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@de4d-sug4r’s side blog for all Tom and Jerry related things Fueling my autism and Jerome A. Mouse biases Waxing philosophical over the 80+ year old toxic codependency of a fictional cat and mouse

[tomandjerryyaoi]

I like Tom and Jerry, so I made this blog

[tomandjerryyaoi]

Tom and Jerry AUs that have been sitting in my brain for a while :]

PMD: Alolan Meowth and shiny pikachu. Typical pmd setup in that they get isekaid there, they don’t recognize each other at first, but once they fight they realize who the other is. They begrudgingly form a rescue team to earn money, and end up having to save the world.

Pokemon: Cool trainer Tom and pokefan Jerry. Jerry is a skilled trainer/vagabond who just wants to meet new pokemon, Tom is an unskilled trainer who wants to be a champion. Jerry has to teach him how to actually be good at Pokémon battling, acting as his coach and watching him improve. Sort of like pokeani where there’s bad guys trying to get in their way.

MLP: Earth pony Kitty Kablam and Pegasus Cheese Kaboom. No one knows who they are, as far as everyone knows two fillies without parents just showed up in ponyville one day. They keep fighting and saying they hate each other but still somehow end up being close. They’re literally just background ponies while the plot of FiM happens around them

Warrior Cats: ShadowClan Warrior Grayfur and Thunderclan Warrior Mousewhisker; they both feel that the warrior lifestyle is too stifling and they want to be kittypets (Grayfur was one, but he wanted to try being a warrior cat and wants to be a kittypet again)

Mus Musculus Moon Magic: Tom and Jerry get isekaid into another world. Jerry gets turned into a human/magical boy, and Tom gets turned into his familiar. They’re going to have to work together to defeat the big bad if they want to get home.

[tisbore]

Cat and mouse. Kinda hard drawing old cartoon characters in your own style. #sixfanarts

[sangjwi]

Inktober 2025 Day 20 - Rivals

Took a break for the last few days, but here are two classic rivals - Tom and Jerry.

Please don't use/reupload without permission.

[moodboards-just-because]

Can you do Jerry mouse from Tom and Jerry with orange and yellow? 🧡🧀

~🧀 Jerry - Tom and Jerry 🪤~

[cartoonbudartz]

85 years later, and the game of cat and mouse is still going on.

[faline-cat444]

Jerry went too far again

[tomandjerryyaoi]

Watched some more of the 2014 show, and now I have thoughts on Say Cheese. I never really noticed it when I was younger, but watching it back now it feels surreal that there’s an episode of a Tom and jerry series that’s meant to feel like a proper finale? Because all of the different episode formats converge in this episode, not to mention it is, in some way, the species swap episode ive been thinking about in my mind (my fic will obv be different from the episode, but I’ll keep it in mind as I write). I really like the episode, and now I wish that I had the 2014 show on dvd so I could maybe see some bonus features… also it didn’t click until now that these episodes are a whole 10 minutes long! Some of them definitely have better pacing than others, but I’m enjoying seeing a slightly longer episode format; it works well since there are going to be more episodes that have a slightly more emotional tone ^_^

[de4d-sug4r]

Tom and Jerry tales live-blogging thoughts 🤓☝🏾

I thought the show was 4x3, but I think it was initially made with widescreen in mind and then aired in 4x3 :]

In tiger cat, Jerry was scared of Tom when he thought was a tiger, but the moment the paint wore off he was pissed! They played in his face 💀 also Jerry is quicker to pick up on thing than Tom teehee ^w^

The backgrounds aren’t the watercolor masterpieces of the 40s shorts or the moody settings like the gene deitch ones, but I think they have their charm? There’s a look to them, similar to Scooby doo mystery incorporated, or the looney tunes show. That very specific early digipaint look with texture brushes mixed into the backgrounds :] I will be annoying about northern light fish fight and digital dilemma

[de4d-sug4r]

Joy riding jokers

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Tom presses a big red button out of pure curiosity. This further confirms my headcanon that he would, in fact, launch the nukes. Also they hugged when they were in mortal peril ^w^ so I win teehee

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Cat got your luggage

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Low-key this ep is kinda mid imo! Also important context for this liveblog is that I’ve literally seen this entire series multiple times over. So. Lmao

Why does he say the line like that? He kinda says it like a game show host. It could be a Tenna voice claim, if ur unwell enough <- me

Jerry on a rubber ducky.. maybe this episode is slightly above mid.. maybe

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City Dump Chumps

The pizza has no cheese on it. He’s a mouse. This is the stupidest nitpick I will have (probably not tho)

A sort of redux of sufferin cats! I didn’t notice now. Also! The orientalism 🙃 which I already knew about so. Yeah.

I’m not sure if Netflix has the airing order wrong, or if the DVDs I have just have them in the wrong order… or both??

Netflix captions gave Tom a sad meow… he didn’t do anything wrong (except for all the things he did wrong)

[de4d-sug4r]

Never mind back to live-blogging?? Doing both??

Way off broadway

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Spike is such an asshole in this series, no wonder I didn’t like him when I was a kid goddamn 💀

Tom first immediate reaction to realizing he should be a street performer is interpretive dance. Jerry realizes the best way to get rid of competition is crushing them with a piano. Ok man,

.also he played a piano with xylophone sticks so. Maybe he should just stick to the drums 💀

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Egg beats

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That mouse is black as hell. What do you mean the royalty free music he’s listening to is hip hop. That’s awesome. Don’t even get me started on DJ Jerry. I could make a thirty minute YouTube video about that episode (I probably should)

They put Tom in farmer overalls. He runs a whole farm by himself, good for him :]

JERRY BE RESPECTFUL U LITERALLY JUST PULLED UP TO SOME GUYS HOUSE YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HIM!! This mouse is rude as fuck

ITS THE SCENE FROM THE GIF!! Also this rat has a giant old ass cd player… the portable round one so u know this was storyboarded in 2004 probably :] it’s awesome. I want frutiger aero Tom and jerry

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Cry Uncle

A spiritual successor to Pecos Pest :]

Im really obsessed with the idea of modern Tom and jerry trying to get older fans back watching the series with the callbacks to older episodes n shit, this series and the 2014 show do it a lot. Like?? It’s like modern SpongeBob, most of the people who watched when they were younger feel that they outgrew it already

Tom you can’t kill someone’s uncle because you don’t like them

Also. Just realized they were sleeping in the same bed :) I’m gonna go insane

Tom prays to god in this episode

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Bats what I like about the south

EVERYONE SHUT UP MY EPISODE IS ON!!!! I literally made a fursona based on the bat from this episode :D I like the noises it makes

It’s one of those episodes where jerry fakes his death on Tom feels bad! So they do care about each other, in their own toxic way.

ALSO!!! ITS SET AT NIGHT!! T&J episodes set at night are always my faves ^w^

Im almost certain this episode was the first in production order, but I could be wrong? I only really think so cuz the animation is literally the best in the series, besides the theme song

Why the fuck was the sound cue for the bat shaking his ass timpani

There’s an error where you can see the construction line on Jerrys head :]

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Fraidy cat scat

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A redux/spiritual successor to fraidy cat ^w^

My blorbo is so cute in the first act!! Also I NOTICED THE LEITMOTIF OF THE THEMESONG HEEHEE

Ok I’m starting to notice a pattern of hip hop music being used in conjunction with character showing up unannounced and uninvited. So. We can unpack something there but not right now.

His voice is so fucking cute in this series, I can’t even

Tom likes to watch the evil flaming skull channel and then immediately start reading cat playboy magazines. This really happens. Im not judging him tho.

Very pretty mood lighting in this episode!

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Tomb it may concern

Oh god. It’s the white pharaoh textbook Tom and jerry episode. Or that one racist miku-teto song. If it was a Tom and jerry episode

Jerry does his best Indiana jones impression and fucking desecrates an Egyptian pyramid

At least they recognized belly dancers are Egyptian???? Any vaguely respectfulness to Egyptian culture and ancient Egypt in this episode is pure coincidence I feel

Tom gets put in a saw trap.. I like when one off gags end up being used later on in the episode, it makes it feel like a cohesive story instead of a series of vignettes

They destroyed the sphinx

[tomandjerryyaoi]

One thing i noticed while watching more of the 1975 show is that it can be hard to distinguish Tom and Jerry’s personalities from each other. They function as one unit, which makes sense because they’re sharing a lot of their screen time and are usually working together in this series; but they definitely have distinct personalities that carry across the different iterations. Whether this is deliberate I think can be debated, but I feel like it is? And so in the 1975 show they both just kinda have the same personality, maybe it’s because they’re more or less on the same wavelength most of the times? But I feel like the enjoyment comes from their clashing personalities, it would be fun if there was a series where they worked together but their personalities were more distinct. I’d love if there were a Tom and Jerry equivalent of the looney tunes show.

[sputnik5757]

I LOVE TOM AND JERRY!!!

Go gyaru Jerry! We all love you!

[tomandjerryyaoi]

Tom and Jerry Headcanons Part 2!

More thoughts about those two dummyheads….

When they were kids, Tom was really into sports, moreso than Jerry. This carried into adulthood, where he’s a sort of Jack-of-all-trades. Jerry is better at board games tho (and both of them are sore losers).

Tom is actually really good at video games that require hand eye coordination and quick movement, but he isn’t good at puzzle games (Jerry tricked him into playing FNAF and he got mad at him, he doesn’t like horror games).

Tom hates horror media in general, he gets scared very easily. Of course Jerry teases him about it.

Jerry can dish out vicious insults, definitely to the point where he goes too far. He got better at apologizing as he got older, but when he was younger you’d have to force an apology out of him.

As kids, Tom mostly got into fights he couldn’t win, and Jerry would usually be the one to finish the fights he started.

Jerry mostly steals food because he doesn’t want to put in the effort to cook for himself (it’s definitely not because he can’t cook. He CAN cook he just doesn’t feel like it. Definitely.)

Completely unrelated to the last point, Tom occasionally takes time to teach this grown ass mouse how to cook so he can feed himself. They almost burn the house down.

This next part is kinda suggestive?? Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!

Jerry is particularly well endowed in the butt region, so he can throw Tom completely off guard by bending down. It works every time.

When they’re making out, they sometimes bite each other. This can quickly turn from playful biting to just regular spiteful biting, but neither of them really know where that line begins and ends.

That’s all I got for now! Thanks for reading ^_^

[onefootin1941]

Night background art from Tom and Jerry cartoons. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for MGM, Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts began in 1940.

[furriesandflurries]

You know, for two people who can't stand each other, yet also can't keep their hands off each other, I'd say Tom and Jerry work as a mutually toxic couple, just the two worst people in existence ruining each other's lives and other people's lives who somehow make it work between each other.

[tomandjerryyaoi]

I wanna write tom jerries…does anyone wanna give me prompts?

[digitalmidnight]

Your body swap idea, but fully written out with plot

Both of them trying to get the other one a surprise gift (but they live in the same house and think the other person is going to prank them)

Tom becomes Jerry sized

They both are trying to take funny pictures of the other but it just ends up being a compilation/telling a story of them being cute together

Jerry gets sick

Tom "I will not be found familied by that mouse" Cat, to his dismay, gets increasingly found familed by mice

Jerry beats up someone to save Tom

[tomandjerryyaoi]

I love these prompts so much, thank u ;w;

[tomandjerryyaoi]

I wanna write tom jerries…does anyone wanna give me prompts?

[tomandjerryyaoi]

Reading tom and Jerry fanfics, I’m obsessed with people’s collective idea to torment Jerry. Maybe it’s to balance out tom getting his ass kicked in canon material, so Jerry has to emotionally suffer in fan media. Either way we put them in the torment nexus