The BEST episodes directed by Chuck Jones
#1 - Cat and Dupli-Cat
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 38
Jerry is again the victim of Two cats, and at first neither realize that there is another cat, they think they are each others reflection. They both cause trouble for Jerry, who is tired of it and ties the two cats up.
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#2 - Jerry-Go-Round
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 31
When Jerry helps out an injured elephant at the circus, the elephant repays Jerry by helping him to stop Tom from bothering them.
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#3 - I'm Just Wild About Jerry
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 25
After Tom gets run over by a train, he follows Jerry into a department store. They battle by using toy fire engines, bowling balls, ping-pong, clay pots, mail chutes, elevator shafts, and Jerry by stretching Tom's tail hundreds of feet in length. Tom ends up on the track again and blindfolds himself for the second time, only this time, a kind and angelic Jerry switches the tracks so Tom doesn't get hit.
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#4 - Love Me, Love My Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 32
When Tom falls in love with another female cat and offers her Jerry as a gift, Jerry screams and then tells her about the incident. Turns out that Tom planned it out, and she feels sympathetic for Jerry, and decides to take care of him. Jerry keeps trying to get into Tom's mouth on purpose, which gets Tom into trouble with the female cat. She eventually kisses Jerry, but upon tasting him, she smacks her lips with a devilish look on her face, teams up with Tom, and chases Jerry, with the intention of eating him, until the end of the episode.
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#5 - The Year of the Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 27
Being it's the Year of the Mouse, Jerry and another mouse decide to celebrate by pulling pranks on Tom.
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#6 - Of Feline Bondage
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 26
A fairy princess gives Jerry a magical potion to make him invisible. Jerry gets some scissors and chases Tom with them and starts cutting his fur off. When Jerry is visible again, Tom gets the scissors and begins cutting Jerry's fur off. They look in a mirror and laugh until the end of the episode.
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#7 - Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 16
In order to eat all of Tom's food without being noticed, Jerry comes up with a potion mixture to make him invisible. Tom eventually finds out, however, and ends up pulling a giant Jerry out of the wall.
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#8 - Duel Personality
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 29
Taking place in a large house, Tom and Jerry challenge each other to a duel.
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#9 - The Cat's Me-Ouch
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 28
After Jerry barely gets away from Tom, he calls on his new dog to beat Tom up. Tom ends up in a hospital all bandaged up, with Jerry and his dog clinging on to him with their teeth.
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#10 - Much Ado About Mousing
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 17
Jerry is rescued from Tom by a dog who gives him a whistle and tells him to blow it, and he will come to his rescue. In order for the dog not to hear the whistle, Tom puts earmuffs on him while he's sleeping. Later, however, Jerry shows up in front of Tom, holding what is seemingly the same pair of earmuffs.
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#11 - Bad Day at Cat Rock
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 22
When Jerry notices that Tom is having a bad day, he takes advantage of it by pulling numerous pranks on him.
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#12 - The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 19
Tom is jealous when a tiny kitten comes into the house. He tries to get rid of it, but Jerry stops him, having Tom do everything that Jerry and the kitten needs.
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#13 - Tom-ic Energy
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 21
A very long chase scene and lively classical music play throughout this cartoon until Tom smashes into a giant dog and Jerry rescues him.
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#14 - Long-Haired Hare
Looney Tunes - Season 1949 - Episode 16
Giovanni Jones, a very well known and fantastic opera singer, is constantly interrupted by Bugs' folk music while he is trying to rehearse for a big performance.
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#15 - Snowbody Loves Me
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 18
In this winter episode, Jerry is rolling down a hill in a giant snowball and lands in a place where Tom is. He finds a house filled with cheese and makes himself at home in a wheel of Swiss Cheese. Tom plugs up the cheese with corks, but the cheese ends up exploding, pulverizing Tom with millions of corks. Jerry eventually winds up in a slice of cheese and does a ballet performance.
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#16 - The Cat Above and the Mouse Below
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 15
Another musical episode. Famous opera singer Tom arrives at a concert, where Jerry happens to be sleeping. Jerry tries to distract Tom from his performance, and eventually, the two end up literally switching places.
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#17 - Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 20
This episode involves both transportation and abstract, and begins with Tom sounding like a sports car. Tom and Jerry start racing, and Jerry ends up passing Tom several times in one second. Jerry thinks of swords and takes the swords from his thoughts, starting to throw them at Tom, barely missing. Jerry falls and a question mark appears. He holds onto the question mark and grabs the nearest ledge. Tom falls and an exclamation mark appears and while he tries to bend it into a question mark, he falls to the ground. Tom gets stuck in a drain pipe and Jerry frees him by using a horn. Out comes a very long Tom sounding like a train.
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#18 - Hair-Raising Hare
Looney Tunes - Season 1946 - Episode 10
Bugs is lured into an evil scientist's lair, and starts to be chased by a big and hairy orange monster. The scientist wants the monster to catch Bugs so that he can use the bunny for his next experiment.
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#19 - Cannery Rodent
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 42
Set in Cannery Row, Tom and Jerry are trapped inside a can. When they get out, They find that same shark, and he almost eats Tom. Jerry, being kind and angelic again, saves Tom, but Tom is not grateful, so Jerry chases him with a shark fin,
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#20 - Pent-House Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 14
This episode takes place in a construction site where a very hungry Jerry leads Tom, who has plenty of food, into a dog show so Jerry can later eat Tom's food.
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#21 - Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 30
Jerry keeps trying to hurt Tom in his sleep. Jerry notices this, and tries to stay awake, but it doesn't work. No matter where Tom goes, Jerry keeps following him in his sleep, trying to hurt him.
#22 - What's Opera, Doc?
Looney Tunes - Season 1957 - Episode 14
Bugs is in drag as the Valkyrie Brunhilde who sits on an overweight horse. "She" is pursued by Elmer playing the demigod "Siegfried".
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#23 - Ali Baba Bunny
Looney Tunes - Season 1957 - Episode 4
Bugs and Daffy tunnel to Baghdad where they find caves full of treasure and a guard named Hassan who wants only to "chop" them.
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#24 - Fast and Furry-ous
Looney Tunes - Season 1949 - Episode 24
Wile E. Coyote makes disastrous attempts to catch the Road Runner.
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#25 - Haunted Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 24
When Jerry's uncle comes to visit, he frees the animals that Tom has eaten, steals Tom's nose, and pulls some rabbits out of his hat that clobber Tom with a hammer.
#26 - Fresh Airedale
Looney Tunes - Season 1945 - Episode 14
In his master's eyes, "good old Shep" is the perfect dog, but the cat knows he's really a two-faced mutt who can be bought off with a bone by a burglar, and then take credit for it when the cat chases the crook off. But then Shep becomes obsessed by a newspaper story proclaiming a real canine hero the nation's "No. 1 Dog."
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#27 - Martian Through Georgia
Looney Tunes - Season 1962 - Episode 16
An alien, bored of his perfect home world, travels to Earth.
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#28 - Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 ½th Century
Looney Tunes - Season 1980 - Episode 11
Daffy Duck reprises his famous role of Duck Dodgers in another spoof of Saturday afternoon space serials. Assigned to locate the rack-and-pinion molecule needed for yo-yo polish, Dodgers and his assistant, an eager young space cadet (Porky Pig), crash their spaceship into a giant egg-shell, where they find Marvin Martian, who is, as usual, scheming to destroy Earth. Marvin asks Dodgers to visit the boudoir of Gossamer, a giant, hairy monster in sneakers, and the frightened Dodgers flees. Porky uses electronic clippers to literally haircut Gossamer into nothingness, and Dodgers, jealous of his assistant's heroism, repeatedly fires his ray gun at Porky's rear.
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#29 - Case of the Missing Hare
Looney Tunes - Season 1942 - Episode 39
After Bugs angers a new magician that comes into town, and the magician gets Bugs back, it's only natural for Bugs to continue the chain. In the magician's upcoming show, Bugs dresses himself as the assistant, playing his way into the magician's act.
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#30 - Rabbit Punch
Looney Tunes - Season 1948 - Episode 10
After Bugs Bunny criticizes a championship boxer for beating up a boxer much smaller than him, the champion decides to challenge Bugs to a fight.
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#31 - Elmer's Pet Rabbit
Looney Tunes - Season 1941 - Episode 1
Elmer purchases a domestic rabbit, who happens to be Bugs Bunny. Bugs, unimpressed with the lifestyle as a pet, decides to teach Elmer a lesson.
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#32 - Daffy Dilly
Looney Tunes - Season 1948 - Episode 28
Tired of selling gag novelties on the street, Daffy tries for the million-dollar reward offered by J.P. Cubish for the first person to make him laugh.
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#33 - Zoom and Bored
Looney Tunes - Season 1957 - Episode 19
Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his usual unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.
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#34 - Hook, Line, and Stinker
Looney Tunes - Season 1958 - Episode 16
Wile E. Coyote hopes to catch the Road Runner using a mallet, a cooking pan, a TNT stick, a balloon, and a piano dropped from a precipice. The last of these results in Wile E. falling to the road below along with the piano and ending up with 88 teeth.
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#35 - Baton Bunny
Looney Tunes - Season 1959 - Episode 1
Bugs conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.
#36 - Hare Conditioned
Looney Tunes - Season 1945 - Episode 13
Everything seems to be going all right when Bugs starts working in a department store. That is, until he gets involved with taxidermy.
#37 - Transylvania 6-5000
Looney Tunes - Season 1963 - Episode 15
After getting lost on his vacation, Bugs ends up in the middle of Transylvania. He decides to get a room for the night in a nearby castle, which of course turns out to be home to a vampire. The bloodsucker is looking to make Bugs his next meal, but the bunny has a few tricks, as well as a few magic words, up his sleeve.
#38 - Hare Tonic
Looney Tunes - Season 1945 - Episode 17
Bugs Bunny tricks Elmer Fudd into believing his house has been quarantined for something called "rabbititus.
#39 - The Abominable Snow Rabbit
Looney Tunes - Season 1961 - Episode 8
While on vacation, Bugs and Daffy take a wrong turn and get lost in the Himalayas. There they encounter the Abominable Snow Man.
#40 - A Pest in the House
Looney Tunes - Season 1947 - Episode 14
A sleepy man demands total quiet from hotel manager Elmer Fudd, but bellhop Daffy's noisy antics keep prompting the exasperated guest to sock Elmer in the face.
#41 - Scaredy Cat
Looney Tunes - Season 1948 - Episode 33
Porky and Sylvester arrive at their new home, which looks creepy. Sylvester is so frightened by the house that he sneaks into Porky's bedroom at night to sleep. Porky thinks the house is a charming old place. However, by the end of the cartoon, Sylvester gets exactly what he expected.
#42 - Whoa, Be-Gone!
Looney Tunes - Season 1958 - Episode 7
Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field
#43 - Cat Feud
Looney Tunes - Season 1958 - Episode 20
Marc Anthony, the ferocious guard dog, falls for a cute cuddly little kitty. An evil cat tries to swipe the kitty and it's up to Marc Anthony to protect the sweet feline.
#44 - Go Fly a Kit
Looney Tunes - Season 1957 - Episode 5
A kitten is adopted by a maternal eagle, who teaches the young cat to fly. The flying cat uses his extraordinary ability to save a female cat from a bulldog. These two cats have flying kittens all of whom fly south with their father each winter and return north in the spring to rejoin their mother.
#45 - To Duck or Not to Duck
Looney Tunes - Season 1943 - Episode 5
Daffy challenges duck hunter Elmer to a boxing match, rigged in his favor with the collusion of the duck referee. In the stands, Elmer's dog Larrimore suspects that something funny is going on, but he's drowned out by Daffy's all-duck cheering section.
#46 - Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
Looney Tunes - Season 1944 - Episode 5
The three bears set a trap to catch Goldilocks but their carrot soup attracts Bugs Bunny.
#47 - My Favorite Duck
Looney Tunes - Season 1942 - Episode 38
Porky tries to relax on a hunting and fishing trip, but Daffy, smugly pointing out the "No Duck Hunting" signs, subjects him to constant irritation. Then the "Duck Hunting Season Open" signs start going up.
#48 - For Scent-imental Reasons
Looney Tunes - Season 1949 - Episode 29
Pepe Le Pew chases a female cat in a perfume shop until she turns the tables on him.
#49 - Tom Thumb in Trouble
Looney Tunes - Season 1940 - Episode 18
Tom's father mistakenly believes that the little bird who's just rescued his tiny son from drowning in the dishwater is attacking the boy and drives it away. Tom sets off to find the bird and gets lost in a fierce snowstorm.
#50 - Often an Orphan
Looney Tunes - Season 1949 - Episode 21
Abandoned in the country by his old master, Charlie Dog tries to force himself upon farmer Porky Pig, playing upon his sympathies with a histrionic rendition of the horrors of big-city life.