'Old Rockin' Chair Tom' (admittedly a very random, almost off-topic title) is a color cartoon from 1948, so this one will have its 70th anniversary next year. even to the point of having Tom break his foot on it as he kicked Lightning out of the house! Overall this was a fun short just make sure you watch the original version starring the voice of Lillian Randolph not the more recent censored version. I expected the gag with the magnet and the iron to be a brief one shot gag but it was rather fun to see them keep it up right until the end. Tom and Jerry don't team up very often so it makes a refreshing change to see them not fighting each other for the whole show.

and with the help of a magnet and a flat iron they do just that! This starts off as a fairly standard Tom and Jerry cartoon but once Lightning is on the scene things get more interesting I loved how he was shown as a crackling bolt of electricity every time he ran. If things are to return to the status quo then Tom and Jerry will have to team up to defeat the new cat. Lightning soon frames Tom for his raid on the fridge and Tom is out too. When Thomas the Cat fails to prevent Jerry tormenting Mammy Two Shoes he finds himself replaced by a younger, ginger cat named Lightning who soon kicks Jerry out of the house. They team up here to get rid of 'Lightning.' Boy, there are tons of violent scenes in this cartoon, more than normal which is saying a lot. It's always nice, too, to see Tom and Jerry actually on the same side. I watch these T&J cartoons on disc, which has the actual audio but changes the words on the subtitles and has in the insufferable Whoopi Goldberg give a disclaimer on every disc Anyway, this is a funny cartoon, thanks to 'Lightning,' who looks like a cat wearing a Devil's Halloween suit, and Mammy's reaction to him and what's happening. I guess that's better than having her voice dubbed in by these Gestapo-like Liberals who, according to another reviewer here, have done that. By the way, the PC morons who correct Mammy's grammar worked overtime in this cartoon, changing every one of her sentences. 'You is getting' too old for mouse-catchin,' she says.

'Lightning' was funny! 'Lightning' is a new, younger cat Mammy Two Shoes employs to get rid of 'that mouse' (Jerry) because Tom is not getting the job done.

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