GetWiki
Tom Cat
ARTICLE SUBJECTS
being →
database →
ethics →
fiction →
history →
internet →
language →
linux →
logic →
method →
news →
policy →
purpose →
religion →
science →
software →
truth →
unix →
wiki →
ARTICLE TYPES
essay →
feed →
help →
system →
wiki →
ARTICLE ORIGINS
critical →
forked →
imported →
original →
Tom Cat
please note:
- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
- it has been imported raw for GetWiki
{{pp|small=yes}}{{Short description|Fictional American cat}}{{Other uses|Tomcat (disambiguation){{!}}Tomcat}}{{more citations needed|date=May 2023}}{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
- it has been imported raw for GetWiki
factoids | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
name | Tom Cat| series = Tom and Jerry| image = Tom Tom and Jerry.png| caption = Tom's design in the Hanna-Barbera shorts.
| William Hanna|Joseph Barbera{edih} |
| Harry E. Lang (1940â1953)
| William Hanna (1941â1958, 2006, 2014âpresent) | Mel Blanc (1946, 1953â1956, 1963â1967) | Daws Butler (1957) | Allen Swift (1961â1962) | Terence Monk (1964, 1967) | June Foray (1966) | John Stephenson (1975) | Lou Scheimer (1980) | Frank Welker (1990â1993) | Richard Kind (also speaking; 1992) | Alan Marriott (2000) | Jeff Bennett (2002) | Marc Silk (2002) | Bill Kopp (2005) | Spike Brandt (2005â2017) | Don Brown (2006â2008) | Rich Danhakl (2014â2021) | Andrew Dickman (2021) | Kaiji Tang (2021) | Eric Bauza (2022) | Megumi Aratake (2022) }} | British Shorthair>Tuxedo British Cat| gender = Male | List of Tom and Jerry characters#George (cat)>George (identical cousin) | MULTIVERSUS.COM>TITLE=MULTIVERSUS ROSTER | ARCHIVE-DATE=30 JULY 2022 | URL-STATUS=LIVE, | nationality = American| lbl1 = Developed by| data1 = William Hanna & Joseph Barbera}}Thomas Jasper "Tom" Cat Sr. is a fictional character and one of the two titular main protagonists (the other being Jerry Mouse) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical animated short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, he is a grey and white anthropomorphic (but usually silent) domestic short haired tuxedo British cat who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot.WEB, Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Tom and Jerry,weblink toonopedia.com, 15 February 2020, 28 November 2023,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20231128132502weblink">weblink live, The cat was known as "Jasper" during his debut in the short;{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C&pg=PA225 |title=American national biography |issue=2 |author=Mark Christopher Carnes|isbn=978-0-19-522202-9 |year=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press }} however, beginning with his next appearance in The Midnight Snack he was known as "Tom" or "Thomas".HistoryTom and Jerry cartoonsHis name, "Tom Cat", is based on "tomcat", a word which refers to male cats. He is usually mute and rarely heard speaking with the exception of a few cartoons (such as 1943's The Lonesome Mouse, 1944's The Zoot Cat, 1947's Part Time Pal, 1953's Puppy Tale and 1992's (Tom and Jerry: The Movie)). His only notable vocal sounds outside of this are his various screams whenever he is subjected to panic or, more frequently, pain. He is continuously after Jerry Mouse, for whom he sets traps, many of which backfire and cause damage to him rather than Jerry. His trademark scream was provided by creator William Hanna. Hanna's recordings of Tom screaming were later used as a stock sound effect for other MGM cartoon characters, including a majority of Tex Avery's shorts.Tom has changed over the years, especially after the first episodes. For example, in his debut, he was quadrupedal. However, over the years (since the episode Dog Trouble), he has become almost completely bipedal and has human intelligence. In 1945 shorts he had twisted whiskers and his appearance kept changing. In the 1940s and early 1950s, he had white fur between his eyes. In newer cartoons, the white fur is gone. As a slapstick cartoon character, Tom has a superhuman level of elasticity.Tom is usually defeated in the end (or very rarely, killed, like in Mouse Trouble, where he explodes), although there are some stories where he outwits and defeats Jerry. Besides Jerry, he also has trouble with other mouse or cat characters. One of them that appears frequently is Spike Bulldog. Spike regularly appears and usually assists Jerry and beats up Tom. Though in some occasions Tom beats him or he turns on Jerry (like his debut appearance in Dog Trouble). Usually when Tom is chasing Jerry after a bit Jerry turns the tables on Tom and beats him or uses an outside character such as Spike to beat Tom.Tom has variously been portrayed as a house cat doing his job, and a victim of Jerry's blackmail attempts, sometimes within the same short. He is almost always called by his full name "Thomas" by Mammy Two Shoes.BOOK, Sampson, Henry T.,weblink That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900â1960, Scarecrow Pressure, 1962, 57, 61â3, 9780810832503, Henry Sampson (inventor), 23 December 2020, 21 April 2023,weblink live, In 1961 short Switchin' Kitten Tom has a membership card as belong to the "International Brotherhood of Cats"Anchors Aweigh and Dangerous When WetTom and Jerry showed up together at the 1945 Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical Anchors Aweigh where Tom briefly appears as a butler for King Jerry, the latter who has a dance sequence with Gene Kelly, and also in another musical with the same studio Dangerous When Wet (1953), where, in a dream sequence, main character Katie Higgins (Esther Williams) does an underwater ballet with Tom and Jerry, as well as animated depictions of the different people in her life.Voice actorsDespite almost every short depicting Tom as silent (besides his vocal sounds such as screaming and gasping), there are some cartoons which feature him speaking, with his first film appearance (along with co-star Jerry) in 1992, (Tom and Jerry: The Movie), being an example as Tom and Jerry talk throughout the film.Here are several of his voiceover actors:
In popular cultureTom's screams have been used as stock sound effects in various media, such as the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, Critters 2 and Critters 3 (used for the Critters when they scream and shriek) and the Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episode, "Small Stuff" (used for Jang Keng, a black cat). It was also used for the caveman in the 1995 game Prehistorik Man.Tom and Jerry were planned to appear as a cameo in the deleted scene "Acme's Funeral" from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.WEB,weblink See The Toons Who Would Have Appeared in Roger Rabbit's Deleted Funeral, Davis, Lauren, 12 May 2014, io9, en-US, 2019-07-07, 7 July 2019,weblink live, The Itchy & Scratchy Show from The Simpsons parodies Tom and Jerry, with its cat character Scratchy, unlike Tom, usually being portrayed as a harmless character who is subject to wanton unprovoked violence by the psychopathic Itchy.Tom is also the only cartoon character whose name is used for a type of military vehicle, which is the "TomCat" jet fighter.See alsoReferences{{Reflist}}{{Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoons}}{{Tom and Jerry}}{{Hanna-Barbera}}{{Authority control}} |
- content above as imported from Wikipedia
- "Tom Cat" does not exist on GetWiki (yet)
- time: 7:16am EDT - Sat, May 18 2024
- "Tom Cat" does not exist on GetWiki (yet)
- time: 7:16am EDT - Sat, May 18 2024
[ this remote article is provided by Wikipedia ]
LATEST EDITS [ see all ]
GETWIKI 23 MAY 2022
The Illusion of Choice
Culture
Culture
GETWIKI 09 JUL 2019
Eastern Philosophy
History of Philosophy
History of Philosophy
GETWIKI 09 MAY 2016
GetMeta:About
GetWiki
GetWiki
GETWIKI 18 OCT 2015
M.R.M. Parrott
Biographies
Biographies
GETWIKI 20 AUG 2014
GetMeta:News
GetWiki
GetWiki
© 2024 M.R.M. PARROTT | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED