The CENSORSHIP of the CLASSIC TOM and JERRY Cartoons

CORRECTION: Mammy Two-Shoes is NOT the maid. That is HER HOUSE and Tom is HER CAT. In the episode "Saturday Evening Puss" (1950) Mammy Two-Shoes goes to play bridge with the girls. Tom invites some alley cats in the house for a wild party. When Jerry has had enough of this party, he picks up the phone and calls the house where Mammy is playing cards. During the conversation Mammy says "a party? At MY HOUSE?" and she takes off home to break it up.

Wait...the very cartoons I grew up watching were actually too violent for my tender years? I didn't see violence; I saw silliness in their attempts to get each other. And they never succeeded in actually killing each other. Furthermore, I never imitated their antics. For me, a child of the 60s, it was just silliness.

I am a 56-year-old proud free black man who grew up watching the original unedited episodes of Tom & Jerry on Chicago's FOX 32 TV channel and I LOVED them!! I'm not an easily offended person and would love to find all the original clips on DVD.

I have never understood why Mammy Two-Shoes has been censored from these films. As a child, I always assumed that she was the home-owner, but even if she was the house-keeper, so what? That's a perfectly respectable profession, and she was certainly the boss of Tom. She was also a hugely entertaining character: Always seen from below the waist- a cat's eye view- and brilliantly voiced by the great Lillian Randolph, her fear of mice and frustration with Tom was a high-point of these cartoons. To me, cutting out her scenes or, worse still, replacing her with a white character is surely a form of racial exclusion.

I'm 70, and I also grew up with original unedited Tom & Jerry, they were and still are the best. Being in the UK, I think we are a bit more relaxed about cartoon comedy and just enjoy them for what they are, a bit of fun, just like Benny Hill or the Carry On films, try to make them PC and they lose their shine. I've seen a few modern T&Js and they are not a patch on the originals.

All the censorship issues aside, I think that the classic series from the 1940s remains unmatched in animation quality, sound effects, and humor to this day. To me it's still in a league of its own. I'm not sure what code Hannah and Barbera cracked when they made that series but I sure hope somebody finds out.

I never saw Mamie as anything but the owner of both Tom and the house growing up in the shorts that featured her.

I’m 44 and feel lucky that I got to grow up watching these cartoons. I was probably the last generation that got to see them unedited.

When I bought the DVD sets of the old Popeye cartoons, they had a warning about how the cartoons reflect the times they were made in. They point out that the stereotypes in the cartoons were wrong then and are wrong now. The warning then says that removing or editing the cartoons would affect how they are watched. They could have done the same thing with the Tom & Jerry cartoons.

Whenever Tom & Jerry was shown in shipboard cinemas in the Roysl Navy, and Fred Quimby's name came up, the entire ship's company would shout, "GOOD OLD FRED!"

I just realized: As a kid growing up in an European country in the 80s, I've seen almost all the uncut/unaltered stuff. I never knew it was Tom&Jerry who messed me up for life... 😆

Let me get this straight, they have an award winning movie called "The Help" in recent history, but Mammy Two Shoes is too controversial? It's hard to figure this stuff out.

When I was teaching in China and Korea, Tom and Jerry were one of the cartoons I was able to show on breaks that they could watch since there isn't much speaking, if at all, and the kids loved them so much. Tom and Jerry is the kind of cartoon that'll last through the generations, for the most part

I'm 53, so I grew up with Tom & Jerry. As you show the uncensored versions, I remember most of them. I was watching these not only on tv in the 70's, but off reel to reel tape too, so I can't tell you if I saw any of the censored versions on tv or not, its been too long to parse that sort of detail after all these years.

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I don't recall a single time during my childhood hurting someone because of something I saw on Tom and Jerry. I knew that in real life Tom's and Jerry's antics would seriously injure or kill a person so would have never mimicked them. Kids always have been smarter than a lot of adults give them credit for.

I remember watching Tom and Jerry when I was a kid. When I was in my teens, we rented a collection of their classic cartoons on VHS because it included our favorite Tom and Jerry short, Saturday Evening Puss. Our jaws dropped in disappointment when we saw Mammy Two Shoes edited out, but her original voice still heard. We thought the cartoon wasn't the same

I'm 67. I grew up with ALL the originals. Not just Tom & Jerry, but Bugs Bunny and all the rest of the Looney Toons, Woody Woodpecker, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and of course, the toon with the most double entendres of all, Beany & Cecil. I've watched some of those old Beany & Cecil cartoons and I now understand why my dad always watched them with me - but didn't always laugh in the same places I did.

They were all hilarious. I still find them funny at the age of 33. The uncensored versions are the best

these cartoons were complete genius. i absolutely loved them as a kid.