Rachel Newstead runs a great cartoon blog, The Home for Orphan Toons, which, as she herself puts it, “concerns itself with obscure animation, cartoons that have been forgotten or unfairly overlooked over the course of time.” It’s filled with detailed descriptions and intelligent discussion. Here’s a sample:
Her relationship to Tom isn’t always clear–sometimes Tom’s owner, sometimes not, but always his constant nemesis. And don’t think Jerry didn’t take advantage of it–many of the plotlines involving Mammy concern Jerry’s attempts to provoke her in order to get Tom out of the way. In fact, probably most of them, but the best were the ones that strayed from this formula. In THE LONESOME MOUSE, Jerry succeeds at arousing Mammy’s ire toward Tom by making her think Tom destroyed the kitchen. Naturally Tom is booted “o-w-t out!”, to borrow her unique spelling. Initially euphoric, Jerry yanks the stuffing out of Tom’s bed, paints a Hitler mustache on his picture, and does the backstroke in Tom’s milk dish. But the euphoria quickly fades when Jerry decides he really does miss the big lug–and schemes to get him back.
Well worth perusing.
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