What adult doesn't look back at his favorite cartoons? Tom & Jerry was one of mine. Before I was introduced to anime, I used to watch american cartoons (when they were good). You don't get many new american cartoons as you did before. Today, I don't like american cartoons as much anymore because they gotten worse. The jokes are corny, the humor is beyond stupidity, and the animation thinks its cute now adays (they are hilariously poor). Tom & Jerry, Scooby-Doo, Dexter's Lab, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Looney Toons were the opposite of all of that. Although there are very few good american cartoons today, I still love my oldies. I best stick to anime from Present to future.
Tom & Jerry was basicly the best animation made in america (Next to other favorite oldies). Its about a Cat named Tom and a Mouse named Jerry if your new to this. Obviously, the cat tries to get the mouse but in this show, Tom cat is always outsmarted by Jerry mouse. Tom is a fiendish cat. Planning and devising ways to catch Jerry. Jerry is a carefree, cheese loving mouse. He is very clever in backfiring Tom's sceamish plans. His goal is to get the goods, food & cheese! I swear to you that I've seen every episode there ever was. Tom & Jerry was originated in 1965 and ended making more shows on 1972 (No, I'm not that old. The cartoon is almost older than me!) It was created by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna (and a few more that I missed). You don't hear any dioluge in this cartoon. Thats one of the elements that made it fantastic. It also had fantastic humor (Childish Violence included) and kept a small limited amount of characters. Although the show has no speaking or dioluge, it does have Sound FX such as yells/screams, a gasp here and there, breaking materials, radio music and news, etc, just no speaking from main characters.
If you watch it now, you won't find it as much funny as it was when I stared seeing it (from like 1989-19??). Yes, I was small. The animation sort of advanced as the years went by. If you wish to see the earliest animation of Tom & Jerry, click this Old Animation link. The picture up top is my favorite animation, the near-latest. For another sample of the latest Tom & Jerry animation, click the Lastest Animation link. See the big differnece? Think of it as a before and after thing. Today, you don't get good Tom & Jerry animation if it were remade. They try to make it look better in the new Tom & Jerry movies (which really suck). Since the real animators are deceased, people try to make the cartoon modern but fail in the making. The only Tom & Jerry related cartoon that was made which succeeded in becoming a good show was the Tom & Jerry Kids Show (another 1990s cartoon late after the originals), a jr. version of Tom & Jerry. It also featured other characters like Droopy Dog (yay!), Spike & Spike jr., the wolf, and soo much more! And yes, since this was 1990 modern, they did speak in dioluge. If you wanna see a screen from this show, click this Tom & Jerry Kids Show link.
Well, thats all. Basicly, I just gave you alittle history blog towards a whole book of the Tom & Jerry hisotry. I hope you learned a little something. Maybe you too can check this out if you haven't seen it. Its a great show for animation lovers. I hope there are many Tom & Jerry fans out there other than me. Thanks a lot for reading my blog.
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