The KarateGuard

The KarateGuard is the hundredth and sixty-third animated short in the Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts series. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 27, 2005. It was written by Joseph Barbera, and directed by Barbera and Spike Brandt.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Cat
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Spike Brandt
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jerry Mouse
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ancient wise one
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Keone Young
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mumosumo
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Butch
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tony Cervone
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mumosumo
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Butch
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tony Cervone
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tony Cervone

Organizations

 * Fab Four Exterminators

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * House
 * Toy Palace

Objects

 * Yogi-racer

Vehicles

 * None

Filming
It was copyrighted in 2005.

Music
The music was composed by Michael Giacchino, and conducted by Tim Simonec, at the Eastwood Scoring Stage on the Warner Bros. Studios lot on September 1, 2005.

Crew credits

 * Storyboard artists: Joseph Barbera, Iwao Takamoto
 * Character layout: Spike Brandt
 * Animators: Spike Brandt, Dave Brewster, Tony Cervone, Michael Nickelson, Barry O'Donahue, Wendy Perdue, Jeff Siergey
 * OS supervisor: Dong-Young Lee
 * FX animator: Kathleen Quaiffe
 * Background layout artists: Louis Gonzalez, Gary Mouri
 * Background painters: Dennis Durrell, Michael Humphries, Eric Semones, Jesse Silver, Dennis Venizelos, Mi-Kyung Kim, Mi-Young Choi, Sun-Hee Kwon, Sun-Joo Lee, Mi-Jin Yoo
 * Animation cleanup key artists: Doug Ninneman, Richard Smitheman
 * Cleanup artists: Jong-Kyun Tae, Jong-Chan Lee, Ok-Kyung Kim, Eun-Sun Choi, Mi-Ran Ha, Tae-Yun Kim, Min-Jung Kim, Mi-Jeong Jim, Eun-Hee Hong, Young-Joo Kim
 * Color artists: Rick Gehr, Linda Redondo, Jesse Silver
 * Camera operators: Kang-Rim Choi, Gi-Dong Huu, Mi-Kyung Jeong, Seung-Whan Kim
 * Final checkers: Seo-Ook Oh, Denise Mitchell, Jan Browning, Teri McDonald
 * Film editor: Rob DeSales
 * FX design and re-recording engineer: Robert Hargreaves
 * Music editor: Stephen M. Davis
 * Dialogue editor: Mark A. Keatts
 * Production management: Andy Lewis
 * Production supervisor: Margeret M. Dean, Toshi Hiruma, Howard Schwartz, Amy Wagner
 * Producer: Linda M. Steiner
 * Co-producer: Bobbie Page
 * Production manager: Marcus Irvin, Tom Knott
 * Executive producers: Joseph Barbera, Sam Register, Sander Schwartz
 * Supervising producers: Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: September 26, 2005 in Los Angeles cinemas; January 27, 2006 at 9 pm on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

 * The is in the same style as the Tom and Jerry Tales TV series.
 * Mumosumo resembles Spike.
 * There is something called a Slony Toystation which is a rather late parody of Sony's PlayStation.
 * The Yogi-racer toy cars resembling picnic baskets are a reference to Yogi Bear and his affection for stealing picnic baskets for the treats inside.
 * There are dolls somewhat resembling Fred Flintstone.