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TOM AND JERRY EPISODES 1 SERIES

Aside from Tom and Jerry, other characters on this show have suffered from flanderization.

Like the Gene Deitch era, most of these really show they had Jerry play at his absolute worst and Tom being utterly harmless.

Jerry tortures Tom for his own amusement, and sometimes Tom gets tortured for no reason at all, with the worst offenders being Heavy Booking, Gopher It, Tom, The Plain Baron Strikes Again, Kitty Hawk Kitty, and The Puppy Sitter.

In short, in this show both Tom and Jerry had reverted to the respective infamous flanderizations they previously had in the Gene Deitch era, albeit much more exaggerated than usual.

However, there are at least very few episodes where Tom wins in the end.

TOM AND JERRY EPISODES 1 SERIES

Much like the Gene Deitch-era, but worse, Tom is overly-depicted as a punching bag who gets abused too far (rather than it being trivial which kills the charm of the source material) for no discernible reason (which gets worst as the series progress), and Jerry is depicted as a rather unlikeable sadistic jerk in almost all the episodes, and each episode usually ends with Tom always losing to Jerry in the end, even though it is mostly undeserved. It's very one-sided and one-dimensional.Characters like Butch, Quacker, Topsy, Lightning, and Toodles Galore are nowhere to be seen.Spike and Barney Bear's designs can look ugly at times.

On top of that, most of the character designs bear an uncanny resemblance to the designs from the Gene Deitch era.Tom's design looks like a rather poorly done copy of his Chuck Jones-era design.Bad and ugly character designs, especially the baby and aliens from Heavy Booking.Some of the animation tends to look unfinished at times, with the worst and most laughable offender being in the episode "Kitty Hawk Kitty" where not only is Tom's character animation looking unfinished at the bottom of the screen in one scene, yet there's a visible white line at the bottom of the screen throughout the entire episode due to the background art looking unfinished.A lot of the animation is repeated way too many times, usually when Tom chases Jerry, to the point that the animation, gags and movement gets predictable very quickly.Some characters have really awkward walk cycles, especially Tom.Because of it, certain episodes such as Gopher It, Tom, Spike's Birthday and Pied Piper Puss for example have out-of-nowhere jump cuts which can be distracting.There is barely any movement in some scenes, and most scenes look rushed (most likely because of the episodes having a runtime of 6 minutes and trying to make room for the wraparound segments).Even The Tom and Jerry Show (1975) has better animation. Poor and bland animation, due to Filmation producing their shows on a very low budget.