r/TomAndJerry

If you have any drawings that are faithful to the original Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry, post them here and mention which animator's style (Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence, Ray Patterson, etc.) from which year you're trying to replicate!

In case you have a question about how the style from a specific animator looks, just ask! I’ll show you an example from a short from 1947-1951! Note that I won't do any shorts earlier than 1947 because the designs looked different before that and later than 1951, since they started degrading the designs after that.

The issue of bots and suspiciously spammy accounts on reddit is ongoing and evolving. We in our positions as mods, are trying really hard not to be overreactive, or overly paranoid, but it's genuinely difficult. Bots and spammers keep adapting and getting harder to detect. One thing we can do to cut down on spammy posting on our sub, is to get on the same page about what kind of material counts as "engaging".

For the time being, we are asking users to refrain from "Thoughts on _____" or "What do you think of ____" posts. This has become a new favorite post format for bots on fandom related subs like this one. It seems "conversational" at a glance, but these posts become repetitive, lazy, and too frequent. This sub is not for farming, whether by bots or real users. If you want to make a post asking for conversation about a specific short, episode, or series, it should accompany an initiating thought or opinion from you, the poster.

In Tom and Jerry's franchise, especially the Warner era, I believe there are too many lost or nearly-lost media, I mean, unavailable officially completely.

Most modern ones, officially completely unavailable:
- The Mansion Cat (2001): never released on home media or streaming. The saddest case because it's the last Tom and Jerry piece William Hanna worked on. Only available as mediocre TV recordings.
- Tom and Jerry Special Shorts (2021): used to be on HBO Max, now unavailable. Only available as pirated content.

Partially unavailable:
- The Tom and Jerry Gokko (2022-present): Couldn't find it in full officially, the newest episodes are streamed officially on YouTube, as far as I know. Available in full only as pirated content.
- Tom and Jerry Time (2025): Only 2 episodes are available officially on YouTube, though there were 2 more produced as far as I know.
- The Karate Guard (2005): It was released on DVD, but in HD, it is only available on HBO Max in some countries, not even in its home, the US.

Unavailable in HD completely:
- Tom and Jerry Fundraising Adventure (BBC Children in Need) (2014): Officially only available in SD on BBC streaming

In limbo:

- Tom and Jerry Show (1975)
- Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980) - announced to be on Tubi
Unofficially, only available in SD or lousy HD.

It's my brief overview, and maybe I am mistaken on some points. But wanted to know your thoughts on that? Welcome guys!

Without a doubt, the Tom and Jerry shorts by Hanna-Barbera from 1940 to 1950 are artistically acknowledged as masterpieces of their time. Since the end of that golden era, many shorts and TV shows have been turning up (I don't mention full-length movies on purpose, since this format differs too much from the classics). Those series vary drastically in quality, some good, some controversial. So once the question came to my mind, "Which of those are decent successors to the Hanna-Barbera legacy? Because that legacy, of course, is actually worth having such a successor."

And I have my point on this matter. For me, there were some really worthwhile successors that don't look like a conveyor series employing the Tom and Jerry brand but are well-sustained, good-quality products on their own:

- Tom and Jerry Chuck Jones shorts - for me, it's also the classics. Good quality pieces that, alongside Hanna-Barbera shorts, do really deserve to be called pure art. Theatrical shorts that bring in new life to Tom and Jerry without breaking their concept at its core, though different aesthetically from the golden era. I'd call them "Tom and Jerry Silver Age."

- Tom and Jerry Katate Guard standalone short - a really good legacy episode, which treats the Hanna-Barbera memory respectfully, reflecting the golden era in its nature, and it's no wonder - Joseph Barbera himself was one of its producers. Unluckily, Warner Bros really disgraced this short by not including it as a bonus in the Golden Era Anthology Blu-ray edition.

- Tom and Jerry Tales - a good quality TV product of its time, fitting its audience well, respecting cat-mouse dynamics, and offering professionally done animation. Not a masterpiece, but a series with the authors' hearts and souls put into it. And here we go again, Joseph Barbera was involved as one of the producers.

- Tom and Jerry Special Shorts - a mini series, with 2 shorts in it: On a Roll and The House That Cat Built. I believe it's unfairly disregarded by deleting it from HBO Max because these two creations do a really good job respecting the original legacy. They are very close to golden classics by nature. Cat-mouse chemistry here is almost like in the originals. Again, these are not masterpieces, but high-quality creations as for me.

Drop your thoughts in the comments! Maybe you have a different stance on that topic. It's really interesting to hear:)

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