Tom and Jerry

On the data. The useful thing to know is which ones are the originals, because there are a lot of imitations and they are all filed under the same name. The originals are the one hundred and sixty one theatrical shorts made at MGM between 1940 and 1958 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Seven won the Academy Award for animated short film, a record for a character series. Everything else is other people. After MGM closed its animation unit, thirteen shorts were made in Czechoslovakia by Gene Deitch on almost no money, and they look and sound it. Then Chuck Jones made thirty four more, which are better made but redesign the characters and change the tone. Then came the television series, of which there have been six, each reflecting how much cartoon violence its network would allow. The 1975 one made them friends, which removes the entire premise. On the older shorts: several contain racist caricature, most notably the recurring maid character and a number of blackface gags after explosions. Some versions redub or edit these, some cut whole shorts, and Warner has at times attached a warning instead. If a short you remember looks different, that is usually why. Both cinema films are disliked. The 1992 one gives the characters speaking parts, which is the opposite of the thing that made them work. The 2021 one puts them in live action. There is no continuity anywhere in any of this, so there is nothing to watch in order.

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