The document provides details about the classic cartoon Tom and Jerry. It summarizes that the plots usually center around Tom's failed attempts to catch Jerry, which lead to mayhem. While Tom rarely tries to eat Jerry, their chasing is sometimes due to normal animal rivalry or Tom's duty to catch mice. Other characters that interfere with Tom and Jerry include other cats like Butch, the vicious guard bulldog Spike and his son Tyke, and the housemaid Miss Mammy Two Shoes.

1. Weekend Report
Tom and Jerry
Plot and Format
Tom and Jerry title card use during the late 1940s
and early 1950s, attached to many reissues of early
and mid 1940s shorts. The plots of each shout
usually centre on Tom‟s frustrated attempts to
catch Jerry, and the mayhem and destruction that
ensue. Since Tom rarely attempts to eat Jerry and
because the pair actually seem to get along in some
cartoon shots (at least in the first minute or so), it
is unclear why Tom chases Jerry so much. but some reasons given may
include normal feline/marine enmity, duty according to his owner, Jerry‟s
attempt at ruining a task that Tom is entrusted with, revenge, Jerry saving
other potential prey (such as ducks, canaries, or goldfish) from being eaten
by Tom, or competition with another cat, among other reasons.
Tom and Jerry
Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse, in a scene from the
1944 Academy award-winning short Mouse
Trouble. Tom is a Russian blue cat, who lives a

2. pampered life, while Jerry is a small brown mouse who always lives in
proximity to him. “Tom” is a generic name for a male cat or tomcat (the
Warmer Bros. cartoon character Sylvester was originally called “Thomas”).
Tom was originally called „Jasper‟ in early shorts such as “Puss Gets the
Boot”, despite the Tom and Jerry marquee at the start of the feature.
Other characters
Spike the bulldog and his son Tyke, in the 1951
Tom and Jerry short Slicked-up Pup. in the his
attempts to catch Jerry, Tom often has to deal with
the intrusions of Butch, a scruffy black alley cat
who also wants to catch and eat Jerry, Spike
(sometimes billed a s “Killer” or “Butch”), an
angry, vicious guard bulldog who tries to attack to
Tom for bothering his son Tyke while trying to get Jerry, in earlier episodes
Spike is extremely sadistic chasing and trying to maul both Tom and Jerry
forcing the two to work together to defeat him. Spike spoke often, using a
voice and and expressions (performed by Daws Butler) modeled after
comedian Jimmy Durante.

3. Nibbles, the little orphan mouse, later named
“Tuffy”. From the begging (the first episode), Tom
also has t deal with Miss Mammy Two Shoes
(voiced by Linnian Randolph), a stereotyped
African-American domestic housemaid. In the
earliest shots, Mammy is depicted as the maid taking
care of the often opulent home in which Tom and
Jerry reside.
Ritisha Singh, 27, VI-C