Tom & Jerry. Have you been disturbed or distressed?

[Tom Photiou]

Just a question for you, have you ever been disturbed or distressed in any way buy a Tom & Jerry cartoon?

I'm NOT asking to discuss in great length any particular content, but i though I'd ask for simple yes or No's on this.
Back in the 70s, early 80s, people use to ask for T&J cartoons to be banned due to what they called, (in the media yet again) violence. Nowadays, there are other concerns so i just wondered with a yes or no answer, have you ever been distressed/disturbed or upset watching a Tom & Jerry cartoon?
And i am aware that some have been "modified" to correct certain things.

Personally, i havnt, i think they are still one of, if not, the funniest cartoons ever made. I've seen some of the new ones and find them ridiculous, so PC.

[Brian Fretwell]

No.

Not by the content anyway. The fading of a print is another matter.

[Dominique De Bast]

No, I havent' (impossible to just answer "no" as the forum system doesn't accept a so short message).

[Mark Mander]

Not me either, I don't look too deeply into them, just enjoy them for what they are, Mark

[Graham Sinden]

No I havent either but I'm not Black. You need to ask someone who is Black !!!

[Melvin England]

I get distressed every time. It is caused by the pain in my stomach after laughing so much!

Animation par excellence!

[Mike Newell]

Tom you just think you are NOT disturbed or distressed by watching Tom& Jerry. Really you want to hit people with a frying pan or lead pipe with immunity like I do 🤪.

Remember watching Operation Burma with my brother and afterwards me or him decided I could paratroop without a parachute out of a 2nd floor loft door. I bounced well in those days so film does influence you.

I think the days of Classic Tom & Jerry Tex Avery and Warner bros cartoons on mainstream television are well and truly over.

Watch this space within the next decade there will be book /film burnings and it will be an offence by law to own un pc material in film/dvd/Blu ray.

[Maurice Leakey]

Times and attitudes do change.

I have the following which I love, but many might not. It's a personal choice.

You're a Sap Mr. Jap - 1942 Popeye
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs - 1943 Warner Bros Merry Melodies series
His Mouse Friday - 1951 Tom & Jerry

[Paul Browning]

lets just say Tom, my thoughts on this would be unprintable here, and un PC, enough said............

[Steve Klare]

Violence is the seasoning of cartoons! Without it they would all be Casper the Friendly Ghost!

-you take the violence out of Road Runner and all you have is a stupid wild dog and the bird he can't catch!

(That doesn't even work as a nature documentary...)

[Winbert Hutahaean]

No for me. If we watch today's cartoon like Ren and Stimpy or Itchy and Scratchy (a short clip often included in the Simpsons episodes) then Tom & Jerry is nothing based on today's standard. 😅

[Osi Osgood]

Like all of you, I have the good sense to realize, of all things, that it's not reality, just a cartoon. The same crowd of do gooder morons tried, unsuccessfully, to get rid of the Bugs Bunny show on Saturday mornings or the Three Stooges in the afternoon.

[Steve Klare]

Mom never let me watch the Stooges when I was little: said it made me hit my sister!

-NOT true! My sister made me hit my sister!

By the way:This was braver than it sounds. She was 6 years older than me! (Still is!)

Of course I can watch all I want now...kind of a guilty pleasure!

[Greg Perry]

Tom,

No. It is just silly, enjoyable cartoon fun.

[Lee Mannering]

Jerry keeps pinching my fave cheese. I've sent a letter to pest control
A silly comment inkeeping with some wonderful animation