{ "id": "ep325rv4jq", "slug": "tom-and-jerry-special-shorts", "title": "Tom and Jerry Special Shorts", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series", "label": "Animated television series (individual series)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas", "label": "Children's animated adventure and fantasy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas.comedy-and-slice-of-life-series", "label": "Comedy and slice-of-life series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas.comedy-and-slice-of-life-series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas.comedy-and-slice-of-life-series.yr-2020-2024", "label": "Premiered 2020 to 2024", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas.comedy-and-slice-of-life-series.yr-2020-2024" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas", "label": "United States · 2021 and later: Children's animated adventure and fantasy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021", "label": "United States · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series", "label": "Animated television series (individual series)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas", "label": "Children's animated adventure and fantasy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Tom and Jerry Special Shorts is a 2021 two-episode HBO Max animated series by the Looney Tunes Cartoons team, with On a Roll and The House That Cat Built; later removed and unavailable officially.", "snippet": "Tom and Jerry Special Shorts is a 2021 two-episode HBO Max animated series by the Looney Tunes Cartoons team, with On a Roll and The House That Cat Built; later removed and unavailable officially.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.animated-series.children-s-animated-adventure-and-fantas.comedy-and-slice-of-life-series.yr-2020-2024", "markdown": "# Tom and Jerry Special Shorts\n\n**Tom and Jerry Special Shorts** is a 2021 American animated web series of two slapstick shorts based on the Tom and Jerry characters, produced by [Warner Bros. Animation](https://www.edgepedia.org/warner-bros-animation) and released on [HBO Max](https://www.edgepedia.org/hbo-max) on February 20, 2021.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) The shorts were made by the team behind *Looney Tunes Cartoons*, launched without prior announcement as a tie-in to the live-action/animated *Tom & Jerry* film released the following week, and were later removed from the service, leaving them without an official streaming home.[2](https://www.rotoscopers.com/2021/02/21/new-tom-and-jerry-shorts-are-streaming-on-hbo-max/) • [1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Premiere | February 20, 2021, on HBO Max; both episodes aired the same day[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) |\n| Episodes | \"On a Roll\" and \"The House That Cat Built\", one season of two shorts[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tom_and_jerry_special_shorts/s01) |\n| Running time | 4 to 5 minutes per short[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) |\n| Developer | Peter Browngardt, creator of *Looney Tunes Cartoons*; produced by Warner Bros. Animation with Turner Entertainment[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) |\n| Voices | William Hanna (archive recordings, uncredited) and Andrew Dickman as Tom and Jerry; Keone Young as the sushi chef[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) |\n| Rating | TV-PG; IMDb user rating 7.9/10 from about 166 votes[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tom_and_jerry_special_shorts/s01) • [4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/ratings/) |\n| Availability | Removed from HBO Max in March 2021, restored in July 2021, removed again in August 2022; not released on physical media or VOD[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Episodes\n\nBoth shorts premiered on February 20, 2021.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tom_and_jerry_special_shorts/s01)\n\n1. **\"On a Roll\"** (S01E01). After spotting Jerry racing about the eatery, the sushi chef instructs Tom that he must justify his presence there by nabbing the mouse who has been taking sushi.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tom_and_jerry_special_shorts/s01) On IMDb the episode holds a 7.8/10 rating from 44 votes.[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/episodes/)\n2. **\"The House That Cat Built\"** (S01E02). When Jerry invades Tom's new extra-deluxe, extra-large cat castle, Tom is determined to get Jerry out.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tom_and_jerry_special_shorts/s01) Its IMDb rating is 7.5/10 from 41 votes.[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/episodes/)\n\n### Place in the franchise\n\nThe two shorts count among the 166 Tom and Jerry shorts produced between 1940 and 2021, in this case as the two HBO Max special shorts in a list otherwise dominated by 162 theatrical shorts.[10](https://bottmanhornblood.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/8/6/148655577/tom-and-jerry-movie-list-download.pdf) In franchise listings they sit between *The Tom and Jerry Show* (2014–2021) and *[Tom and Jerry in New York](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-in-new-york)* (2021), and they were the first Tom and Jerry series in the United States to premiere on a streaming service rather than on channels such as [Cartoon Network](https://www.edgepedia.org/cartoon-network) or [Boomerang](https://www.edgepedia.org/boomerang).[11](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Tom_and_Jerry_television_series) • [1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) At 4 to 5 minutes per short, they are also shorter than the 7-to-11-minute format of earlier Tom and Jerry television series.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts)\n\n## Production\n\nThe series was developed by Peter Browngardt, the animator behind *Secret Mountain Fort Awesome*, *[Uncle Grandpa](https://www.edgepedia.org/uncle-grandpa)*, and *Looney Tunes Cartoons*, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation with Turner Entertainment.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) • [6](https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/779c3cf4-8b53-49ef-ab53-430d28a1c831/downloads/54274287945.pdf) Writer Andrew Dickman said the crew developed the shorts during downtime while working on *Looney Tunes Cartoons*, and the show shares that series' animation style.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) Kenny Pittenger and David Gemmill directed, with writing credits shared among Andrew Dickman, David Gemmill, Michael Ruocco, Kenny Pittenger, Johnny Ryan, Jacob Fleisher, and Ryan Khatam; Joshua Moshier and Carl Johnson composed the music, with the theme drawn from Scott Bradley's classic Tom and Jerry scores.[7](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/fullcredits/) • [1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts)\n\nThe shorts deliberately echo the 1940s MGM theatrical cartoons. Tom and Jerry's designs are based on their mid-1940s appearances rather than the late-1940s/early-1950s looks used in most post-1986 television series, and the title card recalls the one first used on the original prints of *The Midnight Snack* (1941).[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) The voice track combines archived, uncredited recordings of [William Hanna](https://www.edgepedia.org/william-hanna), who performed the characters' vocal effects in the original shorts, with new uncredited work by Andrew Dickman.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) Databases disagree on the speaking cast: TVmaze and Next Episode credit [Jeff Bennett](https://www.edgepedia.org/jeff-bennett) as Tom and [Frank Welker](https://www.edgepedia.org/frank-welker) as Jerry, while IMDb's full credits list Dave Zink as Tom (speaking) and Mick Cipes as Jerry (speaking) for one episode each.[8](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/53694/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts) • [7](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/fullcredits/)\n\n## Release and removal\n\nHBO Max dropped the two shorts on February 20, 2021, six days before the *Tom & Jerry* film reached theaters and the service on February 26, 2021, and [WarnerMedia](https://www.edgepedia.org/warnermedia) issued no statement about the release.[2](https://www.rotoscopers.com/2021/02/21/new-tom-and-jerry-shorts-are-streaming-on-hbo-max/) They were the only Tom and Jerry episodes to air before that film's release.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts)\n\n**Removal.** About one month after debut the shorts vanished from HBO Max; the Max fan wiki records the removal date as March 29, 2021.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) • [9](https://max.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) They returned in July 2021, no longer as a standalone program but as two extras on the page for the *Tom & Jerry* film.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) In August 2022, during the content removals that followed [David Zaslav](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-zaslav)'s becoming head of [Warner Bros. Discovery](https://www.edgepedia.org/warner-bros-discovery), the shorts were taken off HBO Max again and have not returned.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) They are not available on physical media or video on demand, and the Tom and Jerry Wiki categorizes the series as lost media.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts)\n\n## Reception\n\nThe series received mostly positive reviews and drew favorable fan response, with commenters describing the shorts as among the strongest modern Tom and Jerry productions.[1](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts) Aggregated audience scores are modest in volume: IMDb reports 7.9/10 from about 166 votes, and the MyShows user rating averages about 4.3 out of 5, with \"On a Roll\" (4.48) rated slightly above \"The House That Cat Built\" (4.26).[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/ratings/) • [12](https://myshows.me/view/71900/rating/) Rotten Tomatoes lists no critic reviews for the season, so no Tomatometer score exists.[3](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tom_and_jerry_special_shorts/s01)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Tom and Jerry Special Shorts, Tom and Jerry Wiki (Fandom)](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts)\n2. [New 'Tom and Jerry' Shorts Are Streaming on HBO Max, Rotoscopers (February 21, 2021)](https://www.rotoscopers.com/2021/02/21/new-tom-and-jerry-shorts-are-streaming-on-hbo-max/)\n3. [Tom and Jerry Special Shorts: Season 1, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tom_and_jerry_special_shorts/s01)\n4. [Tom and Jerry Special Shorts (TV Mini Series 2021) – Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/ratings/)\n5. [Tom and Jerry Special Shorts (TV Mini Series 2021) – Episode list, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/episodes/)\n6. [Peter Browngardt biography compilation](https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/779c3cf4-8b53-49ef-ab53-430d28a1c831/downloads/54274287945.pdf)\n7. [Tom and Jerry Special Shorts – Full cast & crew, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14095452/fullcredits/)\n8. [Tom and Jerry Special Shorts, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/53694/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts)\n9. [Tom and Jerry Special Shorts, HBO Max Wiki (Fandom)](https://max.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Special_Shorts)\n10. [Tom And Jerry Movie List Download (list of 166 shorts, 1940–2021)](https://bottmanhornblood.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/8/6/148655577/tom-and-jerry-movie-list-download.pdf)\n11. [List of Tom and Jerry television series, Tom and Jerry Wiki (Fandom)](https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Tom_and_Jerry_television_series)\n12. [Рейтинг сезонов и серий Том и Джерри: специальные короткометражки, MyShows.me](https://myshows.me/view/71900/rating/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Animated television series (individual series) › Children's animated adventure and fantasy series › Comedy and slice-of-life series › Premiered 2020 to 2024*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. For other uses, organizations over USD 100M in revenue or 100M monthly users license separately.", "spdx": "LicenseRef-Edgepedia-Community-1.0" }, "credit": "\"Tom and Jerry Special Shorts\", Edgepedia (EdgeChat), https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts. Edgepedia Community License 1.0.", "credit_md": "\"[Tom and Jerry Special Shorts](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts)\", Edgepedia (EdgeChat), [https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts). [Edgepedia Community License 1.0](https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license).", "credit_html": "\"Tom and Jerry Special Shorts\", Edgepedia (EdgeChat), https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-and-jerry-special-shorts. Edgepedia Community License 1.0.", "speakable": "Tom and Jerry Special Shorts is a 2021 two-episode HBO Max animated series by the Looney Tunes Cartoons team, with On a Roll and The House That Cat Built; later removed and unavailable officially." }