But it’s impossible with Tom and Jerry around. See photos: Mickey Rooney: A Life and Career in Pictures I noticed the dog, Spike, talks in the first episode, “Spike Gets Schooled,” but Tom ...

Apart from Tom and Jerry's famous fights, Tom hits rival dog Spike with a baseball bat several times, but also gets hit by a bus at one point, and is badly thrown to the ground by the hotel's manager.

Tom and Jerry cartoons, filled this need ... and feature some of the other characters from the show, like Spike the dog, and Tom's lady cat friend. For the most part the models look nice, though ...

In later shorts, Tom and Jerry were depicted as friends. Some of the shorts introduced other recurring characters like the dogs Spike and Tyke, the cats Butch and Toodles Galore, the mouse Nibbles ...