Did Tom And Jerry Really Kill Themselves?

Here's some throwback for Thursday with my childhood. Yup, it's this episode where Tom and Jerry are abandoned by their romantic interests AND they attempt to kill themselves. This has to be that episode where it's just too much. While the "Rebel Rabbit" episode of Bugs Bunny was funny (though I heard it was viewed as an anomaly) but this one was just super depressing.

I thought this was pretty screwed up actually. Tom and Jerry was supposed to be destructive fun but why in the world did this happen? I even heard this was supposedly the final episode of Tom and Jerry. But there's one thing we forget about the two characters -- they are ACTORS that play different roles and every episode is just a skit. It's like how Super Mario and the Looney Tunes cast are treated -- as actors of a script.

One good episode to think about is The Two Mouseketeers where Tom got beheaded (shadows only) but we see him alive after that. You can think of the number of times Tom and Jerry get transported into different roles such as the space age, the stone age or in this case -- the middle ages.

For the so-called suicide -- we see that the scene fades off which acts like the "That's All Folks!" scenario of Looney Tunes. It's also just like Spongebob where a scene of people got trapped underground with no way out are still alive. The Krusty Krab has been destroyed a few times yet most episodes ignore it. In short, there's no continuity.

Yet I wonder why in the world were Tom and Jerry made to portray a suicide scene? It still bothers me why it happened.