The BEST episodes of Tom and Jerry season 1940
Every episode of Tom and Jerry season 1940, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tom and Jerry season 1940!
This is all the Tom and Jerry shorts, from 1940 to 1967. The first 114 are from the Hanna-Barbera era (1940 – 1958), the next 13 are from the Gene Deitch era (1960 – 1962), and the last 34 are from the Chuck Jones era (1963 – 1967).
#1 - Mouse Cleaning
Season 1940 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/11/1948
As soon as Mammy finishes cleaning the house, in come Tom and Jerry to mess it all up. She cleans up the house again, but tells Tom that if he creates another mess, when she comes back from the store, he's going to have to leave. Jerry sees his chance to get Tom out of the house..
#2 - Salt Water Tabby
Season 1940 - Episode 31 - Aired 7/12/1947
While Tom woos a female cat at the beach, Jerry tries to disrupt his fun by playing pranks on him.
#3 - The Invisible Mouse
Season 1940 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/27/1947
Tom is chasing Jerry as usual, when Jerry dives into a bottle of ink to hide. Not noticing, Tom dashes off in which he thinks is the direction the mouse went. When Jerry emerges from the bottle, he finds the bottom half of his body invisible! He then realized that the ink he was in is invisible ink, so he covers his whole body in it and goes after Tom, planning on giving him a good scare.
#4 - Hatch Up Your Troubles
Season 1940 - Episode 41 - Aired 5/14/1949
A woodpecker egg falls from its nest, and rolls to Jerry's door. It hatches, and Jerry puts it back in its nest. The woodpecker follows Jerry back to his hole, and that's when it goes over by Tom..
#5 - The Cat And The Mermouse
Season 1940 - Episode 43 - Aired 9/3/1949
Tom drowns in a lake, and goes to the bottom. There, he finds a mermouse, and then tries to capture it and eat it. The mermouse doesn't give in so easily, though.
#6 - Jerry's Diary
Season 1940 - Episode 45 - Aired 10/22/1949
After getting tired of chasing Jerry, Tom sits down and finds Jerry's Diary. He opens it and starts to read it, showing clips of past episodes.
#7 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
Season 1940 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/14/1947
Jerry drinks a potion that makes him grow super-strong. He decides to go after Tom because this time, he's stronger. Once the potion wears off, Tom drinks some of it himself and grows bigger and super-strong. But he then immediately shrinks to half the size of Jerry, then to the size of an ant, and runs away from Jerry, who proceeds to chase him with a fly-swatter.
#8 - Part Time Pal
Season 1940 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/15/1947
Tom is told by his owner, Mammy Two-Shoes, to guard the refrigerator for the night and keep Jerry away from it, or else he'll be thrown out of the house. Upon hearing this, Jerry outwits Tom, but goes too far... to a point where Tom falls into a barrel of cider and gets drunk. The drunk Tom is nice to Jerry, but makes a mess in the kitchen, among other things that are against Mammy's orders. So Jerry does his best to snap Tom out of it before the cat gets into some serious trouble with Mammy.
#9 - Love That Pup
Season 1940 - Episode 44 - Aired 10/1/1949
Mistakenly grabbing Spike's son, instead of Jerry, Spike lets Tom have it. Jerry makes himself comfortable over by Spike, while Tom tries to devise a plan to get Jerry without having either of the dogs notice.
#10 - Kitty Foiled
Season 1940 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/1/1948
Tom has finally caught Jerry and is about to eat him. But the house canary can't bare that and comes to Jerry's rescue. With that, Tom goes after the both of them, but the teamwork between Jerry and the canary outdoes Tom completely.
#11 - The Lonesome Mouse
Season 1940 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/22/1943
After being framed by Jerry for breaking something, Tom is thrown out of the house by Mammy. Jerry is overjoyed that he has finally won. He sleeps in Tom's bed, drinks his milk, and makes himself comfortable in Tom's place. After a while, Jerry gets really bored and lonely over the fact that no one is chasing him. There's nothing to do. So, Jerry goes outside to find Tom, and Mammy screams for Tom to get the mouse out of the house. Tom chases Jerry all over the house for pretend to satisfy Mammy. Once Tom claims his territory again, Jerry comes back and makes Tom angry. And the chase starts all over again. Jerry is glad to have the excitement back.
#12 - The Truce Hurts
Season 1940 - Episode 35 - Aired 7/17/1948
Tired of fighting, Tom, Jerry, and Spike sign a truce. Now, they protect each other, sleep next to one another, and so on. Until a big steak gets dropped by their house, that's when they start to fight over who gets the bigger share.
#13 - Heavenly Puss
Season 1940 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/9/1949
Tom gets killed by a piano, and starts to float up to Heaven. But he doesn't get to go in, because he's been trying to get Jerry all these years. The only way for him to get into Heaven is to have Jerry sign a piece of paper, stating as an apology. If Jerry doesn't sign it.. then Tom's going down under.
#14 - Old Rockin' Chair Tom
Season 1940 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/18/1948
Mammy Two-Shoes is being "attacked" by Jerry again, so she once more orders Tom to get rid of him. When he epically fails once again, Mammy decides that Tom is too old to work in the mouse-catching business anymore, and brings in a younger, faster, and more hyper cat named Lightning that disposes of Jerry in an instant. Proud of the new cat, Mammy tells him to take good care of Tom, and goes to bed. But when Lightning frames Tom for raiding the refrigerator, Tom gets kicked out of the house, as well. So both Tom and Jerry come up with a plan to get rid of Lightning once and for all.
#15 - Puss N' Toots
Season 1940 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/30/1942
Mammy brings home a cute little kitten who just happens to be a girl. Immediately when Tom sees the kitten, he is smitten. Tom tries to act cool around the kitten, and he gives her presents (such as fish). Jerry wants to ruin this.
#16 - Dog Trouble
Season 1940 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/18/1942
Tom is chasing Jerry again, and they run into a bull dog. The bull dog gets angry, and starts to chase Tom AND Jerry.
#17 - Trap Happy
Season 1940 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/29/1946
When Tom loses his patience with chasing Jerry constantly, he hires a mouse exterminator (Butch) to get rid of Jerry once and for all. Once Butch arrives, everything goes according to plan... but not for long. Jerry quickly gains the upper hand, backfiring all capture attempts upon both Tom and Butch.
#18 - The Milky Waif
Season 1940 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/1946
A lost baby mouse is found by Jerry. His name is Nibbles. He's always hungry, and eating anything he can get his teeth into. Jerry takes care of the baby, while he does his best to keep him far away from Tom. But Nibbles' hunger gets the better of him, when he proceeds to drink Tom's milk. Tom chases Nibbles around the house, as Jerry tries to save him, repeatedly.
#19 - Tee For Two
Season 1940 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/21/1945
Tom and Jerry are at a golf course. Tom uses Jerry as a tee. After playing atrociously, and getting hit with a ton of golf balls, he is attacked by everything on and off the course. Jerry, of course, does whatever he can to get back at Tom for using him as a tee.
#20 - Sufferin' Cats!
Season 1940 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/16/1943
Jerry is being chased into an alley, and is seen by an alley cat. The alley cat wants to eat him, but Tom steps in, and says that's his mouse. The two cats fight each other for Jerry, as he runs away trying to hide. The alley cat says to share the mouse, but Tom wants Jerry all for himself. So, they race to see who will catch Jerry first.
#21 - A Mouse In The House
Season 1940 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/30/1947
Mammy Two-Shoes is sick and tired of Jerry, period. So she enlists both Tom and Butch to catch him, saying that whichever cat is successful in the capture gets to stay in the house, and whoever fails gets kicked out along with Jerry.
#22 - Polka-Dot Puss
Season 1940 - Episode 39 - Aired 2/26/1949
Mammy Two-Shoes is about to put Tom out for the night, but since there's a lightning storm going on, Tom fakes being sick in order to stay in. Mammy falls for it, and allows Tom to sleep indoors. Tom is delighted that his trick worked, but Jerry is annoyed at this, so he paints red dots all over Tom's face to make him actually look sick. Tom falls for this, so he succumbs to letting Jerry take care of him... in quite a brutal way.
#23 - Baby Puss
Season 1940 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1943
A little girl is dollying up Tom to make him look like a baby cat. Jerry laughs at him, prompting Tom to chase him around the house into a dollhouse. Jerry dresses up like a doll to escape from Tom, without him noticing. Jerry shows the alley cats from outside the way Tom looks, and they laugh and make fun of him. The alley cats come in the house, and dress Tom in diapers and REALLY make him look like a baby. That's when the little girl appears, and makes the alley cats leave in a hurry. The little girl continues to turn Tom into a baby cat, while Jerry and the alley cats watch while laughing at him.
#24 - The Yankee Doodle Mouse
Season 1940 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/26/1943
Tom is attacking Jerry with everything that's in the house. He throws vases, paper airplanes, lamps, and anything he can get his hands on to get Jerry. Basically, it's like a war is going on. Jerry retaliates by using a cheese grater, and using fireworks to fight Tom back with. (I.E. Yankee Doodle Mouse) They do the same thing fighting back and forth for the rest of the episode. It ends with Jerry winning the battle, as he blows up Tom using the fireworks, turning him into an American Flag.
#25 - The Bodyguard
Season 1940 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/22/1944
In a heroic effort, Jerry rescues Spike from the dogcatcher. Spike thanks him by telling him to whistle whenever he needs help if Tom chases him.