Childhood Memories: TV Time!

Rating: ★★★★★

Dedicated to DominaZina
Show: Tom & Jerry
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Summary:
The series features comic fights between an iconic set of adversaries, a house cat (Tom) and mouse (Jerry). The plots of each short usually center on Tom's numerous attempts to capture Jerry and the mayhem and destruction that follows. Tom rarely succeeds in catching Jerry, mainly because of Jerry's cleverness, cunning abilities, and luck. However, there are also several instances within the cartoons where they display genuine friendship and concern for each other's well-being. At other times, the pair set aside their rivalry in order to pursue a common goal, such as when a baby escaped the watch of a negligent babysitter, causing Tom and Jerry to pursue the baby and keep it away from danger.

The cartoons are known for some of the most violent cartoon gags ever devised in theatrical animation such as Tom using everything from axes, hammers, firearms, firecrackers, explosives, traps and poison to kill Jerry. On the other hand, Jerry's methods of retaliation are far more violent due to their frequent success, including slicing Tom in half, decapitating him, shutting his head or fingers in a window or a door, stuffing Tom's tail in a waffle iron or a mangle, kicking him into a refrigerator, getting him electrocuted, pounding him with a mace, club or mallet, causing trees or electric poles to drive him into the ground, sticking matches into his feet and lighting them, tying him to a firework and setting it off, and so on. Because of this, Tom and Jerry has often been criticized as excessively violent. Despite the frequent violence, there is no blood or gore in any scene.

Music plays a very important part in the shorts, emphasizing the action, filling in for traditional sound effects, and lending emotion to the scenes. Generally, there is little dialogue as Tom and Jerry almost never speak; however, minor characters are not similarly limited, and the two lead characters are able to speak English on rare occasions and are thus not mute. Most of the vocal effects used for Tom and Jerry are their high-pitched laughs and gasping screams.
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My Comments: I absolutely love love love(!) Tom and Jerry, I used to watch it non stop in the mornings. I didn't think it was violent, mostly because they were alive in the next episode, perfectly fine. I never had a problem watching it, I knew better not to repeat anything shown in the show. Anyways, who'd be stupid enough to slam their finger in the fridge?!(haha guilty as charged) Well, its really funny, and its great for all ages. (In my opinion, its WAY better than the shows they have on TV now a days!)