Today is Tom & Jerry's 80th Anniversary
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In addition to ones mentioned already, Yankee Doodle Mouse and Heavenly Puss are two of the greats. It's the pauses that makes the comedic timing.
The beat and deafening crash of the piano still cracks me up. Also that animation on the piano falling over is fantastic.
The beat and deafening crash of the piano still cracks me up. Also that animation on the piano falling over is fantastic.
A selection of my favorites:
Yankee Doodle Mouse - Incredible gags. The little firework gets me everytime
Jerry's Cousin - Gag physical violence at its best
Tee for Two - The ending scream
Mouse for Sale - THAT ENDING (#teamtom)
Saturday Evening Puss
The Flying Cat
Yankee Doodle Mouse - Incredible gags. The little firework gets me everytime
Jerry's Cousin - Gag physical violence at its best
Tee for Two - The ending scream
Mouse for Sale - THAT ENDING (#teamtom)
Saturday Evening Puss
The Flying Cat
I saw the direct to video special about how they were in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this weekend, but apparently, everybody hated it
The decision to change the cat moans with the screams of a grown man has to be one of the best decision they've ever made.
I can't say I've actually sat and watched all the classic Tom & Jerry cartoons, but the ones I remember most vividly are "The Cat Concerto" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mister Mouse".
The last one weirdly enough really reminds me of the Mickey Mouse short film "The Worm Turns" another short I loved as a kid.
(To be fair the shorts have a pretty similar plot premise)
They both have such a visually pleasing way to show chemical concoctions
I can't say I've actually sat and watched all the classic Tom & Jerry cartoons, but the ones I remember most vividly are "The Cat Concerto" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mister Mouse".
The last one weirdly enough really reminds me of the Mickey Mouse short film "The Worm Turns" another short I loved as a kid.
(To be fair the shorts have a pretty similar plot premise)
They both have such a visually pleasing way to show chemical concoctions
Solid Serenade is forever the best episode. The song was great, the looks on tom's face were brilliant, and when he hits killer with the brick and goes on to make him look a fool is my favourite tom & jerry bit ever.
Timid Tabby, Blue Cat Blues, Polka-Dot Puss, Mice Follies are some of my other faves.
Tom and Jerry movie while mostly awful does have a couple of songs I enjoy:
<3 Tony Jay
Timid Tabby, Blue Cat Blues, Polka-Dot Puss, Mice Follies are some of my other faves.
Tom and Jerry movie while mostly awful does have a couple of songs I enjoy:
<3 Tony Jay
They both have such a visually pleasing way to show chemical concoctions
I've recently started rewatching mickey mouse shorts with my daughter, and I'm weirded out that mickey doesn't have pupils. All of the other characters do, but mickey doesn't even have the "notch-like" pupils he has later. Just black lifeless, dead eyes.
In a lot of modern reproductions of mickey, like classic mickey used on T-shirts or w/e, they add the notches, but in a lot of the cartoons mickey just has those black eyes.
Where as classic donald, and others, have pupils and usually notches in their pupils:
I can't unsee Mickey's lifeless shark eyes.
You're probably thinking of the Chuck Jones era, the shorts made from 1963-1967.
they gave Mickey pupils starting in 1938 so he could appear like he was looking to the side, initially it was used on a brochure(as described in the video I'm linking below with a time stamp) but was also used in animation to try and bolster Mickey's popularity after it had been decimated by Donald and outside studio characters like Popeye. This incarnation of Mickey has more or less remained as his design ever since, with some changes over the years.I've recently started rewatching mickey mouse shorts with my daughter, and I'm weirded out that mickey doesn't have pupils. All of the other characters do, but mickey doesn't even have the "notch-like" pupils he has later. Just black lifeless, dead eyes.
In a lot of modern reproductions of mickey, like classic mickey used on T-shirts or w/e, they add the notches, but in a lot of the cartoons mickey just has those black eyes.
Where as classic donald, and others, have pupils and usually notches in their pupils:
I can't unsee Mickey's lifeless shark eyes.
Is there any good reason on why on the last decades they toned down the antagonic dynamic between Tom and Jerry? I watched some of the new cartoons, and it baffles me how they act like a parody of that Marge Simpson produced Itchy and Scratchy episode
I really want to see a very violent modern Tom and Jerry short
I really want to see a very violent modern Tom and Jerry short
Are you supposed to be referring the ones made in Czechoslovakia in the early 1960s?
I don't know what happened to violent cartoony slapstick like Tom and Jerry and The Three Stooges. Home Alone is the most recent mainstream example I can think of with comedy like that.
You must choose...wisely.
It's 1950 on both.
1950 easy. The classic look.
I remember watching a Tom & Jerry movie when I was a kid, maybe about 20 years ago or so, where they could talk. They explained it away with some quick exchange about how "I never talked because I didn't know you could talk". Anyone remember what movie this was? Surely a classic.
