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**The Leo version was also seen before the ''Tom and Jerry'' short "Mouse Trouble" on MeTV Toons instead of the 3rd logo. | **The Leo version was also seen before the ''Tom and Jerry'' short "Mouse Trouble" on MeTV Toons instead of the 3rd logo. | ||
*Like with the 3rd logo, Sci-Fi Theater-edited airings of "Mouse Into Space" cut off the opening logo, but keep the ending logo. | *Like with the 3rd logo, Sci-Fi Theater-edited airings of "Mouse Into Space" cut off the opening logo, but keep the ending logo. | ||
*The Tanner version was seen on the Chuck Jones-produced ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, plus on "The Bear That Wasn't" (the one where the lion | *The Tanner version was seen on the Chuck Jones-produced ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, plus on "The Bear That Wasn't" (the one where the lion does not fade to Tom and the very last theatrical MGM cartoon from the golden age of animation), which are still rerun on Boomerang on a semi-regular basis and on MeTV as part of its ''Toon In with Me'' and ''Saturday Morning Cartoons'' blocks, and all are available on DVD. | ||
'''Legacy:''' The reputation this logo has is fairly bad in general. The Leo version is quite controversial for its association with the Gene Deitch era of ''Tom and Jerry''. The Tanner version of the logo however is well-received for its creative concept on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, but has appeared on one of the most deeply polarizing eras of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons, when production moved back in-house at Chuck Jones' Sib Tower 12 Productions with a mostly new crew and substantially smaller budgets. | '''Legacy:''' The reputation this logo has is fairly bad in general. The Leo version is quite controversial for its association with the Gene Deitch era of ''Tom and Jerry''. The Tanner version of the logo however is well-received for its creative concept on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, but has appeared on one of the most deeply polarizing eras of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons, when production moved back in-house at Chuck Jones' Sib Tower 12 Productions with a mostly new crew and substantially smaller budgets. | ||