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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