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How many tom and jerry episodes were made11/10/2022 PesaCheck, co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. More information on our methodology is available here. Here’s how you can report potentially fake and false information on Facebook. īy partnering with Facebook, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction, adding context to posts on the platform. It was written by James Okongo - a Third Party Fact-Checker at PesaCheck, edited by PesaCheck Managing Editor Eric Mugendi and copyedited by PesaCheck Project Manager (Editorial and Verification) Stellar Murumba. This post is part of a series of fact-checks produced in response to content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook. PesaCheck has looked into the claim that the final episode of Tom and Jerry ended with both characters committing suicide and finds it to be false. Reddy explained in his findings that cartoons never die because the story continued with the same Tom and Jerry characters appearing in other cartoon series’. According to research done by Ravi Shanker Reddy, a computer programmer, MGM released an additional 13 entries in 1961 in central Europe afterwards with another 34 entries produced by Chuck Jones’ Sib-Tower 12 Productions between 1963–1967, creating a total of 161 theatrical entries of the cartoon Tom and Jerry. The episode ends with Tom and Jerry sitting on the train tracks as a train whistle sounds off-screen.īut Blue Cat Blues was not the last production of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation (MGM) - the makers of Tom and Jerry. What was unusual about this episode is that most Tom and Jerry cartoons have a comical storyline, but this one has a tragic end, with Tom and Jerry’s implied suicide at the end. It shows a dejected Tom and Jerry on a railway track. The image used for this post was extracted from the last episode of Blue Cat Blues, a series of the cartoon first aired in 1956. A Facebook post claiming that the final episode of Tom and Jerry, a popular cartoon produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, ended with both characters committing suicide is false.
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