Tiger Cat – Tom is painted to like a tiger by an angry monkey and uses his frightening appearance against other animals in a zoo.įeeding Time – Tom is a zookeeper tasked with keeping visitors from feeding the animals. Here are the episodes included in the show’s first season:Įpisode One – All shorts in this episode have an animal theme, two of which take place in a zoo. The three shorts that make up an episode are the kept to the theme as mentioned previously. The inevitable conclusion then arrives where either Tom or Jerry or both come out on top at the end. The changing factor then accelerates the drama and usually leads to some sort of chase sequence filled with gags between Tom and Jerry. After this setup, a new factor is introduced that changes the dynamics of the original relationship (a new character, gadget, or rule). This set-up is important as it defines the relationship between Tom and Jerry for that episode (are they friends, enemies, strangers, etc…?). They usually start with the set-up where we are introduced to the situation. The themes contained in the show’s first season include animals, city life, music, Halloween, prehistory, technology, the Middle Ages, winter, the beach, the ocean, construction sites, Tom-related stories, and amusement parks.Įach short follows a basic formula.
Tom still wants to chase after Jerry in most of these cartoons, and Jerry is still trying to get Tom into trouble. The original formula is still intact from the original golden age shorts. In the first season of the show, the themes ranged from animals to outer-space, while maintaining the core Tom and Jerry formula. The show usually consisted of three similarly-themed shorts combined into one episode. back in 2006 for the Kid’s WB block on The CW. Tom and Jerry Tales began as a revival of the Tom and Jerry franchise for Warner Bros. Tom and Jerry Tales falls somewhere in the middle, but it does lean towards a relatively good second (or would it be considered third?) coming of the popular characters. However, one could argue that some characters have a second golden age much later in their lives, much like the one Looney Tunes enjoyed with Tiny Toon Adventures in the early 90s. Of course, cartoon characters are corporate properties (as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit proved to be for Walt Disney) that have lives well beyond their “golden years.” Some go into inevitable decline as the franchise gets stale and badly mistreated. To consider anything beyond that to be on par with the classic shorts would amount to sacrilege in some circles. Those that love Tom and Jerry, for example, tend to see the comic duo as a complete collection of MGM shorts from the 40s and 50s (and some would include 60s as well). Like many other classic animation fans, we are sometimes inclined to see classic characters as somewhat static and part of a complete work of a particular animator. Over the years, we have had differing opinions on Tom and Jerry Tales here at Animated Views.
The complete first season of the 2006 series, Tom and Jerry Tales, finally makes its way on DVD.
FULL TOM AND JERRY EPISODES CASTABLE PLUS
Animation (Septem– May 5, 2007), Warner Home Video (February 13, 2010), two discs, 286 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98