I can’t wait to watch Tom and Jerry, The Complete Second Volume, on Amazon Prime, to which, as luck would have it, I belong. Obviously I’ve seen the cartoons before – I got them in years ago for my children when they were at an age at which everyone else was looking the hellish ‘In the Night Garden’ – but this time it’ll be for the subversive thrill of the warning:
‘Tom and Jerry shorts may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.’
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It reminds me of the sense of subversiveness I got when I bought Tintin in the Congo for my son, after he’d read all the other books. It was wrapped up in such a way that you couldn’t possibly browse the contents and there was a big red warning sticker inside.
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