Tom And Jerry has been a staple of animation for decades now. The simple formula of a cat and mouse going back and forth provided creators Joseph Hanna and William Barbera ample opportunity to really flex their creative muscles and come up with some of the most mind numbingly nutty scenarios that mainstream audiences would ever see in cartoon form. Yeah, the Loony Tunes stuff that Warner Brothers animation division was putting out was plenty twisted, but Tom And Jerry almost always equal and frequently best Bugs and company in the violence-as-comedy department and the world is all the better for it.