History WesternAnimation / TheTomAndJerryShow2014

* CallBack: The episode "Superfied" appears to be a call back to classic Tom & Jerry Short "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse", with Jerry gaining {{super strength}} and beating up Tom.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When eavesdropping on Rick and Ginger's conversation about ''the cat'', Jerry, believing it was about Tom acts smug about the times he has bested his rival and that the couple are finally going to send him away for good. However since Tom cannot do it, Rick suggests getting a better cat, one that has the skills and experiences in killing mice, to handle Jerry. After listening on this, Jerry gulps in horror, realizing that he '''must''' help Tom capture him or he will have to face a truly competent cat and be killed. Good news: Jerry succeeds. Bad news: It turns out the cat Rick and Ginger were talking about was actually the door stopper and now, Jerry is left at the mercy of Tom who smiles devilishly in getting revenge on him.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After listening in on Rick and Ginger, Jerry acts smug that he has bested his rival too many times and that he's going to leave the house for good. Unfortunately for the mouse, this means that Rick will buy a better cat, one that has the skills and experiences in killing mice, to handle him. Suddenly Jerry gulps in horror, realizing that he's doomed if that happens which is why he tries and succeeds in getting Tom to capture him. This trope plays again. Good news as at the end of the episode, it turns out that Rick was only buying a new cat shaped door stopper for Ginger. Bad news, he just glued himself in Tom who is now delighted to have Jerry so that he would pay him back for the trouble he caused. Jerry's face sells it.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Because Jerry always outsmarts Tom, this culminates in Rick deciding to ''replace Tom'' with a better cat, one that is skilled and experienced in killing mice much to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Jerry's horror]] that he decides to get Tom to capture him to prevent that. This is later {{Subverted}} as Rick was only buying a door stopper for Ginger to replace the old one. The bad news that came out of this is that Tom has [[OhCrap Jerry]] in his grasp.

* EvilPowerVacuum: Because Jerry always outsmarts Tom, this culminates in Rick deciding to ''replace Tom'' with a better cat, one that is skilled and experienced in killing mice much to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Jerry's horror]] that he decides to get Tom to capture him to prevent that. This is later {{Subverted}} as Rick was only buying a door stopper for Ginger to replace the old one. The bad news that came out of this is that Tom has [[OhCrap Jerry]] in his grasp.

* [[AccordionMan Accordion Cat]]. Meathead becomes one courtesy of a Spike beatdown.
* UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash: The main style of this version which is pretty noticeable by the animation style and the fact the characters had no colored outlines during the first season.
* AlternateContinuity: Of a sort. A short can take place in a number of different settings: along with their standard suburban house (which often have Tom and Spike as the pets of Rick and Ginger), there's also a witch's hut (where Tom and Jerry are the familiars of two competitive witch sisters, Beatie and Hildie, in what's implied to be a medieval fantasy era), a scientist's lab (where Jerry lives in a cage with Napoleon the rat and Hamster the hamster and the three are pets to Dr. Bigby), and a FilmNoir parody setting set in Tolucaville (after Tom's gumshoe owner leaves for the night, he and Jerry team up as the Cat & Mouse Detectives), among others. Each one has a different image for the title card.
** And then in "Say Cheese," Tom's hallucination from eating tainted cheese product brings them all together.
** During the second season, the lab setting was dropped, being replaced by a turn-of-the-century English mansion (where Tom works as a butler), while the "Cat & Mouse Detectives" stories were revamped into a more modern detective TV show format (albeit keeping the "noir" outfits).

* TheBully: Spike is often this, particularly in "Entering and Breaking", "Bone Dry", "Dental Case" and "Tic, Tyke, Do'h". He's a burly bulldog with a HairTriggerTemper who doesn't mind roughing up Tom ''and'' Jerry in this incarnation of the series, though he's also gained a hidden cowardly streak when it comes to anything other than beating up cats that's very much played for laughs. This version of Spike generally wants to appear tougher than he is.

* UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash: The main style of this version which is pretty noticeable by the animation style and the use of no colored outlines for the characters.
** Outlines are now used in the second season.

* BullyBulldog: Like the previous series, "Tom and Jerry Tales", Spike alternates between being this and the OnlySaneMan in the room depending on the episode.

* OnlySaneMan: Keeping with his characterization from the later theatrical shorts, in times of crisis, Spike generally tries the hardest of Rick and Ginger's pets to keep a level head and solve whatever problem is at hand. In episodes like "Cruising For A Bruising", "Pipeline" and "Hunger Strikes", he's the glue keeping the household together.

** Tyke fits as well. In a bit of RealityEnsues, since his father is a hotheaded bully who also spoils him, Tyke shows little to no regard for others, which comes home to roost in the episode "Tic, Tyke, Do'h".

* TheBully: Spike is sometimes this, particularly in "Entering and Breaking", "Bone Dry" and "Dental Case". He's a burly bulldog with a HairTriggerTemper who doesn't mind roughing up Tom ''and'' Jerry in this incarnation of the series, though he's also gained a hidden cowardly streak when it comes to anything other than beating up cats that's very much played for laughs. This version of Spike generally wants to appear tougher than he is.
** Tom is also this, depending on the episode. The season 1 finale, "Say Cheese", is all about Tom enduring karma for abusing Jerry and Tuffy more than usual.

* TheBully: Spike is sometimes this, particularly in "Entering and Breaking" and "Bone Dry". He's a burly bulldog with a HairTriggerTemper who doesn't mind roughing up Tom ''and'' Jerry in this incarnation of the series, though he's also gained a hidden cowardly streak when it comes to anything other than beating up cats that's very much played for laughs. This version of Spike generally wants to appear tougher than he is.

* ShoutOut: In "The Paper Airplane Chase," the music plays a familiar first few notes when Tom runs into a [[WoodyWoodpecker woodpecker]].

* CallBack: The episode "Superfied" appears to be a call back to classic Tom & Jerry Short "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse" with Jerry gaining super strength and beating up Tom.

* CatsAreMean: Wilson as an orange-furred kitten who resembles Puff is an AxeCrazy variant of this trope, but his old, grey furred self that looks a bit like an elderly Tom averts this trope. Butch, on occasion, as well, though he often vacillates between being Tom's FriendlyRival, shifty con-artist, and out-and-out JerkAss.
* ChasteToons: Tuffy is Jerry's nephew in this show. Averted with Spike as he is Tyke's father.

* FatCat: Marvin the light brown cat in the episode, "Top Cat"

** In the "Cat & Mouse Detective" shorts, the characters can hear him. In fact in one episode where they spy on Butch, the narrator's voice over gives away their presence and Butch tells them not to bring the narrator along.
** This is also the case for the narrator in the "Tom's In-Tents Adventure". At one point Jerry gets annoyed with him and [[CameraAbuse punches the camera]], cracking the screen.

* MasculineLinesFeminineCurves: Dee the female robot in the episode, "Molecular Breakup" is curvier than Bot the male robot.

* NonMammalMammaries: "Molecular Break-up" featured Cozette, a French white cat with Her bust size slightly bigger than normal.

* TheSilentBob: Tom and Jerry communicate almost entirely by hand gestures, charades, and facial expressions. Jerry also occasionally whistles to get other's attention.
* TheSpeechless: Unlike the original Tom and Jerry shorts where they were just [[TheVoiceless untalkative, but could still speak on occasion]]. Here they're portrayed as actually being mute, and resort to nodding, shaking, or using charades in conversations. Jerry also has a tendency to whistle.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Toodles Galore and her two baby sisters wear bows on their head, but her baby brother doesn't. Also, Toodles and her mom have eyelashes, as do almost all other female characters in the show. Subverted with Jerry though as he is male and has prominent eyelashes.
* TinCanRobot: Bot and Dee

* WholePlotReference: The episode "Little Quacker & Mr. Fuzzy Hide" is one to the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Hyde and Go Tweet", complete with Quacker's Hyde form reminiscent of Tweety's.

''The Tom and Jerry Show'' is a 2014 animated television series produced by Creator/WarnerBros. Animation and Renegade Animation, based on the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' characters and theatrical cartoon series created by [[Creator/HannaBarbera William Hanna and Joseph Barbera]] in [[TheForties 1940]]. It had its world premiere on the Canadian channel Teletoon on March 1, 2014, and premiered on Creator/CartoonNetwork in the United States on April 9, 2014.