| 2007-06-25 |
| Tom, Jerry and my Wife |
Today we're going to delve into the "Newlywed" more than the "Dubai". A little change-of-pace for this final week of the blog for the summer. Yep. On Thursday morning we leave for our European Adventure. But more on that soon.
So this weekend Liz was flipping through the television and I was typing on the computer (probably writing here, no doubt). I heard the familiar piano of Hungarian Rhapsody and thought that Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was on (you know, the part where Daffy Duck and Donald Duck are dueling with the pianos).
Turns out it wasn't Roger Rabbit, but the old Hanna / Barbera era Tom & Jerry cartoon "The Cat Concerto".
Liz stopped even after I said, "oh, it's not Roger Rabbit".
But it turns out that Liz loves Tom & Jerry. She watched it for a half-an-hour.
This is news to me - I guess we have only been married for a little over ten months. But don't you think, with the amount that I talk about cartoons, that her love for Tom & Jerry would have come up in conversation earlier?
I find it a little odd that she loves Tom & Jerry, though. They really are the most repeating of the cartoon duos - I mean, all that ever happens is that Tom chases Jerry. Amazingly, Wikipedia says that they made 114 episodes - which really is a lot of chasing.
While I can appreciate virtually all traditional animation, just about everything that Hanna-Barbera worked on / created are my least favorites. From their time at Terrytoons Studios (Mighty Mouse, Deputy Dawg, Heckle and Jeckle), to the Harman-Ising shorts for MGM (Bosko, Happy Harmonies), to their own Hanna-Barbera Productions (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, Pixie and Dixie, Huckleberry Hound) I'm not really a fan.
Except for, of course, the Great Gazoo. That's so horrible it's awesome.
Annnnyyyway, Liz likes Tom & Jerry, which is good because it shows she's not opposed to all cartoons, so with my constant meddling and prodding maybe someday she'll end up an animation fan.
And that's my end goal, of course, to alter and change my wife completely.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! |
posted by Josh @ 11:07 AM   |
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