There is Peace on Earth in the 1941 MGM cartoon short The Night Before Christmas. Well, if not on Earth, then at least in the world of Tom & Jerry. While the pair do their share of sparring in this Christmas-themed short, there is a moment of truce between the two, adding a break from […]
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Both Creatures Were Stirring: The 80th Anniversary of Tom & Jerry’s “The Night Before Christmas”
December 24th, 2021 
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Thank God It’s Friday…the 13th: “Bad Luck Blackie”
August 13th, 2021 Michael Lyons Forget about a slasher in a hockey mask running amuck through a summer camp, the most impactful icon of the superstitions connected with Friday the 13th might just be a cute little kitten. In Bad Luck Blackie, the classic MGM cartoon from 1949, a kitten is befriended by the titular black cat, creating bad luck […]
Thanksgiving “Cat”-astrophe: Tom & Jerry in “The Little Orphan”
November 27th, 2020 Michael Lyons Even during this socially distant Thanksgiving we just experienced, the trope of unwelcome guests still surfaced (after all, they could still always arrive via video conference!). This aspect of the holiday even surfaced in a classic Tom & Jerry cartoon from 1948 entitled The Little Orphan, in which the cat and mouse team welcome the […]
