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Posters[edit]

The poster that needs to be uploaded into this article is given a different filename. It is illegal to re-upload an image of the same filename that was deleted from Wikipedia. --PJ Pete

Tom Jasper?[edit]

Tom's family name is Jasper? In the various other titles, it is unknown that he has a family or family name. --PJ Pete

It's based off his original name from the very first short, Puss Gets the Boot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.10.76.164 (talk) 00:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit request from 74.197.84.103, 14 March 2011[edit]

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74.197.84.103 (talk) 21:38, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:55, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar/Wording[edit]

Some of the wording was a little vague and out of place, so I went in and fixed the wording to the best of my abilities.

Selmak12 (talk) 02:55, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Plot Downgraded[edit]

Since I just learned the true definition of edit warring, I decided to go to the talk page since that was recommended to discuss the plot being re-upgraded. I believe the scenes near the beginning where Tom nails Jerry inside his mousehole, Tom is chased by the bulldog, and where Tom rescues Jerry from the house being demolished should be re-added to the plot. There is also another mistake in the current revision: Robyn is not an orphan, her father later turns out to still be alive. The term "apparent orphan" should be used instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sstanford2 (talk • contribs) 02:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'll give you that second point and have adjusted the wording accordingly, but there is no need to include all of that detail into the opening scene; the primary purpose of the scene is to make sure the pair are left behind by the moving van, and the point can be concisely made by simply stating that Tom's pursuit of Jerry was a distraction. Neither the bulldog nor the business with the mousehole figure at all into the bigger plot, especially since neither of them are brought up again afterward or change anything about the subsequent demolition of the house and T+J's homelessness, so both details can be excised without anybody missing anything. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 17:19, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Key frames[edit]

Hey, animator here, was reading the article and noticed the section about Tom & Jerry being animated using key frames, which I suspect was written by someone who doesn't really understand the process. Perhaps what they meant was "animated on paper"? Key frames just refers to the important poses a character takes, and they're used in everything from Snow White to Frozen 2, not just the eclectic list of late 80s-early 90s movies provided here. You'd be hard pressed to find a piece of animation in the last 100 years that was made WITHOUT key frames. The whole paragraph seems kind of superfluous to me, but I didn't want to just straight up delete it. SkullPirateMike (talk) 02:06, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Musical genre[edit]

There are six songs in This movie so maybe, we should add musical to the genre. PickleAndPeanutFan (talk) 07:25, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The lead sentence is only supposed to contain the primary genre or subgenre per WP:FILMLEAD. While some sources include the musical genre, it is never listed as the primary genre from what I have seen, and other sources do not include it at all, such as [1]. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 02:12, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

maybe, it's because they forgot to add it there PickleAndPeanutFan (talk) 03:08, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]