Cat-and-mouse chaos gets a big-city upgrade in Tom and Jerry in New York, a 2021 animated series that relocates the classic rivalry to a busy hotel in the middle of Manhattan.
What is Tom and Jerry in New York about?
Settling into new quarters at the Royal Gate Hotel, the cat and mouse duo bring their long-running feud into a fresh setting full of guests, staff and hidden corners to exploit. Each short-form episode sends the pair chasing each other through the hotel and out into the surrounding city, turning ordinary spaces like lobbies, kitchens and rooftops into elaborate obstacle courses. The city itself becomes part of the joke, with the duo's antics spilling uptown, downtown and everywhere between as they drag hotel guests and staff into their running feud.
About the cast
Tom and Jerry remain the wordless double act at the center of every episode, communicating entirely through physical comedy and reaction rather than dialogue, in keeping with the characters' long screen history. The series leans on that tradition rather than introducing a large supporting voice cast, letting the two leads and the hotel setting do most of the comedic work across each short installment.
Context & significance
The series carries the cat-and-mouse format into a specifically urban setting, using a hotel as a self-contained playground the way earlier entries in the franchise have used a house or a farm. Its short-episode structure and slapstick pacing keep it close to the format's roots, aimed at family viewing rather than a serialized story that needs to be followed episode to episode.
Watching Tom and Jerry in New York on Ktime
Tom and Jerry in New York streams on K-Time with a free account login, making it an easy pick for family viewing without needing to track a longer season arc. No Farsi dub or subtitle track is currently listed for this title, so it plays in its original English-language format on the platform, alongside K-Time's wider Farsi-first catalogue for the diaspora.