On a Roll

On a Roll
Season	1
Episode	1
Premiere dates
U.S. Air Date	:February 20, 2021
Producers
Story by	Andrew Dickman Kenny Pittenger Johnny Ryan Jacob Fleisher
Storyboard by	Andrew Dickman
Directed by	Kenny Pittenger
Followed by	The House That Cat Built

On a Roll is the first episode of Tom and Jerry Special Shorts.

Synopsis

When a sushi chef sees Jerry scurrying around his restaurant, he tells Tom to earn his keep by catching that sushi-stealing mouse. Tom, like in the other cartoons, fails.

Characters

Main characters

• Tom Cat
• Jerry Mouse

Minor characters

• Sushi Chef
• Fishes
• Octopus

Censorship

• The two scenes in the Moroccan version were cut when Tom's face was missing from the thorny fish and when toy balls were inserted into Tom's eyes.

Trivia

• The short has a new animation style, the same as Looney Tunes Cartoons.
• This short is similar in concept to Posse Cat, which had come out 67 years earlier, as both cartoons center around Tom being told off by his chef owners that he won't be getting any more food unless he gets rid of Jerry, co-incidentally both shorts even start off the exact same way with Jerry stealing food from the kitchen and Tom getting scolded by his chef owners for his laziness. Except here, the short takes place at a Japanese sushi restaurant instead of a Western cook shack, and the short ends with both Tom and Jerry losing instead of only Jerry winning in the end.
• The short takes place in Japan.
• It represents that the episode is four minutes long instead of seven or eleven minutes.

Gallery

Tom breathes fire

Videos

Tom and Jerry Special Shorts episode 1 on a roll ( part 1 )

Tom and Jerry Special Shorts episode 1 on a roll ( part 2 )

Tom and Jerry Special Shorts episode 1 on a roll ( part 3 )

Tom and Jerry Special Shorts episode 1 on a roll ( part 4 )

Tom and Jerry Shorts - On a Roll (2021)