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The Night Before Christmas (1941)
heartwarming
It's Christmas Eve, and Tom & Jerry get involved in the usual cat & mouse conflict, but in the spirit of Christmas, they both bury the hatchet (for the time being at least) and show compassion and warmth to one another. The show began with Jerry coming out of his mouse hole to find a piece of cheese wrapped with a bow on a mousetrap, which he's too wise to retrieve, so he leaves it be.
**possible spoiler**
At the end of the episode, Jerry retires back to his hole and decides to use a candy cane to remove the cheese from the trap, still outside his door. Once disturbed, it's revealed that the trap wouldn't have hurt Jerry at all, as the part that's supposed to snap ever-so-slowly came down. This made Jerry smile, as he realized Tom had made yet another nice gesture. Recommended.
Texas Tom (1950)
Very cute
In this story Tom and Jerry are decked out in western wear as the setting is a Texas ranch. Tom as a cowboy is quite smooth, as demonstrated by his cigarette-rolling ability and flawless lip sync, while trying to impress cowgirl kitty. Jerry, of course, must thwart Tom's efforts to charm-in ways that provide lots of laughs. A bull gets involved, and as usual there is much trouble for Tom.
This is not one of my favorites, but by far still one of the better episodes.
What they were doing at a ranch is unknown, like many of the settings we see them in. But it really doesn't matter; they're enjoyable wherever we find them!
Apparently such a good episode that it can be found on both volumes 1 and 2 (disc 2 for each) of the Spotlight Collection DVD set.
The Doodlebops (2004)
Yuck.
How disappointing is it to see this piece of @#*! in The Wiggles time slot?? Who even thought this up? It is the most horrific train wreck of a show I've seen (and not the kind you must look at out of morbid curiosity). It has absolutely nothing to offer my children or the family--just creepy over-the-top costumes, horrid acting and an all around nails-on-a-chalkboard type feel. The Wiggles have been one of the more watched programs on Playhouse, so I don't understand why they felt the need to to replace that of all shows with such a low-quality and pathetic attempt at a musical show. There are other shows I hate, but none as much as this one. It actually provokes hostility from me. Chop off this gangrenous member of the PHD body lest the whole thing be consumed by the rot.
Jay Jay the Jet Plane (1999)
Can't handle it
When seeing any children's show for the first time, I am usually either horrified, confused or disgusted. But after a few times of seeing the show (I have a 3-year-old) the horror and disgust will wear off, and it'll even make a margin of sense to me. Sometimes a show will actually grow on me. With Jay Jay--NOT THE CASE. This show doesn't even have a subtle charm beneath the annoying icky voices of the characters and artificial happiness. It is cheesy beyond cheesy, and the faces are creepy. And that helicopter (herkey) must roll every R, and it is like nails scraping a chalk board. I don't know why kids like this show, but it's not one of those that can be easily tolerated by the adult in the child's life who gets stuck watching it right along with him. If I had to choose one word to describe this show, it would be GROSS.