Trivia / Puss Gets the Boot

• First Appearance: Of Tom and Jerry (although they wouldn't be called by those names until their next appearance).
• Flip-Flop of God: Regarding the name of the proto-Jerry in the cartoon. Joe Barbera claimed the mouse never had a name, while Bill Hanna claimed in his biography that the mouse was named Jinx, though some have questioned the validity of that statement since it was made decades after the fact, and no physical evidence has surfaced of that ever being the mouse’s name, not even in the characters original model sheet. Muddling things further is that according to a press story made for the cartoon, the mouse's name was supposed to be Pee-Wee.

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