![]() ![]() One, who looks like Butch, is stated to have been brutally killed in a fight with a bulldog. Some of the other souls in the line weren't too happy, either.If the image of three kittens whose owner tied them in a sack and drowned them in a river wasn't enough, the gatekeeper's resigned response to it implies he has seen the same thing a lot. Also in "Heavenly Puss" is the moment where the gatekeeper calls the name of Fluff, Muff and Puff, and we see a sack hopping along the floor accompanied by wet sounds before it pops open and three mewling kittens emerge.Matt Groening (the man behind The Simpsons, Futurama, and Life in Hell) even cited this as one of the darkest things he's seen. There's also the " Heavenly Puss" short where Tom gets sent to Hell, even after getting Jerry's forgiveness (though it turns out that it was All Just a Dream.) That probably scared a few kids rather than amusing them.It doesn't sound scary, but somehow, actually watching it, alongside the very omnious music makes it scary. "Tall in the Trap" is fine for the most part, but there's a rather unsettling scene shortly before the climax where Jerry shoots Tom in the face with his own shotgun after falling down some basement stairs, and the following chase scene with Tom's face covered in soot.The fluid animation on Jerry as he roars, compared to the usual wanky animation of the Gene Deitch shorts, does not help either. The final nail of the coffin for him is when Tom sees Jerry, whom he begs to squeak, but instead roars like a certain lion, which drives Tom to a nervous breakdown and causes him to flee from the castle. At the end of the episode, he tries to escape the castle and encounters other experiments, including an elephant that chirps like a bird, a chicken that bleats like a lamb, the dog whose brain was switched with the cat and a cuckoo bird that moos like a cow. Tom tries hard to convince the orange cat that he is one, but never succeeds. The Gene Deitch cartoon "Switchin Kitten", in which a Mad Scientist switches the brain of a dog with that of a cat.Even worse is that, except in "Sorry Safari", he always gets away with it. Three of them in particular ("Down and Outing", "High Steaks", and "Sorry Safari") depicted Tom as having a fat, easily provoked, loud master who frequently beats, clobbers or otherwise wails on Tom, oftentimes sporting a sharp-toothed Slasher Smile or a menacing scowl, bordering on Ax-Crazy. Many of the Gene Deitch-directed shorts due to their extremely choppy animation and downright bizarre sound design. ![]()
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