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** The Chuck Jones era featured voice legend Mel Blanc providing the voices of Tom and Jerry(With June Foray also providing some voice work of her own)
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** The Chuck Jones Creator/ChuckJones era featured voice legend Mel Blanc providing the voices of Tom and Jerry(With June Foray also providing some voice work of her own)
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* PunBasedTitle: Taken to new heights (or depths) with the Chuck Jones-era shorts.
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* PunBasedTitle: Taken to new heights (or depths) with the Chuck Jones-era Creator/ChuckJones-era shorts.
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* RecycledINSPACE!: Once by Gene Deitch, who produced short that was bizarre and incomprehensible even by the standards of his Tom and Jerry cartoons, and about four by Chuck Jones which are somewhat better, but still not really very good.
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* RecycledINSPACE!: Once by Gene Deitch, who produced short that was bizarre and incomprehensible even by the standards of his Tom and Jerry cartoons, and about four by Chuck Jones Creator/ChuckJones which are somewhat better, but still not really very good.
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* SweepingAshes: Mostly in the ChuckJones shorts.
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* SweepingAshes: Mostly in the ChuckJones Creator/ChuckJones shorts.
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** In a Chuck Jones short Tom dresses as a female mouse, gets stuck in the suit and ends up attracting a mob of male mice who chase him away.
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** In a Chuck Jones Creator/ChuckJones short Tom dresses as a female mouse, gets stuck in the suit and ends up attracting a mob of male mice who chase him away.
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* RecursiveCanon: In "Mouse In Manhattan", a theater in the background has ''Tom and Jerry'' given billing on it.
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* RandomEventsPlot: One of the later Gene Deitch cartoons started with Tom and Jerry in a box along with an assortment of other items, including a watermelon. A narrator talks about how to make your own cartoon, starting by setting Jerry on a table and handing him the watermelon. After he spits seeds around for a bit, Tom forces him to swallow several, turning Jerry's belly into a temporary maraca. Cue dancing! Until Jerry spits the seeds out, and then finds a book that teaches mice how to use Judo...
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* RandomEventsPlot: One of the later Gene Deitch cartoons "The Tom & Jerry Cartoon Kit" started with Tom and Jerry in a box along with an assortment of other items, including a watermelon. A narrator talks about how to make your own cartoon, starting by setting Jerry on a table and handing him the watermelon. After he spits seeds around for a bit, Tom forces him to swallow several, turning Jerry's belly into a temporary maraca. Cue dancing! Until Jerry spits the seeds out, and then finds a book that teaches mice how to use Judo...
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: One story portrayed Tom as the poor suitor and Butch as the rich one. Seeing the girl eventually married to Butch [[DrivenToSuicide drove Tom to suicide]].
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: One story "Blue Cat Blues" portrayed Tom as the poor suitor and Butch as the rich one. Seeing the girl eventually married to Butch [[DrivenToSuicide drove Tom to suicide]].
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: In "Advance And Be Mechanized", Tom gets replaced by a super-powered robot cat. With an axe.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: In "Advance And Be Mechanized", "Push-Button Kitty", Tom gets replaced by a super-powered robot cat. With an axe.
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** And then, in "Advance And Be Mechanized": The robot cat & mouse, controlled by Tom & Jerry throughout the cartoon, force the two to take over ''their'' jobs at the end.
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* SassyBlackWoman Mammy Two Shoes
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* SassyBlackWoman SassyBlackWoman: Mammy Two ShoesShoes.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: In one episode, Tom gets replaced by a super-powered robot cat. With an axe.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: In one episode, "Advance And Be Mechanized", Tom gets replaced by a super-powered robot cat. With an axe.
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* VisualPun: The opening credits of "Dicky Moe" start out with a picture of Tom & Jerry in a tight spot, and the graphic "Tom and Jerry in...", then the camera pulls back to reveal they're in the titular whale's stomach.
** A similar case could be made for the opening to "The Tom & Jerry Cartoon Kit".
** A similar case could be made for the opening to "The Tom & Jerry Cartoon Kit".
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* RubeGoldbergDevice: Tom builds one in "Designs on Jerry". Sadly, due to Jerry's unnoticed alteration, the safe that was supposed to hit Jerry...well, take a wild guess what happened.
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* RubeGoldbergDevice: Tom builds one in "Designs on Jerry". Sadly, due to Jerry's unnoticed alteration, the safe that was supposed to hit Jerry...[[RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts well, take a wild guess what happened.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Nibbles at the end of "Tom & Cherie".
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: One story portrayed Tom as the poor suitor and Butch as the rich one. Seeing the girl eventually married to Butch [[DrivenToSuicide drove Tom to suicide]].
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* TheOtherDarrin: Spike was originally voiced by Billy Bletcher, known for his booming baritone voice. Starting with the Tom and Jerry short "Love That Pup," Spike was voiced by Daws Butler using a Jimmy Durante impersonation.
** The Chuck Jones era featured voice legend Mel Blanc providing the voices of Tom and Jerry(With June Foray also providing some voice work of her own)
** The Chuck Jones era featured voice legend Mel Blanc providing the voices of Tom and Jerry(With June Foray also providing some voice work of her own)
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* RuleOfFunny: Tom has human-like screams and occasionally speaks in English. This is to create a deliberate UncannyValley, since if Tom acted like a ''real'' cat, it wouldn't be funny. Just the opposite, it would be ''disturbing''.
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** Tom has lots of dialogue (but Jerry doesn't) in "Zoot Cat".
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The direct-to-video films (such as "Tom & Jerry & The Magic Ring") feature a sound-alike to the classic Tom & Jerry theme.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Mouseketeer episodes, and ''Blue Cat Blues''.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Mouseketeer episodes, ''Mouse in Manhattan'' (which focuses on Jerry going to New York rather than the usual cat and mouse antics) and ''Blue Cat Blues''.Blues'' (told in flashback, very little slapstick -- or comedy of any kind, and ends with [[DownerEnding Tom and Jerry sitting on a train track waiting to die]] after being heartbroken by the women in their lives).
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** Jerry at times as well, perhaps his most elaborate in "Quiet Please", after Tom drugs Spike to sleep.
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* SmugSnake: ''Both'' characters at their most antagonistic, but Tom most frequently.
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* OhCrap: Tom gets an epic one when he's trapped in a locked room with a lit dynamite in "Cruise Cat".
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* OhCrap: Tom gets an epic one when he's trapped in a locked room with a lit dynamite in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUmJwvJ_Z0E "Cruise Cat".Cat"]].
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* OhCrap: Tom get an epic one when he's trapped in a room with a lit dynamite in ''Cruise Cat''.
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* OhCrap: Tom get gets an epic one when he's trapped in a locked room with a lit dynamite in ''Cruise Cat''."Cruise Cat".
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** Almost every episode. At least two episodes--a tennis episode and a bowling episode--had them against each other.
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* OhCrap: Tom get an epic one when he's trapped in a room with a lit dynamite in ''Cruise Cat''.
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** SceneryGorn: Then there's the back alleys and the ''hundreds'' of mangy alley cats.
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* NotSoHarmless: Tom for the large part plays the bumbling antagonist of the two. There are several times however he manages to get the upper hand over Jerry or even win on rare occasions. If pushed far enough he can even outdo Spike, who he usually cowers before (eg. "Pet Peeve", "Dog Trouble").
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* NotSoHarmless: NotSoHarmlessVillain: Tom for the large part plays the bumbling antagonist of the two. There are several times however he manages to get the upper hand over Jerry or even win on rare occasions. If pushed far enough he can even outdo Spike, who he usually cowers before (eg. "Pet Peeve", "Dog Trouble").
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* PhoneaholicTeenager: In "Busy Buddies" and "Tot Watchers", the baby sitter left in charge at Tom's house goes straight to the phone right after the husband and wife leave, only leaving the phone to punish Tom for bothering the baby (when in fact he was returning the baby after it wandered off).
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* SlasherSmile: Tom [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn785oOIDI4 gets one]] in "The Vanishing Duck". Cue LaserGuidedKarma.
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* OverlyPolitePals: Tom, Jerry and Butch the dog do the routine in the 1948 short, "The Truce Hurts."
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* OverlyPolitePals: Tom, Jerry and Butch Spike the dog do the routine in the 1948 short, "The Truce Hurts."
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* PapaWolf: Harm, or even touch Tyke, and Spike will skin you alive!
** Jerry is this to Nibbles, as seem in ''The Milky Waif'', where he and Jerry tried to flee away from Tom for stealing his milk, but in the moment that Tom makes [[TooDumbtoLive the mistake]] to spank Nibbles with a flycacther, Jerry [[BerserkButton get's mad]] and shows to Tom [[LetsGetDangerous how much pain he can deliver when angered enough]].
** Jerry is this to Nibbles, as seem in ''The Milky Waif'', where he and Jerry tried to flee away from Tom for stealing his milk, but in the moment that Tom makes [[TooDumbtoLive the mistake]] to spank Nibbles with a flycacther, Jerry [[BerserkButton get's mad]] and shows to Tom [[LetsGetDangerous how much pain he can deliver when angered enough]].
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* ScrewySquirrel: Whenever Jerry's character starts to ''really'' lean toward this, it's usually an episode where Tom wins. A good example is "Million Dollar Cat", where Tom inherits a fortune but loses it if he harms another living creature; Jerry uses this as pretext to harass and injure Tom, then waves the telegram in his face to protect himself from reprisal.
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* ScrewySquirrel: Whenever Jerry's character starts to ''really'' lean toward this, it's usually an episode where Tom wins. A good example is "Million Dollar Cat", where Tom inherits a fortune but loses it if he harms another living creature; Jerry uses this as pretext to harass and injure Tom, then waves the telegram in his face to protect himself from reprisal. An enraged Tom, after finally realising it isn't worth the abuse, finally takes the telegram, and ''shoves it down Jerry's throat''.
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* NameAndName
* NarrativeShapeshifting: In "Of Feline Bondage", Jerry uses this trope to tell his fairy godmother about his cat troubles.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: One of Tom's love interests was a caricature of [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iugexeWqLbs/RowVGgiiSQI/AAAAAAAABHE/KQ-Le2JbFms/s320/lanaturner.jpg Lana Turner.]]
* NonFatalExplosions: Mostly played straight, but averted at the end of ''Mouse Trouble'', in which Tom dies and... goes to Heaven? Huh.
* NoOSHACompliance: If an episode takes place in a factory or a construction site you can bet this trope will be in full effect.
* NotSoHarmless: Tom for the large part plays the bumbling antagonist of the two. There are several times however he manages to get the upper hand over Jerry or even win on rare occasions. If pushed far enough he can even outdo Spike, who he usually cowers before (eg. "Pet Peeve", "Dog Trouble").
* OffModel: Gene Deitch's cartoons suffer some pretty severe animation glitches. Probably the most glaringly obvious instance was in "High Steaks" where Tom's in a swimming pool, as the animators didn't bother animating any of Tom's body below the waterline, despite the water having been drawn in a transparent fashion.
* OffWithHisHead: Presumably happens to Tom at the end of "The Two Mouseketeers".
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Even if Tom will team up with other cats to catch Jerry, he will NOT let them eat him. And god help you if you're a cat that tries to catch Jerry and Tom sees you doing it.
* OnlySixFaces: All of the characters use the exact same design, but with species specific traits and proportions applied to them. Don't believe this? Well, compare all of the characters to the seal from the short "The Little Runaway" which is basically what Tom and Jerry and the others would look like when you take away their species specific traits.
** Well, at least all ''four-legged'' characters. The side effect of this is that when one character wants to disguise as another, it can be relatively easily done.
* OverlyPolitePals: Tom, Jerry and Butch the dog do the routine in the 1948 short, "The Truce Hurts."
* PackedHero: At the start of "Cannery Rodent", Tom is chasing Jerry through a fish packing plant and both get packed into cans of tuna, which inexplicably has a picture of each of their faces on the packaging. Near the end of the same cartoon, a shark that has been pestering Tom for the majority of the cartoon is sent through the same packaging machine and canned in a similar fashion.
* PainPoweredLeap: Frequently, when Tom gets his butt pricked with a pin by Jerry or has something heavy fall on his tail.
* PantyShot: Several of Toots in "The Zoot Cat".
** Also, the little girl who dresses Tom as a baby in "Baby Puss."
* PepperSneeze
* PetHeir: Tom in ''The Million-Dollar Cat'' (until he throws it away by violating the 'no harming animals' clause), Toodles in ''Casanova Cat''.
* PieInTheFace: In "Quiet Please!", Tom catches Jerry on the kitchen counter. Jerry asks for a moment to draw up a last will and testament, in which he leaves a custard pie "to Tom, my favorite cat". Reading this, Tom eagerly tells him to "[[TemptingFate Lemme have it!]]"
** In "Solid Serenade", Jerry hits him with ''two'' pies... one of which has a steam iron hidden inside of it.
** Tom pelts Jerry with one at the end of "Jerry's Diary", after being angered by what he read in said diary.
* PorkyPigPronunciation: Jerry's Uncle Pecos has a stutter bad enough to rival the TropeNamer.
* PowderTrail
* PressGanged: A Captain Ahab type takes Tom in the Gene Deitch short "Dickey Moe".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack
* PunBasedTitle: Taken to new heights (or depths) with the Chuck Jones-era shorts.
* RandomEventsPlot: One of the later Gene Deitch cartoons started with Tom and Jerry in a box along with an assortment of other items, including a watermelon. A narrator talks about how to make your own cartoon, starting by setting Jerry on a table and handing him the watermelon. After he spits seeds around for a bit, Tom forces him to swallow several, turning Jerry's belly into a temporary maraca. Cue dancing! Until Jerry spits the seeds out, and then finds a book that teaches mice how to use Judo...
* RecycledINSPACE!: Once by Gene Deitch, who produced short that was bizarre and incomprehensible even by the standards of his Tom and Jerry cartoons, and about four by Chuck Jones which are somewhat better, but still not really very good.
** And the less literal interpretation of this trope was applied all through the series, with episodes in the Middle Ages, on a farm, out west, etc. And it was employed even more often on ''Tom And Jerry Tales''.
* RealJokeName: Doctor Quack
* TheRemake: A few examples:
** 1949's "Hatch Up Your Troubles" and 1956's "The Egg and Jerry" are virtually identical, save for modified character designs, backgrounds, and widescreen framing.
** The same goes for 1957's "Tops With Pops", which is a shot-for-shot remake of 1949's "Love That Pup".
** The same also goes for 1957's ""Feedin' the Kittie", a remake of 1949's "The Little Orphan".
* RingAroundTheCollar: This was the whole reason Jerry was given a bowtie in the 1970's adaptation, making him cheaper to animate.
* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: The common plot.
* RogerRabbitEffect: The characters' appearances in the live-action features ''Film/AnchorsAweigh'' and ''Dangerous When Wet''.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Tom builds one in "Designs on Jerry". Sadly, due to Jerry's unnoticed alteration, the safe that was supposed to hit Jerry...well, take a wild guess what happened.
** These appeared fairly often, including a recobbled episode where Tom watched several failed attempts to brainstorm ideas... for the same trap that failed before.
** A smaller-scale one appears in "Year of the Mouse", where Tom [[spoiler:traps Jerry and another mouse in a bottle, corks it and then ties a string to the cork that's attached to the trigger of a gun aimed at the bottle]].
* SassyBlackWoman Mammy Two Shoes
* ScheherezadeGambit: In their version of ''The Nutcracker Suite''.
* SceneryPorn: If ''Mouse in Manhattan'' doesn't give you an itching to visit New York City, nothing will.
* ScrewySquirrel: Whenever Jerry's character starts to ''really'' lean toward this, it's usually an episode where Tom wins. A good example is "Million Dollar Cat", where Tom inherits a fortune but loses it if he harms another living creature; Jerry uses this as pretext to harass and injure Tom, then waves the telegram in his face to protect himself from reprisal.
* SecondFaceSmoke: It happens on more than one occasion -- but Jerry wises up at one point and comes out of the mousehole in a gas mask, while Tom has turned green from blowing so much smoke.
* SerenadeYourLover: The short "Solid Serenade"
* SilentBob: Both characters are able to convey their thoughts and feelings very well without having to say a word.
* SimpletonVoice: Tom at the end of both "Trap Happy" ("C... A... T... cat.") and "The Million Dollar Cat" ("Gee, I'm throwing away a million dollars.").
** '''[[SubvertedTrope BUT]] [[WorthIt I'M HAPPY!!!]]'''
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Toots from "The Zoot Cat" while Tom is serenading her.
* SlapStick: Tom and Jerry are the kings of this.
* SoapPunishment: Jerry does this to Tom after he lies about being sick to his owner (when in reality he just didn't want to go outside on a rainy day).
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Mouseketeer episodes, and ''Blue Cat Blues''.
* SoundEffectsBleep: Heard in "Hic-cup Pup"
-->'''Spike''': *hic* Now he's got ME doing it! *hic* I'll murder that *hic* cat!
* SpinoffBabies: ''Tom and Jerry Kids''.
* SquashedFlat: And occasionally other shapes.
* StockAnimalDiet: Cheese is a favorite for Jerry, and mice, birds and milk for Tom (though he only ever gets milk out of those three). However, both Tom and Jerry will still [[BigEater eat almost anything.]]
* StockScream: "OOO-ooo-OOO Hooo Hooo Hoo HOO!!!"
** "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
* StopOrIShootMyself: In the Tom and Jerry short "The Missing Mouse", Tom hears news of an escaped white lab mouse who has swallowed a powerful explosive. Jerry, who has been painted white when shoe polish falls on him, pretends to be the mouse, trying to hurt himself and forcing Tom to stop him. Eventually, Tom figures it out, and that's when the real lab mouse appears...
* StrangeBedfellows: In the occasional short where they team up against another character.
** The 1975 version had them teamed up in every episode.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Throughout ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie The Movie]]'', but also applied to the original shorts as well, though it's only done for about a line or two, and generally played for laughs. In fact, the short with the most dialogue between the two is "The Lonesome Mouse" (which understandably doesn't get much airtime).
** Tom and Jerry speaks regularly in the comic book adaptations, which had been around for decades by the time the movie was made.
** Jerry is also voiced in his and Tom's cameo in ''Film/AnchorsAweigh'' by Sara Berner.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Episode 43, "The Cat and the Mermouse". At least half the episode takes place underwater
** Subverted (averted?) at the end when it turns out to be a dream/hallucination as a result of Tom having nearly drowned, and Jerry is resuscitating Tom.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: In one episode, Tom gets replaced by a super-powered robot cat. With an axe.
** Same with Jerry, with rocket propulsion.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The direct-to-video films (such as "Tom & Jerry & The Magic Ring") feature a sound-alike to the classic Tom & Jerry theme.
* SweepingAshes: Mostly in the ChuckJones shorts.
* SynchronizedSwarming: The ants that invade Spike's picnic in "Pup on a Picnic" are quite organized, which helps them walk off with the entire food supply... and Spike's son.
** The bees that attack Tom in "Tee for Two" are synchronized as well.
* TalkingAnimal: Dogs, ducks, other cats and mice; although neither Tom nor Jerry themselves usually spoke. Still, it depends-- sometimes they're just as mute as the title characters.
* TalkingWithSigns: Happens occasionally. One memorable example is after Jerry stabs a box with several needles and saws it in half, ''with Tom inside''. He looks inside the box and his eyes widen, and he quickly writes up a sign and displays it to the audience asking [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse if there's a doctor in the house.]]
* TeamRocketWins: A dozen or so instances Tom actually beats Jerry by the end of the short. Granted these are usually karmic victories ([[TheBadGuyWins though not always]]).
* ThisIsADrill: The baby woodpecker's beak in "Hatch Up Your Troubles".
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In one of the movies.
* TranslationYes: In "Little Runaway", the seal, through subtitles, explains his plight to Jerry and asks him for help. When Jerry agrees, the seal shakes his hand and launches to a flurry of barks. Once he's done, a subtitle comes up consisting only of the word, "Thanks!"
* TravelingPipeBulge: Jerry escapes into a gutter; when Tom follows, there's a noticeable bulge.
* TwiceToldTale: ''Tom and Jerry and Film/TheWizardOfOz'' puts the cat and mouse into a condensed version of the 1939 film.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Save personality and costumes, both Tom's and Jerry's family look exactly like them.
** Even Nibbles, who isn't technically related to Jerry, looks like a smaller gray version of him.
* UnderTheMistletoe: In "The Night Before Christmas", Jerry stops Tom from chasing him by holding up a mistletoe and making a cute smoochy face at him. Tom then blushes and turns away shyly, only to have Jerry kick him in the rear. Truly one of the biggest FoeYay moments in the series.
* UniversalAdaptorCast: In most episodes, they are just in some random house (usually belonging to Mammy Two Shoes or a skinny, white housewife). But then there are times where they are in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the future...
* VillainProtagonist: Both the "[[LaserGuidedKarma villain]]" and "[[SympatheticPOV protagonist]]" parts alternate between both characters from short to short. There are different points you can root for them both.
* VisibleInvisibility
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** Tom and Butch.
** Tom and Jerry themselves.
* WalkIntoCameraObstruction:
** "Timid Tabby" when Tom and his cousin disguise themselves with two heads chasing Jerry out.
* WartimeCartoon: "The Yankee Doodle Mouse" was the closest ''Tom and Jerry'' ever came to having a World War II-themed short. In it Tom and Jerry fight a war-style battle in a basement, with plenty of WWII references.
* WaterIsAir: Used in ''The Cat and the Mermouse'', but justified in that it was AllJustADream.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jerry dresses like a girl on a few occasions to escape Tom. For some reason, Tom's [[WouldntHitAGirl less likely to attack a girl mouse]].
** In a Chuck Jones short Tom dresses as a female mouse, gets stuck in the suit and ends up attracting a mob of male mice who chase him away.
** In ''Flirty Birdy'', Tom fights with a buzzard over Jerry, and dresses himself as a female buzzard in order to take Jerry from the male buzzard.
* WilliamTelling: Among one of the KickTheDog opening scenes in which Tom is shown tormenting Jerry.
* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: Tom has been known to have this happen nine times.
* YouDidntAsk: Played with in ''The Little School Mouse'' where Jerry tries to teach Nibbles how to foil Tom and collect food, only to be foiled each time. In his own attempts, Nibbles just kindly asks Tom and he nonchalantly complies. Later Jerry tries to teach Nibbles how to put a bell on Tom. This doesn't go over very well for him. Nibbles, on the other hand, simply ''gives'' Tom the bell as a gift, and Tom happily wears it.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Tom in ''The Two Mouseketeers''.
** This is almost repeated by the king in the second Mouseketeers short, though this time the duo take pity on Tom and lull the former to sleep before he can pull it off.
* NarrativeShapeshifting: In "Of Feline Bondage", Jerry uses this trope to tell his fairy godmother about his cat troubles.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: One of Tom's love interests was a caricature of [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iugexeWqLbs/RowVGgiiSQI/AAAAAAAABHE/KQ-Le2JbFms/s320/lanaturner.jpg Lana Turner.]]
* NonFatalExplosions: Mostly played straight, but averted at the end of ''Mouse Trouble'', in which Tom dies and... goes to Heaven? Huh.
* NoOSHACompliance: If an episode takes place in a factory or a construction site you can bet this trope will be in full effect.
* NotSoHarmless: Tom for the large part plays the bumbling antagonist of the two. There are several times however he manages to get the upper hand over Jerry or even win on rare occasions. If pushed far enough he can even outdo Spike, who he usually cowers before (eg. "Pet Peeve", "Dog Trouble").
* OffModel: Gene Deitch's cartoons suffer some pretty severe animation glitches. Probably the most glaringly obvious instance was in "High Steaks" where Tom's in a swimming pool, as the animators didn't bother animating any of Tom's body below the waterline, despite the water having been drawn in a transparent fashion.
* OffWithHisHead: Presumably happens to Tom at the end of "The Two Mouseketeers".
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Even if Tom will team up with other cats to catch Jerry, he will NOT let them eat him. And god help you if you're a cat that tries to catch Jerry and Tom sees you doing it.
* OnlySixFaces: All of the characters use the exact same design, but with species specific traits and proportions applied to them. Don't believe this? Well, compare all of the characters to the seal from the short "The Little Runaway" which is basically what Tom and Jerry and the others would look like when you take away their species specific traits.
** Well, at least all ''four-legged'' characters. The side effect of this is that when one character wants to disguise as another, it can be relatively easily done.
* OverlyPolitePals: Tom, Jerry and Butch the dog do the routine in the 1948 short, "The Truce Hurts."
* PackedHero: At the start of "Cannery Rodent", Tom is chasing Jerry through a fish packing plant and both get packed into cans of tuna, which inexplicably has a picture of each of their faces on the packaging. Near the end of the same cartoon, a shark that has been pestering Tom for the majority of the cartoon is sent through the same packaging machine and canned in a similar fashion.
* PainPoweredLeap: Frequently, when Tom gets his butt pricked with a pin by Jerry or has something heavy fall on his tail.
* PantyShot: Several of Toots in "The Zoot Cat".
** Also, the little girl who dresses Tom as a baby in "Baby Puss."
* PepperSneeze
* PetHeir: Tom in ''The Million-Dollar Cat'' (until he throws it away by violating the 'no harming animals' clause), Toodles in ''Casanova Cat''.
* PieInTheFace: In "Quiet Please!", Tom catches Jerry on the kitchen counter. Jerry asks for a moment to draw up a last will and testament, in which he leaves a custard pie "to Tom, my favorite cat". Reading this, Tom eagerly tells him to "[[TemptingFate Lemme have it!]]"
** In "Solid Serenade", Jerry hits him with ''two'' pies... one of which has a steam iron hidden inside of it.
** Tom pelts Jerry with one at the end of "Jerry's Diary", after being angered by what he read in said diary.
* PorkyPigPronunciation: Jerry's Uncle Pecos has a stutter bad enough to rival the TropeNamer.
* PowderTrail
* PressGanged: A Captain Ahab type takes Tom in the Gene Deitch short "Dickey Moe".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack
* PunBasedTitle: Taken to new heights (or depths) with the Chuck Jones-era shorts.
* RandomEventsPlot: One of the later Gene Deitch cartoons started with Tom and Jerry in a box along with an assortment of other items, including a watermelon. A narrator talks about how to make your own cartoon, starting by setting Jerry on a table and handing him the watermelon. After he spits seeds around for a bit, Tom forces him to swallow several, turning Jerry's belly into a temporary maraca. Cue dancing! Until Jerry spits the seeds out, and then finds a book that teaches mice how to use Judo...
* RecycledINSPACE!: Once by Gene Deitch, who produced short that was bizarre and incomprehensible even by the standards of his Tom and Jerry cartoons, and about four by Chuck Jones which are somewhat better, but still not really very good.
** And the less literal interpretation of this trope was applied all through the series, with episodes in the Middle Ages, on a farm, out west, etc. And it was employed even more often on ''Tom And Jerry Tales''.
* RealJokeName: Doctor Quack
* TheRemake: A few examples:
** 1949's "Hatch Up Your Troubles" and 1956's "The Egg and Jerry" are virtually identical, save for modified character designs, backgrounds, and widescreen framing.
** The same goes for 1957's "Tops With Pops", which is a shot-for-shot remake of 1949's "Love That Pup".
** The same also goes for 1957's ""Feedin' the Kittie", a remake of 1949's "The Little Orphan".
* RingAroundTheCollar: This was the whole reason Jerry was given a bowtie in the 1970's adaptation, making him cheaper to animate.
* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: The common plot.
* RogerRabbitEffect: The characters' appearances in the live-action features ''Film/AnchorsAweigh'' and ''Dangerous When Wet''.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Tom builds one in "Designs on Jerry". Sadly, due to Jerry's unnoticed alteration, the safe that was supposed to hit Jerry...well, take a wild guess what happened.
** These appeared fairly often, including a recobbled episode where Tom watched several failed attempts to brainstorm ideas... for the same trap that failed before.
** A smaller-scale one appears in "Year of the Mouse", where Tom [[spoiler:traps Jerry and another mouse in a bottle, corks it and then ties a string to the cork that's attached to the trigger of a gun aimed at the bottle]].
* SassyBlackWoman Mammy Two Shoes
* ScheherezadeGambit: In their version of ''The Nutcracker Suite''.
* SceneryPorn: If ''Mouse in Manhattan'' doesn't give you an itching to visit New York City, nothing will.
* ScrewySquirrel: Whenever Jerry's character starts to ''really'' lean toward this, it's usually an episode where Tom wins. A good example is "Million Dollar Cat", where Tom inherits a fortune but loses it if he harms another living creature; Jerry uses this as pretext to harass and injure Tom, then waves the telegram in his face to protect himself from reprisal.
* SecondFaceSmoke: It happens on more than one occasion -- but Jerry wises up at one point and comes out of the mousehole in a gas mask, while Tom has turned green from blowing so much smoke.
* SerenadeYourLover: The short "Solid Serenade"
* SilentBob: Both characters are able to convey their thoughts and feelings very well without having to say a word.
* SimpletonVoice: Tom at the end of both "Trap Happy" ("C... A... T... cat.") and "The Million Dollar Cat" ("Gee, I'm throwing away a million dollars.").
** '''[[SubvertedTrope BUT]] [[WorthIt I'M HAPPY!!!]]'''
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Toots from "The Zoot Cat" while Tom is serenading her.
* SlapStick: Tom and Jerry are the kings of this.
* SoapPunishment: Jerry does this to Tom after he lies about being sick to his owner (when in reality he just didn't want to go outside on a rainy day).
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Mouseketeer episodes, and ''Blue Cat Blues''.
* SoundEffectsBleep: Heard in "Hic-cup Pup"
-->'''Spike''': *hic* Now he's got ME doing it! *hic* I'll murder that *hic* cat!
* SpinoffBabies: ''Tom and Jerry Kids''.
* SquashedFlat: And occasionally other shapes.
* StockAnimalDiet: Cheese is a favorite for Jerry, and mice, birds and milk for Tom (though he only ever gets milk out of those three). However, both Tom and Jerry will still [[BigEater eat almost anything.]]
* StockScream: "OOO-ooo-OOO Hooo Hooo Hoo HOO!!!"
** "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
* StopOrIShootMyself: In the Tom and Jerry short "The Missing Mouse", Tom hears news of an escaped white lab mouse who has swallowed a powerful explosive. Jerry, who has been painted white when shoe polish falls on him, pretends to be the mouse, trying to hurt himself and forcing Tom to stop him. Eventually, Tom figures it out, and that's when the real lab mouse appears...
* StrangeBedfellows: In the occasional short where they team up against another character.
** The 1975 version had them teamed up in every episode.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Throughout ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie The Movie]]'', but also applied to the original shorts as well, though it's only done for about a line or two, and generally played for laughs. In fact, the short with the most dialogue between the two is "The Lonesome Mouse" (which understandably doesn't get much airtime).
** Tom and Jerry speaks regularly in the comic book adaptations, which had been around for decades by the time the movie was made.
** Jerry is also voiced in his and Tom's cameo in ''Film/AnchorsAweigh'' by Sara Berner.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Episode 43, "The Cat and the Mermouse". At least half the episode takes place underwater
** Subverted (averted?) at the end when it turns out to be a dream/hallucination as a result of Tom having nearly drowned, and Jerry is resuscitating Tom.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: In one episode, Tom gets replaced by a super-powered robot cat. With an axe.
** Same with Jerry, with rocket propulsion.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The direct-to-video films (such as "Tom & Jerry & The Magic Ring") feature a sound-alike to the classic Tom & Jerry theme.
* SweepingAshes: Mostly in the ChuckJones shorts.
* SynchronizedSwarming: The ants that invade Spike's picnic in "Pup on a Picnic" are quite organized, which helps them walk off with the entire food supply... and Spike's son.
** The bees that attack Tom in "Tee for Two" are synchronized as well.
* TalkingAnimal: Dogs, ducks, other cats and mice; although neither Tom nor Jerry themselves usually spoke. Still, it depends-- sometimes they're just as mute as the title characters.
* TalkingWithSigns: Happens occasionally. One memorable example is after Jerry stabs a box with several needles and saws it in half, ''with Tom inside''. He looks inside the box and his eyes widen, and he quickly writes up a sign and displays it to the audience asking [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse if there's a doctor in the house.]]
* TeamRocketWins: A dozen or so instances Tom actually beats Jerry by the end of the short. Granted these are usually karmic victories ([[TheBadGuyWins though not always]]).
* ThisIsADrill: The baby woodpecker's beak in "Hatch Up Your Troubles".
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In one of the movies.
* TranslationYes: In "Little Runaway", the seal, through subtitles, explains his plight to Jerry and asks him for help. When Jerry agrees, the seal shakes his hand and launches to a flurry of barks. Once he's done, a subtitle comes up consisting only of the word, "Thanks!"
* TravelingPipeBulge: Jerry escapes into a gutter; when Tom follows, there's a noticeable bulge.
* TwiceToldTale: ''Tom and Jerry and Film/TheWizardOfOz'' puts the cat and mouse into a condensed version of the 1939 film.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Save personality and costumes, both Tom's and Jerry's family look exactly like them.
** Even Nibbles, who isn't technically related to Jerry, looks like a smaller gray version of him.
* UnderTheMistletoe: In "The Night Before Christmas", Jerry stops Tom from chasing him by holding up a mistletoe and making a cute smoochy face at him. Tom then blushes and turns away shyly, only to have Jerry kick him in the rear. Truly one of the biggest FoeYay moments in the series.
* UniversalAdaptorCast: In most episodes, they are just in some random house (usually belonging to Mammy Two Shoes or a skinny, white housewife). But then there are times where they are in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the future...
* VillainProtagonist: Both the "[[LaserGuidedKarma villain]]" and "[[SympatheticPOV protagonist]]" parts alternate between both characters from short to short. There are different points you can root for them both.
* VisibleInvisibility
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** Tom and Butch.
** Tom and Jerry themselves.
* WalkIntoCameraObstruction:
** "Timid Tabby" when Tom and his cousin disguise themselves with two heads chasing Jerry out.
* WartimeCartoon: "The Yankee Doodle Mouse" was the closest ''Tom and Jerry'' ever came to having a World War II-themed short. In it Tom and Jerry fight a war-style battle in a basement, with plenty of WWII references.
* WaterIsAir: Used in ''The Cat and the Mermouse'', but justified in that it was AllJustADream.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jerry dresses like a girl on a few occasions to escape Tom. For some reason, Tom's [[WouldntHitAGirl less likely to attack a girl mouse]].
** In a Chuck Jones short Tom dresses as a female mouse, gets stuck in the suit and ends up attracting a mob of male mice who chase him away.
** In ''Flirty Birdy'', Tom fights with a buzzard over Jerry, and dresses himself as a female buzzard in order to take Jerry from the male buzzard.
* WilliamTelling: Among one of the KickTheDog opening scenes in which Tom is shown tormenting Jerry.
* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: Tom has been known to have this happen nine times.
* YouDidntAsk: Played with in ''The Little School Mouse'' where Jerry tries to teach Nibbles how to foil Tom and collect food, only to be foiled each time. In his own attempts, Nibbles just kindly asks Tom and he nonchalantly complies. Later Jerry tries to teach Nibbles how to put a bell on Tom. This doesn't go over very well for him. Nibbles, on the other hand, simply ''gives'' Tom the bell as a gift, and Tom happily wears it.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Tom in ''The Two Mouseketeers''.
** This is almost repeated by the king in the second Mouseketeers short, though this time the duo take pity on Tom and lull the former to sleep before he can pull it off.
