What is the Term for the Relationship Tom and Jerry Have?

[QUOTE=mobo85]
Besides the Van Bueren Tom and Jerry (renamed “Dick and Larry” for some television broadcasts), there was another famous duo who also went by that name. You probably know them better as Simon and Garfunkel.
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Didn’t S&G name themselves after the Cat and Mouse Duo?

[QUOTE=mobo85]
You probably know them better as Simon and Garfunkel.
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I like the one where SImon sticks Garfunkel’s tail in the waffle iron.

[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Didn’t S&G name themselves after the Cat and Mouse Duo?
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I’m pretty sure they did. I’m just pointing out other Tom and Jerries. There’s also a cocktail by that name.

Symbio-antagonists. I just made that up, as far as I know.

The original Tom & Jerry were characters in Life in London by George Egan, a novel about rich young-men-about-town set in Regency London:

Hanna-Barbaric

Hostile dependency?

[QUOTE=mrklutz]
Siblings. “Nobody hits my brother – except me.”
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You might be on the right track here. They’re kind of like a dysfunctional family. They constantly fight, and to all external appearances hate each other, but if some outside force threatens, they’ll temporarily set aside their differences to fight it.

Acetate.