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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on October 15, 2012 at 5:20pm

Take all of the Schadenfreude out of the Laural and Hardy, Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and Abbot and Costello movies, and what do you have? Titles and scrolling end credits --

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Permalink Reply by kOrsan on October 15, 2012 at 11:14pm

And don't forget Tom & Jerry. Show me one child who will not giggle in glee while watching that poor cat get skinned, burned, cooked, maimed, beaten, raped and killed. Schadenfreude mixed with a little bit of sadism seems to be innate in humans.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on October 15, 2012 at 11:26pm

I believe you're thinking of The Simpson's, "Itchy and Scratchy," Matt Groening's macabre parody of "Tom & Jerry," not something I'd allow a young child to watch.

In the actual "Tom & Jerry" cartoons, none of the above takes place.

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Permalink Reply by kOrsan on October 16, 2012 at 7:21am

I'm talking about the original series. I don't know whether or not the remakes have any violence. But I don't care to count how many times Tom had his teeth knocked out, tail cut or skinned, or how many times he got his face rearranged by that grey pitbull for waking him up from a nap. Those were good times, when a little violence in a cartoon wasn't frowned upon.

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Permalink Reply by Dr.Grixis on October 16, 2012 at 9:55am

I remember Tom being cut into pieces, being mauled by a lion, being punched in the teeth by a dog ,on fire, electrocuted and frozen solid to name just a few occasions of gratuitous violence in Tom and Jerry.

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