Tom and Jerry
Entertainment Memories
Tom and Jerry is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series centers on the rivalry between a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry.
Tom and Jerry is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series centers on the rivalry between a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry.
161. Purr-Chance to Dream
Episodes
Tom has a nightmare of being pounded by a giant dog. Jerry lures Tom into a series of encounters with the miniature vicious bulldog introduced in The Cat's Me-Ouch (1965). Tom finally decides the nightmare wasn't so bad after all.
Jerry uses a robot mouse to snatch a sample from a lunar cheese mine being mined by robots; Tom gives chase with a robot cat.
Tom watches and studies films of some of his earlier encounters with Jerry, much like game films; he runs them backwards and stops them so he can study them more closely, all the while scribbling notes. Jerry pulls up a box of popcorn and watches, too. Tom notices Jerry and chases him into his hole. Tom designs a better mousetrap, but Jerry alters the plans, so it doesn't work any better than it did the first time the footage was used, in Designs on Jerry (1955).
Tom and Jerry are taking a cruise when Tom decides to go surfing. He has problems with a shark and a rather tenacious starfish.
Secret agent Jerry-akin has to steal a giant refrigerator full of cheese, guarded by the evil Tom Thrush with a vast array of diabolical gadgets and traps. Of course, Jerry has a few tricks of his own.
Tom and Jerry get trapped inside a can in Cannery Row.
Jerry plays in an all-mouse band that keeps Tom awake all night.
2565 AD. Tom and Jerry are once again manipulating robot versions of themselves in space. Tom experiments with invisibility, a giant electromagnet, and explosives, with results from bad to disastrous.
A supply satellite arrives at the space station where Tom (despite his high-tech gadgets) is having no better luck than usual at catching Jerry before he gets the cheese.
On a wharf, an opera singing Tom Cat and a feline rival compete for Jerry Mouse.
Jerry's mouse hole connects two buildings, with Tom and another cat. Jerry decides the best survival is pitting the cats against each other, without their knowledge.
Tom chases Jerry through a variety of winter scenes.
Tom is chasing Jerry through the back yard. Jerry escapes to a bird house. A bit more chasing. Jerry crashes into the wall. Both decide they've had enough, and wave the truce flag; they go to the movies of themselves, which is an excuse for another bargain clip show. The truce doesn't hold, and eventually the characters on screen stop and take notice.
With the help of a shark, Jerry protects a pet goldfish from a hungry Tom.
Jerry's a wharf mouse; he sees a load of cheese being loaded onto a cargo ship and tries a variety of tricks to board, but Tom is on guard.
Tom is wooing Toots; he presents her with a present - Jerry. But Toots would rather play mother to Jerry than eat him, much to Tom's annoyance.
Jerry is chased into a circus, where he removes a tack from the foot of an elephant. This gets him a friend for life, and a powerful ally in the continuing battles with Tom, not that it stops Tom from trying, even when Jerry becomes part of the act.
Jerry keeps attacking Tom in his sleep and although he tries to stay awake it doesn't work as he follows the cat by sleepwalking.
Tom and Jerry face off in a series of duel scenarios, using everything from slingshots to swords to cannons.
Jerry orders a vicious dog from a catalog, but when it arrives, it's even smaller than Jerry. However, despite its size, it launches an impressive attack on Tom.
Jerry and Nipper convince Tom that he is trying to self-harm himself in his sleep.
Jerry is visited by a Fairy Godmouse who gives him an invisibility potion so that he can get his own back on tricky Tom.
After Tom gets pulverized by a downtown train, he ends up chasing Jerry throughout the toy section of a large department store.
Jerry's cousin, a magician, comes to visit Jerry and torment Tom.
Tom tries a variety of tricks to trap Jerry, but winds up smashed into accordion shape, flattened like a doormat, squeezed into a fishbowl and trapped inside a female mouse costume.
Tom and Jerry are on a building construction site. Things explode, Tom loses his fur for a while, Jerry hides in a glove, Tom falls from a great height and Tom has great trouble with a rock-and-girder see-saw.
Essentially one long chase scene, in an urban setting; at the end, a dog joins in, to Jerry's annoyance.
Tom and Jerry battle on the ledges of a tower block, but join forces when Tom gets wedged in a drainpipe.
Tom has Jerry on a leash and is treating him like a slave when a cute little kitten arrives. Since the kitten is a threat to Tom, Jerry naturally befriends him.
A rather frozen Jerry rolls up to a cheese shop guarded by Tom; after he locks Tom out and thaws out, he carves himself a little Swiss village in a giant wheel of cheese.
Tom has problems with a dog as he chases Jerry.
Jerry creates a potion that makes him super-fast, which causes Tom nothing but trouble.
Tom is an opera singer, trying to sing "Figaro"; Jerry lives under the stage and Tom is disturbing his sleep. This, of course, means war.
Tom is living the high life in a pent-house, while Jerry is starving way down below.
Jerry runs into the Metropolitan Opera (preparing to perform Carmen), so Tom poses as a violinist, with help from a hidden tape recorder.
During a blizzard, Jerry helps Tom out by getting him into a warm penthouse only to be betrayed by Tom.
Tom and Jerry accompany a man on a safari trip into the jungle. Like usual, Tom attempts to catch Jerry, but the man in the safari is fed up with Tom's antics and is very bitter to him.
Jerry is a cheese rustler in the old west and Tom gets deputized to bring him to justice.
Using a kit that contains both Tom and Jerry anyone can enter the lucrative field of animated cartoons.
The captain's obsession with the white whale Dicky Moe led his crew to abandon ship. He abducts Tom and enlists him as crew but Jerry's already on board to help make Tom's life miserable.
Tom falls for a female cat but she quickly loses interest in him when they arrive in at an island and Jerry torments him.
A young bird flies into Tom's territory, but quickly allies himself with Jerry. Tom shows a coyote-like persistence and reliance on ever more elaborate schemes to catch the bird.
Jerry reads that there are no cats in outer space, so he signs up for a trip but Tom ends up stowing away anyhow.
The usual antics of Tom and Jerry interfere with a man trying to barbecue.
The usual Tom and Jerry hijinks, set in ancient Greece; parts are set in the streets, parts in a temple.
Tom and Jerry head out for a fishing trip and do their best to get rid of each other.
Tom finds Jerry helping a mad scientist switch the minds of various creatures.
The lady of the house has gone out for a few hours, leaving her baby in the care of a stereotypical 1950s teenager, who immediately begins calling her friends. Tom and Jerry must call a truce to their constant chases as the baby, unsupervised, continually gets loose. When the baby escapes out the front door, Tom and Jerry chase it to a construction site, where they frantically try to keep it from harm.
Tom Cat guards Robin Hood's prison cell; Jerry Mouse and his diaper-wearing friend intend to be Robin's rescuers.
George gives Joan a baby duck for her birthday. While they are out celebrating, Tom goes after the duck but his plans are thwarted when the duck (and, later, Jerry) finds a jar of vanishing cream and uses it to well, vanish, and get even with Tom (for a while, at least).
