When MGM asked for more cat-and-mouse shorts, Hanna and Barbera held an in-house contest to rename the characters. Animator John Carr won $50 for his suggestion of Tom and Jerry. At one point in ...

When we were kids, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera ruled Saturday morning TV with colorful characters ... (the brains), Brenda Chance (the scaredy cat) and Taffy Dare (the light-headed one).

"In the script, each animation style had been noted down for us to see, so we knew the style of animation that was going to be used on our characters. It was like a Hanna-Barbera type of cartoon ...