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Tom is living the life of luxury, high atop a fancy apartment building. Jerry is starving way down below when he spots a lunchbox on a girder at a construction site. Jerry goes in, the girder goes up, and the lunchbox falls off, landing on Tom, and the chase is on.
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The first Tom and Jerry directed by Chuck Jones, made when MGM revived the series and handed it to the man behind Wile E. Coyote. The change is immediately visible — new character designs with heavier eyebrows, longer pauses, and a much more deliberate comic rhythm. Whether it is an improvement has been argued about ever since.