Leo Enticknap notes:

"This is surely a bit of a generalisation.  On the BBC children's

programme yesterday there was a 1947 Tom & Jerry in which T (i) sets a snare

trap, (ii) tries to gas J in an oven is subsequently blown up, (iii) is

decapitated by a falling anvil, (iv) inadvertently shoots himself, and (v) is

last seen sporting wings and a harp astride a nuclear mushroom cloud, which he

had perpetrated (by lighting a fuse, how else?) in yet another bungled attempt

to exterminate J..."

 

 

All of this, of course, is a model for the "Itchy and Scratchy" cartoons that

Bart and Lisa watch on THE SIMPSONS.  Now, considering the personalities of

these two characters--*there's* a bit of anecdotal evidence!

 

;-)

 

 

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)

 

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