# What is your favorite cat and mouse cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749 "2010-12-29T20:42:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/1 "2010-12-29T20:42:11Z")
My favorite is _Tom and Jerry_, which essentially started the genre. Very close behind was Itchy & Scratchy. [CΦИP Et SEPOHЖ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxYdj9dGcI) was also excellent, although only one episode is known to have made it through the Iron Curtain. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/2 "2010-12-29T22:17:06Z")
[It’s Got Me Again](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcKLuwm2fc), a one-shot Merrie Melody from 1932, was nominated for the Best Cartoon Oscar that year. It’s got fantastic music (including the jazzy title tune), unusually creative mice, and a kitteh who is not at all cutesy or cuddly, but a real terror. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/3 "2010-12-29T22:21:04Z")
Tom and Jerry because I grew up watching them. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/4 "2010-12-29T22:48:53Z")
Itchy and Scratchy are the clear winners. Observe the art and beauty demonstrated in Roger Meyers’ full length musical spectacular [Scratchtasia](http://video.delfi.ee/video/2u8qWCfG/). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/5 "2010-12-30T18:13:40Z")
What about Krazy Kat and Ignatz? ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/6 "2010-12-30T18:16:10Z")
Itchy and Scratchy, despite having their own SNES game (which was meh, TBH), are not full fledged characters in the same right as T&J. That goes doubly for Worker and Parasite. And I don’t know who the others are. Well, I know Sylvester and Speedy, but that’s not really a standard duo in the same sense at Sylvester and Tweety. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/7 "2010-12-30T18:17:36Z")
Tom and Jerry, Fred Quimby era, and the rest nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/8 "2010-12-30T18:18:21Z")
I abhor _Tom & Jerry_ and always have. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/9 "2010-12-30T18:21:53Z")
Pixie and Dixie ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/10 "2010-12-30T18:27:04Z")
I voted for Itchy & Scratchy, but I’m wondering if Ren & Stimpy should be in your poll since Ren is on of those rat dogs? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/11 "2010-12-30T18:33:27Z")
Which one’s the mouse? ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/12 "2010-12-30T18:50:44Z")
The poll is also missing Claude the Cat, with his tormentors Hubie and Bertie the mice, from Looney Tunes. That would be my first choice, easily. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/13 "2010-12-31T05:44:25Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Which one’s the mouse? Itchy. Itchy’s a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/14 "2010-12-31T14:49:05Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > What about Krazy Kat and Ignatz? There’s the comic strip “Krazy Kat”, which was a thing of wonder, and then there were the cartoons loosely based on the strip. Not so wondrous. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/15 "2010-12-31T17:37:13Z")
**[Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinx](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_and_Dixie_and_Mr._Jinks)** ("I hate those meeces to pieces!). There was also **Kit and Kaboodle** in the old **National Lampoon** , which covered the same ground as **Itchy and Scratchy** but ten years sooner (and with more violence). It’s undetermined if it was the inspiration for I&S – Groening hasn’t mentioned it, but he was probably exposed to it. Overall, though, cat vs. mouse cartoons are all pretty dire. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/16 "2010-12-31T18:22:39Z")
Well, I voted for Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales, but really, I just meant to vote for Sylvester. Sure, Tweety was a bird, but Sylvester and Tweety blow every cat and mouse team out of the water and halfway round the world. I think Sylvester must’ve been the most versatile of the Warner Brothers Cartoon Characters. Besides Tweety, he was teamed with Porky, Speedy, Foghorn Leghorn, his son Sylvester Jr., Rocky and Muggsy, and probably some others I’ve neglected to mention. Not to mention his Oscar winning performance in “Birds Anonymous”. Yes, Tom and Jerry won more Oscars, but that was all a fix, I swear. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cat-and-mouse-cartoon/565749/17 "2010-12-31T19:23:10Z")
One better than average one: **[Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courageous_Cat_and_Minute_Mouse)**. You might call it a Batman knockoff, but I doubt Bob Kane minded – he created it. Wins the contest on theme song alone.