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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]:
** Are Tom and Jerry true enemies or [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]? In fact, several shorts imply that Tom and Jerry are actually friends who enjoy their game of chase. This is heavily supported in [[The Movie]].
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** Is Nibbles/Tuffy a sweet and innocent mouse who doesn’t known any better or a [[Psycho]] with a childish facade?
* [[Archive Panic]]: The original MGM series [[Long Runner|lasted for the better part of 20 years]], and that's not counting the Deitch and Jones shorts, TV shows, and movies, [[One Hundred Percent Completion|if you're really a completist]].
* [[Broken Base]]:
* [[Contested Sequel]]: Or series in this case. The [[Chuck Jones]] shorts, while generally considered better than most if not all other post-[[Hanna-Barbera]] installments, are either loved or hated.▼
** Fans debate over whether the best cartoon is when Jerry wins over Tom, vice versa, or even Tom and Jerry both winning.
** Some fans are fine with Tom and Jerry occasionally being portrayed as friends. However, others detest the idea and much rather prefer them to be [[Enemy Mine|enemies]] or [[Vitriolic Best Buds]].
** The Chuck Jones era is pretty polarizing among fans. It's either considered to be as good as the [[Hanna-Barbera]] era, inferior, but still good in its own rights, [[So Okay It's Average]], or a disgrace to the franchise.
▲* [[Contested Sequel]]: Or series in this case. The [[Chuck Jones]]
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "Solid Serenade" and "Saturday Evening Puss".
* [[Designated Hero]]: Jerry skirts this line in many cartoons.
* [[Designated Villain]]: By the same token, we're almost ''never'' meant to be rooting for Tom, even if he didn't actually do anything to provoke Jerry (or if Jerry doesn't even have the right to be provoked, like in the short when he screws with Tom's opera recital because it was disturbing his sleep; nevermind that Jerry's the idiot who decided to set up shop in a concert hall. Other 'genius' places he's decided to set up shop include inside a piano and inside a pool table.).
* [[Dork Age]]: The Gene Deitch shorts.
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: Stealing food is good. Punishing those tasked to stop you is good.
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{{quote|'''Human:''' Besides, a mouse doesn't eat very much...
''*Jerry glances at a huge pile of stolen food hidden in his mousehole*'' }}
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[[Seasonal Rot]]: Some consider this to have happened in the late Hanna-Barbara era from late 1955-1958, as the series had veered into a [[Lighter and Softer]] tone as well as the use of [[Limited Animation|lower budget animation]].
* [[Squick]]: the abovementioned ''Heavenly Puss'' (the implied causes of death of the cats in line for the train - most particularly the kittens in a burlap sack).▼
*However, the Gene Deitch era is considered to be the true turning point, as the formula of Tom and Jerry chasing each other became one-sided, with Jerry out winning Tom in the majority of the shorts, the use of heavily [[Limited Animation]] and disturbingly weird sound effects, the series adopting an unnecessarily [[Darker and Edgier]] tone, Tom’s new abusive owner and Jerry’s malicious tendencies being amped [[Up to Eleven]].
** Though at the very least, the St. Peter stand in shakes his head and mutters [[Jerkass|"Some people..."]] when he sees the kittens.▼
*Thankfully, this all got reversed when Chuck Jones took over production of the series. Even so, the Chuck Jones shorts have their detractors.
* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: Tom▼
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* [[Values Dissonance]]: Many shorts that still appear on DVDs and television, such as "The Milky Waif" and "Yankee Doodle Mouse", had blackface gags edited out, leaving the resulting cartoon very choppy. In the case of "The Milky Waif", we suddenly jump from Nibbles squirting milk in Tom's face to Tom suddenly being hit in the face with a frying pan. Also occurs in "The Mouse Came to Dinner" where they edit out Mammy's intro... which means Tom is coming out of a potted plant at the start for no reason whatsoever. It's rare to find unedited versions.▼
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