This paper is aimed at students and elder population to make sure that they understand the reasons of the popularity of the Tom & Jerry cartoon. These reasons are also important for young parents who try to restrict their children in watching TV and are not sure which programs can be allowed for their children. The understanding why the series is popular and why children like to watch them, young parents and future ones should keep in mind that they can watch the series with the children. Moreover, being a popular cartoon, it may create interest of simple students in the reasons why they watched, why they have been attracted with it. The information they get to know may help them understand their tastes and the causes why they are attracted with other specific series, movies, etc. Tom & Jerry is a cartoon familiar for many people from their childhood. This cartoon was one of the most watched on TV. The cat and the mouse won seven Academy Awards (Barnes 4). Not much research has been conducted on the causes of the popularity of these series even though it is impossible to refuse this fact. Being created many years ago, children watch these series right now. What are the causes of the cartoon popularity? Many series about animals have been short, but this one is considered to be the best ones due to the lengthy and amount of shows. Tom & Jerry is popular because of the very idea of friendship, the obviousness of the results of the cat’s tries of mouse’s abuse, and the ways out the characters are able to find in the situations they appear. Friendship between Tom and Jerry is one of the main reasons why children watch these series. “They’ve been bashing each other silly for six decades, beating one another with planks, poisoning poor Jerry, smoking cigars and even cutting a tree in half using Tom’s crotch” (“Animals and tobacco” 56), but they still remained friends. When they appeared in danger, they always tried to save each other, they did all possible to reconsider the situations and find ways out which could be helpful and useful at that moment. The cases concerning the dog may be remembered. Each time Jerry tried to make Tom fight with cat, each time Jerry composed different situations to make Tom suffer from the dog, he still continued to help Tom when the situation got out of control. It is impossible to remember the all cases when Jerry played tricks with Tom or mocked him. Nevertheless, when the cat appeared in real danger, when he required for urgent help Jerry has always been near. Breckin Meyer, an actor, in his interview to Tom Gliatto said when he was a boy, he shared his feelings about this series like “Man, these guys are making me feel! I respect the hell out of them: Their friendship has outlasted everything” (Gliatto 39). And this is true. Watching this series many people envy those guys as being that different, having so little in common and fighting every day Tom and Jerry remain the best friends. One more cause of the cartoon popularity is based on cat’s attempts to play a trick on Jerry. Each try is failed, each dirty trick Tom creates and plans turn against him. It should be stated that being children, these tricks are seen and