If you get your hands on the complete collection, start with these fan-favourite masterpieces:

Look for the "Golden Collection" or the "Spotlight Collection" on DVD/Blu-ray. These often include intros by animation historians to provide context while keeping the original animation intact.

Tom plays Liszt’s "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" while Jerry disrupts him from inside the piano. (Oscar Winner)

You want to see the cartoons in their original 4:3 format, not cropped for widescreen.

The original 114 shorts, starting with Puss Gets the Boot .

The biggest hurdle for collectors is finding the episodes. Because these cartoons were made in the 1940s, some contain ethnic stereotypes that were common in cinema at the time.