Spike and Tyke

Spike and Tyke
The spinoff starring Spike and Tyke.
Genre: Comedy Slapstick Running Time: 6 minutes Country: United States Release Date: March 29 – July 26, 1957 Created by: William Hanna Joseph Barbera Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Daws Butler William Hanna Episodes: 2 shorts

Spike and Tyke is a short-lived theatrical animated short subject series, based upon the American bulldog father-and-son duo from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Tom and Jerry cartoons. Only two films were made in this spin-off series: Give and Tyke and Scat Cats, both released in 1957, and produced in CinemaScope and Technicolor, as the cartoon studio shut down the year the spin-off series was started.

Why It Rocks

1. The spin-off stars Tom and Jerry's Spike and his son, Tyke.
2. It's great for the father and son duo as main stars here.
3. The two shorts are both great as the two shorts having interesting plots.
4. Good voice acting including Spike and Tyke.
5. The father and son duo would get more character growth in the spinoff.
   • Spike is more more comical.
   • Tyke is shown to be smarter than his dad.
6. The spinoff would later inspired Hanna-Barbera's Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in 1959.
7. They would be featured in later years they would get their comic books.
8. There would get new episodes that would continue in episodes together in Tom and Jerry Kids as one of the segments of the series.
9. There are characters never featured in the original Tom and Jerry such as the orange dog and the dog catcher.
   • as well as bringing back classic characters such as Butch, Lightning, Topsy, and Meathead, and Spike's owners George and Joan.
10. There are many heartwarming moments in the short such as:
    • Spike and Tyke bond together as Spike says "That's my boy".
    • When Spike tells the dogcatcher that he will sacrifice for his son and is ready to enter the truck, it was dramtic that the orangedog then cries about the drama and gives the license back.
11. The slapstick is funny along with some gags never used before, in both the shorts.

Bad Qualities

1. Sadly, the spinoff is very short lived mainly because the MGM Cartoon studio shut down in the year the spin-off series was started. Which is disappointing considering the spinoff only has two shorts.
2. The Spike and Tyke spin-off (aside from Tom and Jerry Kids) is ignored by modern entries as they haven't had new spinoff of them nor episodes starring the dog duo.
3. As with the CinemaScope era of its parent show, the animation is still sub-par.

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