The WORST episodes of Tom and Jerry Tales
Every episode of Tom and Jerry Tales ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Tom and Jerry Tales!
Everyone’s favorite slapstick superstars are back! Tom and Jerry star in their first US television series in more than 13 years. Look for the endless rivalry and over the top mayhem that have made Tom and Jerry perennial cartoon favorites. Scheduled to air on The CW Kids (which will be replacing Kids WB when the UPN and WB merge into one network) during a new morning block entitled, "Too Big For Your TV" on Saturday mornings later this fall. (2006)
#1 - Beefcake Tom
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/28/2007
Flabby, out-of-shape Tom can't even chase Jerry anymore. He decides to enroll in a gym to get back his fighting physique. Jerry decides to tease him and gives him his own brand of exercise regime. At the end, Tom gains muscles and Jerry decides that they should train some more. However, due to Jerry's excessiveness, Tom uses him as a muscle pumper.
#2 - Invasion of the Body Slammers
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/27/2007
A mysterious space ship lands on the garden next to Tom's, Jerry's and Mrs. Two Shoes' home. Jerry hears the crash and goes to check it out. A mysterious shape-shifting blob appears and becomes Jerry's double. Tom wakes up and tries to get the faux Jerry. Tom tries to wake up Mrs. Two Shoes, but she kicks him downstairs. Tom becomes scared. The alien now becomes Tom's double. Tom runs away to the space ship. Jerry joins Tom and both Tom and Jerry fly into outer space. Mrs. Two-Shoes angrily scolds "Tom", who grins creepily. The alien rather looks like a John K. design, particularly when smiling.
#3 - Adventures in Penguin Sitting
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/13/2007
Jerry befriends an escaped penguin, whose appetite for frozen treats leads to trouble for Tom, especially after a freezer malfunction causes the inside of the house to be covered in ice.
#4 - Cat Show Catastrophe
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/6/2007
Tom is entered into a cat show, which Jerry and Nibbles try to ruin his chances of winning as revenge for his mistreating them earlier. At first their attempts backfire, actually earning Tom the judges' favor and points. However, slipping him a depilatory soon causes Tom's hair to fall out and with a countdown to 1, he is disqualified. Jerry and Nibbles, disguised as adorable kittens, win the grand prize. Watch for a John Kricfalusi-esque close up of Tom's unusually hairy eyebrows, possibly a nod to the thick-browed Tom of the Chuck Jones era. Also note the judge's similarity in appearance to...
#5 - Don't Bring Your Pet to School Day
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/6/2007
A girl brings Tom to class as her pet for show and tell. Tom must contend with both Jerry's antics and his seatmate, a lethargic rabbit, otherwise he'll be sent into the dog pound! Even though Tom gets into trouble with a frog, he wins the show and tell.
#6 - Which Witch!
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/29/2007
Tom is servant to a witch who needs a mouse to complete her magic potion. But Jerry escapes, which leads to a chase where they encounter another witch, who's feuding with the other. Each witch uses the cat and mouse to play pranks on the other, escalating to the point where Tom and Jerry decide to put a stop to it. Once the witches make peace, it leads to a shocking revelation for the duo.
#7 - I Dream of Meanie
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/2007
Parody of Disney's Aladdin. In the ancient Middle East, Spike is a genie dog who lives in that magic lamp grants wishes.
#8 - Zent Out of Shape
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/2007
Tom is a Buddhist monk who tries to achieve inner peace through silent meditation, a sand garden, and a bonsai tree. Jerry, however, repeatedly disturbs Tom's quest for serenity by playing a flute and drum loudly. Their fighting awakens a cranky Godzilla-like creature (with Spike's face) from the ocean depths. However, the creature loves Jerry's music, and wants to dance with Tom (who seems to be debating if this is preferable to being eaten) far into the night.
#9 - Catch Me Though You Can't
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/2007
Tom is a lowly tab tech to a mad scientist who has invented a speed ray. Tom inadvertently chases Jerry into the path of the beam, giving him super speed guest stars Tom Kenny as the mad scientist. To catch a faster-than-ever mouse, Tom uses various speed enhancing devices—a scooter and a large tire among them—but to no avail. Eventually, Tom flies by on a chair attached to a hot-air balloon with the speed ray mounted on it. He zaps Jerry, rendering him to his original speed, but he drifts too near some flagpoles that pop the balloon and sends him spiraling out of control. The speed ray falls near Spike, who uses it as a shooting-gallery prop, blasting Tom repeatedly
#10 - Spook House Mouse
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 5/5/2007
Tom and Jerry's antics lead them into a closed-down haunted house attraction where they are faced with enchanted mirrors, a live roller coaster, and most important of all, ghosts. At the end, the duo are put to work in the freak show, due to turning white from their experience in the haunted house.
#11 - Monster Con
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/27/2007
Van Helsing, the famous legendary monster hunter, and his assistant, Tom, stop at a hotel, where a Monster Convention is taking place. While there, the cat uses some of Van Helsing's equipment to try to catch Jerry, but he catches a few ghosts instead. Later, Tom gets bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a panther, which makes him a target for Van Helsing, who mistakes him for a werewolf cat and seeks to add him to his collection.
#12 - Tin Cat of Tomorrow
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/28/2007
While chasing Jerry, Tom accidentally ruins the house and Jerry hides in his mousehole. Mrs. Two-Shoes yells at Tom and orders a robocat called the Verminator 7000. Tom gets booted out of the house. Verminator attacks Jerry and boots him out of the house as well. Tom and Jerry work together to destroy Verminator. They did it and Mrs. Two-Shoes brings Tom back to house. Verminator falls into garbage and Tom and Jerry become rivals again.
#13 - Jackhammered Cat
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 3/3/2007
Tom chases Jerry throughout the city. Jerry finds a hole in the fence around the construction yard and goes through it. Tom climbs over the fence and sees that the workers are going to have SOME feast today (walnut cake, turkey, lettuce sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, peanut butter cake, and fruit). Tom tries to get the food but is outsmarted by Jerry and scared away by Spike.
#14 - Battle of the Power Tools
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/3/2007
The boys are poor and living together in a run-down shack. However, their numbers come in, and they become rich overnight. They split their millions and each sets out to build a mansion across from each other. However, Tom is jealous of how well his furry friend is doing with his building project, to say nothing of being plagued by incompetent, lazy, surly union workmen. Trying to do the labor himself only exacerbates matters and drains his bank account. At the end Jerry and Tom both have sumptuous homes—but Tom's broke, and his house falls away to reveal it's just a hollow shell around the shack from the opening of the picture, that too fell away to reveal Tom.
#15 - Treasure Map Scrap
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 2/24/2007
Tom and Jerry are on a raft sailing towards an island in search of treasure. Tom traps Jerry and decides jump into the freezing water to retrieve the treasure. However, Jerry has earned the friendship of a baby dolphin that is able to save him and defeat Tom. Near the end of the episode, the mother dolphin appears and scares away Tom. They retrieve the chest back onto the raft, but Tom doesn't get any gold.
#16 - Beach Bully Bingo
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 2/24/2007
It's summer and Jerry shows Tom a picture in his diary that shows them being friends and going to the beach. Thus, they agree and go to the beach, but Butch and Spike arrive first. Tom and Jerry team up while Butch and Spike are the rivals. Tom controls Butch, and Jerry controls Spike. Tom and Jerry are actually trying to get the bullies off the beach, though. Finally, both Butch and Spike are driven away from the beach, and Tom, Jerry, and their new girlfriends, play happily there. Note: look for references to "Muscle Beach Tom" here..
#17 - Martian Mice
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/17/2007
Tom and Jerry chase each other around on a farm. Tom pretends to be a chicken, but a UFO catches both Tom and Jerry, thinking that Tom is a chicken. The aliens in the UFO (giant alien mice, that is) need 2000 eggs for the queen's cake, and they already have 5 (actually 4, as Jerry is hiding in one of them). Thus, the aliens tell Tom to lay 1995 more eggs. He tries as hard as he can to lay those eggs, but Tom fails. The aliens try to put him in an extractor, and he runs away. They search the kitchen and are then confronted by the princess, who always reminds them of a 'cream puffs' incident the two servants got in trouble for. They make the cake anyway, unaware they had baked Tom and Jerry into it, and they deliver it to the queen. However, the queen discovers Tom and Jerry and demands her servants to "put it back and get a real chicken, OR ELSE!". The servants try to get a real chicken this time, but abduct a cow instead. Tom is about to chase Jerry again—but then inexplicably lays an egg!
#18 - Cat Nebula
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/17/2007
Jerry and Nibbles (Tuffy) are in a space ship. They are running out of food, due to Tuffy's eating habits. Finally, Jerry manages to find some dehydrated energy capsules, but he swallows an entire year's worth and grows enormously overweight. Then a doctor, Droopy, comes to check on Jerry. Later, an alien space cat, obviously similar to the appearance of Tom, wants to eat Jerry, and they end up running around chasing each other on the ship. Finally they are launched from the ship's torpedo and apparently killed by the explosion, as they have become constellations in the sky with Tuffy saluting them.
#19 - The Itch
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/2007
Tom is a crooked tax collector who finagles the poor mice of a village out of every coin they have, even Jerry. A band of Beatle-esque rats sets up at the outskirts of town and performs a rock song called "The Itch": (which only consists of the line "Swing around and curtsy. Diggin' in the dirtsy. Twitchin'. Stichin'.", "We all dance the Itch."). The song is about to play until Jerry tries to play flute with the band, but is booted unceremoniously offstage. When the song starts all the mice dance in a weird way. Jerry then realizes why the audience is dancing—the music is controlling swarms of fleas, making them move with frentic scratching. With some help from Tom and the band, Jerry convinces the villagers to leap off a nearby bluff into the lake, washing the pests off. Later the grateful band rocks on to an appreciative flealess crowd. Jerry is the featured floutist, and Tom is the ticket taker.
#20 - Medieval Menace
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/2007
Tom chases Jerry through the woods and towards a castle. Tom ends up in the bedroom of a little princess, engaging in a tea party with Winnie-the-Pooh from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Bugs Bunny from Looney Tunes and Garfield from The Garfield Show while reading a fairy tale story to them. She doesn't seem to care much for him. The chase resumes. The cat and mouse duel in a wizard's lab, then the throne room with magic wands, turning one another into all sorts of strange things. When Tom gets turned into a frog, the princess estatically kisses him, thinking he's a prince transformed by a spell. When he turns back into a mangy old cat, the girl becomes enraged, forcing Tom to dash back out of the castle into a moat, which is the home of a huge alligator. After a few tense seconds, Tom suddenly lets out a deafening scream. The alligator then chases Tom offscreen. Then more chomping sounds and loud screams are heard (this is Tom's classic scream by the way, rarely used or not used at all in all post-Hanna-Barbera productions). Meanwhile, Jerry—turned into an elephant—enjoys the princess' hospitality and a nice cup of tea.
#21 - Hockey Schtick
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 2/2/2008
On a cold winter day, Jerry decides to freeze the pond go ice skating. But Tom wants to play hockey and attempts to engage the little mouse in a physical confrontation.
#22 - Catfish Follies
Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 3/22/2008
Tom and Jerry go fishing and are pitted against Butch in the form of a catfish, who wants to eat Jerry, but has to avoid becoming a catch for Tom.
#23 - Babysitting Blues
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 3/22/2008
Tom and Jerry babysit their nephews for the day, which leads to more trouble than usual courtesy of their being very mischievious.
#24 - Monkey Chow
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 3/8/2008
Fed up with Jerry in the house, Tom and his owner move to Malaysia. They are touring the exotic monkey garden when Tom finds out Jerry followed them so he throws him down the river and gets gumballs as a reward. Meanwhile, one mischievous monkey swipes the woman's purse. She orders Tom to get it back for her, but not before he goes through its various contents, which leads to more trouble, including going for a joyride in her car and using her cell phone to make a long distance order for pizza.
#25 - Kangadoofus
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 3/8/2008
When Tom and Jerry travel to Australia, Jerry is able to blend in with a family of kangaroos after being chased by Tom, who schemes to get the mouse away from their mother by any means possible.