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00:00Hi, this is Nicole Parker from MADtv and a Tom & Jerry fan, and I'm here with…
00:09This is Earl Kress, a writer and animation historian.
00:13And this is the third Tom & Jerry cartoon and they are now called Tom & Jerry.
00:19The animators on this cartoon, who still at this point don't get credit,
00:24are Kenneth Muse, Jack Zander and Pete Burness.
00:28But at least Bill & Joe got credit on this one.
00:55This model on Jerry, he has kind of a bigger nose and he's sort of jowly.
01:00He's put on a few.
01:02Yeah, too much cheese.
01:25This is what happens to me every morning in the bathroom mirror.
01:28You have a fun house mirror in your bathroom?
01:31No, it's a normal one.
01:35See, that's clever. I love that. Little stuff like that.
01:37He gets the stripes all off of the candy cane. That's cute.
01:41During this period, I think Bill & Joe, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera were still…
01:48That's horrifying, by the way.
01:51They weren't making only Tom & Jerry cartoons at this point.
01:56They were still doing other cartoons in between.
01:59Although by the third one, they may have…
02:02Oh, you'll notice…
02:04The Elvis lion that was popular back in the…
02:07They only lasted for about a week in the stores and no one wanted them.
02:11Well, I wonder if that's a nod to Leo the lion, Leo the MGM lion.
02:17But notice Jerry keeps playing to the camera in this one.
02:19He breaks the fourth wall a lot.
02:21He plays to the camera a lot. He's like, get a load of this guy.
02:23In this one especially.
02:25Something tells me that's not a stuffed animal.
02:47We touched on it a little bit.
02:49Nicole, maybe you can talk about this a little bit.
02:52Comedy timing is so important to the way these cartoons work.
02:56Yeah, it's true.
02:58Especially, also, just that right there.
03:00The way that he's standing is funny when Jerry gets all militant.
03:04But just situations like this.
03:07Let's put them on the night before Christmas.
03:09There's a thousand things they can do.
03:11There's a ton of toys.
03:13There's all sorts of situations they can get themselves involved in.
03:15But, yeah, the timing is everything.
03:18And sort of just like right here.
03:22I mean, it's just a funny visual.
03:25And it's funny that there's even a shot that he actually might be fooled.
03:31Is he really thinking, oh, it looks like a soldier.
03:34This is also, by the way, the richest house in the world.
03:37There's apparently 5,000 children living in this house.
03:40Because they have every toy known to man.
03:44See right here, there's some nice timing right there.
03:47Just as soon as one of them starts winning, they start losing.
03:50And that's sort of the pattern.
03:52That's great.
03:54See, like a boxing.
03:56Who's getting boxing gloves in this house?
03:58Those are for the dad to beat up the mom.
04:00Oh, yeah, that's right.
04:02Well, it wasn't very progressive yet, folks.
04:04No.
04:07But in comedy, timing is everything.
04:09This is true.
04:21Cartoons went through a period in the 80s
04:24where there were a lot of people who were interested in cartoons.
04:28And there were a lot of people who were interested in movies.
04:31And there were a lot of people who were interested in cartoons.
04:34And there was a period in the 80s where the guys,
04:38there were still a lot of guys who had worked on these cartoons working,
04:42but they were so old that they had really lost their timing.
04:46And the young people coming up hadn't learned it yet.
04:50So you could write the funniest gag in the world,
04:52and it would just fall flat on the screen because it wasn't timed right.
04:55And it's tricky to draw that, too.
04:57Oh, look at this, never gets old.
04:59Even back then, two guys are going to kiss.
05:02She's going to be really coy about it.
05:04Yeah, they both all of a sudden have the longest eyelashes ever.
05:07What is he doing?
05:09Actually, Jerry had those eyelashes for a while.
05:12Yeah, Jerry sometimes used to think as a kid,
05:14I remember he used to think maybe he was a girl.
05:17And of course this is Scott Bradley doing the music again.
05:21Yeah, it adds so much.
05:47There's nice lighting effects in this scene
05:50with the light coming from the fire.
05:52You see the highlights on Tom.
05:54The quality is really great actually.
05:56I always thought that the MGM studio advanced in their artwork
06:00faster than like Warner Brothers.
06:02They were at a higher level before some of the other studios.
06:08See, that's the exaggeration that they always would take it to,
06:12that now he's walking completely covered in snow.
06:15Oh, he feels bad.
06:18Yeah, this is, being the third Tom and Jerry cartoon,
06:22this is kind of the first time I've seen this.
06:25I mean, I've seen it before,
06:27but it's the first time I've seen it.
06:29It's the first time I've seen it.
06:31It's the first time I've seen it.
06:33It's the first time I've seen it.
06:35It's the first time I've seen it.
06:37It's the first time I've seen it.
06:39It's the first time I've seen it.
06:41It's the first time I've seen it.
06:43I mean, even the little kissing scene was unusual.
06:47In a later cartoon, he probably would have just eaten him.
06:50Exactly.
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