Tom and Jerry

Have you seen the cartoons lately?  Not very impressive, that's for sure.  Umizoomies or something like that!  They don't even resemble humans half the time.

My daughter-in-law told me yesterday that she really liked Scooby Doo when she was a kid.  It's on one of the cartoon networks these days, but quite different.  She said that the one blond kid and blond girl always did seem to like one another years ago, but it wasn't the focus of the show.  NOW, there is all this stuff going on between the characters and it is the focus of the show.  So who is supposed to be watching?

I switched to one cartoon yesterday and it was so graphic and scary for Drew that it went bye-bye.  Back to something that makes sense.  A little violent, yes, but kids have been watching Looney Toons forever and most of these now grownup "kids" turned out decently enough.

So we're back to Tom and Jerry.  That's Drew's favorite of the Looney Toons, although he happily watches Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester and Tweety, or Bugs and Daffy just as well.  The other day Bugs had a dilemma.  He'd met a young lady at the tennis court and things moved just a little too fast, since without much warning in the cartoon, Bugs was in a tuxedo and his lady friend was in a bridal dress.  Daffy didn't even know about it!!  Well, at the last minute, the young lady admitted that she really didn't love Bugs at all, but rather the wedding planner (who happened to be a skunk).  Got to love it.

However, I digress.  During an earlier scene, Bugs carefully tries to break up with the lady friend when by all accounts she was stalking the unhappy rabbit, showing up everywhere.  He kindly says the words to indicate he'd like to end things, and she goes absolutely nuts, crying and carrying on in amazing fashion.  I actually laughed out loud, and so did Drew. 

So TV viewers can have their Ommiezoomies or whatever it is.  They can have their Scooby Doo.  They can have their crazy alien space creatures blowing up the earth.  We'll take Tom and Jerry every time.  Drew said the other day, "Tom and Jerry aren't nice to the mouse."  So I guess he thought the cat's name is Tom'nJerry.  Pretty good, huh?  I explained it.  Grandmas have time for all that kind of stuff.