The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show

This is my first cartoon-related blog post. It is about a television show from my childhood named The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show.

This show, also known as The New Adventures of Tom and Jerry in other countries or referred as Tom and Jerry in the intro and title cards, was produced by Filmation Associates for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television in 1980, on the Columbia Broadcasting System for Saturday mornings, and was the second made-for-television Tom and Jerry production. The series was notable in being the first attempt since the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio’s closure on May 15, 1957 to restore the original format of the cat and mouse team. After the original 114 cartoons directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the characters were leased to other animation studios who changed the designs, and eliminated all of the supporting characters. The previous made-for-television The Tom and Jerry Show for the American Broadcasting Company in 1975 was produced by Hanna and Barbera under their own studio (with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Incorporated), but had made Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse friends in most of the episodes, due to the reaction against violence in cartoons at the time. The version by Filmation (Hanna-Barbera Productions, Incorporated’s leading competitor for television animation at the time) was able to restore the familiar slapstick chase format, and reintroduced not only Spike Bulldog (who was first reintroduced in The Tom and Jerry Show), Tyke Bulldog and Nibbles Mouse (here named “Tuffy”), but also some of the other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars.[1] 30-minute episodes would consist of two seven-minute Tom and Jerry episodes, plus one Droopy cartoon in the middle, featuring some other characters such as Barney Bear.

Spike Bulldog from Tom and Jerry was used in many of these Droopy episodes as well, filling in for the other “Spike” bulldog created by Tex Avery for the old Droopy cartoons, who was not used as a separate character here. The villainous wolf from the classic series was also included, here named “Slick Wolf”. Still missing was Red from Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), who would not reappear until Tom and Jerry Kids (1990). Characters not seen in this series of Tom and Jerry cartoons are Mammy Two Shoes, Butch Cat, Quacker, Topsy Cat, Lightning Cat and Toodles Galore. The show’s intro begins with Tom chasing Jerry through a blank red screen (similar to the title card in the intro for the Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Chuck Jones). Droopy Dog appears and says, “Hi, folks!”, and the screen collapses, revealing Spike, Slick and Barney building a giant “Tom and Jerry” sign (similar to the building in Tom and Jerry Kids‘ second intro). Tom and Jerry continue chasing, with Jerry eating a banana and throwing it in Tom’s path, causing him to crash into Slick, who lands in a bucket of red paint. This causes Spike to lose his balance and fall with his ladder, crashing into Barney, who gets one of Spike’s buckets of blue paint stuck on his head. Droopy, however, is unharmed. The familiar rotating executive producer credit of Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott briefly runs as Barney slips on wet paint as he gets Spike’s bucket of blue paint off his head. Everyone except Droopy is chasing Jerry as the sign is ruined. After this, Tyke and Tuffy appear and are playing on the ladder. Tyke pulls a lever on the ladder, extending it and sending Tuffy up to Droopy. The ladder picks Droopy’s bucket of red paint up, and it falls on Tom’s head, and Spike, Slick and Barney fall over him. Jerry whistles and waves at Tom, Spike, Slick and Barney, who angrily arm themselves with paint as Droopy leaves. They throw the paint at Jerry, but they miss and cover the sign in paint, finishing it. An announcer (Scheimer) announces “The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show!”, while Tom and Jerry poke their heads through the sign and smile, and Jerry winks at the end. After the intro, the wraparound segments, hosted by Droopy, would begin. He would begin by painting the whole background with a single large brush stroke (making stylistic use of Filmation Associates’ characteristic “limited animation” technique), and he, Spike, Tyke, Tuffy, Slick and Barney would engage in brief comedic sketches (like Droopy’s opening poem in the first episode, “Roses are red, violets are blue, painting’s my job, that’s what I do; cute and somewhat wet.”). The outro consists of a slightly different version of the opening theme song, with footage from Farewell, Sweet Mouse and Droopy’s Restless Night behind the credits. The Filmation logo appears, coming into focus, followed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television logo.[2]

Generally, the animation quality was decent, but not as smooth as the Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Hanna, Barbera and Chuck Jones, and it bore a strong resemblance to that of The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle (1979). The animation of Tom chasing Jerry toward the screen at the beginning of the intro was reused. This was a common error with Filmation shows as they and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Incorporated were strongly against outsourced animation. In addition to the limited animation, the show was characterized by a very limited music score. The particular genre of music used in the show was ragtime, in an attempt to mimic the classic cartoons (which used swing music, big band and funk music, but not ragtime).[2][1] All of the episodes used the same stock, mostly created for the series, but consisting of only a handful of largely synthesized tunes, either with minor variations or played at different speeds or pitches. This did match the chase scenes, but gave the episodes a very monotonous soundtrack, making these episodes “stand out” to many Tom and Jerry viewers when they aired.[1] Some of the tunes and sound effects were recycled from The Archie Show (1968) and The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle. Where the Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Hanna, Barbera and Jones would have favorable endings for Tom occasionally, this series followed the Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Gene Deitch in never having definite “wins” for Tom (although he won at the end of Most Wanted Cat (with Jerry) and Superstocker and they ended off mutual in When the Rooster Crows and A Connecticut Mouse In King Arthur’s Cork).[2] Also similar to the Deitch cartoons was the character design, with Tom and Jerry being drawn similar to the original, but still slightly different; the design looked like a cross between the late 1940s-early 1950s Hanna-Barbera design and the lumpier Deitch design.[3] Tom’s design resembled his 1950s design and had thicker eyebrows similar to his design in the Jones cartoons, and the brown color of Jerry’s fur was darker. Droopy was the most noticeable change, although unintentional, as his face was no longer drooping at times.[2] The Droopy episodes would usually feature Slick and sometimes Spike being antagonists to Droopy. Barney had miscellaneous roles, such as being the boss of film studio guard Droopy in Star Crossed Wolf, and a frightful companion to Droopy in a haunted house in Scared Bear.

Frank Welker and Filmation producer Lou Scheimer provided the voices for the first six episodes. Welker voiced Spike, Tyke (in The Puppy Sitter; the character was silent in the wraparound segments), Tuffy (in the wraparound segments before New Mouse in the House and Heavy Booking), Droopy, Slick, Barney, Tom’s owner and other characters. Lou Scheimer voiced Tom, Jerry[4][5], Tuffy (erroneously giving him an adult voice, although his voice sounded appropriately higher and childlike in the wraparound segments before Droopy’s Restless Night (pitch-shifted), Pest in the West, Getting the Foot, Old Mother Hubbard and The Great Mousini), the radio announcer in Farewell, Sweet Mouse, Slick in the wraparound segments before Droopy’s Restless Night, Invasion of the Mouse Snatchers, The Incredible Droop, Incredible Shrinking Cat, When the Rooster Crows and School for Cats, Junior and the aliens in Heavy Booking, the bartender in Most Wanted Cat, Barney in the wraparound segments before Pest in the West, The Incredible Droop, The Plaid Baron Strikes Again, Incredible Shrinking Cat, When the Rooster Crows, School for Cats and Pied Piper Puss and The Incredible Droop, the sheriff in Pest in the West, the conductor and violin player in Cat in the Fiddle, Spike in the wraparound segments before Invasion of the Mouse Snatchers, Scared Bear and School for Cats and School for Cats, the narrator in The Incredible Droop, the ringmaster and rooster in When the Rooster Crows, Tom’s owner in School for Cats, the radio announcer in the wraparound segment before Disco Droopy, and the cheese shop owner in Pied Piper Puss. According to Scheimer in the book Creating the Filmation Generation, Welker did voices for the first six episodes, but was unable to continue work when a Screen Actors Guild strike hit, so he (Scheimer) had to fill in as voice actor. However, Welker’s voice was still heard as Droopy from the seventh episode onward, while the other male characters in the Tom and Jerry and Droopy segments (including Spike, Slick, Barney and Tom’s owner) were voiced by Scheimer. Welker’s voice was also heard in the eighth, 12th, 13th and 14th episodes as Tuffy, Slick, Barney and other characters. This indicates that Welker recorded his voices before the strike (most likely), or that the strike was embellished by Scheimer.[6] Additional voices on the show included Erika Scheimer as the trick-or-treaters in Farewell, Sweet Mouse, Jay Scheimer as Junior’s mother in Heavy Booking, Claudia in School for Cats, Save That Mouse and Say What?, Mother Hubbard in Old Mother Hubbard, and Aunt Henrietta in Say What?, Linda Gary as Hilda in Heavy Booking, Alan Oppenheimer as the ghost in Scared Bear, Diane Pershing as the crowd girls in Disco Droopy, Claudia in Mouse Over Miami and Jerry’s Country Cousin, Grandma in Save That Mouse, and Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks in Old Mother Hubbard. Though Jay, Gary and Pershing provided female voices for the show, Welker voiced two (the remote-controlled female mouse in New Mouse in the House and the female hippopotamus in Disco Droopy) and Lou Scheimer voiced twelve (Hilda (additional vocal effects) in Heavy Booking, Miss Kitty in Most Wanted Cat, the cow (first moo) in The Plaid Baron Strikes Again, the woman in Getting the Foot, Claudia in Get Along, Little Jerry, Farah Wolfhound in A Day at the Bakery, the robot maid and the blue robots in Mechanical Failure, and Princess Gwen and one of the citizens in A Connecticut Mouse In King Arthur’s Cork). This overall sense of euphoria carried over into the cartoons themselves. Though hobbled by stock footage, limited animation and network censorship, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show was, for Filmation at least, a remarkably fast-moving and funny program. The show lasted two seasons (with season two consisting of reruns) and the individual episodes were eventually added to syndicated Tom and Jerry packages in 1983, and occasionally appeared on Cartoon Network and Boomerang after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s pre-1986 library was acquired by Turner Entertainment Company, Incorporated.[2] Although it had a 7.6/10 on Internet Movie Database, the show, like its predecessor, received negative reviews from fans for its low budget, limited animation outsourced to Filmation by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, poorly drawn characters (especially Spike; another example of a poorly-drawn character being Tom resembling a kitten when waking up in Farewell, Sweet Mouse), lack of returnee characters from the old cartoons, awful writing, slow, awkward pacing, poor voice acting (two examples being Lou Scheimer’s portrayals of Tom, Jerry, Spike, Tuffy, Slick and Barney, and Welker and Scheimer’s portrayals of the female characters), terrible, unfitting, synthesized music, unfitting usage of Hanna-Barbera sound effects (in my opinion, the sound effects kind of fit with the show’s comedic tone, since the studio from which they originate from was founded in 1957 by William Hanna and Joesph Barbera, who created Tom and Jerry), poor usage of slapstick and violence, lack of involvement from William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and the second season being reruns of the first season. Despite this, there were some exceptions. Anime Superhero Forums user Howard said, “The cartoons I liked that no one else seems to would be Filmation’s Tom and Jerry cartoons. The animation is pretty bad, but they had some pretty funny ideas in them. I especially liked Spike’s Birthday where Jerry ruined Spike’s cake and steak, so Tom replaced them with a painted piece of a log and frosted wagon wheels. I always loved the look on Tom’s face when Spike shoved half of the “cake” in Tom’s mouth, and he’s trying to eat it. I wish someone would put them on DVD or something. I also liked the background music in these shorts. Very weird stuff…”[7] Eric B stated, “The last adaptation had been by the original creators, Hanna-Barbera, but they had been made almost completely friends! This fit to some extent, as they would at times team up under certain situations in the old series, but it was seen by many as a total departure from the old series. Filmation would actually bring back the chase, and even some of the side characters like Droopy, Spike and Tyke, not used by any of the other productions after the end of original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer run in 1958. Unfortunately, like the second series (the Czech one by Gene Deitch with the funny sound effects), Tom never “won” in this one. It seems that Ray Ellis’ talent, or at least that of the studio’s music editors, sort of dried up after 1974, as everything became increasingly synthesized in a gaudy fashion, or simply reused stock. The low point was The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show itself. The score consisted of nice chasing-style tunes, but they were done with piercing, oddly toned or dissonant synthesizer sounds, and basically the same three or so tunes reused over and over (though there were different versions set to different tempos). The music did fit the scenes right, but should have been spread out more with other stock; most of Filmation’s other cartoons weren’t even that bad with the music. Some, such as Lassie’s Rescue Rangers, were better than a lot on television in the 1970s. These episodes, when eventually mixed with other Tom and Jerry cartoons in syndication or cable years later, really stood out, even moreso than the notably odd Czech ones. Fortunately, the show brought back the comedic horn blasts (like when someone gets hit with a pie or something). You also had frequent remakes of such classic Tom and Jerry gags as Tom crashing back and forth into a rake and hoe on the ground. And Tom nodding “no” pleading to Jerry not to do something, while Jerry nods “yes” and proceeds to do it. So Filmation actually seemed to understand the characters, as you have classic Tom and Jerry moments in an episode like Spike’s Birthday, where Tom foolishly teases some fish with Spike’s steak, and later breaks the fourth wall laughing to us at Spike eating the phony steak that he replaced the original one with. That was a very funny one. The limited animation actually made it look all the more funny, and Tom’s frantic rush to recreate the grub is classic, and the way he did it was ingenious. I also liked the episode New Mouse in the House, where a spinning record lands in Tom’s mouth, and Jerry turns one of his whiskers into a needle to play it. The Droopy‘s may have been a far cry from the original, but they had their entertaining moments. Disco Droopy was an interesting idea, and Star-crossed Wolf was funny. And they rotated Spike and the wolf as Droopy’s adversary (like the original, but unlike Tom and Jerry Kids, where it’s always the wolf). It was interesting that they used the Spike from Tom and Jerry on the Droopy‘s. Not until the recent Magic Ring movie did Avery’s Spike return.”[8][9] YouTuber mightyfan said, “The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show is a strange one. You can clearly tell that some of the animators wanted to rebel against Filmation’s mandates of cheap, reusable animation. In Invasion of the Mouse Snatchers, the short where Tom dresses up as an alien and bullies Jerry around, you can tell that Eddie Fitzgerald had his stamp all over the layout. I would not doubt for a second that Tom’s alien mask was supposed to be a caricature of Tom Minton. I would love to hear the story behind that short some day. There is a story about an episode of Filmation’s Mighty Mouse that one of the animators actually took a weekend or so and just did an entire wild take sequence because he wanted whoever did the storyboard (I think Eddie again) to see their vision out. Having said that, I do kind of like their Tom and Jerry cartoons, with the Droopy shorts not withstanding. Then again, I do not think anyone really did Droopy justice after his theatrical shorts. They just didn’t “get” him and his cartoons, they’re just freaking awful except for a decent Incredible Hulk parody, The Incredible Droop. There is a lot of nuance that was lost on them. Droopy could be slightly naive in the original shorts (depending on the short), but here he is almost downright stupid and childlike in the worst ways. The Action for Children’s Television era certainly nerfed the character, but even without the short and unexpected bouts of violence, the character could have worked. I am even putting aside the limited animation not being able to capture that Tex Avery wildness. Just a complete lack of detail and humor made these cartoons bad.”[10][11] Charles Gardner of Cartoon Research stated, “Although the episode’s title is a complete misnomer, The Plaid Baron Strikes Again tries about as hard as the studio was capable of to mirror a Hanna-Barbera original, within the crew’s limited budget and talent. For a Filmation episode, the chase is quite action-packed, with many decent gags almost killed by flashing past so fast, they do not always register to full effect. Tom encounters various obstacles: crashing into the side of a well, dislodging the foundation so that the structure slides forward several feet, allowing Tom to fall into the hole, then, with no apparent explanation, having Tom emerge from the hole, being snapped at by an alligator. Tom crashes into a loaded wheelbarrow, and is buried under a ton of bricks. And they even repeat Hanna-Barbera’s old rake and shovel gag, having Tom repeatedly step on the ends of the implements, to get whacked in the head by the handles.”[12] The show’s negative reception is speculated by some to have prevented it from having a complete series Digital Video Disc box set from Warner Brothers (who currently owns the rights to the show), although one episode, Jerry’s Country Cousin, did surface on the Tom and Jerry Deluxe Anniversary Collection in 2010, and all episodes of the show are available to stream on the Boomerang application under Tom and Jerry Classic Collection Volume 3 (bundled with some of the rather successful Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Chuck Jones).[2][13]
Here are some additional facts about the show:
The show was referred to as The Cat and Jam Comedy Show in a publicity celluloid.[14] Another celluloid for the show was signed by Joseph Barbera, one of the creators of Tom and Jerry.[15]
The show was broadcast on several television networks and channels such as Pop in the United Kingdom, the Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão in Brazil, Nippon Television Network Corporation in Japan, and STS in Russia.[16] In the Japanese dub, Tom, Jerry, Tyke and other non-speaking characters were given speaking roles. Tom was voiced by Kazue Takahashi, and Jerry was voiced by Yoshiko Ohta. There was also a narrator for the dub, Hitoshi Ueki. Other voices in the dub included Ryūsei Nakao, Junpei Takiguchi and/or Kenichi Ogata as Droopy, Toshiya Ueda and/or Shun Yashiro as Slick, and Shun Yashiro as Tom’s owner.[17][18]
The chase scenes in the Tom and Jerry episodes look like they could have been animated by Irv Spence (April Fools’ joke).[19]
Droopy is depicted as having gray eyelids and a white muzzle instead of lavender eyelids and a peach muzzle, respectively. In the wraparound segments and some episodes, when Droopy speaks, his head (with his mouth) moves, while his eyes remain still, due to the head and eyes being animated on separate celluloids. Droopy’s animations from The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show were used for Cartoon Network’s bumpers in the 1990s.
Part of the theme for Moo Moo Meadows in Mario Kart 64 (1996) sounds similar to part of one of the chase themes, used usually when Tom is chasing Jerry.
The yawn used for Tom at the beginning of Farewell, Sweet Mouse and School for Cats and Jerry in The Trojan Dog (provided by Lou Scheimer) is recycled from the The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle episode Stop…pay Troll (1979).
In New Mouse in the House, the animation of Tom looking up at something with one eye closed and then licking his lips is traced from Flirty Birdy (1945).[3] At the end of the episode, Tom’s crying sounds similar to his crying at the end of Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? (1964).
In Heavy Booking, the animation of Jerry waving at Tom and running off is traced from Quiet Please! (1945).[3]
Music from the The Archie Comedy Hour (1969) is used in Heavy Booking, Under the Big Top and Kitty Hawk Kitty.
Although the human characters’ faces are never shown onscreen, the faces of the baby in Heavy Booking, the skier in Matterhorn Droopy, the French horn player and the people outside the Muzichmeister Hall in Cat in the Fiddle, the ringmaster (his eye and nose) and audience members in When the Rooster Crows and Tom’s owner in Gopher It, Tom are still shown onscreen.
Tom’s screeches when being woken by Jerry’s celery-chomping in Heavy Booking are reused screeches for the dragons from the Space Sentinels episode Loki (1977).
Music from The Brady Kids (1972) is used in Matterhorn Droopy, Most Wanted Cat, Incredible Shrinking Cat and School for Cats.
Music from Fabulous Funnies (1978) is used in The Puppy Sitter, Most Wanted Cat and Stage Struck.
The designs of the aliens and Tom’s alien disguise’s head in Invasion of the Mouse Snatchers are reused head/body models for the members of the Brain Trust from the The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle episode Return of Star Boars (1979).
The Angry Scientist from Sheep in the Big City was thought to have been inspired by the scientist in The Incredible Droop, as both characters hilariously object to being called “mad scientists”, but that is false since Sheep in the Big City‘s creator, Mo Willems, never worked at Filmation.[2]
Music from Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies (1970) is used in The Incredible Droop and Scared Bear.
Oil Can Harry’s scream (provided by Alan Oppenheimer) from the The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle episode The Star Of Cucamonga (1979) was used for Tom in The Plaid Baron Strikes Again and Slick in The Great Train Rubbery.
In Incredible Shrinking Cat, the scene in which Tom crashes through the drawbridge and slides his way into the castle is a reanimated and shortened version of a scene from the Fraidy Cat episode Feline Fortune (1975). The episode’s plot reuses elements from that of Tex Avery’s King-Size Canary (1947).[20] The animation of Tom running after Jerry measures him and changes his size with the size modifier is traced from Tee for Two (1945).[3]
Theodore H. Bear’s yawn (provided by Frank Welker) from the The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle episode Monster Mash (1979) was used for Tom in When the Rooster Crows and The Great Mousini and Tuffy in the wraparound segment before Kitty Hawk Kitty.
Despite the fact that Disco Droopy aired in 1980, disco was already dead at the time, meaning that the episode takes place in 1978 or early 1979. Lynne Naylor designed the background characters in the episode. John Kricfalusi was believed to have designed them as well, but had actually left Filmation to work at Hanna-Barbera in 1979, one year before the show aired. Naylor would never try to offend anyone, but she apparently offended Lou Scheimer. He had seen a section of Pest in the West at the Moviola, which was full of “smear frames”. He threatened to fire Naylor over her use of them, but the head of the animation department went to bat for her and managed to calm Scheimer down. Naylor kept her job, but was more cautious after that episode. Disco Droopy was incorrectly assumed to be the Droopy cartoon mentioned in an anecdote about the incident instead of Pest in the West.[21][22][23] YouTuber wileyk209zback/Zak Wolf commented that Disco Droopy pretty much showcases the nightmares of Filmation that Kricfalusi shared on his blog. The girls’ cheering and screaming are recycled from the The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle episode Mick Jaguar In Concert (1979). The Red/Miss Vavoom role was played by a pink hippopotamus (voiced by Frank Welker). Red was not revived until Tom and Jerry Kids, and the only old cartoons of her that played at the time that Disco Droopy aired were Swing Shift Cinderella (1945) and Little Rural Riding Hood (1949). Filmation was known for their sexy vixens, so it is a shame that they did not think to bring her back in the show. But she was kind of taboo back in those days, and the characters in the Droopy cartoons were 100% animals. The disco music that Droopy, Slick and their dance partners dance to sounds like The Eagles’ “Life on the Fast Lane”.[24] Calamari Inkantation from Splatoon (2015) has a sort of similarity to Droopy’s singing and humming, but was most likely not inspired by it.[25] YouTuber Big Sky commented, “I think Disco Droopy was actually pretty charming despite being poor in quality. It still has that Hanna-Barbera charm to it. It is clearly trying more to be funny than cool. If it was the other way around, I do not think it would have worked quite as well.”[26]
Music from the The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty episode Cat Man (1975) is used in Disco Droopy and The Great Mousini.
Music from the Fraidy Cat episode A Scaredy Fraidy (1975) is used in Disco Droopy and A Connecticut Mouse In King Arthur’s Cork.
When voiced by Lou Scheimer, Spike says, “Ooh!” or “Ooh! Ooh!” before he speaks (in reference to Joe E. Ross), and has an annoying laugh. Episodes of the show and the wraparound segments would either have Spike speak in his thick New Yorker accent or an American accent. Spike’s voice in Lumber Jerks (when he says, “Good luck, boss!”) sounds similar to that of Goofy. Interestingly, both characters are dogs, and were voiced in Japanese by Yuu Shimaka. Spike’s voice in No Museum Peace (when he sings), the wraparound segment before A Day at the Bakery and A Day at the Bakery (when he says, “Come on! Let’s go to work!”) sounds like a bad Ed Norton/Yogi Bear impression.
At the beginning of Snowbrawl, Jerry is seen playing Pong (1972). This makes The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show the second Filmation show to have an episode with a Pong reference or cameo, the first being The New Adventures of Batman (1977) with the episode The Pest (1977).
YouTuber Pembroke W. Korgi stated that he thinks that The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show “deserves to be in the garbage”, and also describes the scenes in Spike’s Birthday in which Tom throws Jerry into the waste container and Spike throws Tom into the waste container as “a rare picture of this show’s birth”. He also jokingly referred to Tom’s freakout over his owner and Spike returning from the pet shop in one hour as him having a seizure, and mistook Lou Scheimer’s portrayal of Spike for Frank Welker’s due to the latter being the only credited voice actor.[27] The animation of Tom running to the closet to get the scuba gear is traced from Tee for Two (1945).[3] At the end of the episode, Tom and Spike are seen eating Spike’s “birthday cake”, which is made of chocolate and wagon wheels. In real life, chocolate is considered toxic to cats and dogs.
The rainbow spiral effect used when Tom is “transported” into his medieval dream in A Connecticut Mouse In King Arthur’s Cork is reused from the Space Sentinels episode Fauna (1977) and The Groovie Goolies and Friends‘ (1977) intro.
I used to watch The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show on the computer when I was young. The episodes that I watched were When the Rooster Crows, Spike’s Birthday and Mechanical Failure. I would watch episodes such as Farewell, Sweet Mouse, Droopy’s Restless Night, New Mouse in the House, School for Cats, Disco Droopy and Pied Piper Puss years later in 2019.
Here are some links to the episodes: https://kimcartoon.to/Cartoon/The-New-Adventures-of-Tom-and-Jerry
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sTBvqZwWDE2HP7d9R9CAg/videos
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ex03f (wraparound segments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDoYr5FfIag& (wraparound segment)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKIamJca2Q (Farewell, Sweet Mouse; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ut0ci (Farewell, Sweet Mouse; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5h84ym (Droopy’s Restless Night; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i6zom (Droopy’s Restless Night; German)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3zxyb5 (Droopy’s Restless Night; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z5b46fexIk (Droopy’s Restless Night; Russian)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zsvk2 (New Mouse In the House; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5etafg (Heavy Booking; English)
https://www.aparat.com/v/y4KX3/Tom_and_Jerry_Full_Episodes%3A_Heavy_Booking_%281980%29_%7C_Cartoons (Heavy Booking; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x703mtr (The Puppy Sitter; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4nqy2h (Invasion of the Mouse Snatchers; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2env4y (The Plaid Baron Strikes Again; German)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gc2wb (Scared Bear; English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGGiIf9qAIQ& (Scared Bear; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ehql5 (When the Rooster Crows; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://ok.ru/video/186411846399 (School for Cats/Disco Droopy/Pied Piper Puss; Russian)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6g22ow (School for Cats; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0pzis0IKaI (Disco Droopy; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcsibv (Disco Droopy; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5xhm8g (Disco Droopy; German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzWgHFL9zU (Disco Droopy; Russian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7clTDUVX78 (Pied Piper Puss; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3v1k2v (Pied Piper Puss; English)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7339049 (Under the Big Top/Lumber Jerks; Japanese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wazf7 (Lumber Jerks; German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBP__RF-fgM& (Lumber Jerks; Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojO6HYWOng& (Lumber Jerks; Spanish)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3v1iht (Gopher it, Tom; English)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7341140 (Gopher it, Tom; Japanese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAzLr-5rQSU& (Gopher it, Tom; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ehtoy (Gopher it, Tom; Russian)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7345040 (Snowbrawl/Getting the Foot; Japanese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZpHRZq3s2s& (Snowbrawl; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsHQua42DY (Snowbrawl; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzIkfq0BIM (Kitty Hawk Kitty; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3uskqh (Kitty Hawk Kitty; English)
https://https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7349916 (Kitty Hawk Kitty; Japanese)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7354567 (Get Along, Little Jerry/Star-crossed Wolf; Japanese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hdbpl (Spike’s Birthday; English)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7358858 (Spike’s Birthday; Japanese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3usiyu (Get Along, Little Jerry; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ggb04 (No Museum Peace; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yy9-NFvJuU (Mouse Over Miami; English)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vgqra (Mouse Over Miami; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEwTy6BNeI (Foreign Legion Droopy; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ysxua (Foreign Legion Droopy; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wrmj0 (Old Mother Hubbard; Brazilian Portuguese)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7367702 (Jerry’s Country Cousin/The Great Diamond Heist; Japanese)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7372037 (Mechanical Failure; Japanese)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vgfja (Mechanical Failure; Brazilian Portuguese)