Types of setup for a Tom and Jerry cartoon:
1. Tom is about to enjoy a fine meal, but Jerry has other ideas
2. Jerry is about to enjoy a fine meal, but Tom has other ideas
3. Jerry is just sort of ambiently being menaced by Tom, but Jerry is able to involve like that big dog to beat the shit out of Tom
4. Jerry has changed the Wi-Fi password and Tom is furious
5. They are lost in a jungle together, scraping by in illness and destitution, just barely able to reach a small fishing village on the coast before they die in each other's arms
6. Deep inside the machinery of the world, they struggle each to maintain the devices that keep the ideas of cat and mouse working
7. Authoritarian security state apparatuses have targeted them both as they play a deadly game of political intrigue and sex betrayal to stay out of prison, can love be real when your life depends on it?
8. They both want the exact same slice from a gigantic cheese wheel that falls off the back of a delivery truck
9. Tom's indie band is struggling financially as more and more members lose their day jobs - Jerry tries to steal their sandwiches
10. As manager of a pizza restaurant, Tom needs to discipline his chronically late employee Horatio Sans with a big iron dropped in his head, but is horrified to discover he doesn't have cartoon physics
11. Cosmic rays bombard Tom and Jerry on their one-way early space mission. Rapidly mutating and running out of air, they beat the dog shit out of each other inside a cramped flight capsule. Can their deaths be any less dignified?? Horrified and depressed scientists remotely observe the footage.
12. Driving a cheese delivery truck (and enjoying the product), Jerry is hounded by vengeful muscle car driver Tom. Little do they know that weeks from this event sudden gas shortages will make their car rich lifestyles a distant memory of the past.
13. Alligators, undergoing a cultural crisis, no longer content waiting for prey and begin searching suburbia for unguarded pets and vermin. Meanwhile Tom has recently undergone surgery and in his weakened state, is accidentally locked outside of the house - Jerry, unaware of the imminent alligator danger, flaunts his relative safety in front of a near helpless Tom.
14. Satan from Hell randomly selects the two for a bizarre new game called, "Rambunctious Duo." They are broadcast on local television in a way that makes them seem like willing and enthusiastic participants in the satanic ritual and must escape an angry mob of townspeople while fighting over ownership of a giant Thanksgiving turkey.
15. During their wedding planning, Tom and Jerry cannot compromise over the color scheme and must enter pre-marriage counseling - with hilarious results!
