• 5 years ago
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    Wait a sec, Tom and Jerry.... 1940..... was the characters named on the ongoing war? Tommies were the British and Jerries were the Germans! Please don't say it took me 40 years to figure that out.
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … Unlikely, since why would they portray the Germans as the smarter and better character?
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … May not be the most oficial story but: There's a "Definitive Guide" to the Tom and Jerry cartoons written by Patrick Brion, in which the author explains that the characters were given the names Tom and Jerry after the success of their first film. Tom was originally named Jasper, and the unnamed mouse was referred to as "Jinx" by the animators. When MGM started to look at the characters as a possible franchise, studio workers each put one name they liked into a raffle. Two names were pulled, resulting in the arbitrary pair of "Tom and Jerry." The winning choices were curious for two reasons: Europe was in the thick of World War II, and the names had already been used as monikers for German and British troops. Additionally, the Pierce Egan characters noted by Steve Lynch had entered British parlance as a way to refer to young lads in the 19th century, so you could argue that older viewers (perhaps the more cosmopolitan ones) may have had a sense of nostalgia for "Toms and Jerries".
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … What a coincidence!
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  • Nodley wrote his opinion about Tom and Jerry
    10 years ago
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    I feel sorry for Tom, that mouse is so mean to him.
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