Kitty FoiledĪ cozy at-home episode has Tom violently chase Jerry and devise all kinds of plans to get rid of him, but a caged canary comes to the mouse’s aid, helping him plot against Tom. The Classical music community can feel for poor Tom: the piece presents a plethora of technical challenges and, by the end of the 19th century, it had become the unofficial gold standard through which each pianist could prove his or her prowess. 2: A frac-clad Tom is solemnly playing the piano that, of course, the insufferable Jerry had turned into his temporary home. In this 1947 episode, we can hear Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no. Liszt, Chopin, and Strauss prove to be quite fitting to the characters’ actions. However, we can’t do anything but appreciate the work of musical director Scott Bradley, who infused the straightforward plot with complex scores combining jazz, classical and pop music.
We all have childhood memories related to Tom and Jerry and the slapstick humor surrounding their odd relationship, even though, if you watch them as an adult, you may notice some controversial sequences involving characters in blackface, cannibalism and bizarre acts of violence (axes, anvils, teeth getting hammered or body parts getting sizzled).