him that if Tom causes a mess in the house, He's going to "get it" when she comes back, and Jerry overhearing that proceeds to try his best to mess up the House for the Rest of the episode.
One thing I remember happening WAY TOO OFTENLY in the series, are scenarios where Jerry carries Tom's fate in the tip of his fingers, Tom Begging, like SERIOUSLY BEGGING for his life, for Jerry to spare him, and Jerry pretends to spare him for a second only to fuck him over soon after.
FUCK JERRY.
Oh Lord. Why do people take sides when violence is the main thing?
KidSnivy69 Not about taking sides, it's about having a different opinion supported by facts. Tom is an instigator but so is Jerry. And these make the character anything but innocent.
SJ.Fox It's a cartoon about a cat and mouse beating the shit out of each other. The only fact I care is somebody is going to get hurt
KidSnivy69 Then why are you here watching a video examining the genius of Tom and Jerry. You already have surface level entertainment and you can rewatch it so, you clearly don't need further discussion. Clicking this video should be a waste of time for you, let alone taking time to read the comment section and then reply, more than once, to one of them. Your logic makes no sense.
I'm a simple man. I see a video about tom and Jerry, I click like
I'm a simple man, I see 9Gag reference I upvote.
+Cynaggot "TO THE TOP"
We da marks!! Marks pls
Wat if the video say F##k Tom and Jerry
+Thomas Van Hoesen I'm a simple man, I see a video of Tom and Jerry, I click like
Fun Facts: In an old promo on Boomerang, the announcer actually described Tom & Jerry as the most famous feud in show business history.
Tom & Jerry were referenced in "Ice Sore", an episode of The Powerpuff Girls.
Bubbles: "Make the floor all ice, like in Tom & Jerry. That's my favorite."
Good old Boomerang! I used to LIVE on that channel as a kid! There was this announcer who started the "Boomerang Action Hour!" or whatever, who had an awesome robot voice. It wasn't until years later when I watched the G1 Transformers did I realize that the announcer had been the voice of Soundwave the Decepticon! That blew my mind...
@@thehackingburger3002 yeah tom and jerry is better, but that awful tom and jerry gene deitch era one
@@thehackingburger3002 It's called Boomeraction
The episode is called Mice Follies
Well they both are Hannah-Barbera cartoons.
Let's be honest here, almost no one ever roots for Jerry. The rare moments Tom actually won are usually my favorite. Specifically "Little School Mouse", where Jerry teaches his protege Nibbles on how mouse and cats are sworn enemies and every chance he got Tom beat the ever loving shit out of him and it was hilarious, still is.
true
Well there was that one episode where Jerry brought in his tough look alike cousin to stop Tom, jerry never did anything wrong there, but Tom did
+Jean-Pierre Moreno Tom usually starts the fights, I'm just saying most people root for him because they find him more endearing. Especially since most of the episodes are usually seen through his eyes, whether he's the villain or not, Jerry ends up coming off as boring due to his almost always ensured victories. He' also has a rather sadistic streak to him.
+ keven pumarejo I thin the real reason a lot of people root for Tom is simply because (in my case, anyway) he mostly loses.
One of my favorite shorts was from Chuck Jones..actually those were usually my favorites because Tom has the FUNNIEST screams in them, anyway moving on. The episode is just Tom trying to sleep while Jerry and a grey mouse constantly beat the crap out of him and at one point making him think he stabbed himself with the use of a knife and some ketchup. The payoff at the end? Both mice stuck in a bottle that rigged so that if they try to leave by pushing the cork out, a revolver will shoot through the glass..the same revolver they actually used on him earlier in the short, meanwhile Tom sighs in content while laying on his cat pillow and using his tail to hold a fan and use it as he goes to sleep.
actually,sometimes jerry starts the fight too while tom is trying to relax
that was basically all it was in later episodes. I ended up caring more for Tom and wanting harm to come to Jerry for what he was doing than the other way around. Jerry became pretty unlikable after a while actually.
I was always #teamtom
Wasn't there an episode where Jerry litterally stole Tom's girlfreind. For some reason even as a kid I was pissed.
That's a reason of why Tom is relateable (
You're like Oscar from the office. Mr Actually
Some of the best memories I have & I will ALWAYS treasure, are when I was a young lad, my grandfather & I would watch these Tom & Jerry cartoons together. Our country had just left the Soviet Union in 1991, & we had just gotten access to western movies & cartoons around 1985. We had to go to the soviet theaters to see Tom & Jerry but it was worth it. A grandpa & his grandson bonding over a simple cat & mouse cartoons. No words, just laughs! :)
Me and my twin brother loved watching these as kids. We would watch it in the morning with cereal on the weekends.
This is so wholesome
I always loved Tom's owner. I don't know if she has a name, I always called her "The Black Lady". I guess you can call her a racist depiction because she has a stereotypical African-American accent and is fat, but she owns a very nice house and is pretty rich what with those expensive jewels she wore in one episode.
"THOMAS!"
Mammy Two-Shoes was her name and I liked her as well.
Or maybe she was a maid at times
VIDCAs17 I don't think she was a maid. In Saturday Evening Puss, Jerry calls her at a bridge game and tells her Tom and his cat friends are throwing a party, and she says, "What, a party? At MY house? EXCUUUUUSE ME!"
I think she's supposed to be the housekeeper, not the owner.
It was said she was the housekeeper the first times she appeared, but over time they made her her own house owner
I think the biggest problem with Chuck Jones' interpretation is that Jerry is made into an asshole several times. I was actively rooting for him to get eaten in several episodes.
Sam Geuvenen Also Chuck Jones signature art style, which is more abstract doesn't work as well with Tom and Jerry.
khansuhaib I didn't have much of a problem with that. I thought everything was defined pretty well, the world was aesthetically pleasing, and the slapstick itself didn't bother me. It was just the portrayal of Jerry that I didn't like
@@786suhaib786 Chuck Jones himself said in an interview once that his Tom & Jerry cartoons were 'More like the Roadrunner and Coyote in cat & mouse drag,"
Dude, Jerry was an asshole to begin with. Granted Tom tends to start everything but jerry's actions afterwards can b e very uncalled for and over the top.
Chuck Jones is amazing, but it doesn't work as well for Tom and Jerry because its to straight and too slow. Theres not enough fast movement in my opinion. But for his other works its fine.
My grandpa saw it first when India got Independence in 1947. He showed it to my mom when she was a kid in 1971. She introduced me to it in 1992. Picture 3 generations sitting together and laughing at T&J... It's 2019 and still holds up!
Tom and Jerry Is Hanna-Barbera's Own Looney Tunes.
@@harrygray999 And Animaniacs is Steven Spielberg’s Looney Tunes.
Tom's expressions are the best. Look at his face when he's scrubbing Jerry in the ball cleaner.
That line could be taken way out of context.
My favorite episodes were always whenever those two paired up.
If they already can do such damage when they're fighting each other, just you see what they do when they're toghether.
Never come between two lifelong rivals. Both will team up to get rid of you for ruining the dynamic.
Indeed. Remember that episode where the 3 adorable kittens came into their house and bullied them? I loved how they seriously just looked and nodded at each other. But yeah...when those 2 work together...stuff explodes.
PauloVitorHMK yeah i always like that one
PauloVitorHMK no because you get the Tom and Jerry Movie
2:06 To be fair, sometimes Tom would be chillin and Jerry would go up to him and start a fight because he wanted whatever Tom had.
Am I the only one who preferred Tom over Jerry?
For me (as a child), sure I preferred Jerry over Tom, it was 'evident' that the mouse was the good guy and Tom was the bad.
But as I rewatched the series (AKA some episodes :P), I noticed that I felt more sympathetic towards Tom than towards Jerry.
Maybe it's just me, but it seemed that some (or even most--probably exaggerating there) endings with Tom getting beaten, or mistreated was unjust towards him (for me).
I mean, he's a CAT. He's *supposed* to catch mice--Some of the episodes he tries to catch Jerry due to his owner.
For example, there was an episode (I don't remember the name) where Tom played the role of an infant due to his owner's wishes.
Jerry began picking on him and relentlessly continued after having the knowledge that if Tom continued to 'misbehave' (by giving in to his *predatory* and *cat* instincts) he would be punished by his owner. (However this could be wrong due to my memories of childhood).
But as I said before, this is just my opinion and I did not intent to offend any readers/viewers.
You know, it's interesting to empathize with Tom (I do as well). After all, Tom is just doing his "job", so to speak. I won't go into it, but it's interesting to reflect on all the recent events revolving around the police and fatalities.
It's a cartoon. And these characters are capable of not being jerks to each other. Tom's "job" was to murder Jerry? Just because it's his purpose doesn't mean I'll root for him.
I root for either Tom or Jerry, depending on who's not being the jerk.
I preferred Tom over Jerry. I was always glad in the few cases where he won.
Same here, there were many times where Jerry was a bully to Tom, and it was so satisfying to see Jerry getting owned by Karma, even better when Tom triumphs over him like in million dollar cat, where he had enough of Jerry abusing him and finding happiness in losing his millionaire status just so he can assault Jerry
Same
I was laughing the whole time with Tom yelling
I always turned the television up as loud as it would go whenever Tom screamed much to my parents dismay!
Hahahahahaha same
I know everytime I hear that yell I just start to laugh
@@melissacooper4482 ya then that way it would be even more funny er
I teach my kids "if it doesn't say FRED QUIMBY at the beginning, it isn't a legendary episode"
Some shorts from 1956 to 1958 (Producer credit went to Hanna and Barbera instead) were still quite good though.
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 blue cat blues as an example
@@ashtray_heart eh that episode is dark and more sad than funny
I think my favorite Tom speaking moment is him reading Jerry's "will" and the only thing there is one custard pie, then he yells out "LET ME HAVE IT!"
And gets creamed by a pie. Slapstick at its best.
Shinjis Hand x Asuka my favorite was always When tom hires another cat(butch i belive) to help him catch jerry and at the end when the cat gets hella pist he shows tom a signand he reads "C.A.T. Cat...that spells Cat"
Shinji"s hand x Asuka my favorite speaking line for tom is when he breaks the fourth wall by saying to the cameraman "won't you be leaving?"
@@jennyknopps1291 *Don't you believe it
Shinjis Hand x Asuka my favorite is when he gets a rich cats inheritance and it says he has to bring someone with him, and Jerry ruins everything for him so eventually tom goes berserk on him and says " I'm throwing away a million dollars, but I'm happy!"
@@thebaronanative8289 He doesn't have to bring someone with him. The will says that he loses the million dollar inheritance if he harms another living thing, even a mouse. Jerry takes advantage of the stipulation and follows Tom around to rub it in his face. Tom, being Tom, eventually has enough and snaps.
It's always overlooked that Tom&Jerry was developed during the WWII. I believe the creators wanted to nullify the fear of war in children's hearts. And like everything else developed during the war, Tom&Jerry had to be genius and it was. I adore the developers in these regards.
Don't accuse Tom of being the bad guy. You should know that every time Tom won and could have easily have Jerry killed, he saved him in the end, like the episode where he had to literally defrost him in a fireplace after Jerry turned into a popsickle.
Meanwhile, Jerry simply tortures Tom and has great fun looking at his misery every chance he gets, like when he tortured Tom after convincing him he had measles. This backfired in the end, and both actually got them, but still....
Hell, Jerry actually killed Tom on several occasions.
Good thing their cartoons they cant die even if they tried too
I feel bad for Both of them because why cant they just not do it much i mean i think they have broken every bone in their body
@@beyourslef7543 I think they can die when they get to a certain age, just probably not by much violence.
Jerry never really killed Tom, Tom accidentally killed himself.
i mean he feel bad in one point like there still frenemy
Why are people remember this and forget that Jerry constantly saving Tom's sorry ass due to Tom's own stupidity in a lot of episodes smh
My favorite Tom voice was when tom walks into a closet after jerry and you hear. "Muhahaha!"
THAT'S THE POWER OF ANIMATION BITCHES!!!
YEAYUH!
Of course you'd agree with that statement
+Budder Fli it's the sensible thing to do.
That's the power of the fourtys.
How'd you get here?
Tom's scream has never failed to make me smile/laugh for 30+ years.
I know. He’s so funny that he should be a stand up comedian. 😂😂😂
Still watch Tom and Jerry and laugh my sweet ass off.
Me too, comes on Boomerang early in the mornings, the only episodes they don't show are the ones with the black woman back when Tom was Jasper.
Yep I got it all on blueray.
Black AVGN YOU CAN GET THE ORIGINALS ON BLURAY???!!!
Big facts
I can't make out what Tom says in that very bizarre voice and echoe
"Dooon't youuu believe it"
Tia Blue Thanks!
+Tia Blue oh ive always heard it as woe to believe in
It is hard to make out sometimes but it's funny because the book he was looking at said "A cornered mouse NEVER FIGHTS"..and the "never fights" is in all caps, underlined, and red while the rest is black. Jerry then beats the living hell outta him.
+Tia Blue oh really? what's that mean?
My Grandfarther always loved Tom And Jerry.
I remember seeing the show a lot when visiting him as a kid.
When i got bored of all the grownup talk, i could always sit in front of his TV and watch Tom and Jerry.
He had all of the VHS tabes. It was amazing.
I still remember my Grandfarthers hysterical laugher when Tom got hurt. :)
Good memories. I miss him. Rest in Peace Erik.
1:51 innocent?! Jerry?! You sound like you don't believe it yourself. Jerry is everything but innocent.
Jerry was an asshole :(
I agree, there’s no real good or evil to this duo, some episodes have Tom be the victorious one
boumbh. Jerry starts most of the problems
Jerry is a dick imo
I always rooted for Tom but he never won :(
_"Jerry is innocent."_
Not even close.
100% correct
Okay 10% correct
Jerry is evil
"Tom always started the fights"
Also not even close.
Facts. Hes an evil monster
"Jerry is innocent." So...we're just gonna forget the episode where he and Nibbles straight up got Tom beheaded?
That one had me traumatised for ages
Did Jerry and tuffy meant to do that it just looks like he didn’t want to get caught and fight tom at all
@@lizjoseph3104 And also, back then, there was still beheadings in France in the 1950s.
"Saltwater Tabby"
Still one of my favorite Tom and Jerry episode to date.
The slapstick is so amazingly good and just downright hilarious!
I was raised on Tom and Jerry
ერთი მეოთხედი I'm raising my kids on Tom and Jerry :)
@@chefexcellence322 you're a very good parent 😂
I was raised on Cartoon Network.
Me too
Same
the use of classical music at those well timed moments that follows the tempo of what's happening on screen is also worth praising
Jerry was a psychopath in the Chuck Jones era Tom and Jerry lol
That was a bit more prevalent in the Deitch era of the franchise. May he Rest In Peace.
@@puppetmaster1011 in the Gene Deitch era, the asshole owner who abused Tom for whatever little thing to set him off took center stage lol
White Blogger Black Specs nope
Jerry experiences and felt emotion
Do he’s not a psychopath
He may be a sociopath tho
Psychopath are humans born with missing brain parts so they can’t feel emotion
@@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecsyeah that era was scary and dark
What plays a big part of why I've always enjoyed tom and jerry is music and the general sound design. It just all perfectly complements each other and the lack of voices or spoken dialogue makes it so much better
Hey Doug, i'm just sending you this message to thank you for everything you've been working on lately.
It's unbelievable how much time and effort you spend on your videos and it's definitely been inspiring me for all these years,
Wish you the best.
-Ronaldo
:)
Tom and Jerry is one of the most amazing cartoons of all time. Up there with Bob Clampett and Tex Avery. And I agree with everything Doug said here. The animation was fast-paced and lifeful. The violence is also very cartoonish and does not feel too violent. Modern cartoons are more violent, especially Family Guy. The timing was also perfect. The music is also beautiful and truly remarkable.
And then we have the characters. Despite Tom's name being first, Tom is the antagonist in this show. He doesn't really need to chase Jerry, he does it just because he wants to.
Jerry is the real protagonist of this show, and a great protagonist too. Jerry always has to fight Tom in order to stay alive. He is sometimes brutal towards Tom, but it is justifiable nearly all the time, since Tom always try to hurt him. Tom and Jerry were basically Hanna-Barbera's Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, only quiet and with a lot of different setups.
But there are two things I don't understand. The criticism towards Jerry and the show itself.
Tom is, just like Doug said, asking for it pretty much the time. Tom is usually a big jerk to Jerry. The main reason is because he's bigger. Therefore, Jerry punching Tom are acts of either revenge or self-defence. Jerry usually has a reason to be a... I'm not gonna call him whatever his detractors calls him.
The criticism towards the show itself mystifies me too. Who is foolish enough to think people would imitate all the violence?
And on a final note: If people were not sympathizing with Jerry, the cartoon would not have been very popular at all. There are lots of people who are supporting Jerry (like me), but in comment sections like this one, it feels like no one likes him or the show. It's almost the same thing with Spongebob. If nobody liked him, no one would like the show.
#jerryneedsmorelove
Animaniacs? Gravity Falls? The Simpsons?
As Doug also mentions, Jerry sometimes enjoys defending himself a little TOO much, and there are in fact those rare times he actually starts the fight and gets away with it. They're not often (and yeah MOST of the times Jerry acts worse than Tom, he loses instead) but I think that occasional unfair stipulation made Tom easier to sympathise, the world will punish him even if he wasn't the one in the wrong while Jerry will sometimes be seen as the hero and get off scot free even if he's the instigator. Also Jerry's 'defensive' stipulation was sometimes skewed, such as when Tom was just trying to stop him stealing food.
It's like some of the Sylvester shorts like 'Canned Feud', the mouse is the instigator, and a very sadistic one at that. It feels like they skipped over the 'He started it' scene because we are supposed to assume the cute little mouse has been provoked and deserves to torment the big nasty cat by default. That writing flub makes it VERY hard to root for them even when they ARE playing fair, and sometimes ruins the humour, which comes from the 'villain's' cruel arrogance coming back on them.
Abdullahi Bouraleh i love both tom and jerry
Yeah. I loved watching it when I was a little kid.
totally Jerry is not a bad character i mean look at blast off to mars he isn't confused about why the aliens call them the great gloop
Tom’s screams have to be among the single funniest sounds ever recorded in all of existence.
Nightmare scenario: in five years Disney buys Tom and Jerry and then makes a live-action remake with horrifying CGI
BeccaRNR Speaking of Tom and Jerry in live action WB is making a live action/2D hybrid of the Characters
@@donalds980 oh no
*S I L E N C E*
Don't give them ideas
Son of a
"A Cornered Mouse Never Fights"
*Proceeds to get the $#!t beat out of him by Jerry Q. Mouse* :)
Classic.
Wait, Jerry has a middle name?
“Innocent” here is not inguilty people
What he meant is Jerry is childish
Underrated comment right here.
"Is you is or is you ain't my baby!" Went right over my head as a kid... Good episode
the original Tom and Jerry is not just slapstick though
they are actually very smart as well
there are alot of irony and sarcastic
remember in the episode The Hollywood Bowl
the momment Tom pull out a new ward when Jerry just break his ward a second ago?
that scene alway killed me
Am I the only one that love the Tom and Jerry feature length movie? I thought that the way they started with a. regular episode and then have the house destroyed, and continuously made meta jokes on the old cartoon while throwing them into a complex new situation that allowed their characters tone extrapolated into being complex was brilliant. The scene where they find out each other can talk is one of my favorite in any movie ever because it capitalizes and builds upon your nostalgia so well.
I hope they would bring back Tom & Jerry, but I fear they would so something silly like making them talk, and ruining the whole thing.
they did, and it was exactly that. (it was called the Tom and Jerry show)
Well plus I could see people having issues with the violence, same reason Warner Bros cartoons aren't shown nearly as much today.
And have the main plot of the story be Tom and Jerry trying to reunite an orphan with her dad who happens to be Indiana Jones while getting chased by people who are named after various foot fetishes.
Imagine if they actually made such a feature length film! What are the odds of that happening?
Actually they did bring them back sometime last year but used flash animation instead of hand drawn. They pretty tried to do the same as the first original cartoons even including the original Tom scream but I don't think it's on anymore.
+Blackzero I wouldn't call it a reboot. It's more like a parody to me
Censorship is the reason most slapstick today is kinda weak.
There was an episode of Fairly OddParents where the characters end up in their equivalent to Tom and Jerry. When the slapstick was performed, it was censored. Even the modern Tom and Jerry shows have suck weak slapstick. That and it being flash-animated. It just looks weird for this kind of humor
PC movement killing humor? That's old news. Tell me something new.
Hopefully they bring something to Netflix. They'll let you do anything. Hopefully nothing Happy Tree Friends-esk tho.
@@commmander64 If by PC, you mean parental-control, then yes.
If you think "political correctness"; Ha ha ha ha ha ha, no.
1:53
Do y’all remember the episode where Tom was falling in love, and Jerry got jealous he wasn’t getting attention so he ruined it all for Tom. I was so upset at Jerry for that, it made him anything but innocent.
even I get jealous when my friend finds a girl and ignores me
I still have no idea what tom says in that deep voice
+Skullamania X THANK YOU
I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR HALF MY LIFE
actually he says WON'T you believe it
I heard this in spanish 1st. So to me he says: "Don't you believe it"
i always thought it was "non/not to believe in"
I'm pretty sure it's "Would you believe it?"
eh quite a lot of times Tom is minding his own business and Jerry decides to drop an Anvil or something on him usually to show off to his nephew
Tom’s scream can ALWAYS make me laugh. It’s the greatest laugh ever (in my opinion)
Is this a reupload?
Ah fuck it, I'll watch it anyway
yes, says in description.
Love da avatar
...Rayman 4... *sheds tear*
you hack fraud
true
The "Don't You Believe It" is a quote from an old 1940's radio show of the same name. It was the radio show version of Snopes of its day.
How come the composer wasnt mentioned? Both the music and the sound effects performed by the orchestra made it sound so special
I was scared of that deep echo-y voice
It used to give me creeps
Same, even now I don't know what he said
Still gives me the creeps today, it's just so out of place
scared me too as a kid, but in a way thats funny. if that makes sense. i was a massive tom and jerry fan as a kid. and i watched "tom and jerry kids" every Saturday morning with a bowl of cereal. i still remember how the theme song went. the original show would run late at night on that channel that had road runner as well as bugs and daffy. good times, good times.
I really only remember one time I heard that, and the context for it is what makes it funny
me too when I was little, but now I find it surreal and hilarious
"Jerry is playful, innocent" like hell he is
I remember one moment as a teenager wondering if I was too old for cartoons, when my grandfather brought up that he still watches Tom and Jerry. Knowing that being a kid at heart is in my genes, I still enjoy cartoons to this day!
DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!
Admittedly I was still laughing at the classic clips even though I've seen them a billion times.
KholdKhaos64 Ray Me too.
Glad I wasn't the only one
Tom and Jerry: My entire childhood.
"One custard pie? Let me have it!"
A big roaring fire
@@commandertaco1762 "It is not just a little spark. It is a flame. A big, roaring flame. I can feel it now."
"Hey, something is burning here!"
(looks down, screams)
4:00 OK that was funny but imagine this situation:
Random person: Help! I'm drowning in the sea!
Life Guard: Ok! Give me a second
*jumps and tries to land on the person needing help*
Tom was intending to kill her!
schoolnurd I surprised the person didn’t scream for their life
My most favorite scene is:
"One Custard pie! Let me Have it!"
*splat!*
And that one where the radio announcer tells Tom to let Jerry have the pie... and he throws it at his face.
.....did.....did you eat playdoh
That's nuthing dude, I know a guy who, as a kid, used to tear open and eat the weird flexible jelly-like shit inside Stretch Armstrong toys like it was actual jelly, he ate like seven of the damn things as far as I know!
+SanguiniusReborn ......... Doesn't that stuff stink
Justin Savino You'd think, right? But nope, the dude's in his mid-twenties now and he's a fitness instructor, not to mention jacked as shit. Also, apparently the Stretch Armstrong goo tasted very sugary. \(@_@)/
Play...doh ???
yes, the product is called Play-Doh
I freaking love Tom and Jerry.
The original. Not all those other remakes.
I think you're wrong. The driving force was each character's personality. I grew up on Tom and Jerry. Loved both of them, although they were very different personalities. Tom was alway trying to figure out how to catch Jerry and Jerry was always trying to figure out how to excape Tom. They were both clever, although the undermouse was always the most clever in the end. It was big guy against little guy and little guy always found a way to win. We knew what was going to happen all the time, but were amused when it happened. It had nothing to do with pain, because we all knew there was no real pain involved. It was the unexpected way the little guy defeated the big guy. That was the fun of Tom and Jerry.
I like how he does a lot of re-uploads so he can get paid again for the same content.
And I still watch it anyway because it's good.
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I agree. They have so many videos that a lot of peeps haven't seen the old stuff
He's just trying to get all his videos on one channel instead of spread across two channels. It doesn't help that still so much of his content is lost until he brings it over from when it was uploaded on Blip. Of course it provides the benefit of getting watched twice by some people, but still.
I'm betting the vast majority of this stuff gets ID'd before he can see a cent.
A lot of the times they get taken down because TH-cam is a butt
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I remember when I was a young child... I've watched this show every time it was on.
6:33 "Dont you believe it" I always assumed it was some kind of 1930s reference that 80s kids ( or 2019_adults dont know about)
I always somehow rooted for Tom when i watched this show as a kid.
Thank you Tom and Jerry for making people laugh for over 80 years!
I love how you lay out the psychological functions of comedy and cartoons - the title Critic, to analyze, take apart something... you do it in such form. I can't favorite this video enough.
9:03 I heard it
Not the audio of the video, but Tom screaming.
That was one memorable yell.
Society today would be bitching how Tom and Jerry promotes animal cruelty.
センパイ would be?? They do already
actually jerry is the instigator alot of the time
Donny Annessa it’s both
Mostly Tom sometimes jerry
Is you is or is you ain't my baby.
...What?
One of my favorite episodes.
+Taheah Shahdaiah ok. It was kind of confusing seeing how many episodes of Tom and Jerry there are and that it was out of context.
Maybe baby found somebody neeeew... pah-deh-du-dah-du-deh-du-doh-dah * a pie with smoothing-iron in it interrupts the song *.
the tom and jerry version of the song sounds way better than the louis jordan version.
Oh come on i fucking loved the ones produced by Chuck Jones
Yea there good I like it
I really like one where they're in a mall or something and Jerry is hiding among a bunch of mice dolls. That scene was hilarious, and remembering it now cracks me up.
One of my favorites was the one where tom becomes the lead composer of an orchestra, and Jerry sends an army of ants to act as the notes on the paper used to conduct the songs, and as Tom is trying to signal off the song the notes keep changing causing him to screw up every time. I haven't seen that episode since I was 8, but I remember it really fondly. The episode had me laughing for hours on end every time I watched it.
I hated them. Not 100% sure why, but hated them.
Actually as a kid, I preferred them. I was really enthralled by the art style used in those episodes.
"There's a rumor going around saying that slapstick is a lesser form of humor. Well to them I say *anvil falls* "
Amen!
Bill Cipher was right, Pain IS hilarious!
too bad bill cipher didn't exist when these shows were made,he would fit in quite well
I think one of the most memorable parts of Tom & Jerry was the classical music. If I hear some of it today, I connect it to an episode.
Slapstick is the purest form of the uniquely human ability to laugh at our own mortality.
slpastick is just a small part of these cartoons the quality animation and artwork/ music is what draws me to them, as well as the well researched refrences, they put their effort in every single element. its what happens when you let a business do what they do without interference from other institutions
You should make a video dedicated to the T&J References, that would be interesting!
I first saw Tom and Jerry in Bangladesh. Because of it's lack of dialogue nothing was ever dubbed unlike other English cartoons on tv. So when I came to America it was nice to have that familiarity since I couldn't speak English.
And I never liked Jerry. He's a mouse, who wants mice? Tom is suppose to eat him. (Same with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner).
The Hanna and Barbera shorts still are the best of the T&Y cartoons, fun and timeless for all ages. I have the collection box set and they still make me smile. Some of my favorites: 'Fit to be tied' ' The cat concerto' ' Quiet please' ' Tee for too'... and many more to be honest, love these classics.
2:07 Jerry sometimes starts the fight too.
Tom and Jerry is a masterpiece that has only gotten better with time.
7:27 that face made me crack everytime I see no matter what mood or place I am in. My childhood. My favourite . Tom&Jerry for life...........
'Tom and Jerry will never have its time to shine again'? Recently I remember seeing a new show on Cartoon Network called "The Tom and Jerry Show" that was surprisingly faithful to its predecessor.
Yeah, the original screams from the shorts are coming out of Tom & Jerry's mouth!
Season 2 they really upped it too. Not bad for flash. It's just hard to find on Boomerang so I bought on iTunes
Sk8rToon If you have a TV provider you can watch full episodes of shows at www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/