Wow...It's rare to discover such an untapped vein of wrong in the wild.Ordinaryundone said:
Have you tried asking them? Given there's 10 here? Out of 12.
Poll: Do people even know who created Tom & Jerry anymore?
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Have you tried asking them? Given there's 10 here? Out of 12.
Wasn't it created by Bama Margera or something like that?
A good joke will always be a good joke, whether you tell it now or 40 years later.
So were the "Looney Tunes". Art doesn't age the same way as people do. Some of it (like "Tom & Jerry", for example) don't seem to age at all.Ordinaryundone said:
A good joke will always be a good joke, whether you tell it now or 40 years later.
I couldn't tell you off the top of my head, I can now though. Honestly it's not an issue I'm much bother about though since the characters have ceased to be relevant for some time. They've become static nostalgia property and thus are on the chopping block unless Hanna Barbera does something with them.
By the way, the guy who worked at the "Lion becomes Tom's face" cartoons was Chuck Jones, one of the true fathers of the Looney Tunes and one of the most fundamental personalities in the history of theatrical cartoons (second only to Tex Avery). And despite that, yes, his version of Tom & Jerry wasn't as good as the Fred Quimby/Hanna-Barbera ones (1940-1960), but they were still A LOT better than Gene Deitch's ones!Felstaff said:I always thought Fred Quimby was the creator of Tom & Jerry. Of course, I now know that he's not; his name was just the largest (being the producer and all) and seemed attached to the best episodes. As a five-year-old I always knew it was going to be a great episode when I saw that distinctive "Fred Quimby" signature title...
All roiiiight! I know it's not gonna be a duff episode!
...and a shit episode when I saw the MGM logo change to Tom's face.
Not that it matters; I think the Hanna-Barbera pairing have received enough recognition for their work. Besides, (according to Wikipedia) it was Quimby who set the ball rolling by flying in the face of criticism that the show was 'too basic' and getting Hanna-Barbera to focus solely on it.
Of course, I'm being blasé about the whole thing, because I can't muster the effort to care that some guy (who I also don't care about) got the creator wrong. It was a great show, long before I was born, and it's won its plaudits.
I guess I'm just not the kinda guy who gets heated when someone doesn't know the facts about something I love, you know? Other people's ignorance doesn't taint my enjoyment of something. I guess that's how Kirk must have felt on the bridge of the Millennium Falcon.
Well... Looney Tunes have been recently remade in a brand new show (and, personally, it rocks!), so I think there's hope for old school characters if they can be succesfully re-adapted to match modern-day tastes instead of trying, fruitlessly, to recapture the essence of the classic cartoons resulting, in turn, in a distasteful feeling of anachronistic deliverance... aka "Tom & Jerry Tales" sucks.Ordinaryundone said:
I did know who created them but I guess I forgot, until I was reminded by you just now, but really I don't know why I should even care. I'm not particularly interested in Tom and Jerry, its a kid's show, with nothing to appeal to adults, and I am no longer a kid, and I never liked it all that much as a kid either.
You know, I saw that article, a red flag went up, and I moved on. I'm not really sure it matters if people know who created them. The history of animation may be fascinating to a select few, but is it really required reading?
God I just remembered how much I enjoyed Tom and Jerry as a kid in the freakin' 90's, thank you.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Tom and Jerry were originally created by Hanna and Barbera.
Gene Deitch and Chuck Jones both worked on it during the 60s though.
Gene Deitch and Chuck Jones both worked on it during the 60s though.
For the longest time I thought Hanna Barbera was just the company name, no idea that they were people. But then I though the same thing for Hewlett Packard and my dad works there. So I guess the moral of the story is some people just dont give a fuck.
Though I do agree that if your writing an article for something, all facts should be correct
Though I do agree that if your writing an article for something, all facts should be correct
And as a film critic, that's fine. But in regards to your first post of the thread, you may want to adjust your expectations of what has any significance to the common person who aren't involved in a field that directly rates to such knowledge.Madhog said:
