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This cartoon suffers from looped animations and recycling their own gags. Jerry suckers Tom multiple times by performing a magic trick: conjuring a tomato concealed under a handkerchief; splat. Jerry ALWAYS wins. Even in the MGM cartoons, Jerry, on rare occasions, outsmarts himself or Tom gets the best of him. Every Droopy cartoon featured Slick Wolf, which made every short hopelessly one-note and predictable. Tom & Jerry & Droopy don't put much of a twist on the old formulas. It doesn't exactly suck. Once in a while, you may see an incredibly funny sight gag. Otherwise, a fresh spin on a traditional classic just flat-lines.

Unlike the previous show in 1975, where Tom and Jerry mostly cooperated and teamed up against the third character, sometimes doing dirty tricks on each other, here again there is a confrontation between them in the classic scheme. In general, the standard buffoonery of Tom and Jerry in their house and other locations. The second story of three about Droopy with Slick. They are not of particular interest, since Droopy as a character is rather boring and his plots lined up according to the same formula don't work as well as with Tom and Jerry. Between the plots there are sometimes funny mini sketches with Slick, Spike, Tyke and Tuffy and others. They are added mainly for variety and will not be superfluous. The animation is quite budgetary, quite typical for those years, although worse than in the previous show. You can notice the repetitive animation and not the best quality drawing. The music is very atmospheric and dynamic, but not enough of it. There are about 5 tracks in total, which are repeated in each series and the sound effects are approximately the same.

Despite not the best quality, the 1980 animated series is still addictive, like most Tom and Jerry episodes. You still want to be nostalgic, even though this series is not from the golden era of MGM. So, if you like Tom and Jerry, then in any case you will be satisfied, as they are good in most of their manifestations.

6,5/10.

And by the way, this can be considered the last old school Tom and Jerry show. Tom and Jerry Kids, which came out 10 years later, had a slightly different concept, and then there was a gigantic break until the 2000s.