Can't Live with Them Can't Live Without Them: "The Night Before Christmas", "The Lonesome Mouse, " "Snowbody Loves Me". The Electric Slide: Used for laughs. The Lonesome Mouse: First T&J short in which they talk. Later on, they gave him his son and the characterization we all know now. In a Chuck Jones short Tom dresses as a female mouse, gets stuck in the suit and ends up attracting a mob of male mice who chase him away. "Zoot Suit Tom, " also known as "One More Time" is a picture of the character Tom from Tom and Jerry dressed in a Zoot Suit.
Tom and Jerry has been the only classic cartoon series to air consistently on Cartoon Network, miraculously. Little Quacker: First appearance of Quacker. But, since I'm not love-of-my-life married to NBM, I can get the second book from France (Albin Michel, Revival) as well, without needing my phone's camera translator, because it's essentially wordless. Real Joke Name: Doctor Quack. The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit.
Pain-Powered Leap: Frequently, when Tom gets his butt pricked with a pin by Jerry or has something heavy fall on his tail. My mind was in a great place where the sex and violence could really do some damage. The last of their Tom and Jerry shorts, Tot Watchers, premiered on August 1st, 1958. A later Chuck Jones short, "Bad Day at Cat Rock", has Tom chase Jerry into a construction zone. This short is often heavily edited when it's shown at all (even the Spotlight Collection contains some cropping out of offensive caricatures).
And I Must Scream: Jerry once froze Tom in ice; only Tom's eyes could move. Tom holds it in his hand, laughs in amusement, and then it blows up in a huge explosion. Sweeping Ashes: Mostly in the Chuck Jones shorts. Jerry's Cousin: Nominated for the 1951 cartoon Academy Award. With a straight face. In 1982, he created the series Squeak the Mouse, a parody of Tom and Jerry. Sadly, due to Jerry's unnoticed alteration, the safe that was supposed to hit, take a wild guess what happened. Interestingly, since then it seems like Warner has been treating Tom and Jerry better than their own Looney Tunes (probably due, in part, to the commercial bombing of Looney Tunes: Back in Action).
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! It Amused Me: Tom and Jerry sometimes pick on one another for the sake of their own amusement. Generally, in episodes where Jerry gets just a little bit too vindictive when dealing with Tom the plot will deal him some kind of misfortune as well, even if Tom doesn't "win" per se. This Is a Drill: The baby woodpecker's beak in "Hatch Up Your Troubles". Smarty Cat: Compilation film, uses footage from "Solid Serenade", Cat Fishin" and "Fit to be Tied".