Do Tom and Jerry Talk?

Jerry and Tom seldom do therefore themselves, although several encouraging and minor characters talk. Tom, most splendidly, sings while wooing feminine cats; for instance, Tom sings Louis Jordan's "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Child" in the 1946 brief Solid Serenade.

In Zoot Cat as nicely as that one, Tom, when romancing a lady cat, woos her in a French-accented voice like that of display actor Charles Boyer. At the conclusion of The Million-Dollar Cat after just starting to antagonize Jerry he states "Gee, I am throwin' away a million bucks... BUT I AM HAPPY!"

 In Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring, Jerry claims, "No, no, no, no, no," when selecting the store to eliminate his band. In The Mouse Comes to Supper Tom talks to his partner while unwittingly sitting on a kitchen range: "Say, what is cookin'?" (The woman responds "you're, ignorant"). Another example of language comes in Strong Serenade and The Framed Cat, where Tom directs Spike through a number of dog tips in a dog trainer way

 In Mouse Problems, Tom states "Do Not you think it!" after being beaten-up by Jerry (this also occurs in The Lacking Mouse.) Co-director William Hanna supplied most of the squeaks, gasps, as well as other vocal results for the pair, including the most well-known sound effects in the show, Tom's leather-lunged scream (produced by recording Hanna's scream and removing the start and end of the record, making just the most powerful area of the scream to the soundtrack) and Jerry's anxious gulp. 

 The sole other relatively common vocalization is created by Tom when some outside reference maintains a particular scenario or contingency to be hopeless, which unavoidably, paradoxically occurs to thwart Tom's strategies - at which stage, a bedraggled and beaten Tom seems and states in a haunting, repeating voice "Do Not you think it!", a mention of the then-well-known 1940s radio display Do Not You Feel It. In the 1946 quick Trap Content, Tom hi res a mouse exterminator who, after several unsuccessful efforts to dispatch Jerry, shifts profession to Cat exterminator by crossing out the "Mouse" on his name and composing "Cat", resulting in Tom spelling out the phrase out loud before unwillingly pointing at himself. One quick, 1956's Blue Cat Blues, is narrated by Jerry in voice over (expressed by Paul Frees) as they try and win back their lady friends.

Both Tom and Jerry talk a lot more than once in the 1943 short The Lonesome Mouse, while Jerry was voiced by Sara Berner throughout his look in the 1945 MGM musical Anchors Aweigh. Tom and Jerry: The Film is the first (and so far only) episode of the show where the well-known cat and mouse pairs routinely talk. Because film, Tom was voiced by Richard Type, and Jerry was voiced by Dana Hill.