Tom and Jerry Show (LA)

***Tom and Jerry Show*** is a 2023 American live action television series developed by Ford Riley

The show is currently at its fourth season.

## Plot

This reboot of the Tom and Jerry franchise follows the antics of Tom in his pursuit to catch Jerry. Each episode of the series follows either one of these scenarios:

* **Tom and Jerry's typical antics in a modern-day urban setting, usually set in a house owned by Rick and Ginger.**
* **Tom and Jerry being pets to two witches named Beatie and Hildie.** (This scenario is retired in Season 3 and 4)
* **Tom and Jerry working together as detectives in Tolucaville (Los Angeles as of Season 2) by operating a detective agency called "The Cat and Mouse Detectives", complete with a narrator.**
* **Jerry living in a lab with a rat companion named Napoleon, with Tom being an alley cat.** (This scenario is retired in Seasons 2, 3 and 4)
* **Tom working as a butler in a *Downton Abbey* property.** (This scenario is first used beginning with Season 3)
* **Tom and Jerry living in a scary Transylvanian environment in a parody of Van Helsing.** (This scenario is first used beginning with Season 3)

Initially Season 1 had two 11-minute segments in each episode. However beginning with Season 2, each episode had three 7-minute segments much like the original shorts.

## Characters

* Tom Cat
* Jerry Mouse
* Butch Cat
* Spike Bulldog
* Tyke Dog
* Quacker
* Tuffy Mouse
* Meathead Cat
* Toodles Galore (alter ego)
* Cherie (also known as Toots the Mouse) (season 1 only)
* Rick and Ginger
* Hildie and Beatie (Season 1, 2 and 3 only)
* Uncle Pecos (Season 2 and 4 only)
* Dr. Bigby (Season 1 only)
* Muscles Mouse (Season 3 and 4 only)
* Napoleon (Season 1 and 2 only)
* Dollface (Season 3 and 4 only)
* Topsy
* Lightning

## Cast

* William Hanna (Archive audio; Uncredited) - Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse
* Harry E. Lang (Archive audio; Uncredited) - Tom Cat, Topsy, Lightning
* Mel Blanc (Archive audio; Uncredited) - Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse
* Rich Danhakl (uncredited) – Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse
* Frank Welker (Uncredited) - Tyke Bulldog, Hyena, Lion, Monkeys, Parrot
* Rick Zieff - Spike Bulldog, Meathead Cat (Season 2 onwards), Barkley, Skid, Dutch, Santa, Skullie, Trucket Man
* Grey Delisle-Griffin - Ginger, Winston's Owner
* Jason Alexander - Rick
* Stephen Stanton - Muscles Mouse, Uncle Pecos, Jack Benny Mouse, Commercial voice, Frankie
* Kath Soucie - Tuffy Mouse, Mimi, Aunt Claire, Cozette, Gigi
* Rene Mujica - Newt, Bear, Tom's 7th Life
* Cree Summer - Beatie
* Rachael MacFarlane - Hildie, Mummy
* Joey D'Auria - Butch Cat, Jeff, Meathelda, Dawn O' Day
* Gary Cole - "The Cat and Mouse Detectives" Narrator
* Chris Parnell - "The Great Outdoors" Narrator
* Tom Kenny - Detective, Dr. Bigby, Hamster, Milfred, Tom's 1st Life, Tom's 4th Life, Tom's 5th Life, and Tom's 8th Life, Ronnie the Rabbit, Percy, Guard Dog
* Nika Futterman - Polly, Baby Dragon
* Alicyn Packard - Toodles Galore, Madame Beta, Matalyn
* Simon Helberg - Napoleon, My Bot-y Guard
* Sam Kwasman - Little Quacker, Shelby the Beast
* Dave B. Mitchell - Tom's 2nd Life, Tom's 3rd Life, Tom's 6th Life, Petey, Mummy's Spellbook, Rat, Meathead (Season 1)
* Phil Lollar - Monkey, Frank, Crooked Eddie, Man 1, Man 2, German Shepherd, Hector Hare
* Katie Leigh - Woman 1, Woman 2, Stardust, Gypsy Lady
* Kari Wahlgren - Toots, Fifi
* Julie Wittner - Bunny, Roxy, Misty
* Rob Paulsen - Scarf
* Robin Atkin Downes - Large Marvin
* Charlie Schlatter - Grayson
* Charlie Adler - Polly's Owner,
* Catherine Cavadini - Toodles' Mom
* Trevor Devall - Toodles' Dad, Clerk, Stinker, Shop Owner, Delivery Guy
* John Michael Higgins - Uncle Harry
* Robbie Daymond - SiFu, Batboy, Ramone
* Yvette Nicole Brown - Momma Mockingbird
* Phil LaMarr - Tom's Shadow, Bartholomew J. Bunny
* Gilbert Gottfried - Geanie
* Tara Strong - Tooth Fairy
* Maddie Taylor - Winston

* Patton Oswalt - Carver
* Jason Hightower - Red
* Sean Donnellan - Lawyer
* Marieve Herington - Ellen
* Robert Cait - Carlton
* Lesley Nicol - Maid
* Corey Burton - Mad Dog
* Neil Ross - Dr. Frankenstein

## Trivia

* The show shares its name with *The Tom and Jerry Show* from 1975.
	+ Even if not as commercially-acclaimed as the original shorts from 1940-1967, but definitely beaten out that said show and the next one from 1980.
* This show brings back the classic chase formula and violence, unlike the 1975 series where there are cartoon regulations at the time during the 1970s which banned the use of violence in children's television.
* Tom's screams and the sound effects of Tom and sometimes Jerry in the episodes are copied voice clips from William Hanna's recordings that were first recorded in the original *Tom and Jerry* cartoons.
* This is the second *Tom and Jerry* television series produced in the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio after *Tom and Jerry Tales* and the first to be animated in Adobe Flash (now known as Adobe Animate).
* In this show, Jerry is no longer Spike's friend because Spike finally notices it was Jerry who was really responsible for bothering his son, stealing his bones and getting bothered and injured. (As seen in "Birthday Bashed" and some episodes as well.), sometimes they are shown getting along.
* In this show, Tom is still enemies with Jerry, Spike, Tyke, Tuffy, and Quacker. (However, with some exceptions.)
* In this show, Tom and Butch are sometimes enemies.
* In this show, Tyke is still friends with Jerry.
* In this show, Tom is sometimes shown to be good friends with Spike, and Jerry, and sometimes likes/tolerates Tyke, and Tuffy.
* This is the first *Tom and Jerry* TV series to receive a TV-PG rating in the United States. Perhaps because starting in 2010, most cartoons that aired on the network, such as *Adventure Time*, *Regular Show*, *The Looney Tunes Show*, and *Teen Titans GO!*, received that rating.
* Like most *Tom and Jerry* TV series and movies, Tex Avery characters such as Droopy occasionally make guest appearances. Though no Tex Avery characters have appeared yet in Season 1, they'd possibly be slated to appear somewhere in Season 2 or 3, evidenced via upcoming episodes such as "Double Dog Trouble" and "Kid Stuff".
* Toodles Galore is explicitly altered in this show, as her attitude and appearance equal to that of Toots.
* Beginning with Season 2, not only do the episodes now have three 7-minute segments instead of two 11-minute segments as for Season 1, yet the art style of the show was retooled to more closely resemble the style of the original MGM shorts, and the Flash animation used in this show appears to be much looser and more fluid like the original MGM shorts.
* Rick and Ginger's house in this show, both interior and exterior, seem to be designed and colored with almost the exact same designs and colors as the house which most of the Chuck Jones-era *Tom and Jerry* shorts are usually set in, such as the use of red walls and green carpeted floors for its indoor design, the purplish colors used in Jerry's mouse-hole, the blue-tiled, yellow-walled kitchen with white furniture, and the backyard fenced up with blue hedges.
* So far, the modern-day urban setting and detective episode segments are the only scenarios to appear in all four seasons.

## Episodes

### Season 1

 "Spike Gets Skooled"
 "Cat's Ruffled Fur-niture"
 Sleep Disorder
 Tom's In-Zoo Adventure
 Baby Puss
Jerry peeks from behind a doll house and sees Tom. Incredulous at first, Jerry proceeds to mock him by playing "Rock-a-bye Baby" on the turntable and pretends to be a baby himself. Tom is furious and chases Jerry into the dollhouse. Just when it seems that Tom has Jerry cornered, Nancy returns and scolds Tom again. Tucking Tom back in bed, Nancy threatens to feed him castor oil if he gets out again. Tom goes back to his role playing. Jerry emerges from the doll house and runs to the window to get the attention of Meathead , Butch and Topsy, Tom's three alley cat friends who are outside. When the trio see Tom, they begin to make fun of him. When Tom confronts the other cats, they continue to tease and humiliate him, tossing him like a ball causing him to land in a fish bowl resulting in a wet diaper. They then proceed to change his diaper with oil and powder, before fitting him with rubber pants.
 Birthday Bashed
 Puttin' on the Dog
Tom successfully frees the head and runs to the center of the dog pound to keep a lookout. Jerry and Tuffy sneaks up behind him and imitates barking. Tom is startled out of his wits and has dug through some of the wall when he figures out it's Jerry and Tuffy. Jerry and Tuffy continues imitating a dog and then runs away. Tom chases after him and looks under various dogs to find the mouse, and then spots him in a bone-hat. Tom bolts after the mice and Jerry and Tuffy hides. Convinced that the end of the dog bone nearby is Jerry in disguise, Tom grabs it and is met by an angry Spike. As Spike chomps down, Tom causes Spike to swallow his bone and flees to underneath a St. Bernard. The big dog goes to sleep and Tom pops out from under the dog - but without the dog head. Tom digs back under the St. Bernard, waking it up. Tom is hanging from the collar without the dog head and if anyone notices him, he's doomed. Fortunately, the St. Bernard notices nothing. Tom then attaches the head to his rear and pops out again, waking the dog again. The St. Bernard sees Tom sans head, but Tom switches ends and leaves. Tom hides in a barrel to keep a lookout, but soon notices that Jerry is doing the same. He breaks open the barrel and chases Jerry until Jerry hides in the fur of another dog. Jerry taunts him by swimming in the fur and gets Tom to dive in too. This wakes up the dog and he shakes both cat and mouse out of his fur, apparently confused. As the chase resumes, Jerry holds back, trips Tom, and gains the dog head for himself. Spike comes around the corner and briefly sees Tom's real head, but Tom hides it fast. Jerry leaves and Tom, apparently with no head at all, waves and follows after him. Thinking he's seen a living headless dog, Spike emits a terrified girl-like shriek.
Tom waddles after his "head", but fails to spot the pole in his way and he bumps into it, returning to normal. Seeing dog ears like the ones on the dog head in a nearby barrel, Tom grabs them and is met with an angry yellow dog. Tom ties up his mouth with his own collar and in a panic, runs away. Tom sees Jerry/head follow the path close to him and prepares to seize him; unfortunately, Spike is also coming around the corner. Tom grabs Spike and tries to fit him over his head. When he can't move after a few steps, Tom realizes something is up and sees the dog chomping at him. Tom hides behind a wall and soon spots Jerry/head. In his path, though, is a long Dachshund dog akin to a train stop. The dog apparently has two heads....until Jerry reveals himself and sticks his tongue out at Tom only to run into the dog's house. Jerry dashes off and Tom traps him underneath the head, but soon realizes that's his means of disguise and sticks it over his head just as Spike arrives. Jerry raises the head and turns the head in an effort to expose Tom until Spike lifts the head himself, whereupon Tom covers all of himself with the head and waddles off.
 Feline Fatale
 Don't Bring Your Pet to School Day
Tom, however, is unamused, with the competition and he goes as far as to discarding his red bow tie and undoing his hairstyle which Nancy gave him prior to the cartoon's prologue. He is greeted by a rabbit named Bartholomew J. Bunny, who shakes the cat's paw while talking with quite a rather strange accent, which gets Tom even more annoyed and disgusted. On the same day, Tom sees Nancy's classmate and friend Bobby brings his pet mouse Jerry transported in a cage, which Nancy fawns over, claiming to him as being adorable. Tom, overcome by gluttony, licks his lips at the sight of Jerry with a desire to eat the little mouse but remembers Bart is still shaking his paw. Finally snapping, the cat grabs a mace and brutally beats the stuffing out of Bart and then jumps on top of Jerry's cage, terrifying and scaring him, making him shriek in fear.
Nancy, outraged by the cat's naughty behavior, stops him and then demands that he show Jerry that he's sorry for what he did while Bobby holds Jerry in front waiting for Tom to respond.
At first, Tom doesn't reply or do anything. Nancy insisted again, forcing Tom to kiss Jerry's head in humiliation and annoyance. He then does so twice (Mostly due to him enjoying the taste) and later begins to suck on his head. He then eats the little brown mouse whole, but is tossed on the floor by an angry Nancy. "SPIT HIM OUT!!!" She ordered, slamming him on the floor multiple times until he finally coughed him up, and Jerry lands on the floor, all covered in cat saliva. Jerry looks at Tom angrily, as if to say, "Mean old cat!"
Nancy than drags the naughty Tom Cat away, and threatens that If they don't win the star, she will take him back to the pound.
Horrifying images of the pound haunted Tom, Tom looks and finds out he is surrounded by life-threatening Blood eyed Bulldogs, roaring at him. This daydream causes Tom to gulp violently. It wasn't long before he was pushed back to his chair, where Bart is shown with 3 large bumps on his head dazed from the pain, Bart's one eye is blackened and his other is bruised and creepy looking. Nancy than points at Tom's Nose and demands him to stay put and be nice to the other animals. Tom shows a hysterical marking the words, "Yes Ma'am" In his eyes. Jerry like back in 1943, strikes again and begins to torment Tom, with a drawing of him in the toilet. Tom furiously gets up, but Jerry points back to Nancy, forcing him to sit back down in a cowardly way, despite her not shown when he points.
Jerry than swallows a red apple whole and his entire body is shaped like an apple. Jerry, now back to normal, goes over where Tom is seated spitting a large amount of apple seeds in his face in a machine gun firing rate. Tom beginning to lose his temper, he growls, Jerry responded by spitting one more in his face, which caused him to snap, he makes a creepy close-up towards the camera, but before he can eat him, Jerry points to Nancy again doing her work causing Tom to cowardly sit in his chair again.
Jerry then unleashes a frog, and escapes the room with Tom pursuing in a panic state. He follows the two into the locker room, where he attempts to catch the frog, only to be suckered by Jerry again. Before Tom could react the frog burped a third time, causing him to fly into the locker. Jerry arrives with dirty gym clothes and begins to pack the locker leaving Tom locked up inside. A chase occurs throughout the entire school, until it reaches the playground where Tom, finally has both pets cornered. At one point he snatches the frog, but Nancy arrives and demands to know what he has in his paw.
Tom on the verge of panic, took drastic measures and swallowed the frog, turning around facing Nancy grinning he had nothing. Nancy, more angry than disappointed, grabs his tail and storms for the classroom revealing that they were next, which meant she had to search the whole school for him. During the presentation, Jerry returns and torments Tom, again with releasing several of the other students' pets. The ants later crawl into Tom's fur covered with apple juice making him scratch all over. The Frog jumped again, and soon or later Tom found himself caught in the Globe. "WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING?!!" Nancy cried, with Jerry laughing along.
The Fire ants in his fur combined with the frog in his stomach caused Tom to do insane tricks like: spin around, dance like a German, Hop around, Act like a mime, and then a brief part where he acts like he's Egyptian art until he finally falls down and the frog comes out of his mouth.
With Jerry still laughing in amusement. The Crowd, however, enjoyed the performance and applauded Tom, even with Jerry joining in the applause. and Tom is shown In Nancy's arms with the gold star. "You may not be the nicest cat, but you at least got the gold star for being the best dancer." Nancy said, Tom smiles, than the iris out.