That'll teach a bear to climb on a table

This was hilarious, lol. Ah, the classics.

One of the dream goal animations of any micro/macro fan I'd say

Mmmph! This was great.
I actually think it was this scene alone, and possibly the shrinking scene in Mars Attacks! that gave me my macro/micro fetish. Not sure if the idea was appealing or if the idea freaked me out that my brain decided to make me attracted to as a defense mechanism.

But I totally remember the first time I saw this episode, it was a morning before going to middle school. I remember I was pre-pubesent so all I remember is my heart beat quickening inexplicably, I had no idea why it was affecting me like that. It was the strangest feeling.

But I'm glad to hear from you that it's a well known scene in the fandom, it really is like a perfect microcosm (no pun intended) of the exact thing that makes shrinking so sexy. That instant power shift, how anyone can go from dominant to a defenseless bug in an instant. That power shift, at least to me, is SO damn sexy. I think to me, this scene in particular has an extra layer of ironic sexiness since Tom is naturally bigger than Jerry even before the muscle expansion/inflation, and then by the end of it their size difference is literally mirrored opposite, Tom now being a mouse size compared to Jerry, a mouse to a mouse if you will. This whole idea was so amazing I even did my own reference to this episode with my Mosquito girl shrinking a human in the comic Bug for a Bug.

Anyway, sorry to ramble. Very well done semi-rotoscoping (but no really) of the original scene, awesome to see it in a different light. Been a fan of your shrinking stuff for quite awhile!

Heck, why thank you! =D And yeah, it was very interesting to hear your thoughts on the matter. There were a lot of scenes like this that were formative to people in the fandom. =3

I'd actually be quite excited to hear about some others, just in case I missed some. XD

there's actually quite a few, allot of 80s & 90s cartoons, that had shrinking and size changing stuff similar to this <3
quite a few having names like "incredible shrinking [insert character name]", it's actually a little (no pun intended) fascinating how many toons used this theme
even loony tunes had some fun with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJW7EF5aVk

also, just gonna say, i love your bug for a bug comic, it's awesome

agreed

saw this on twitter, loved it there, love it here <3
this was always one of my fav tom and jerry scenes
well, this, and when jerry became massive just before tom pulls him out of his mouse hole

this is my favorite parody of my favorite shrinking animaiton of all time

I wasn’t into this sequence initially….but now I am OWO

Can't beat the classics! I remember this episode vividly. Also reminded me of the episode where Jerry gets big at the end after Tom pulls him through a wall XD