TomAndJery

Actually, drowning kittens isn't funny at all. Dressing them like pirates is funny, but not drowning them. That's just cruel. What the heck am I talking about? Well, the other night while working on my computer I had an episode of Tom and Jerry that I had Tivoed playing in the background, so I was only sorta paying attention to it. The short was called "Heavenly Puss," some of you may remember it as the one where Tom goes to heaven but can't get in until he gets Jerry to sign a certificate saying he forgives Tom for all the torture Tom put him through. There's a scene where different cats are going past the "ticket taker" to get into heaven, each one having been killed in a funny way (one was flattened by a steamroller, for example). Then, at one point, a wet bag comes bouncing along, and three kittens crawl out. The ticket taker (also a cat, cause this is cat heaven) shakes his head and says sadly, "What some people won't do."

I did a double take, hit rewind, and watched it again. Yes, they actually made a joke about drowning kittens in a sack. That probably goes to show something, but I'm not sure what. Have any of you ever watched something from your childhood and realized it was actually a lot more morbid than you remembered?