History WMG / TomAndJerry

That's why Tom moved from home to home throughout the years. Their abusive behavior towards him has finally come back to bite them in the butt and they've been arrested and had their pet taken from them. Of course, Jerry also follows Tom to his new home wherever he goes.

[[WMG: Tom's old owners are in jail.]]

While the "Tom and Jerry" shorts have NegativeContinuity (some of the shorts at least) I noticed that Tuffy seemed slightly taller in later appearances and can speak (he even talks more than Tom and Jerry in certain episodes). Tom still wearing a diaper might be RuleOfFunny or they might be shorts in later appearances.

[[WMG:Tom and Jerry really do talk.]]
It's just that their chases really doesn't give them time for that.
* Tom canonically talks at least once (Million Dollar Cat, I believe). I think it's a mix of them generally chasing, and they simply don't want to. They just seem to "get" each other. Depending on how dark you interpret their "game," it could also be neither wants to "humanize" the enemy.

[[WMG:Spike knows Jerry is responsible for hurting him (and Tyke). He pretends not to know in order to torment Tom.]]
Well, just how oblivious and gullible he can be? Somehow, while sleeping, he one-eye peaks to realize Jerry is plotting to get Tom into trouble. For example, when Jerry puts dynamite on his stomach, he peaks on him to find that out, but instead make it look like Tom caused it. In later shorts, where his son Tyke appears, Spike orders Jerry to hurt Tyke while he watches it happened. But being a PapaWolf, he will rescue Tyke at the right time. An example would be when Jerry gets Tyke dirty. Spike will rescue him when he is dressed like a chicken. All these have cases have in common is that Jerry and Spike are not looking in the eye after Tom gets into trouble. This is to prevent him from discovering Spike plotted all this with Jerry. If you think about it, it makes sense.

[[WMG:The animals are Mammy Two-Shoes' parts of her mind.]]

[[WMG: Jerry only watches Nibbles part time or on weekends, the rest of the time Nibbles stays at an orphanage.]]

** {{Jossed}}: It really was an accident. The upcoming Golden Collections are going to be presented completely uncut, hence why "Mouse Cleaning" (which was deliberately left out of the Spotlight sets) is already planned for the future release of Vol. 2.
** Actually, now that it's confirmed the banned shorts will not be on the Golden Collections after all, this guess may well have been reopened.

In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'', Tom joins a group of three cats to catch Jerry. All of them wear different ties which hold different symbols. Three of them wear a Spades (Tom), Hearts (The Long, Orange One) And Clubs (The Small, Yellow One). The fourth one, while not wearing a suit, does indeed act like Diamonds Droog, who acts through manipulation and treachery.

Come on, it's a cartoon. It ''seems'' final, but even if you survived the decapitation, it would probably smart like a motherfucker.

* In truth, we hear the guillotine fall, and watch the mice nod their heads a moment in sorrow, but you never actually see first hand Tom lose his head. Maybe Tom escaped or was pardoned and someone else was executed; the mice had assumed it was Tom.

* He just picked up his lobbed off head, screwed it back on, and went off grumbling.

For example, Tom will want to consume living prey and eat out of the refrigerator or other food stashes without permission indicating Gluttony, he will devise horrible schemes such as building a mousetrap or selling away an escaped animal for money indicating Greed, he will become attracted to any female cat that he sees without paying any attention to what she really wants indicating Lust, he will use whatever violent force on both Jerry and anything and anyone around in order to catch Jerry indicating Wrath, he will often be sleeping around the place when he should be keeping an eye out for Jerry indicating Sloth, he'll get jealous of the fortunes of others around him very quickly (especially Jerry's) indicating Envy and he'll care about himself over others over what he gets and how he looks at himself indicating Pride.\\

This could also explain why whenever Tom has had a part in harming others around him, he is the one who is always punished instead of Jerry, even when he didn't really mean it to them. Even talking and explaining things to them will not change their stance when Jerry is pulling the strings because of who Jerry really is.
* And of course there is the ''Main/NegativeContinuity'' that many of the shorts operate on.

[[WMG: Had Hanna Barbara kept running ''Tom and Jerry'' it would have essentially become ''Pixie and Dixie and Mr Jinx'']]
It was clear some traits of the show were becoming prominent in the final shorts, the more LimitedAnimation with UPA inspired backgrounds, the more laid back plotlines, the bumbling cat getting Thrown A Bone ''far'' more often. The clear exception may be the latter's abundance of dialogue, though as the 70s show demonstrates, Hanna Barbara weren't above implementing that as well. If production notes are reliable, it is suggested even the odd early Pixie and Pixie episode was derived from some of the unfinished Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Tom actually did die and needed Jerry’s forgiveness to avoid being sent to Hell. Jerry may have been seconds too late signing the Certificate of Forgiveness but the powers that be decided to be lenient, and removed Tom from Hell instead of letting him dwell there. His waking up as if it were just a dream was just their way of resetting reality, giving Tom a second chance at life.

While the "Tom and Jerry" shorts have NegativeContinuity (some of the shorts at least) I noticed that Tuffy seemed slightly taller in later appearances and is able to speak (he even talks more than Tom and Jerry in certain episodes). Him still wearing a diaper might be RuleOfFunny or they might actually be shorts in later appearances.

** Then again, There have been a few shorts where bad things have happened to Jerry alone, maybe he's just another lost soul in purgatory [[Main/NotSoDifferent who isn't so much different]] from Tom?

Tom actually did die and needed Jerry’s forgiveness to avoid being sent to Hell. Jerry may have been seconds too late signing the Certificate of Forgiveness but the powers that be decided to be lenient, and removed Tom from Hell instead of letting him dwell there. His waking up as if it were just a dream was just their way of resetting reality.

Tom actually did die and needed Jerry’s forgiveness to avoid being sent to Hell. Jerry may have been seconds too late signing the Certificate of Forgiveness but the powers that be decided to be lenient, and removed Tom from Hell instead of letting him dwell there. His waking up as if it were just a dream was just their way of resetting reality.

Tom actually did die and needed Jerry’s forgiveness to avoid being sent to Hell. Jerry may have been seconds too late signing the Certificate of Forgiveness but the powers that be decided to be lenient, and removed Tom from Hell instead of letting him dwell there. His waking up as if it were just a dream was just their way of resetting reality.

[[WMG: The Live-Action/CGI movie takes place in the same universe as Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit.]]
Someone had to say it.

Tom actually did die and needed Jerry’s forgiveness to avoid being sent to Hell. Jerry may have been seconds too late signing the Certificate of Forgiveness but the powers that be decided to be lenient, and removed Tom from Hell instead of letting him dwell there. His waking up as if it were just a dream was just their way of resetting reality.

[[WMG: ‘’WesternAnimation/HeavenlyPuss'' was not AllJustADream.]]

It was clear some traits of the show were becoming prominent in the final shorts, the more LimitedAnimation with UPA inspired backgrounds, the more laid back plotlines, the bumbling cat getting Thrown A Bone ''far'' more often. The clear exception may be the latter's abundance of dialogue, though as the 70s show demonstrates, Hanna Barbara weren't above implementing that as well. If production notes are reliable, it is suggested even the odd early Pixie and Pixie episode was derived from some of the unfinished Tom and Jerry cartoons.

I mean come on! They both have super strength and a violent streak towards cats. Maybe Muscles grew up watching Pecos pull whiskers out of other cats and this influenced his behavior as an adult.

* [[Main/CaptainObvious And of course]] there is the ''Main/NegativeContinuity'' that many of the shorts operate on.

** Alternatively: Tom and Jerry are the children of Jasper and Jinx (the mouse in that short.) Both Tom and Jerry learned their craft from their parents.