Paramount Pictures had Popeye the Sailor and Betty Boop. Throughout the 1930s, MGM, the studio behind Tom and Jerry, became a bit desperate for a winning cartoon formula. More on the cocktail in a moment, but Tom and Jerry’s first cartoon debuted in theaters on February 10, 1940.
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This year, their first feature-film debuted in theaters, released by Warner Bros., and not MGM, which was the first movie studio to be associated with the cartoons. So famous that they need no introduction - and more famous and relevant than ever. I had no clue that the famous cat and mouse duo were apparently named after an alcoholic beverage.
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So did my daughters I managed to get them hooked when they were young and didn't know how to use the remote, and we watched them together over and over. Like many of you, I grew up on Tom and Jerry. I’m sure many of our cosmopolitan readers knew, but I didn’t. I had no idea of the Tom and Jerry origin story until recently. Maybe that sealed the deal for calling the cat in Tom and Jerry, Tom, but it was probably the drink that inspired the names. It was called The Life and Adventures of a Cat, and the male cat was named Tom. Probably.Īnd if you're wondering about tom cats, male cats have been called "tom cats" since around 1760, when a book, written by an anonymous author, came out. Which Came First - the Drink or the Cartoon?Īnyway, if you’ve ever heard of the drink, a Tom and Jerry, and wondered which came first, the cat and the mouse, or the drink, it was… the drink.Īnd the cat and mouse were named after the drink.
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That said, the movie shorts have aired on TV a countless number of times, and there have been plenty of Tom and Jerry cartoons made only for TV, as Wikipedia helpfully notes, including The Tom and Jerry Show (1975), The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980-1982), Tom and Jerry Kids (1990-1993), Tom and Jerry Tales (2006-2008) and The Tom and Jerry Show (2014-2021). After all, the cartoons started off as movie shorts. Of course, you could argue that Tom and Jerry doesn’t belong in The TV Professor. This blog post is about how Tom and Jerry got its name, but it’s not really about Tom and Jerry.
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